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I suppose it had to happen, despite hiding away, wearing a mask and using sanitiser Covid caught me last week. I am doing ok and thought I would jot down my main symptoms to help inform others: tiredness, light headed, raised temperature, nausea, sensitive skin, aches, lack of appetite - I do...

Hi folks I have been pre diabetic for around threee years and thanks to this forum I changed my diet to low carb and have lost 2 stone. My BMI is now normal, HbA1c is in normal range and blood sugar prick test is very rarely outside the range 4.5 to 6. I used to have some symptoms of neuropathy...

I am always searching for low carb options that suit my T2 diet and which, if possible, my other half and two young kids enjoy. One winner is celeriac (as chips or boil and then mash with butter using a stick blender), it's this knobbly looking veg my daughter calls zombie brain. For a...

Last autumn my GP took a blood sample and then informed me that I was top end pre diabetic or diabetic, my blood sugar was 48 mmol/mol. This was a bit of a shock, but also a wakeup call. I started tapping the keyboard, found this excellent forum and decided to keep off any medication and to...

My journey started late last autumn, when my GP retired and I changed to another practice. My new doctor said that he wanted to take a blood sample to check me out, as I was a new patient and was ‘getting on’ (I was then 61). A week or so later I received a message asking me to come in for a...