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Your dog is gorgeous. Here are my fur family. Milo - brown velvet chinchilla. Chase -standard grey chinchilla. Noah - maltese/shitzu cross. Sid - cavoodle. Teddy - lop-eared bunny. Poppy - lop cross.

A little about me first of - Annual hba1c check was 51 on 1 Jun 2020. Got that down to 40 by 1 Sep through weight loss and LCHF diet......Having a repeat hba1c done on Monday 7th, but expecting it to be back up in the 50's going of my average BS readings over the past 3 months.......This has...

Hi. Sounds like you're on the right track with the weightloss, etc. Well done on your progress. Can I ask why you don't want to use the caresens meter? It is the one that is most readily available and used here, and there is good access to reasonably priced tests strips and lancets. Btw: I'm...

Past few days my fasting levels have started to come down a little. I've had one at 6.9. My lowest ever in 4 months. This is only my 2nd week of intermittent fasting. Fingers [emoji1696] it's helping. As far as the statin goes, I'm not sure what to do. If I stop it whilst I'm on a HFLC diet...

I'm the same. If I stay below 10g carbs at the first meal of the day, I can keep it within range for the remainder of the day. It's just that fasting one that is high. However, it does not continue to rise until I eat my first meal - its been dropping by about 1 - 1.5 mmol in that window from...

Not with that last test, I definitely had not fasted. My numbers were slowly coming down each year through dietary adjustment only, and then rose up again this year. So, was told I had to have the statins as diet alone was not cutting it. However, the test was taken early June.

These are my cholesterol numbers for the past 5 years. I have never been told I needed meds until now.

Starting to suspect that I'm fighting a losing battle too. Going to request the complete set of blood tests - fasting, Glucosr tolerance and hba1c at my next review as I think the doc is missing something simply going on hba1c.

Yeah I suspect this is the problem. Switched to taking it with my first meal of the day instead of bedtime and my fasting BS levels are still high and its making it harder to keep BS within range during the day even on very low carb. Would like to toss it in the bin, but concerned about what Doc...

16/ 9 - 7.7 17/9 - 6.9

16/9 - 7.6 17/9 - 6.9 - this is my lowest ever maybe finally starting to come down

15/9 - Fasting BS - 7.2

Ok. Thats interesting that it took 6 months. I guess my concern is that it is the statin medication that is keeping it high. I will ask for the repeat cholesterol test to be fasting as I also want a fasting glucose and a GTT done. From what I've read in journals online, hba1c misses up to 73%...

Thanks. Will take a look at that thread. The test was non-fasting. I'd had breakfast before the test. I'm in NZ so medical stuff tends to be a bit behind the rest of the world. I have been eating low carb/high fat (since the lipid test was done) as my hba1c was 51 at that time and I was...

Anybody have any experience with starting statins, then deciding to quit taking them? I was started on them in June. These were my numbers prior to starting them. Not excessively high.

14/9 - 8am - 7.7 First day of trying intermittent fasting. My reading at 11am (before I had my first meal of the day) it had dropped to 6.6

I quite enjoy the mySugr app, but my meter also has Bluetooth and uploads results directly to an app called SmartLog. I much prefer mySugr as there are fun little challenges to take part in.

Diagnosis was June. Found during routine annual blood tests. Also diagnosed with hypercholesterolemia at the same time and started on statin medication. Thanks for your suggestions. My current eating window is 10 hours. Breakfast @ 8.30 and dinner with family @ 6.30. Lunch usually around 1.30...

12/9 - 7.2 13/9 - 9.2 (Ate pizza for dinner yesterday [emoji17])

Yup. Sure do. If I go to bed and they are still high, I will wake up soaking in sweat and feel thirsty and like I have a hangover.