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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gloucestergirl" data-source="post: 400890" data-attributes="member: 54959">HiI'm struggling to work out what you say is a high sugar level because the highest number you mention is 10 and that's not what I'd call high!   If you can eat all the stuff you mention and have a post meal reading of 4.7 then that sounds very good to me.  I stuffed some crisps, a bit of fruit and a small chocolate bar and my sugar level before bed was 20!!!!  With an HBA1C of 5.2 I would say you are doing very well.  My last one was 7.9.Presumably you're on some sort of medication or are you just controlling it with diet alone?  When I was diagnosed in 1995 my sugar level was 22 and the hospital wanted to put me onto insulin straight away but I wasn't keen so I went onto tablets and was on them for several years.  Eventually, after about eight years I went on to once a day long acting insulin but my sugar levels were still high and I went on to multiple injections a day which settled my levels down and I am injecting three times a day after meals and also once at night but I still get high levels occasionally, eg. the 20.  With levels like yours you must be doing the right things and I am envious of your HBA1C.</blockquote>

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