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<blockquote data-quote="DavidGrahamJones" data-source="post: 2214849" data-attributes="member: 245335"><p>May I start with the simple stuff. Type II diabetes means that either your pancreas isn't producing normal amounts of insulin or your body isn't using that insulin in the normal fashion, in other words you are insulin resistant.</p><p></p><p>What I found very useful is knowing what my pancreas was up to and what my insulin resistance was. I had a c-peptide test that showed my insulin production was in the normal range and an insulin resistance test, showing that my body was resisting the insulin it was given.</p><p></p><p>One way to "overcome" insulin resistance is to increase the amount of insulin being produced, hence the Gliclazide.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Dawn phenomenon can be experienced whether you inject insulin or not and on top of that, you don't always experience it. I can go through patches where the BG increase is significant and then other times when it is hardly noticeable.</p><p></p><p>Don't forget that we are all different so will have different experiences. My intermittent dawn phenomenon is an example of that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Make sure you have your questions written down, it helps. I hand my questions over and both my GP and DN are happy with that because we get things done much more quickly. No time to go off topic and miss something out.</p><p></p><p>Oh, by the way. DON'T GIVE UP! All the best, I hope your appointment went well.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's low carb and there's low carb. Personally I'm down to less than 50gms a day and I know that because I weighed everything I ate and used some software to tell me what was in that food. I could have googled and worked it out for everything individually, it's just that I've been using something called "weight by date" for ages. Initially to track my food intake for dieting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DavidGrahamJones, post: 2214849, member: 245335"] May I start with the simple stuff. Type II diabetes means that either your pancreas isn't producing normal amounts of insulin or your body isn't using that insulin in the normal fashion, in other words you are insulin resistant. What I found very useful is knowing what my pancreas was up to and what my insulin resistance was. I had a c-peptide test that showed my insulin production was in the normal range and an insulin resistance test, showing that my body was resisting the insulin it was given. One way to "overcome" insulin resistance is to increase the amount of insulin being produced, hence the Gliclazide. Dawn phenomenon can be experienced whether you inject insulin or not and on top of that, you don't always experience it. I can go through patches where the BG increase is significant and then other times when it is hardly noticeable. Don't forget that we are all different so will have different experiences. My intermittent dawn phenomenon is an example of that. Make sure you have your questions written down, it helps. I hand my questions over and both my GP and DN are happy with that because we get things done much more quickly. No time to go off topic and miss something out. Oh, by the way. DON'T GIVE UP! All the best, I hope your appointment went well. There's low carb and there's low carb. Personally I'm down to less than 50gms a day and I know that because I weighed everything I ate and used some software to tell me what was in that food. I could have googled and worked it out for everything individually, it's just that I've been using something called "weight by date" for ages. Initially to track my food intake for dieting. [/QUOTE]
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