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Hi Dave, having type 2 and on insulin bread is usually a no go area for me. However, I did find Hovis lower carb bread to be an excellent inclusion in my low carb diet and have been buying it for some years now. Because of a strangling of my small intestine due to scar tissue intrusion from...

Yep! It isn't easy. I had recently been put on both basal and fast acting insulin but now am trying to come off the fast acting insulin by increasing my night time basal insulin to lower my early morning fasting glucose reading and keeping to a mostly NO CARB diet that is also good for the low...

I agree that your condition is yours to change as long as you don't reverse it back again thinking you can eat like someone without diabetes. A lot of people who have reversed their status may have only been a diabetic type 2 for a short time and those with 30 years as a type 2 although...

Yes, a very young but efficient and thorough one.

Every little helps John so thank you ... I will see what happens as the week progresses ... my bloods came down to 9.9 mmol/l tonight o though still high they're at least coming down a little. Thanks again John.

Many thanks, usually low sugar baked beans don't raise my bloods and the soup veggies were mostly low carb content, I thought sweet potato chips were supposed to be better than normal chips but I will look at getting a carb counter book to help get a better handle on things. Thanks again ...

Okay, I have at last received the letter which briefly states my pancreas is still making reasonable amounts of insulin. It gives my blood results as ;- HbA1c 53 mmol/mol Chol 2.9 eGFR 72 Hb 146 g/l Gluc 10 mmol/l C-pep 1103 pmol/l GAD negative I do not know what all this means as the...

Hi and thanks for following up on this issue. I was supposed to have had a letter from the hospital 2 weeks ago from the diabetes doctor, my having had various blood tests to find out if I have a rare type of diabetes and not type 2 but this wasn't forthcoming. I rang 3 days ago and they said it...

Thanks guys, This change of medication is due to my being diagnosed with having a rare type of diabetes and not the type 2 that I had been told I had 30 years ago! My diet is low carb and very healthy and apart from diabetes I am officially very healthy and fit for my age as my annual GP review...

The diabetic doctor has offered to put me on pioglitazone but I have recently read that this has been linked to bladder cancer? My understanding is that the control of my diabetes far outweighs the risk of taking pioglitazone but I would still worry about such a trade off. I would like to ask...

With regards to the pasties and raisins, I do not usually have the pasties as I know they put up the levels but when I go out there isn't much choice at many restaurants or cafes. At the National Trust place we visited they only had potato soup or pies and pasties so not much choice at all and...

Thanks again David, that is very useful information and I will definitely insist on a c-peptide test ... I now have an appointment with the diabetic specialist 25th January so should hopefully receive better help then. Sounds like you have had to motivate the system in order to get better...

Thanks Ichihun, I would be scared if my bgs levels were 30 as I was worried when mine came back at 18 mmol/l. I managed to get my bgs down to 7.4 over the last 2 days but my low carb flax meal and chia seed with 4 walnuts (and without raisins) put me up after 2 hrs to 9.6 and then we went for a...

Many thanks David, I asked the diabetic nurse about having a c-peptide test but she told me it wasn't readily available? I will ask again when I see her next time.

Thanks for the info ... I'm going to go back to the diabetic clinic at my local hospital in the New Year so will ask for the tests you mentioned but I think you're right and the time has come to introduce insulin into my regime as not many people go over 30 years without needing to do so...

Thanks Sonnyb2 ... It's a newish thing really but valid as a type of diabetes.

Thanks ichihun, that is helpful info, having recently had a hip replacement I too have been unable to do my usual exercise programme which as you say doesn't help. If I can stay low carb without big rises in my blood glucose control that would be okay and I wouldn't need insulin but I have been...

Hi Jaylee and a happy New Year to you too! Thanks for you reply. Yes, I do take my levels b4 and after breakfast and they do not rise much as I only have a few raisins ... Maybe 6 - 9 max just to flavour the flax meal. It's the carbs that I can't tolerate so many if not all proprietary breakfast...