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ajbod
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It's normal to feel low, angry wrongly ashamed etc after diagnosis, that will pass as you learn more about the condition. Eventually you will know far more than most health care "professionals" about it. Cut down on Bread, Pasta, Potatoes, Pastry and especially breakfast cereals, also vegetable oils, use butter, lard, dripping or proper olive oil.
Base your meals mainly on real meat with it's fat and eggs, (can't eat too many of them) and above ground vegetables. You should start to feel much better quite rapidly, you will soon learn that everything that is "supposedly" healthy to eat ISN'T.
Base your meals mainly on real meat with it's fat and eggs, (can't eat too many of them) and above ground vegetables. You should start to feel much better quite rapidly, you will soon learn that everything that is "supposedly" healthy to eat ISN'T.
MrsA2
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Yes things will get better, if you take action yourself.
Best think of all is to invest about £20 in blood glucose meter and measure your own bg before and 2 hours after food. You'll soon see what foods are good for you, and which are not. Then you simply eat more of the former (probably meat, fish, eggs, some veg) and much less of the latter (cereals, cake, biscuits, sweets, bread, rice, pasta, some veg and some fruit)
I'll tag @Rachox for her list of meters for you.
Read lots, learn lots and you find it is easily manageable and not doom and gloom
Hi @Smudger10 and welcome to the forum, thanks for the tag @MrsA2
Here’s some info on UK meters, and to be clear I have no commercial connections with any of the companies mentioned.
HOME HEALTH have the Gluco Navii, which is a fairly new model and seems to be getting good reviews if you use this link and select the meter plus 5 packs of strips, and then add the code dcuk (all lower case) at check out you may get money off, I’m not sure if this code is still valid.
https://homehealth-uk.com/all-produ...ose-meter-test-strips-choose-mmol-l-or-mg-dl/
Links to the strips for future orders:
https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/glucose-navii-blood-glucose-test-strips-50-strip-pack/
There are also discount codes for when you come to buy more strips - "navii5" and "navii10" will give you 20% off purchases of 5 packs of strips and 25% off 10 packs of strips respectively. Again I’m not sure if these codes are still valid.
Then they sell the older SD Code Free, details to be found here!
https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/codefree-blood-glucose-monitoring-system-mmoll-or-mgdl/
Discount codes for the Code Free strips, again I haven’t used them in a while.
5 packs 264086
10 packs 975833
SPIRIT HEALTHCARE have a meter called the Tee2 + which is quite popular however I haven’t been able to find it on their website lately.
(Old link which doesn’t work for me now but maybe works for you, if it doesn’t try the phone number below
https://shop.spirit-health.co.uk/co...e2-blood-glucose-meter?variant=19264017268793 ) or Google it and you’ll find it’s available from other outlets.
The strips are to be found here:
https://shop.spirit-health.co.uk/co...py-of-tee2-test-strips?variant=19264017367097
Some members have got a free Tee2+ by phoning up to order, with a large order of strips they often throw the meter in for free:
Phone number 0800 8815423
If there is a choice of units of measurement then ‘mmol/L’ are the standard units in the UK, ‘mg/dl’ in the US, other countries may vary.
Don’t forget to check the box if you have pre diabetes or diabetes so you can buy VAT free. (for all meters and strips)
Here’s some info on UK meters, and to be clear I have no commercial connections with any of the companies mentioned.
HOME HEALTH have the Gluco Navii, which is a fairly new model and seems to be getting good reviews if you use this link and select the meter plus 5 packs of strips, and then add the code dcuk (all lower case) at check out you may get money off, I’m not sure if this code is still valid.
https://homehealth-uk.com/all-produ...ose-meter-test-strips-choose-mmol-l-or-mg-dl/
Links to the strips for future orders:
https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/glucose-navii-blood-glucose-test-strips-50-strip-pack/
There are also discount codes for when you come to buy more strips - "navii5" and "navii10" will give you 20% off purchases of 5 packs of strips and 25% off 10 packs of strips respectively. Again I’m not sure if these codes are still valid.
Then they sell the older SD Code Free, details to be found here!
https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/codefree-blood-glucose-monitoring-system-mmoll-or-mgdl/
Discount codes for the Code Free strips, again I haven’t used them in a while.
5 packs 264086
10 packs 975833
SPIRIT HEALTHCARE have a meter called the Tee2 + which is quite popular however I haven’t been able to find it on their website lately.
(Old link which doesn’t work for me now but maybe works for you, if it doesn’t try the phone number below
https://shop.spirit-health.co.uk/co...e2-blood-glucose-meter?variant=19264017268793 ) or Google it and you’ll find it’s available from other outlets.
The strips are to be found here:
https://shop.spirit-health.co.uk/co...py-of-tee2-test-strips?variant=19264017367097
Some members have got a free Tee2+ by phoning up to order, with a large order of strips they often throw the meter in for free:
Phone number 0800 8815423
If there is a choice of units of measurement then ‘mmol/L’ are the standard units in the UK, ‘mg/dl’ in the US, other countries may vary.
Don’t forget to check the box if you have pre diabetes or diabetes so you can buy VAT free. (for all meters and strips)
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Hi, I'm about your age and have the same condition. It is possible to turn things round quickly - some willpower will be needed, but if I can do it.....
Benefits - I had my blood sugars back in normal range in four months, I've lost around 60lbs, I'm playing football again, my symptoms have gone (almost entirely) and I feel better than I have for ten years.
Downside: I have given up rice, pasta, bread, most fruit, pastry, sugar, and root veg (talking about potatoes really) .
