After reading the posts on this forum which has been very helpful. I have been given conflicting information by my practice nurse who said she didn’t do carb counting. She gave me a GlucoRX Q meter to use and in 5 days I have got my mmol readings down from 15.7 to 8.5 this morning fasting readings. Saying that I had to do two tests this morning as first one on right hand gave a reading of 4.5 , i thought that was a big drop from yesterday so I did another test on left hand straight away which gave the 8.5 reading. Why the difference I don’t know.
As well as the meter the nurse gave me a lot of reading material including a book called Diabetes Everyday Eating by the Independent Diabetes Trust and all the meals in the daily menus about 6 pages of them include meals like pasta bake and loads of meals which include potatoes, the total daily carbs range from 140 to 270 .
The advice on here seems to be low carb which seems sensible to me but my practice nurse an the book says low fat balanced meals even though high in carbs .
My medication is 1mg of Glimepiride daily
As well as the meter the nurse gave me a lot of reading material including a book called Diabetes Everyday Eating by the Independent Diabetes Trust and all the meals in the daily menus about 6 pages of them include meals like pasta bake and loads of meals which include potatoes, the total daily carbs range from 140 to 270 .
The advice on here seems to be low carb which seems sensible to me but my practice nurse an the book says low fat balanced meals even though high in carbs .
My medication is 1mg of Glimepiride daily