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@Hugo_P Your quoted papers appear to be about fatty livers and predisposition to metabolic syndrome (and potential diabetes). I would have to know a lot more about the liver and metabolic syndrome to have a handle on them. Whatever they check my liver for when I have my blood tests seems to be...

Thanks, Jo. Definitely not carbs creep and, after quitting Keto, I have carried on with a diet that was/is lower in carbs and protein than before (both in gram amounts and in proportions) and substantially higher in fats. Maybe I am not so daft considering Covid damage as a potential cause...

28 must have been quite a shock. Was it a reading of fasting blood glucose, just a random reading or a deliberate attempt to measure blood glucose when it is at the top of a spike? I recently got an HbA1c of 53 when expecting about 45. That was a shock too (and a severe disappointment). I...

Subsequent to https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/help-me-stay-keto-please.175058/ Well, I lasted 3 more weeks, 20 in total, and continued feeling rubbish and unable to exercise strenuously, despite the various advice you guys gave (thank you). I abandoned Keto 30/6/20. Nausea and...

Ziggy, thank you. Watched the Bikman video and glad to see he's a protein fan, although I didn't understand (hoped not to have understood?) his suggestion at the end about increasing protein as glycaemic control improves - because he seemed to be implying that should occur only when your BG is...

Hi HSSS and Resurgam and ..., You threw me off a bit with the '40 years of drinking'. Maybe I have a guilty conscience. Never let it be said that I don't yield to peer pressure and good advice: I shall take note and have another go, more determined than before, at giving up lemonade and similar...

Interesting. Thanks, MrsA2, Sounds like that's worth a try. Congrats on your progress, this year. J

Resurgam, I took the 20mg Atorvastatin tablet for 3 years without noticeable ill effects before the dose was doubled and it satisfied my GP. Of course, maybe 20mg is enough simply to preserve any damage by 40mg, but I chose to accept that the 20mg is just doing a reasonable job. If keto...

Lesley, Thank you for referring to me as a gentleman - nobody else does! The 'of a certain age' is spot on, of course. Good point re prostate. My brother (3 years younger) had to have chemotherapy for prostate and nagged me to get inspected and PSA tested. All clear in my case (and keto has...

Hi bulkbiker, The reason was 'Better safe than sorry' (my paraphrase) and it resulted from a set of screening tests for heart disease. They found nothing unusual/nothing of concern. Since the following deterioration of BG control (of unproven origin, I have to admit) I've become somewhat more...

Hi Brunneria, thanks for that. Did you discover your B12/magnesium issues through a diagnostic test? As noted, I am waiting to get a mega-blood test if/when I can, via my GP or one of those private outfits that advertise on the web. Whether such a thing will answer my questions and/or turn out...

Hi Jo, thank you. I was convinced when my blood glucose deteriorated a couple of years ago - inexplicably a few months after a good HbA1c followed 2 weeks later by a doubling of the statins dose (20mg=>40mg, gratuitously, I thought, and for nothing to do with all this). I stopped statins...

HSSS, LaoDan, JoKalsBeek, Mr_Pot, bulkbiker, and IanDP: Thank you for so much interest and encouragement. Some of the questions overlap, so I am going to take the liberty of answering them all at once. My weight is stable and I'm happy with it. It's a 'proper' keto diet with 77+% fat (I ignore...

Hi, At the risk of getting no replies at all, I'm making this long post because i) I can't explain any quicker and ii) I'm desperate. A month before I completed a 12 week transition (starting at HbA1c 47) into a ketogenic diet, I wrote: Hi, I'm 73 yo, male with T2D since late 2013 diagnosis...

Dear Brunneria, thank you for your advice/opinions and taking the trouble to answer all those questions.

Yes, mine showed me that I am a bit more sensitive to carbs at breakfast and I rearranged my diet. The Codefree would have shown me the same thing, but I had almost always not had the patience and discomfort tolerance to make measurements throughout the day. Diff between Codefree and Libres was...

Yes, as you say, the HbA1c is the real deal and, unfortunately, that is in line with my SD Codefree and way off the Freestyle's predictions (42 vs 33-35). Given there was little variation between the readings I got from Freestyle CGMs and that I don't get hypos and / or unpredictable deviations...

Thanks, Bulkbiker. Hmm! Fast for 24 hours w/o feeling hungry. Clearly, I hadn't appreciated the challenges involved.

I have seen on one of Stephen Phinney's YouTube videos and/or the Virta Blog Keto-adaptation entry, that there is a difference between being in ketosis and being keto-adapted, the latter taking 3 months in some people. (I know it can take much longer to recover your full fitness levels, even...

Thanks, urbanracer, good point.