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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...

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...

Has anyone had the code E4 come up on their codefree meter and if so is there a way to get rid of it or is the meter defunct? The troubleshooting guide says it's temperature related but my meter isn't outside the range of 10-45C. More like high 20s here. It just suddenly stopped working this...

Hi I'm asking this for a good friend of mine who is type 2 and very obese. She is struggling with her glucose levels and I had a chat with her the other day and asked her if she had tried low carb. Problem is she has gut problems and can't tolerate any dairy. The only meat she can eat is...

So today I made jam having raided our strawberry garden. I love making jam especially the bit where you put it on a cold plate and push it with your finger to see if it's set. And having done that I licked my finger (well you have to taste it don't you!). To be fair I didn't think anything of...

Hi having to stick to a low fibre diet for a few days due to a gut problem I've been on water only for a few days and not been taking my diabetes meds. Has anyone else eaten low fibre and lowish carb? If so what did you eat, all I can.find is stuff like white bread, pasta, rice etc which will...

Hi guys you have all been really helpful before but I am getting so confused with this carb thing. I was really low carb for a while and last week a dreadful week with sugars jumping into the high 20s even on carb intake less than 30g a day. So have experimented with having more carbs and...

Hi. Just wondering if low carb is meant to work for everyone. Ive been diagnosed a couple of months now and on metformin. Ive been strictly low carb and my sugars are getting higher and higher. Ive stopped eating during the day now and am only eating once a day in the early evening. By...

So. All day I have tried to eat no carb. No breakfast. Lunch salad (rocket pepper tomato onion) good ham and some cheddar. Dinner green beans mange tout and steak pie without pastry. Blood glucose now 16. Any ideas why? Been keeping to carb less than 20 last couple of weeks. Why won't...

Hi diagnosed about 6 weeks ago now. At first it was all a massive shock. Now I just feel.devastated that I am stuck with this horrible thing for life. I think I'm in some.sort of denial. I just can't get my head round the fact that I'm diabetic much less admit those words out loud. I've...

Hi everyone. I was diagnosed about 3 weeks ago type 2 on metformin 500 twice.daily. got fairly good results early on with blood glucose going down to 6-8 most of the time. This week it's all gone to pot not sure what I am doing wrong. Today for example I had porridge for breakfast no sugar...

Hi. I've recently been diagnosed type 2. My cholesterol readings were total 6.8, hdl 1.7, non hdl 5.1, ratio 4.0. I have blood pressure around 115/65 ish. My question is does anyone know if my high blood glucose levels would have affected my cholesterol Levels? My FBG was 15.8 at diagnosis...

Hi all. Was diagnosed type 2 last week now on metformin twice a day. My fasting was 15.8 and my hba1c was 87. I have been trying to cut carbs and have read a lot of the posts on here but find it difficult to go under 80g per day. Anyway my glucose levels are today between 6-8. Should they...