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    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    6.3 and Sat carbs were 34.4 still going up. Think I'll do a FBG tomorrow am with no sugar jelly for brekkie and see what they're like as my diet has gone from healthy with sugars and never false sugars to healthy and all false sugars.
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    Glycogen Storage Disease

    Hi it must be 5 years plus since they last checked my cholesterol and all were extremely low I would say between .34 and .50, cant remember which though.
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    Glycogen Storage Disease

    My lipid profile is way too low, I take statins to raise my good cholesterol I think the last time I was tested they were below 0.5, but the consult said it was common in metabolic disorders.
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    Glycogen Storage Disease

    Definitely dont give up, there have been times when I wanted to but I know that I went into the chair when there was no other option, and yes pig headed I think of my body in two ways, one is you wont beat me and the other is thank you for keeping me alive! It must think I have a split personality
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    Glycogen Storage Disease

    Some of the rare metabolic disorders are just that, part of GSD is we're missing the chemical messenger to activate energy from cells,which is why they put me on Ozempic. But I remember saying to a consultant that my muscles felt theyd been shredded after exercise like someone had used a grater...
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    Glycogen Storage Disease

    Hi There are 5 types of GSD so only the specialist could tell you if you have one of them. My basic symptoms start off with me as a supersized child, with continuous weight gain that nothing could control, then this developed into many problems which I initially thought was caused by the...
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    Glycogen Storage Disease

    Hi Theres no treatment for my type of GSD, just told to drip feed sugars through the day but to be careful as this could cause diabetes, they then started me on Ozempic but it doesn't seem to do much, I'm definitely less exhausted but still feel as if I could sleep 24/7. Interestingly my sugars...
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    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    6.2 and carbs lower than Thursdays at 51.4
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    Glycogen Storage Disease

    Anyone else on here diagnosed with GSD?
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    Type 2s: What have you eaten today?

    I really enjoy your daily menu, I'm living my healthy life vicariously through you!
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    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    8 am this morning was 6.1, yesterday's carb were 61.1 so hoping tomorrow it'll be lower as my final carbs are 55.6 so watch this space!
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    Urine production at night.

    Hi My husband had this, he drinks diet coke only, about 6 cans a day, he isn't a diabetic but his father was late onset so he checks his blood occasionally, he used to eat large quantities of grapes, 1k a day all in the evening. His bloods were fine but he decided to cut out the grapes anyway...
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    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    7.2 at 8am, then 7.2 2 hrs after sausage and eggs for brekkie so if I can't get lower than 7 currently I'll settle for stable continuity at least!
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    7.2 at 8 am this morning gotta pay the piper, fish and salt and pepper chips last night from our local Chinese!
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    Nuts

    Hi yes Kenny A explained to me and I've been doing it 'all wrong' you are right and this explains why I'm getting raised sugars after 2 hours! Thanks for replying
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    Nuts

    Thanks
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    Nuts

    Yes, thank you so much!
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    Nuts

    Hi all, I'm carb counting and I'm confused about nuts. The pecan nuts I like are 7.2 gms of carbs with an 8.6 gms of fibre per 100 gms of nut. So does this mean the fibre in the nuts makes them uncountable , or does it mean that the extra fibre to carb ratio results in the fibre cancelling out a...