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After being down for a day have tried to pull myself together. Breakfast is now back to 1 Weetabix with milk and blueberries, and a glass of pure tomato juice. Nothing else. Lunch is 3 Ryvitas with a low calorie topping. Evening meal is whatever my wife cooks (such as chicken casserole, tuna...

Bit disheartened. Thought I was doing well but have just been told 6 months HBA1C result was 60 (up from 54), and I need to see the Diabetes Nurse. I drink a lot of pure squeezed tomato juice and eat a lot of blueberries. Thought these were superfoods which would do me good, but now I am...

Thanks for your helpful post. I think that there is a feeling amongst the profession that people with Diabetes, who say that they want to manage their diabetes by diet alone can't be trusted to stick to it over a long term, and therefore the only way a clinic can be sure that you are being...

My 2 hours after breakfast BG readings, using the last 5 days as an example, ares 8.6, 7.4, 5.7, 4.6, 5.5. I'm on one low dosage Gliclazide a day (40g). Breakfast is 1 Weetabix with milk, blueberries and pomagranite seeds, half glass tomato juice, two small slices of brown batch seeded toast...

Thanks Neil, I did go back to the GP, who sent me to the Diabetic Nurse-Manager. She agreed that should stop Metformin, and take a low dosage Gliclizide tablet instead. However I am still getting one of the side effects (hives), but not the swollen lips.

Newly diagnosed with Type 2, I was prescribed Metformin (500gm), one tablet a day for a week, and then two after that. Within a few days I started to get very bad hives, particularly at night, and swollen lips in the morning, so I stopped taking it. However I was told it was all in the mind and...