Newbi Dave

Hi Dave and welcome to the forum.Your blood levels are high! Do you have a test monitor to do daily testings on your blood sugar levels? You say you are on sugar free diet,can you give us some idea of what you eat on an average day?

Hi Dave,

Starchy foods are also broken down very quickly into sugars so you will need to keep an eye on what they do to your blood sugars after meals.

it is starting to get quite difficult for some type twos to get strips prescribed for their blood sugar meters and I hope you manage to get them okay.

Do you exercise at all?

Hya Dave,
welcome to the forum,if u give us more about your lifestyle it will help us help u

Hi Dave,i would say that your high BS is due to the amount of starchy carbs that you eat.If you have enough test strips try testing before a meal then two hours later to see what the difference is.Bread,pasta,rice and flour based products and ,of course,potatoes can all raise BS significantly.Some people can get away with some of them,some can't.Keep a food diary for a week and test results and you will see which of these is the culprit.

carp5454 said:

Hi

Thanks for your replys

Here is a little more info asked for.

Regarding checking bloods was told i nedd not at this present time but i do about 4 times a week
this morning when getting up it was 18.2

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What you really need to do is to test a LOT to begin with so you can get a handle on exactly what you can and can't eat

http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/NewlyDiagnosed.htm

http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/10/d-day.html

I suspect you'll soon find you won't be eating the above list of foods much longer!

You will need to avoid starch as well as sugar, these things are usually good

http://www.diabetic-talk.org/freeveggies.htm

also meat and especially fish, nuts, cheese, eggs: you may prefer to use mono or polyunsaturated fats and you should definitely avoid anything containing trans fats (mostly processed food)

The other side of the attack is exercise which will help the insulin resistance along with the metformin.

If I was your doctor I'd prescribe loads of testing - at first, you can reduce this later when you get to learn what you can eat successfully - and I'd almost certainly have prescribed more meds at first to get your numbers down. Then I'd lose my job.