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I should also say that I tested with a meter all through September and then sporadically in October. I was also noting down everything I was eating. It ended up making me a little obsessed, so I stopped! I still test occasionally, especially if I am worried something will spike my BG, but I'm...

Aug 2020: HbA1c 89 - started Low Carb Diet; Nov 2020: HbA1c 61

August 2020: HbA1C 89 - started Low Carb diet

Just wanted to let you all know about my latest blood tests, since you were so kind and helpful when I was diagnosed in August. So my first HbA1c in mid August was 89. I came straight on here and read up voraciously. Since then I have been sticking to the low carb regime; I wouldn't say it was...

Thanks ZedZedZet & Resurgam! That's very interesting. I am trying two small slices of homemade low carb seed toast & peanut butter this morning. My BG went up from 10.2 at 7.20am to 13.2 at 8.30am (without even having had tea) this morning. I will have to see what happens at midday after having...

Hi Flora, thanks for replying! My usual day is something like: tea with milk first thing coffee with milk mid morning Lunch might be cauliflower rice and chicken curry, or mixed salad with nuts and a creamy dressing, Usually have a late afternoon snack of something like Greek yoghurt &...

Hi Daphne, Thank you for replying! I don't think so, but I fit the profile for T2 so I am assuming the GP has made the call. He's happy for me to try to bring my numbers down on diet alone for 2 or 3 months. (First HbAc1 was 89, second a fortnight later was 77; at this point I'd been low carb...

Hello! I have been eating low carb for about a month now. It's going well. I am taking daily rehydration salts and keeping to below 50g carb a day. On advice given here I've got a meter and testing strips and have tested at intervals over the last few days. So now I can see what my blood glucose...

August 2020: HbA1C 89 - started Low Carb diet

Aug 2020 HbA1c 89

Oooh, yes, thank you! I will give goat a go! My hands are really really bad at the moment.

Thanks everyone who replied! You've made me feel both better informed and reassured. I had my appointment at the surgery today, and it went pretty well. They'd swapped seeing the diabetes team nurse for an appointment with the doctor so I was a bit worried it would be A Serious Talk, but...

I've been using his old and recently superseded meter, which wouldn't be downloaded at appointments; I wouldn't have scuppered any readings that were going to the hospital. :) Good to know that the next HbA1c reading won't have been much affected by the last 3 weeks.

No, I haven't been testing except for the 3 times at the beginning, and then today, because I don't want to use up my son's strips! I should get my own really... It's good to know that it might take a while. Is it worth going on Metformin in the meantime? I know that's what they will expect me...

I really appreciated everyone's advice and support on my first post (written after a phone call with the nurse who started off telling me my condition was 'down to my lifestyle') and I'm now 3 weeks into my new diet regime. To recap briefly, my son is T1 and I asked him to check my BS 3 weeks...

Thanks all! I really appreciate you taking the time to reply. I had a great birthday - stayed away from the chips, had a glass of dry white wine, felt more cheerful than the morning. Today I have been feeling very foggy and weary, and my hands are very painful, so I am hoping I will start...

Thanks all! You've been very kind and helpful. I shall go about my birthday now feeling slightly more cheerful! (Even without a cake to celebrate! First carb-less trip to a restaurant: I will resist the hand-cut chips and eat all the cheese instead... )

Thank you so much! This is very helpful! It really helps to think of it like that, and I will keep an eye out for possible T1.

Thank you for replying! I think I will just have to do this too! Be polite, take the tests, do what seems right according to my own research. I'm probably just focussing on this phone call rather than the upset of diagnosis. :(

Hello! I just got the phone call from the diabetes nurse at my surgery with my test results, and am worried I've already managed to make the relationship 'difficult'. I'm feeling a bit wobbly now and could do with some advice/support from you all. Some background: I'm 52 (today! Yay, birthday...