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My last HbA1c was 37mmol/mol, so at my review last week my DN suggested I could try a few well separated, careful and tentative "experiments" to see if my pancrease was having a "normal" response. This morning my "wake-up" bg at 07:03 was 6.1mmol/l. I then took my usual single metformin and...

The rule as explained to me by my DN is to do with taking glic. She said that when you've taken a glic you must check your BG before the next time you drive. I've never hypo'd AFAIK, but the DN stressed that I shouldn't rely on this and should always test before driving as long as I'm on glic...

This eveing I went to collect my next batch of Nexus Gluco Rx test strips from my designated pharmacy (Sainsburys), only to be told that their supplier has had a "manufacturing problem" and it will be "at least two weeks" before they get new stocks. They told me that Tesco use a different...

I might add that back in March I was just nudging 21 stone (in real money) and a side-effect of the diet change is that I'm now below 18 stone (still dropping). But I could probably lose another 2-3 stone before it became a source of concern! PDR

Update... No, don't worry - I'm not going to post another graph! Last week I gave the blood samples for my 3-month review. To save you searching back in the thread, in April my HbA1c was around 150mmol/mol, and at the end of June it was down to 58mmol/mol. I've been on one Metformin in the...

Minor update. Went away to Prague last week for the family holiday. Stayed in a rooftop apartment in the old town owned by the adjacent hotel (so free breakfast was included). Spent the week doing a lot of walking to stuff (including the tour of Terazin which is obligatory for those of us with...

So now it's nearly a couple of months downstream, and so I thought I'd update this. My graph now looks like this: Ignore the "date" numbers (I've been trying to make excel display the dates properly but it's refused and is now sulking). Each vertical gridline is a day, and the days are...

Well I was given a testing kitwhile I was just on Metformin, and I get strips on prescription. After 2 weeks of testing I was put on Glic as well, but I'm not on insulin*. PDR * that is to say I am on insulin, but it's stuff my pancreas makes rather than stuff from an external source.

Not only that, but they lose their texture. Babies should be gently folded into the mixture before carefully transfering it to a greased cake tin. If you whip the babies the mixture loses its trapped gas making the resulting baby cakes hard and heavy. PDR

Actually it's the other way around - I nicked it from here and posted it on Prune. PDR

In that case you would be best advised to stick to the standard deviations... PDR

I think you should first have checked her distribution in the population, and then tested a sample... [it's the way I tell 'em] PDR

Which is precisely what I said - multiple times, so I'm not sure where this suggest I am introducing "my own facts". Some do, some don't. That's rather the point. I'm like that with chocolate, bread and rice - I can't do "moderation" for these things so I just avoid them completely. But that's...

So in summary - anything I say based on actual evidence is clearly a special case which only applies to me and my mutated metabolism, where anything said by others with no evidential support must be the general rule. Yes, that makes a lot of sense... :facepalm: PDR

So with no evidential basis whatsoever we are expected to take studies that show EXCESSIVE fructose consumption is bad to mean that fructose is poisonous in any amount? Sorry, but sort of dogma makes no sense at all. As diabetics we have more than enough restrictions on what we can eat without...

Actually I believe what I said was that it was acceptable for me in response to a suggestion that it was extremely UNacceptable for EVERYONE in any quantity, which I believe I have shown not to be the case. I wouldn't argue with that. But "some people" and "everyone" are not the same thing...

No, because I've just finished reading the actual papers rather than the reportage (plus a metastudy here) and they all say the same thing - they say that the EXCESSIVE consumption of fructose has negative consequences, where "excessive" is a number with a lower bound between 50 and 100g/day...

Clearly not! A colleague who has been an injecting diabetic for several years told me that it was a diabetic-acceptable alternative to sugar for coffee. Was he wrong? All the research data I've found seems to indicate that fructose doesn't increase blood glucose levels and that earlier concerns...

I sympathise. My initial diagnosis as being "marginally" diabetic was about 180 months ago, and they just put me on metformin like your lesser half, but regardless of what they actually said what I heard was "eat a healthy diet". So I spend 18 months eating wholemeal bread, rice, veggies and...

Subject:wife Text to neighbor: Hi, Fred, this is Richard, next door. I’ve got a confession to make. I’ve been riddled with guilt for a few months and have been trying to get up the courage to tell you face-to-face. At least I’m telling you in this text and I can’t live with myself a minute...