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Hi everyone Just thought I'd post a bit of an update to see if you think I'm doing ok. BG My BG meter tells me my average is 7 which I'm not too thrilled with. Testing 3-4 times dailt. Morning I'm between 6-7, after breakfast around 7-8. Pre evening meal is between 5-6 and afterwards is...

Before breakfast: 6.7 - highest morning reading yet Breakfast: small bowl of shredded wheat which has never made me go over 7-8 with no medication Two hours after and with a morning metformin for first time: 12.6! Even my gtt to diagnose was only 12. I repeated it in surprise and got 12.7...

Hi again I'm sure there must be topics on this forum somewhere about natural ways to lower cholestrol but I'm having a bit of trouble locating them. I may only be 27 by my cholestrol is 6.something which I found quite shocking. High chol does run in the family though. The DNS told me she...

The nurse put me on 1 x 500mg of Metformin a day last week, and told me to start taking 2 a day as from this Thursday. Aside from the fact that even just one is making me ill (throwing up, no trots but unbelievable stomach cramps that make it hard to stand up straight - I am going to ask for...

So after being told T2 on friday, I had a hb1ac bloodtest and urine test today in preparation for seeing dsn on Thursday. Then at 6pm the doc rang and asked me to go into the surgery straight away because of a high level of ketones in the urine. So I went, the nurse wanted to put me on metformin...

This is going to sound really stupid. It's nearly 1pm and I still haven't eaten anything yet. What the heck am I supposed to have for breakfast? Ive had toast or cereal for breakfast every day my whole life. Now I just look at these things like theyre poison. Further to my previous post about...

Hi I'm 27 and have just been diagnosed T2. This both is and isn't a shock - on the one hand I am very overweight and need to lose around 8 stone. On the other, I have not shown any symptoms (to my knowledge) and the only reason I even had a glucose blood test in the first place was the GP...