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I've had proper flu three times, once as a child and twice as a young adult, the last one of which ended me up in hospital with pneumonia because I have asthma. Ì have had the flu jab since my 3rd dose of flu and that long predates diabetes. I've never had problems with it, couple of times I've...

Hi, I agree with others who say you may need to be tested for other types of diabetes. I was diagnosed with T2 a couple of years ago (can't believe how quickly the time has gone) and I did do keto but found it made my blood sugars way too erratic. Sometimes they would be up in the 20s with...

Hi Ellie. I take gliclazide but only one tablet 40mg and that's in the evening. I think it's peak action is 2-4 hrs after taking it. That's the case with me anyway, I check 2 hrs after, if it's 5 or less then I have about 20g of carb. Usually it's about 7 2hrs post then goes to 5 or 6 by 4...

She was definitely diabetic hba1c originally was something like 52 I think. Definitely not a miserable LADA like me who has no chance of reversal! No it just made me wonder if it is possible and whether anyone else has achieved total reversal with just a bit of weight loss. I just found it...

Only reason I'm asking this is I look after a group of patients with inflammatory joint disease. I saw a lady today who was a bit overweight but not massively so. She was diagnosed with type 2 a few years ago, when I was adding her hba1c to our records I noticed it was only 33. We got talking...

I was diagnosed LADA a few months ago, was also diagnosed T2 for a year beforehand. Your results are similar to mine, positive antibodies and my C peptide was 0.40 I think. I'm not on insulin yet, just gliclazide and hope to stay that way as long as possible. I seem ok atm but because I...

Great post. I am type 1.5 but not yet on insulin just gliclazide and hoping to stave off insulin as Long as I can. I do find that I can eat fruit, it doesn't spike me at all as long as I eat it in the evenings. Initially diagnosed as t2 and trying to very low carb, I absolutely craved fruit...

I was diagnosed with LADA a while ago after being diagnosed previously with type 2 in March 2017. My blood sugars were always super erratic on metformin/very low carb diet with huge spikes and drops. My GP then put me on the lowest dose of gliclazide 40mg and sent me to see a consultant who...

I don't like very low carb either I'm not a great meat eater and I can't stand eggs or fatty food. It was too restrictive and didn't help me much. I didn't have weight to lose either. I'm not surprised that many people can't stick to it tbh it made me feel terrible and I couldn't hack it any...

I haven't worked on the wards for about 10 years but I do remember that we used to atop metformin until 48 hrs after contrast with repeat blood test after that time in patients with a lower eGFR. But then the guidelines changed and we no longer had to stop if eGFR was above 30. That was 10...

When people say to me oh you don't look like a diabetic! Don't know why that irritates me so much but it does. Worst is when the nurse at the surgery says it. Sometimes if I can be bothered I will challenge it and say what does a diabetic look like Then? The answer is either 'well not like...

Don't quote me on this but I was always taught that steroid increases insulin resistance which is why the sugars go up? And regarding your previous post, I look after a lot of patients for whom steroid is often given as rescue therapy during flares and normally the blood glucose levels return to...

If your nurse is a prescriber then she will be an independent prescriber and will have done an 8 month prescribing course. She won't need the gp to say yes or no. One way to check if you need to find out is to use the NMC search the register facility, it's open to the public. You can find a...

2.0 was the max which is what made me check. Different areas have different parameters though. And from what I saw when I looked at some of the research was that anything above 2.3 or 95 mg/dl is bad. I think I will just not worry too much, yours is much higher than mine and you clearly...

Thanks guys for your replies. I'm definitely not going to start statins. Thanks for the info @CherryAA the first one was really interesting, I don't do very low carb so the Feldman one was less applicable but still good to read.

I wasn't worried till I noticed my hdl came in the red zone on the result and started googling! It's so hard to know whether you're doing the right thing by your body when you read stuff that says my hdl being 2.2 could cause as many problems as being low! I think I am going to take your...

Ok so I've just had my latest blood results. I was given a statin when I was diagnosed about 18 months ago but never took it. Today's results are hba1c 42, total cholesterol 5.6, hdl 2.2, non hdl 3.4, ratio 2.5. I don't have high blood.pressure, today it was normal 110/60 and am slim. My...

I agree with that but it's very unusual for an op to be cancelled on the strength of one fingerprick that could have a whole load of different reasons for being high. Usually they look at the hba1c but the OP hasn't given many facts to go on yet. If all the time his sugars are 10-12, he feels...

@eeyores61, what meds is your dad taking? My dad was the same age 88 and took 40mg gliclazide a day, blood sugars were always around 10 I think. He lived with me and one day a few months ago he had the most horrendous hypo where I had to call an ambulance who took over 2 hrs to get his blood...

Hi John, I am also LADA diagnosed a few months ago and switched diagnosis from T2. I had negative GAD and a low C peptide but I'm pretty certain that when I had the C peptide test done I had to eat first and was told it would be unreliable if done fasted? Not sure why you were told to fast, or...