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<blockquote data-quote="Rachox" data-source="post: 1639827" data-attributes="member: 400972"><p>Hi Roxanne, I’m sorry to hear about your tough few years. I'm now seven months from being diagnosed type 2. Once I was over the initial shock, I saw it as the proverbial kick up the bum to get healthier. I was started on Metformin tablets and tolerate them well now after a bit of stomach upset in the early days. I wasn't advised to eat low carb by my GP or Diabetes education course, but stumbled on this forum by chance and took up a low carb life style with self monitoring. I started by eating less than 100g carbs/day to begin with and then after 6 weeks reduced it to 50-70g/day, that’s what I continue on now. Caution needs to be taken on certain drugs going low carb but on just Metformin it’s ok. You already know what to do and have done it before, I’m sure you’ll manage again. I doubt you’ll get a monitor on the NHS, I have an SD Code Free, one of the cheapest around. It’s worth asking at your surgery some type 2s are lucky enough to get one. </p><p>Low carbing and self monitoring have worked for me, to date I've lost over 4 stone (still more to go) and got my HbA1c down to a non diabetic level, all due to the fantastic support and advise I got here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rachox, post: 1639827, member: 400972"] Hi Roxanne, I’m sorry to hear about your tough few years. I'm now seven months from being diagnosed type 2. Once I was over the initial shock, I saw it as the proverbial kick up the bum to get healthier. I was started on Metformin tablets and tolerate them well now after a bit of stomach upset in the early days. I wasn't advised to eat low carb by my GP or Diabetes education course, but stumbled on this forum by chance and took up a low carb life style with self monitoring. I started by eating less than 100g carbs/day to begin with and then after 6 weeks reduced it to 50-70g/day, that’s what I continue on now. Caution needs to be taken on certain drugs going low carb but on just Metformin it’s ok. You already know what to do and have done it before, I’m sure you’ll manage again. I doubt you’ll get a monitor on the NHS, I have an SD Code Free, one of the cheapest around. It’s worth asking at your surgery some type 2s are lucky enough to get one. Low carbing and self monitoring have worked for me, to date I've lost over 4 stone (still more to go) and got my HbA1c down to a non diabetic level, all due to the fantastic support and advise I got here. [/QUOTE]
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