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Actually, you know what, forget my last post. I think I've stumbled onto a site for mentally derranged evangelists. What reason's are there that a T2 shouldn't have an HbA1c of less than 7%...??/? Now let me think: 1. They're overweight (despite their best efforts - yes they have a life)...

Look, please everybody, let's play nicely. I've apologised for acting high and mighty and yes I deserve the comebacks and yes I've generalised. I haven't picked on anyone and their individual management/levels of control etc. I accept that some people want to intensively look at controlling...

My intention was not to antagonise everybody. This is going to be my last post as I've had enough of this. I tried to do a quick post but it didn't seem to work, so I appologise if this comes through twice. Drippihippy, the bottom line is this: 1. Medicine is not an exact science and it is...

OMG! Sorry Drippihippi, I seem to have succeeded in both hijacking your thread and opening up a can of worms. I'm not saying that your blood sugars ARE going up to 15mmol/l. I'm just giving this as an example of how your blood sugars may vary during the day and HbA1c is AN AVERAGE. Your...

No. What this says is what I was trying to say - no-one really knows why it occurred - the more frequent hypo hypothesis was just that - a hypothesis. It's basically not known and it's also very difficult to find proven causative associations from trials. Nevertheless, there was a higher...

Yes defren is correct. I apologise. I didn't really mean that the way it sounded. :oops: But it really isn't a case of "lowly T2's". Diabetes type pulls no rank either!! :) . It's partly about quality of life (why stab yourself 3-4 times/day and get fingertip scarring when you don't...

Oh and I forgot to mention - exercise will reduce his blood sugars more. This is the time to eat his bananas! Half an hour or so before he exercises, if he has a banana, that will give him a reasonable amount of slow release carbohydrate (sugars) that should help maintain his blood sugar at a...

leb is right - in medicine there is ALWAYS an exception. :)

Oops, I missed the point of your question didn't I? :oops: The answer is not that straightforward in type 2 DM unfortunately. Levemir is a very long acting insulin and doesn't peak but gives a low basal or background level of insulin. There is also usually a high level of insulin resistance...

Hi guys, I don't want to pull rank here but I have had diabetes for 34 years - yes type 1 - but have also been (recently retired on ill health :( ) a GP for 20 years with a special interest in diabetes (including type 2). The debate over home blood glucose testing in type 2 is not...

Oh the other thing I forgot to mention is that the GI side effects are meant to improve with time - the worst time is the first few weeks, which is why the recommendation is ro start with low doses and gradually increase. If you've only been on this a short while, it may be worth persevering...

Hi, Yeah it does sound like your basal rate is off, if your BGs are going up when fasting. May neeed to see your specialist. You probably have thought of some of these already but just throwing a few possibilities out - underlying infection as you mentioned but especially UTI's (urinary...

Yes, generally. Mine dropped by huge amount - think I was on something like 120u/day before pumping and am now on about 60. From my DNS, I believe most peoples reuirements go down quite a lot compared with multiple daily regimes. Also helped me lose weight too. Once you get basal right, you...

Hi, Mep73 is right, you may well have type 1 or 1a I think they are calling it now. C-peptide levels are rarely done though (I'm presuming you're in the UK here), partly because it's a specialised test and costs more and partly because it really won't change the management in most people's...

Is he eating any carbohydrate at all? From your description of his new diet he has cut most of it out ( bread, potatoes, sugar, chocolate etc). His diet is generally very healthy and certainly cutting out the chocolate and alcohol is a very good step but diabetics need SOME form of...

Metformin is notorious for causing GI upset. The slow release formulation is meant to reduce this side effect compared with standard release metformin (although nobody seems to know why) but it won't necessarily abolish it. It may be worth experimenting with the timing of it or if that fails...

Hi, I tend to whaffle a bit so I'll tey and keep it brief: yes it is possible to have diabetes if there is no sugar in the urine but EXTREMELY unlikely in this age group. Sugar only shows in the urine once it passe the "renal threshold" which varies between individuals but is usually around...

Yes it looks like a mild reactive hypoglycaemia. Your body is releasing insulin to compensate for the rapid (natural)n rise in blood sugar associated with eating foods that are absorbed and release sugar into the blood stream very quickly (high glycaemic index foods). Your body is just...

Hi. Lots of people tend to get confused over this. You are confusing HbA1c (expressed as a percentage) with blood glucose level (expressed in mmol/l). HbA1c is glycosolated haemoglobin - basically how much gliucose has attached itself to your red blood cells over their lifetime ( a red blood...

I have been diabetic for 34 years (since age 10) and my HbA1c's have fluctuated from 13% in my teens (I was going through a bit of a rebellious phase combined with the hormones of adolescence) to 6.5% over the last few years since starting pump therapy. Please learn from my experience that...