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New territory for me as a type 2: I checked my blood sugar level 2 hours after lunch, and it's dropped to 4.7 I was about to take a short trip to check on some things but thought, "Aren't we meant to avoid driving if our BS are below 5?" What do people think - I'm not on insulin or other...

So my sugars were 5.5 this morning. Decided to help a neighbour and strimmed and mowed their small lawn, took about an hour - no rushing. Wasn’t feeling so great so tested and had a reading of 10.2! Retested and got 8.7 - better but still quite raised. Tested again an hour later and had 7.8...

Just got the results from the 3-month follow up to diagnosis. Gone from 74 mmol/mol at the end of April to 41 mmol/mol on Tuesday. Feeling a bit chuffed with myself :happy:

Just had my first foot check so I wasn’t sure what to expect. What actually happened was the nurse told me their machine was broken (like everything else in surgery!) then she manually felt for a pulse on the top and by the ankle of each foot, and that was it…. I don’t know (it’s my first time...

What a load of rubbish! I tried to sign up for the Libre 2 free trial: It took 4 attempts before it recognised my telephone number. It sent me 3 demands to confirm my email address and 2 more to confirm that telephone number. Following that, it sent me two emails timed identically, the first...

So I was referred to this online course for type 2s by my GP. The information videos are generally okay; however, they insist that most men should have around 300g of carbohydrates each day and that the lowest healthy limit, even for diabetics, is 130g a day! And of course, simple carbs and...

Hey everyone, so I was very recently diagnosed with type 2 after high sugar levels turned up in a hospital blood test (73). My GP practice repeated the blood test and again I had high sugars (74). I had a quick meeting with one of the doctors and he's putting me on metformin - one a day for a...