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  1. Wine impact on my blood sugars

    well I got through xmas lunch at my daughter's place without too many battle scars except one. I kinda cheated and drank more than my usual amount of red wine for the occasion. I had about I would say about 20ozs of red wine over the course of the afternoon with the meal. As for food I...
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    What (if any) wine or beer is it reasonable to drink.

    Hi, I'm waiting for a doctors appointment ( it takes 2 weeks here) to review a blood test from the local hospital after a routine check up at my GP showed high glucose in my urine. I bought a test meter from Argos which showed a high fasting level of 140 yesterday, today was 109 so no...
  3. Wine and Metformin?

    Hi, I'm on Metformin, specifically: Glucophage/Prolonged Release, Metformin Hydrochloride. When I was on the previous stuff, the ordinary Metformin, the doc said "no alcohol". I've read the leaflet for this version, and that is a little vague about alcohol. So I wondered if anyone else here has...
  4. Taking advantage of wine's shut down of liver glucose?

    I learned something new yesterday - and I'm curious to see what others think. Since diagnosis in October I've had 4 glasses of wine, three of them fairly sweet. I had one yesterday that is one of the sweetest varieties (Moscato) and, from the taste, probably on the high end of residual sugar...
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