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Ok my post was just deleted. I’ll try again. I’m very very sorry that my post about reversal versus management was misunderstood. I feel I was unjustly attacked by someone who replied. But that’s clearly not the majority viewpoint so I’ll accept that and consider it a lesson we’ll learned.

@WuTwo I was NOT suggesting to this person they start eating pasta and cake to their hearts content. I was pointing out that unless they can, with no detriment to their blood sugar (which is highly unlikely) then sorry but no, they haven’t “reversed” their diabetes, they’re just managing it...

@Cocosilk Why are you attacking and lecturing me???? Trust me I am under no delusions that I can eat whatever I like with no consequence. I am fully aware of how this disease can progress, even with all your best efforts to control it. Most days I seriously consider just killing myself now...

When you say your results are consistent no matter what you eat, what would your reading be do you think if you ate a bag of chips and a big plate of pasta, followed by a big slice of pie and scoops of ice cream for dessert, three times a day? Because if your readings stay in the “normal non...

Don’t you love how stress and depression raise your blood glucose? I started the day in the 6’s. Then after breaking down crying at the supermarket when the check out EFTPOS kept declining all my cards after multiple tries, a check out assistant had a go and it worked immediately for her...

I need to calorie restrict as well as carb constrict, otherwise my blood glucose soars and stays high even if all I’ve eaten for nearly a week is ground beef, bacon, salt, pepper, water and a few cabbage leaves. This is a very complicated disease and the same solutions don’t work for everyone...

Well if we are going by personal experiences, mine is that if I don’t calorie restrict my blood sugar soars and stays high even if all I’ve eaten for six days is ground beef, bacon, a few cabbage leaves, salt and pepper and water. So maybe it might be good (or at least just compassionate) to...

Sorry what was the question?

Thanks guys for your input/advice (yes I had been compressing, holding hand above head etc). I feel now like asking whether sugar affects the consistency of blood was a stupid question, but hey it can affect the consistency of other liquids. Update: here’s how to stop a cut finger oozing blood...

Thanks guys. Full disclosure, the doctor said if it didn’t stop bleeding to “go to the hospital” but didn’t really give a time frame for stopping or what constitutes bleeding, which IMHO means more dripping or running than just this very small but very persistent ooze. I called the hospital...

Firstly I stress, this is not a gushing wound. It’s a slow small ooze, its just the fact it hasn’t stopped I’m getting concerned about. I stupidly accidentally sliced part of the pad of my index finger off. After it hadn’t stopped bleeding after 30 minutes compression I called my GP and made...

I need to do daily cardio to keep my numbers low, even eating very low carb. If I don’t exercise, they rise into the 7’s and even higher, even though I’m eating right.

I’m currently at 66 kg so still have two to go to my first goal weight, then I’ll see if I’m able to keep managing my blood sugar levels without having to lose any more. I’m 35 and 165 cm so not exactly wasting away. My first goal weight will still be at the high end of the normal range. At...

Diabetes may be exacerbating it but this seems more like a PTSD response IMHO.

I’ve just seen from a post edit by a moderator that ****** rhymes with muddy counts as a profanity here. My apologies, I won’t do it again. If anyone has a problem with my language it’s ok to contact me directly to ask me to tone it down. I get for some people calories don’t matter but I need...

@Goonergal Like I say, I know that thinking calories aren't totally irrelevant to absolutely everybody is not a popular opinion on this forum, so I'm happy to agree to disagree. :)

@Tophat1900 Yep like I say, I'm aware stress can be a trigger for elevated levels. But to be totally honest I've been suicidally depressed ever since my diagnosis in April and that hasn't changed yet despite having been prescribed antidepressants etc. So my slight rise in fasting BGL this month...

@Goonergal I have my next appointment with my GP tomorrow night (mainly because she's wanting to track my mental health which I admit is absolutely terrible currently). Respectfully and politely, as I know this is a very unpopular view on this forum, I wouldn't say that calories don't matter...

@JoKalsbeek Except counting carbs isn't enough as my levels have started rising. I've accepted I can't do anything about dawn ****** phenomenon as that seems to be one of the (many) things about this disease beyond control. But eating causes a spike, this seems agreed on, so it makes sense to...

I was diagnosed T2 in April, and my GP gave me three months to try and manage with diet and exercise alone. So, so far I am not on medication or insulin. My starting HBA1C was 9.3 and the confirmation fasting finger prick test my GP did was 12 point something. I immediately cut carbs and...