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Thanks - thats really helpful. They did do non-fasting cholestoral and kidney function - the cholestoral was high (6.something) and the kidney was ok. I guess its not good news on the sugars though as I was hoping my meter was wrong - I can't seem to get my levels back to where they were last...

I had my tests done with the diabetic nurse last week and she took a non-fasting blood test. The results are back today and my MMOL is 48 with a percentage of 6.6% - is this an HBAc1? I thought those had to be fasting? My meter has been telling me my sugars are really high recently (8-9)...

Ta, at the mo it's hypothetical, kind of. My level is 8.9 2 hrs after dinner. I know what I can cut next time to improve it and it's better than the 10.8s I was getting last week. But, I have the Munchies and whilst I won't bother eating tonight it made me wonder what you do in other...

Ok, so let's say that 2 hrs after a meal you have BG higher than you want... But you are hungry, or it's lunch/ dinner time, or you are at a wedding or something where you can't control mealtimes, do you wait till levels drop before you eat again? Otherwise presumably if you add food on top of...

Does adverse reaction to metformin change depending on what you eat? Ie. if you take it with carbs it has less side effects than with no carbs?

Well that's useful to know, I didn't think it was a hypo can't see how my sugars would go that low.. Reckon then the cramps and diahorrea were from the metformin? The gym staff gave me the lucozade, it might not be necessary, but I felt a hell of a lot better after a few sips...

So, been on metformin (2 x 500mg) for just over a week, and apart from one dash to the loo the first eve haven't seemed to have any side effects. Been monitoring my BG and in the Eve's it's been high (10.8) so decided to really go for the low carb, so yesterday for dinner I had salad and steak...

I was diagnosed last week after a high fasting sugar reading (8.4) the week before and then last week fasting sugar of 7.1 and HBAC1 of 7.1 I would like to say it was a shock (which it was kind of) but not a surprise, I am very overweight and I have been having all sorts of weird symptoms for...