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I am on gliclazide my GP wasn't keen on prescribing test strips, so I spoke to the hospital specialist who said I need to test my blood and will require these, they agreed to give me two packs of gluco nexus strips a month now. Before I was told No. It may be worth contacting the consultant...

So, this is going to sound awful here, sorry. If my BG was higher than I wanted it to be or needed it to be and I wanted it down more, would drinking alcohol do that?;)

Are you actually on insulin? If not, pardon the question but what meds are you taking in order to have to test before you drive?

Hi Firstly I would try not to stress over the injections, that's probably more of a threat. If you've been diet only normally the next step would be tablets, most likely metformin as that's first line of treatment when diet alone fails, then they move you to gliclazide and the sulphonyureas...

hi Does anyone know why you aren't meant to consume alcohol while on gliclazide? It just says 'may enhance effects of this medicine' in my Patient leaflet. Can anyone elaborate please?

Rowntrees jelly tots, then granola bars

I had Muesli with nuts for breakfast now, I'm on new meds and I end up having hypos if I don't eat some carbs now. I still have egg and bacon sometimes too.

Hi Well I have an update for everyone, I went to see the specialist and he has put me on gliclazide and ramapril, since taking it my blood sugar has dropped from 19 down to approx 5-6 during the day and about 6-7 overnight, for me that's good but since being on gliclazide and as I didn't usually...

I live in Southwold Suffolk , it'd be great to meet other diabetic people

Ok, I will try that until Thursday and see if it works, hopefully in 4 days I should see a difference.

Thanks, I have an appointment Thursday morning to see the diabetes specialist from the hospital.

I'm cows milk intolerant and soya is naturally high in sugar so I have skimmed goats milk and goats butter, I grill everything I don't fry, I eat poached eggs and the bacon I eat is grilled. I don't eat yogurt no as it reminds me of when my baby's puked up milk, kind of puts me off. Would you...

Hi The sausage wasn't in anything as I'm wheat intolerant so I just had it with the chicken and salad from the BBQ, the baked potato may be a factor as I felt very tired after eating it. I should have said the rice was 'cauliflower rice' blanched and blitz in processor to make 'rice' not regular...

These are my last 5 days of glucose readings (If that helps) 14.0 After eating baked potato and chicken salad 12.2 on waking 10.8 after dinner of chicken fillets and veg 10.5 before bed 11.2 on waking 10.8 after breakfast of egg 10.2 BEFORE lunch 11.5 BEFORE dinner below! 10.8 after dinner of...

Thanks anyway. x

This morning I woke with a 13.8 blood sugar reading, came downstairs and at 9am had a glass of water and half a grapefruit that went to 14.8, then an hour and a half later at 10.30 I had a slice of bacon with an egg it went down to 9.3, I don't understand how it goes down after I've eaten like...

No, I'm type 2 evidently on saxagliptin

can someone explain this to me please?, My blood sugar reduces after I eat (depending what I've eaten!) but when I wake it's 12+, and that's fasting, I'm confused!

Hi My name is Lissia I am 41 years old. I had gestational diabetes 12 years ago which went and then came back when my daughter was 2, since then I did diet for 8 years and them metformin which was awful and then saxagliptin currently that doesn't appear to help much. I am a single parent with...

I'm not keen on my numbers either, I've been waking up feeling very hot, thirsty and dehydrated lately, I've been on saxagliptin for over a year but it hasn't moved my BS levels much,down just 2 points, I don't eat much anyway but especially not when it's hot but what I do eat I'm concious of...