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Starches ARE carbs. Have a look at Dr Unwin's Sugar spoons infographic. You could experiment with removing most carbs from all meals and snacks, not just from breakfast. The results could tell you a lot. Books to read are Dr Richard K Bernstein's "Diabetes Solution", Keith Runyan's "Master...

This happened to me too. Unbelievable! Today a GP told me that they will not do a C Peptide test until you are diagnosed full diabetic. Many years ago I had a private C Peptide test which showed borderline low with quite a high fasting bg. I was told this signified either advanced T2 or...

Are you sure? My understanding is that the patient has the right to ask to be referred for free to another NHS doctor or specialist. (Or to a private one, but then you have to pay.) I got myself referred to a specialist recommended by someone on here. He practised in London and somewhere...

500mg. This is the lowest dose extended release available.

When I ate high carb low fat and suffered terribly from constipation I discovered suppositories. They worked like a charm, very quickly - essentially, as you suggest, as lubrication but also to trigger movement. Nowadays eating low carb, high fat & protein I need neither suppositories nor...

In my past life (before 2017, when I first had an A1c test and realised I needed to lower my bg) I was a dedicated healthy living, Mediterranean, low fat, organic where possible eater. I congratulate myself that at the age of 70 I upended my diet completely, and now eat Keto/very low carb, high...

I'm very interested to read this. I chose to take Metformin, in fact I had to bully my GP to prescribe it for me. For years I happily took the maximum dose extended release 1g x 2 daily. I assumed it must be helping. A few months ago I ran into problems with as you say uncontrollable (and...

Obviously things have moved on since I had my colonoscopies. Maybe anaesthetics wear off faster these days.

Hello, I have had one, maybe two, long ago. (Obviously they did not make a huge impression on me!) I had a choice of being sedated or not. I chose not, so I could walk out of the hospital as soon as I wanted and unaccompanied. It was all fine. By contrast, I have also had 2 of the tests...

Have a look at Nick Norwitz on Youtube re. LDL goes up when A1C comes down, also Dr Eric Westman, Dr Ford Brewer and many others on Youtube trying to bring us up to date on cholesterol and LDL (not nearly as bad as was claimed). Have you considered lowering your carbs still further? Imo blood...

I know that in the case of kidney transplants they leave the old ones in and put in one new one. A downside of transplants is that you are then stuck with anti-rejection drugs and resulting auto-immune deficiency for the rest of your life.

Certainly better than 7.1! If I hadn't eaten for hours, I would hope to see a bg of under 5.5 You will have to decide on your own targets. Are you testing your fasting bg every morning?

You can believe the nurse, or you can look at the label.

It might be interesting to see where your bg is now, and then test as I suggested hourly the next time you get a suspect low reading at 2 hours. Everyone is different. For me, your meal was quite high carb. Do you have a diet plan? Do you watch how many carbs you eat in a day / at a meal...

In a way that is good news! Losing weight seems to be much easier on a low carb diet, and lowering bg seems to happen easily as people lose weight. I think you might find it comforting to watch some of the Youtube videos by Dennis Pollock called "Beat Diabetes".

When you get a bg that is unexpectedly low 2 hours after a meal, it is always worth re-testing. I have had a big drop 2 hours after a meal and then a big rise up to 4 hours later. This can be due to several factors - lots of fat and / or protein in the meal, a very big meal, or delayed stomach...

Don't panic, there is lots you can do. Remember, this is the worst time of your diabetes journey. I think most likely all of us here went through a horrible time of partial ignorance, horror and dismay in the beginning. I am now sort of stabilised, but I have never forgotten how how wretched...

A lot of doctors teaching about diabetes consider the glycemic index a mistake. At all events I suggest you experiment by eating one or two dates and testing afterwards. It should make a difference whether you eat the dates alone or with protein and fat. It has been suggested that you can...

I heard a muslim say that it was usual to break your fast in the evening during Ramadan with dates. She said that by the end of Ramadan people were sick of dates! Is that your experience? If so, I'm wondering if the high bgs caused by consuming dates might have influenced your A1c. If you...

Hello Roy, I wish I did anything like the exercise you are doing. How would you feel about trying a very low carb diet? That is under 20 total carbs daily? (I eat less carbs than this and I still can't get down to the bg I would like to see, though nowhere near as high as yours.) For...