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Luna, while every 6 months is a standard practice, if you are still trying to change your diet and lifestyle to lower that even more then I would ask for it to be done again in 3 months. If you are still changing your diet and aren't doing it with the benefit of regular testing, the more...

Re: Overweight vs underweight... which is harder to deal wit Daibell. Haven't got to your first link yet but I skimmed over the nice report and two things about it jump out at me. 1. The nice reports places pancreatic failure in a category other than Type 2 * Type 2 diabetes Diabetes...

Re: Overweight vs underweight... which is harder to deal wit Sid .... McKenna is heavily involved in the practice of NLP which has been proven quite effective in the hands of a good practitioner. I think that it even has better success rate than hypnosis for breaking habits like smoking...

Re: Overweight vs underweight... which is harder to deal wit Daibell - I have apparently miscommunicated my question. I’m fairly very well versed in the many theory’s of why people get diabetes and the conditions that can/do result from it. My confusion is in this statement. "If we just take...

Re: Overweight vs underweight... which is harder to deal wit Daibell - Interesting information. I have never heard about weight being a determinate factor in insulin resistance vs deficit.... but then again, I have never had an underweight problem. :( Could you point me to some information...

Re: Overweight vs underweight... which is harder to deal wit Hi Valerie, While I was slightly overweight at the time of diagnosis, I immediately put myself of a low carb diet. The weight came off very quickly and I was then faced with the dilema of stopping the loss. My wife has very...

I certianly agree with the comments above but unless you have a good tracking log, this comment can get you into real trouble from one HbA1c to the next.... "My diet is pretty good low carb and low GI when I do them." My HbA went from 5.4 to 5.7 from one test to the next simply because I...

I was getting ready to reply almost exactly as did hanadr. As close to normal blood sugar should be the goal of anyone interested in mitigating the damage done by high blood sugar. While I have not seen a conclusive study that shows tight control able to reverse damage, it has been proven...

It would get an eyebrow raise from me for sure. You mention the use of a cassette so I assume, perhaps, the AccuCheck mobile.? I use that one and it has been very dependable in its readings. One time I had a string of high readings that concerned me. I wasn't sure if I would ruin the...

Welcome to the forum, To your questions you will no doubt get a variety of answers. What are good numbers? For some it is the NHS guidelines and for others it is as close to non diabetic normal that you can get without putting yourself in danger of hypoglycaemic situations. That is what...

"My doctor has been told they are not allowed to issue prescriptions for test strips" If you are in the mood to press your doctor you could ask exactly where that edict came from and if it is the practice of your NHS adminstrative group to blanket treat patients. That flys in the face of...

I was diagnosed in Aug/Sept 2012. My Hba at that time was 6.9 which my nurse said most people would be delighted with. At any rate, I was pretty freaked out about the diagnosis and started reading all I could on the subject and that went into the subjects of the immune system, cholesterol and...

I like it when people say that... the response: I am too. It would have been nice to have been told by my doctors that refined charbohydrates and not just sugar were the problem. Had I been given that information and the damage done by them, I might not have this condition today. Also if the...

It is quite interesting to me that DCUK would headline an article about a subject that it bans members who consider this very subject so important to the management of their diabetes..... as a matter of fact, it was the person who started this thread that got banned...

Denise, I have recently seen this comment in a couple of places but have never read about it in literature. If you have it and would be so kind, could you provide a reference to a source. Thanks Kenny

My mother wasn't quite so rigorous about forcing food down my gullet but she was quite strict about waste.... Her moto was: Take all you want...eat all you take. Kenny

I have pretty much passed the stage where I needed to test before and after every meal. I know what my body will accept within a group of foods. Now I test when I want to try to alter what I eat or add something questionable to a meal. I tend to graze. That is, I eat three meals and three...

Re: Diabetes2 curable! I know when food bad by how bad I fee As others have said. The only way you will know for sure what your blood sugars are at any given time of the day is to test. The only way you will understand what foods effect your blood sugars is to test. By restricting the...

My father was... shall we say.... a less than desirable person when he was drinking, which was quite a lot as I recall. He wasn't a pleasant person and when he was told the next day what he had done, he would scoff and basically call anyone and everyone a liar. That was until he drove his bike...

Interesting comment. While not being judgemental about you or your life, I must say that you are in control of your diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol with pills and I would suggest that your 'control' is in-spite of your lifestyle choices, not because of them. By the way.... it took you...