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Thanks guys, I mainly eat a plant based diet and exercise and I wasn’t expecting the cholesterol result, I’ll look into the sterols because I think statins do more harm than good. They don’t give me the ratio just the total so I’ll ask for more info. I live in Wales and to put it bluntly in this...

Hi, just had my hba1c after about 2 years due to covid. It’s come back with glucose from 147 to 151 (or 47 to 51? - not sure of units) and cholesterol 7.1. I’m sometimes anaemic but this time levels were ok, I am tired all the time though. Doctor phoned and said I needed to make lifestyle...

I’ve bought a few sensors and usually find they’re off by 2 but the arrows and trends are more helpful than the numbers. This current one is way off, finger prick showed 14 but sensor saying 4.9, when it did catch up the highest it went was about 9. I just look at the arrows and the graph to see...

If I have to I will, but I’d much prefer diet control. I think meds solve one problem but create others that they end up throwing more meds at.

Thanks for this, mine was 57 but I was feeling terrible all the time with headaches, nausea & fatigue, I still feel sick a lot. I’m doing the low carb diet and at first got my blood down to 5.5 & I was feeling good, now I’m struggling to get my blood down, it’s now in the 8s & 9s all the time &...

Thanks, I don’t believe they tested but I do think he decided it was t2 before I’d even had a blood test. Hopefully the diagnosis is correct but I think they should at least rule others out. I bet they’ve never even heard of 1.5.

Hi, does the test for diabetes routinely test for LADA? When I went to the doctor & said I thought I was diabetic he took my symptoms & said if I am it’ll be type 2 then I did the blood tests. I was very slightly overweight (I lost a bit on lchf so now I’m thin) & it’s a lot in my family...