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Do you have any option of private insurance in the UK? I can't imagine being in such a ridiculous waiting line for critical medial diagnoses. Once I got my own T2 diagnosis from my primary GP, I quickly also got an appointment with a diabetic specialist to investigate the risk of LADA, and do...

I agree with this, though I usually am hungry and the reasons for sometimes skipping breakfast or catching it later is I get dragged into something unexpected for work. It's a little irrational, but I feel like I got to this point of T2D because of work and not balancing time to learn how to...

I don't personally, I have only read correlations that red meat and casein in milk and dairy products increase risk of cancer. BUT I know that cancer tens to be triggered based at least sometimes on antigen responses, so I think it's just a broad correlation. It probably matters more what type...

No doesn't make a difference. The body is definitely behaving differently by dumping a low grade amount of glucose until I eat. The low grade glucose is not triggering an insulin response but the insulin does come when I eat. I think I will try what another reply suggested, that if I know I'm...

Other than foods she has cut, is she tracking actual net carb intake? It's not just simply stopping eating of sugary foods, but watching literally everything being eaten, reading food labels, and paying attention to true net carbs. Body activity, like daily cardio, can also burn off glucose...

Same here. I have yet to try it. I don't even know how it works, I guess it's supposed to somehow increase insulin-sensitivity and liver dumps but the way I'm thinking is: If you're having liver dumps in the first place or have a bad diet, a drug will just hide bad habits and 2-3 years later...

Hello all, I haven't posted in a while, I had a period of time where I couldn't be on top of my diet as well as usual and stopped testing my blood all the time. I'm back on track now pretty strictly for the past 2 months (average A1C based on testing 6.5 American scale), just diet-based no...

Out of curiosity, I typed "maximum carbs for type 2 diabetes" and the #2 non-sponsored result is this page from the United Stated CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/managing/eat-well/diabetes-and-carbohydrates.html That is insane. They're basically giving instructions to people that will...

I've not been able to shop as easily or regularly as pre-coronavirus events but here is advice around snacking/grazing controls: * Drink more water * Have a very consistent eating schedule * Don't buy things from the store that would be bad snacks or too much of a temptation * Buy an abundance...

I'm lucky in that I love eggs & bacon and could eat them every day, but for variety I will change things up for breakfast like an avocado with just lemon juice and seasoning (touch of garlic powder and black pepper) or an Atkins wafer protein bar (3g net carbs & pretty tasty) with chamomile tea...

I was hoping I would find something in the records, was able to look them up. Prior to my T2 diagnosis last October, I hadn't really had any medical problems but did go to the ER in early 2018 as I was feeling a light tingling in my left arm and left chest tightness, subtle woozy feeling. I was...

After my initial T2 diagnosis, I went to an endocrinologist to get further tests to rule out other stuff and to determine any pancreatic issues. This was an instinctive effort, I barely knew anything at the time other than to "make sure" it was indeed T2. I had no pancreas or beta cell issues...

I got confused which site he was referring to.

I thought he was referring to a different site.

Personally, I would not focus on recipes as much as key foods to remove from your diet and key foods to balance in. I have no idea where the bananas and chick peas thing comes in, you should research food nutrients. Very easy to do on Google. What you are looking for are total net carbs. To get...

Went for my follow-up appointment last Thursday and the doctor confirmed what I already knew with my own testing, my results came back 6.2 and he finally agreed that I won't need metformin and to continue with what I'm doing. Then he pointed out that my triglycerides were still high, so I asked...

Follow-up with my primary physician and blood tests came back much better for A1C (6.2) and cholesterol (way lower triglycerides), and the additional tests requested by the urologist (testosterone, sex hormone, antigens, etc.) all came back normal. An EKG also showed totally normal. Which really...

I've had 4 doctors now tell me I am nuts for not jumping on the metformin bandwagon because all they hear is the last A1C I had (9.8%) which happened to be when I was clueless I had diabetes. Yes, I know that is extreme, but in 3 months so far my tester/app is telling me that my diet change and...

Ojustaboo, wow that is a long list of meds. Is there any way to manage health problems with fewer meds? It may be a complication with all of that and I would personally prefer to be on the least medications possible to rule out those things as issues.

I had my urology visit today, no abnormalities but he did find inflammation right at the point of discomfort I was having on my left side, noted it as epididymitis, so I may have been correct that I must have hurt myself while working on the house earlier last year and this lead to some kind of...