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Definitely recommend the Libre. Helps you avoid missing any major rises in blood sugar, and if you wear one long enough you get a rough estimate of what your next HbA1C will be - which can be quite helpful. Not cheap by any means - though with the money I've saved from not getting takeaways I...

Sorbitol is a polyol, which is a sugar alternative. There are a whole bunch of these used in a variety of products (maltitol, xylitol etc). Most people find they don't have an impact on blood sugar, and when looking at labels their data is usually listed out separately under carbohydrates as "of...

Breakfast sausage is just the US word for what we'd call sausages. I guess the intention is to differentiate from hot dogs, brats etc. I'd just buy some tasty sausages and squeeze them out of the casings. Then you can combine all the meat together and make the balls.

I also had some bad follow-up (i.e. very little), but I do blame myself for the last 5 years. I also had a doctor, when mine started to creep up, give me the absolutely terrible advice of "I'm not too worried - it's taken many years to get to this point, so it'll take a long time to get high...

Hi MoyaAnne I'm on metformin but have very few side effects. I take the slow release ones and the only noticeable issue I have is constipation - which isn't so bad at all. Metformin is certainly the starting medicine, but depending on your results you may not be put on it straight away. There...

Well, I finally got back to the doctor's after spending 5 years neglecting my T2 and... it was nowhere near as bad as I feared. Just before Christmas my annual eye exam came back with mild background retinopathy, which scared me enough to get to grips with this thing again. When I was first...

I find the "of which sugars" information helpful. I'll generally avoid a product that has e.g. 9g carbs if *all* those carbs are sugar. Guaranteed to spike me, whereas a 9g carb food which has hardly any sugar produces a slower, less alarming rise.

They're not wrong about there being no cure (yet), but that carb advice is pretty terrible. I wonder if they're still giving the "no need to test if you're T2" advice I got when I was diagnosed.

I really rate Carbzone's pasta products. They are quite rubbery (for want of a better word), but if cooked for a decent amount of time (longer than you would with regular pasta) and mixed with sauce, they do the job. You basically can't overcook them. Their rice product is... OK... but better...

I guess it's not the spike I'm questioning - it's the long drop-off. Previously I was used to BG returning to a baseline of around 4/5 a couple of hours after eating carbs. These days I seem to be baselining at 7-8 most of the day, regardless of what I eat. Just trying to see from other members'...

6.7 after a couple of unsettled days around New Year - not massively surprising but still a little frustrating.

Total carbs. It's a Warburtons product. Each slice is 9g carb / 0.6g sugar

Congratulations on your incredible achievement turning your numbers around! I second all the good advice you've gotten here, but would add that - if it's affordable for you - you might want to consider a CGM like the Freestyle Libre, at least for a little while. When I was first diagnosed it...

Hi I had two slices of reduced sugar wholemeal bread (16g) with cheddar. Just water to drink. So I expected a jump, but not for the extended 'tail' drop-off

5.6 today. I drank a few glasses of wine last night so I expect that's helped suppress the number, but still - first sub-6 number I've seen on my Libre since I started taking this seriously again

5.6 today. Probably due to the wine I was drinking last night but still nice to see

Hi gang Currently after meals my BG spikes up (as expected) but then doesn't drop down for 4-5 hours. Previously when testing I would see a return to baseline after 2 hours or so. Obviously not ideal as then when I have dinner I'm starting from an elevated position. See attached for what I mean...

Thanks so much! I'm back on low carb now and in the first week my average BG numbers have gone from 11 to 9.5. Still a lot higher than I would have hoped, and my resting BG is still way too much, but really heartened by the results so far. My next HbA1c is going to be brutal but after that...

Thanks I appreciate it. I've actually not had the same doctor for more than a year since I was diagnosed. Whenever people talk about their "diabetes team" I have absolutely no way to relate! I was very much chucked in at the deep end at diagnosis without much support. Perils of living in London...

Back after failing to control this thing for 5 years. Time to get back to work