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    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    4.0 on wake up. Still just on Metformin. 22 years diagnosed and am winning the battle. Now need to win the war!
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    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    4.3 on wake up. LCHF since 13/8 14 Stone 6lbs on 13/8. 11 Stones 6lbs this morning and on Metformin only for diabetes. Diagnosed in 2000. It works!
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    fasting 4.7 reading @ 07:09 this morning
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    4.9. Off Metformin since 5/10. LCHF for last 10 weeks and OMAD. (One meal a day) Diagnosed T2D in 2000
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    Diabetes - Covid

    I had mitigated by what I believed was good practice but tell my fiancee when she was told I only had a 50/50 chance about theories 3 days after being admitted in to hospital.. The fact in my case was that I didn't have a cough, just very fatigued. She called the ambulance and I didn't want to...
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    Diabetes - Covid

    They were,that just it. All these theories go out the window, it messes with oxygen saturation, completely messes with well controlled BG levels, causes inflammation of the lungs and pneumonitis too. On the positive side, it is the best weight loss program I have ever been on. That's the...
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    Diabetes - Covid

    Sorry to hijack your thread @DCB 2 but thought it might be helpful as you have said in your original post " I have made sure that my blood sugar are the correct range along with my blood pressure to mitigate things" Well as a T2D Diagnosed in 2000, that was diet only controlled, not on any...
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    Is Type 2 Coronavirus low risk

    Sorry @Kilchoman to hijack your thread but thought it might be helpful as you have "been advised that type 2 is regarded as "low risk" " Well as a T2D Diagnosed in 2000, that was diet only controlled, not on any diabetic meds due to lifestyle changes, was Diagnosed with Covid 19 (April)...
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    Post covid ICU and monitor model advice please

    Thanks @Goonergal The Chinese manufacturer states in manual that control liquid is included in the kit with meter and offers details of said Control liquid range but when i asked why it wasn't included in the kit, they responded they don't have any and can't supply it, nor advise...
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    Post covid ICU and monitor model advice please

    Hi all, Was diagnosed in 2000 and until recently was well controlled to a degree but stopped testing due to cost of accuchek strips being prohibitively expensive a couple of years back, just relying on low carb (off all meds) & exercise. BUT ALL THAT CHANGED! Have posted my recent survival of...
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    Remission and COVID-19

    Thank you @bulkbiker very interesting article which supports my own experience with covid/ICU/ ventiation and recovery April and helps me understand more fully as to some of the reasons Why....Thank you
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    Covid 19 Survival post ICU/Ventilator T2 D

    Great news. Funnily my Fiancee did order pulse Oximeter but it arrived a week after being admitted in to hospital. LOL
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    Covid 19 and controlled diabetes

    Hi MTS1980 Sorry for hijacking your thread but if it helps I posted my experience of surviving Covid post ICU/Ventilator and spike in BG being diet only controlled last month (April) that may possibly assist you and your question. It is only my personal journey mind of this terrible...
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    Covid 19 Survival post ICU/Ventilator T2 D

    @HSSS Thank you for your post. I totally agree with your sentiment. In my experience the underlying condition of diabetes & Covid is it is still able to mess with our body regardless. My advice is to be vigilant even if you don't have a cough, don't rely just on good control alone, There are...
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    Remission and COVID-19

    Hi Beastie_boy82 Didn't want to hijack your thread but if it If it helps, I have posted on T2 forum my very own personal experience which details how Covid, affected a well controlled T2 (me) that should answer some of your questions on BG spike, ICU and Ventilator during a 2 week stint in...
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    Covid 19 Survival post ICU/Ventilator T2 D

    By way of back ground I had posted previously how I had put my Type 2 Diabetes with the removal of all Diabetic Medication in 2017 (i.e Stopped Metformin 2x 500 mg twice a day 5 mg of Linagliptin,Statins 20mg Altorvastatin stopped post 12 weeks Strict Low Carb diet and regular daily testing to...
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    8 Months Since Type 2 Diagnosis

    And that @Rachox is all that matters
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    8 Months Since Type 2 Diagnosis

    Congratulations on your sterling efforts to utilise lifestyle changes with additional Metformin intervention to tightly control your blood sugar levels. There is no doubt that the Lifestyle interventions that you have applied in the short time since your diagnosis, has had a material impact on...
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    T2D Since 2000-HbA1c Sept 5.9% Off all Meds since July!

    Keep up the good work @linhil it will be worth it. You might be interested to know that I too was on Statins (20mg Altorvastatin) until end of July '17 and have been on 1.8 grams of Plant Sterols daily instead of the Statins originally prescribed. My last Cholesterol test undertaken Mid...
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    T2D Since 2000-HbA1c Sept 5.9% Off all Meds since July!

    Thank you so much, you are right @Pinkorchid to go with what works for you and because I don't awake thinking what rules do I have to follow today i.e low or high fat on a low carb regime, my focus is now purely on weight maintenance management which is the easiest bit of the whole programme, I...