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    Type 2s: What have you eaten today?

    Scotch egg 3 party sausages Chilli and home made Cole slaw Chicken curry with veg
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    surgery an high hbA1c

    I had my operation cancelled 4 weeks ago due to hba1c of 76, it was the wake up call I needed as I am now on the straight and narrow and hoping my next blood test will bring a more favourable decision. My app tells me I am heading for 40.
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    Type 2s: What have you eaten today?

    Small cheese omelette Chicken leg, grains, boiled egg Ghurkins Chilli with lettuce
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    Type 2 newly diagnosed and scared

    Lucy locket I feel your pain. There are courses available that will help you no end, the courses I attended are, Healthy, Desmond, and I attended a SWEET course yesterday which reaffirmed what I knew and taught me new things. I was diagnosed 2 years ago or more maybe and have been really...
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    Metformin side effects?

    Still got the awful side effects.
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    Best weight loss diet ever.

    I've lost nearly 18lb now in nearly 9 days...METFORMIN REACTION. Try it you'll love it.
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    Metformin side effects?

    MJ it was 7 weeks before the side effects got too much, I have been off the mets for about 4 days now and i still have stomach horrible cramps, but i do have the slow release tablets now, so i am going to wait for these horrible effects to go before i start all over again with the sr type.
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    Fruit Carbs

    Fruit has sugar = carbs so try not to eat too many in a day.
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    Low sugar yoghurts

    fage full fat or fat free, I use both with ground flax seed and cinnamon, blueberries etc. look at the total cabs fage is 4gper 100g
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    Carb Question

    look into quinoa, you can prepare and load it up with all sorts of lovely flavours to make a really nice food, treat it like rice.
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    Changing from Metformin tablets to Glucophage powders

    yeah i wouldnt take it all in one go any more after my recent bouts of the side effects, build up to full dose if your BG is under control...well thats what i am going to do from now on.
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    Update on my diabetes as a recently diagnosed

    found this http://empoweredsustenance.com/is-stevia-bad-for-you/
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    Zero carb Website

    its the devils food, try and ween yourself away from the sweeties.
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    Metformin side effects?

    Its definitely not eating too much for me, i am eating like a healthy sparrow now. Doctor said I may have had a bug and the metformin exaggerated the problem as it does tend to make people "explosive". They should issue metformin out to the enemy in war times, they all be in the toilet.
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    Update on my diabetes as a recently diagnosed

    Thanks guys, the stomach problem has really disabled me, virtually incontinent .. I cannot work due to it. But yes the progress has been good, it all got easier once i had got my head around the things I could eat and how to make them taste nice so you would eat it again. @ parameswaran i really...
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    Update on my diabetes as a recently diagnosed

    Hello again I thought I may appraise you of my journey so far, what little it is. So, I was on 3 X 500 metformin per day, put straight onto that amount without any gradual increase. I have adopted a very low carb diet eating mainly meats, fish, and veg (low GI only) treat myself to sugar free...
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    Metformin side effects?

    I am at this moment in time ready to run to the toilet at a moments notice!!!! i have been on 3 x 500 metformin a day for 7 weeks now with varying degree of stomach cramps and explosive diarrhea, this last 6 days its escalated to making me virtually incontinent, the most watery, arriving at a...
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    hospital sucks

    Good luck honey