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It is worth a try. The worse thing GP can do is disregard your finding. Bring everything and anything you find that might be a possible diagnosis for your condition. You can't continue to be effectively housebound. Also in the meantime maybe ask for something different for the peripheral...

If you can limit yourself to 2 or 3, you should be fine. Try to stick with light beer or wine, if you can. My husband drinks up to 3 adult beverages on insulin with no ill effect. But the only way you will know is if you try a few and see how they affect you. Have a good time on your stag...

High blood sugars can cause the tissue, especially on the feet, to breakdown. But so can anything that rubs or causes pressure. The first thing I would ask is how well are your blood sugars regulated. Then I would probably ask if your shoes (or prosthetic if you have one) is feel uncomfortable...

They call insulin "the fat building hormone." So the more insulin you take, the easier it is for you to put on weight. You may just need a little adjustment period to the new low carb lifestyle. Some people feel kind of off when they first start out. As for your question about higher readings...

In the US, I don't think they will every find a cure. Treating diabetes is a big business here for both doctors and the drug companies. What a shame!

We follow a low carb/ high fat diet with very good results. Found a book that really helped explain everything and followed the recommendations. This book states that "the treatment of diabetes begins with what you put in your mouth everyday." We had problems following the current...

I would recommend you read the book that we use that has been very helpful. Trouble is that I am from the US and not sure if it is available there. We restrict our carbs to 15g of fast-acting carbs per meal with very good success. But I do have a question. Why isn't monitoring equipment given...

I'm an American, but I could recommend some books that might be helpful starting out if you'd like. It's been really helpful to me and my family.

Hi, teddybear, I'm an American. I'd like to paraphrase from a book we use. A1c is a 3 month blood sugar average. Your result of 6.9 means that your average blood sugar for the 3 month period was 151 mg/dl. It does not mean that you didn't have higher or lower readings during that period, this...

I'm an American. But I believe that the 2 hours starts when you take your first bite and that it is 1.5 hrs from the end of your meal. Hope this helps. And no, tea with milk and artificial sweetener should not effect your result significantly, although you may want to switch to what we call...