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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SheilaN" data-source="post: 924625" data-attributes="member: 202542">Hi all,I'm here for my partner, for whom I am the carer.  He has pernicious anaemia, Hashimoto's disease and recent diagnosis of diabetes 2 (the latter which he has been dodging for years as a prediabetic).  He is currently recording (for the first time) his blood glucose before and after meals. We are still trying to bring down the levels through diet and exercise before we next see the GP or endocrinologist.  I have noticed that, while he tends to have a relatively high baseline - in the high 6s and 7s, sometimes 8 or 9, his blood glucose does not rise more than a couple of points after meals.  He has been walking before breakfast and whenever his sugar levels are high, with moderate results.  I have just realised that he is quite constipated and have found out the relationship between constipation and diabetes - where fluid is retained to dilute blood sugar levels and thus taken from the bowel, causing constipation, but also, that slow processing of food can increase the blood sugar levels.  I have been giving him actulose (lactulose) daily for two days without results, and have told him to take it three times a day.  I gather, however, that lactulose isn't the laxative of choice in diabetes.  What do others think and do in this situation?</blockquote>

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