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Hello @Antje77, so my neurologist put me on prednisone 5 years ago, and told me I will need to be under a diabetic doctor as my BG will be all over the place. The hypo's came by strict low carb carb diet, and close BG control with insulin. I was very ill with a hypo, then insulin stopped...

Hello @Grant_Vicat, and thanks for the link to the kidney org. I have been stage 3b for a long while, and 7 years ago when I first went to see the nephrologist he pointed me to this info. But I was only half a unit under the red line, so I just stuck to the reduce red meat, increase green veg...

Hello @Antje77 So, diet is a balance and I now have high cholesterol, even though I have meds for that. So I would not want to try increasing fats. With insulin I am up to about 85 fiasp units with meals and 25 Tresiba overnight, and I suspect that is a bit high, but necessary to drop my BG, I...

So, thanks for your replies to my question. I am lactose intolerant, which means for 67 years I have looked at labels and just not eaten things that contain milk, butter,margarine, and cheese, I never found replacements as I just did not eat food that triggered my intolerance/sickness. I do not...

So, simple question how do lactose intolerant T2 diabetics deal with low carb diets. Royjk

Hello @grantg I know that needle phobia thingy, but I have so far managed to just focus on the windows, or intensly study a spot on the wall and pretend nothing is happening while the nurse does her stuff on my arm. With 5 days infusions, there is normally several bloods and up to 6 hours a day...

Hello @jujubirch63, welcome to the Forum, going to hospital can be OK for diet control of type 2 diabetes. The hospital will have a dietitian to help with ensuring you keep to a suitable diabetic diet. Let the nurse know you need to chat with them when you are admitted, and they will do their...

Hello @InDeathsWaitingRoom , it is interesting that people talk about calculating carbs and from there setting a dose for insulin to be taken 15 min before the meal. So far I have found no link with insulin dosing and the amount of carbs in a meal. It seems to me that different food has a...

So, several months ago I had a problem with taking insulin, due to BG dropping too low putting my body into a hypo situation. I stopped taking insulin completely and had a feeling that diabetes was finished, that |I could cross it off from life's problems. I spoke to the doctor and was told...

So I was diagnosed in August 2021, just as a precaution my neurologist from the myasthenia gravis clinic sent me to the diabetic clinic soon after I had my sternotomy to have my thymus removed. I guess she though my steroid treatment might give me high BG, but diabetes was never on my real to...

So, I do not really know if it is good or not but 7 months ago I was surprised to find myself with an HBA1c of 103mmol/mol. I started on insulin, and here on this forum discovered that lots of diabetics have a carb low diet. Kenny and Jo pointed me in that direction. It took 5.5 months to get...

Hello @grantg So, diabetic nurse put the sensor on and said, see what it does. I will see the doctor in another week. I have been 'ill' for 5 years now and diabetes is just something I picked up on the way through the hospital. My feeling is that 4.8mmol/l - 7.2mmol/l is a good range and...

So the reason for the CGM is that just few weeks ago I was at 40 units a day of fiasp and 18 units of Tresiba. Something happened overnight, dont know what, but my insulin dose needed changing to 15 fiasp and 12 Tresiba. Today it is a total of 12 fiasp and 8 Tresiba and the finger prick tests...

Hello @grantg , @saucequery ,@Rokaab Thanks for the advice. So the CGM reads .6 lower than finger prick test on the meter when I sit or sleep, but when I walk to the other room they read the same. 3.1 = 3.8 and 4.9 = 4.9. by taking action I have eliminated the red warnings. I understand that...

So, it is 5 day of CGM and what have I found? First I needed to get rid of the red warnings of low events, for the first couple of days I had 4 warnings with a total of 10 hours below 3.8mmol/l. I know that these were not blood glucose but they are interstitial fluid readings, and I have no way...

So, my doctor recomended that I wear a CGM so that he can see whats going on with my type 2 diabetes. I did not feel the thing as it was fitted, and then I was told wait for an hour and it will come live. I paired it with my phone, and went off for coffee. So what did I see in the first 24...

Thanks @KennyA , I did not realise the difference. So @grantg this honeymoon period is like Improved Glycymic Control for type 2's. and I can see from the diet that T1 and T2 are clearly not the same. I had been interested to see that you had weened yourself off medication, but can see now...

So, are you on a very low strict no carb diet, to keep our BS low, and eliminate the need for medication. And I had not heard of this honeymoon period in the context of diabetes, does it just go away sometimes? Royjk

So, Grantg why did you come off of insulin? Did your system fix itself? Royjk

Hello @BrenDorset , So as I said I will CGM for the first two weeks of July, due to a problem where my insulin needs changed just last week. I have been on insulin now for 6 months, but I was fortunate in regard to driving as other things had already put a stop to my driving. The doctor hopes...