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  1. brassyblonde900

    How Low is Too Low on Extended Fast?

    I find that with any Abbot freestyle glucometer, my BG give ultra low readings on fasts. I have driven myself crazy testing with multiple glucometers. I now use a CGM and just watch trends which for better or worse lets me know how meals impact me.
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    IF this watch glucose tech is for real what happens to £50 Libre sensors

    Abbott is giving away 14day sensors. This might be a good time to give one a try.
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    Need advice on sweetener please help.

    Here is a good indepth article from this site that should give you some reliable information Nutritive and Non-nutritive Sweeteners (diabetes.co.uk)
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    Vitamin C reducing BG levels.

    (Full Disclosure first- I trust Dr Richard K. Bernstein, and believe him to be a credible source of information when it comes to Diabetes whether type 1 or 2) Now back to my post- In one of his You tube videos, Dr Richard Bernstein cautioned against Vitamin C supplements, due in large part, that...
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    No one regulate bogus diabetes products?

    Unscrupulous persons have been marketing snake oil since the dawn of mankind. This is why a glucometer should be a must for everybody with a T2DM diagnosis. No matter the claims made about a product, a glucometer will tell if the claim is credible - end of:dead:
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    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    4.6@ 05:30AM - This represents a range of .7 to .9 jump from my usual 3.6mmol/l -3.9mmol/l FBG reading. I have not posted on this thread in ages - since I pretty much have the food side of T2DM control on lock down:woot:. Yesterday I got some Asda 'cooked chicken - wafer thin slices' down to...
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    T2D and insulin. Diet?

    OP mentioned he is also taking a sulfonylurea (Gliclazide) as well as doing the LCHF WOE. I belong to the school of thought who hold the opinion, that Sulfonylurea therapy in the management of T2DM is one of the reasons why T2DM is seen as a chronic progressive disease. It forces the pancreas to...
  8. brassyblonde900

    Hit a brick wall!

    Haha...Its easy to say that when we hear one side of the conversation only. Truth is a lot of people try to make other people's life tedious, because they cannot eat a baguette or chips at will without dire consequences. For a lot of us, with a T2DM dx, misery loves company. I would be in the...
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    Any tips for lowering blood sugar when it’s high for no obvious reason?

    Hugs. When I was first diagnosed I quickly found out that what works for others does not work for me. Because of my scaredy-cat liver, any type of stress had me gushing glucose like a Tate and Lyle factory. Be it fasting, HIIT, Brisk walking etc all drove my BG into the stratosphere...My body...
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    Handy Graphic on Hyperinsulinaemia and the nasty things it can lead to

    You're missing nothing :meh: Appears dude is one of those Don't-confuse-me-with-proven-facts. type. He appears to wear his ignorance like a mantle
  11. brassyblonde900

    Wow how am not already fully diabetic!

    I wish it worked for me.
  12. brassyblonde900

    Wow how am not already fully diabetic!

    Well done on achieving this life affirming awareness I am stunned at how my previously out of control appetite is now tame and under control. Insulin as life enhancing as it is, has a lot to answer for.:( Achieving and staying at a healthy weight (which was a life long struggle)is no longer an...
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    Handy Graphic on Hyperinsulinaemia and the nasty things it can lead to

    lemme see if I can link it herehttps://twitter.com/EndTheFads/status/1091511786904395777?s=20 My bad he's actually EndTheFads not Stop the Fad as I erroneously posted
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    Handy Graphic on Hyperinsulinaemia and the nasty things it can lead to

    I found the comment by a handle called Stop the Fad on Dr Andy Phung's twitter post following the graphic so amusing.:hilarious:
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    Water Fast and Christmas Past

    I do hard core Keto...and It obliterated my DP. I not only chase the BG readings, I keep my insulin at an as low and still be alive level as possible as I can. Keeping my Insulin real low has meant I can eat protein in stupid proportions if I so choose, whenever my gluttonous alter ego makes an...
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    Water Fast and Christmas Past

    Amen to that.
  17. brassyblonde900

    Jerusalem artichoke ?

    It must be a good source of the fructo-oligosaccharide (FOS) inulin, a type of prebiotic fibre which has many health benefits. Fructo-oligosaccharides are notorious for inducing the kind of bodily effluents and or gas that if its discharged at the wrong place and time very easily clears whole...
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    10g carbs raising sugar.....

    I think there is something about wheat that makes it problematic. When I was just newly Dx, and still trying out different foods and their BG impact, I found that equal amounts of carb in a wheat product and non wheat product will give massively different BG values.
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    10g carbs raising sugar.....

    Sometimes in this controlling blood sugar game the sum of the parts, end up greater than the whole. I am type2 and I have found that there are whole swathes of stuff I stay well away from. when you factor in that there are food intolerances that you could be unaware of, going on with certain...
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    Artificial sweeteners are they all bad?

    The powdered sweeteners tend to have bulking agents like Maltodextrin which is sugar by another name. The tablet forms are better because they have little or non of the offending bulking agents. Some people have an insulin response to artificial sweeteners, which would mean that for those who...