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  1. bassamaklan

    BG control challenges after entering remission area

    Hello friends, It's been a while since my last post here in the forum. I would like to share with you my experience with diabetes control after entering remission zone. Briefly, I was diagnosed with T2 in Oct, 2017 with HBA1C 9%, but shortly, this number got down to 5.1% on Apr, 2018 after...
  2. bassamaklan

    T2 Controlling With Thyroid Problems

    Hi My older sister is T2 for the last 6 years and she also have thyroid problems. She started to go on low carb diet for the last 5 months. It started to give good results and reduce medications intake, BG started to be lower than 200mg/dl. The problem is, even with low carb and exercise, her BG...
  3. bassamaklan

    After meal BG for normal people

    Hello, I've read a lot about after meal BG for normal people in which some argue that it should be under 120mg/dl 2 hours and other argue it should be lower thatn 140mg/dl even if the meal is high in carb, but I've noticed some of normal people can get higher numbers above mentioned range. I...
  4. bassamaklan

    HBA1C down from 9% to 5.1% in 6 months. I believe I've just entered remission zone.

    Hi all, I didn't believe it at first, but that was my lab test result for HBA1C today and I feel so happy that I could manage to lower my numbers without using medications. I have been diagnosed as diabetic at 18/11/2018 with HBA1C 9%. I've been put on mitformin and asked to follow very strict...
  5. bassamaklan

    Need help with after meal readings!

    Good morning members, I am from Yemen and newly T2 diagnosed on 18/11/2017 (H1AC 9%), my weight was 95KG and height is 178cm. I have been told by my doctor to start with Mitformin 850mg which I stopped using 1 week after. The reason was when I started following this website, reading about...