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Hi all, I was diagnosed with T2 in November 23 with levels of 53. I needed a lot of advice as I had no idea what I was doing and some very lovely people on here helped me massively. Today I got my monitoring blood results and I’m down to 41. So I would like to say an absolutely massive thank...

Hi, I’m on a few meds but the one they were concerned about is propranolol (a beta blocker also used to ease the symptoms of panic attacks). Apparently the DN wasn’t aware that I was on these when she prescribed metformin so I’ve had to stop them. For clarification though I’m on metformin...

Hi, I’m not sure how low I’m going as I wasn’t monitoring until it was suggested at hospital yesterday. Paramedic said it was 4.1 two hours after I last ate. DN discovered Ketones were at 2.5 with a urine test. My BG at that same time was 8.1. Ketones have been negative since trying harder to...

Food/meal - a current day for me is wake up 6-7am then either just a cappuccino until 12/1pm or a cappuccino & some fruit (such as half a banana or 6-8 grapes) at approx 8am. Then a whole meal sandwich for lunch followed finally by a carnivore only evening meal approx 6pm. I’m supposed to be on...

Thanks for the reply. Im a bit confused with it all to be honest because I’m in Ed therapy and been told I have to eat every 4 hours and not to do intermittent fasting and my DN has said that I absolutely cannot be skipping meals because I keep having hypos & ketones. I’m averaging a rise of...

Hi all. I was diagnosed 29th November with HBa1C of 53 (asymptomatic). I immediately made changes and I’ve lost 1.5 stones since then. However, just after Xmas I started with massively increased thirst, blurry vision (blurrier than normal) and slow healing wounds, so the DN put me on metformin...