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popdufc said:
Diet is not carb heavy. On an evening meal plate the carbs are the smallest serving. I am now looking at the GAD test and think I'll ask for one. I have my 6 monthly nurse meeting next week. Allergies and auto-immune issues are still causing problems
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Have you counted the carbs in that days food you listeed earlier? How many grams? Not only the number of grams, but the type of carbs - all heavy duty ones like breakfast cereal (full of sugar), bread, pasta, crackers. The type of carbs matter too. Anyway, do have the two tests (you need both of those I mentioned). All I can do is wish youy luck.
 
Breakfast is corn flakes and fruit ( melon, berries) any milk?
Lunch ...... with bread, crackers or a wrap.
Evening meal is a Slimming world home made meal eg, turkey meatballs,in tomato sauce, with pasta. Always low fat and not a huge amount of carbohydrates. (Have you checked?)
Supper is a small packet of crisps or crackers and cheese. Bit of fruit and a couple of dates

Sorry but for a diabetic this is carb heavy. Maybe not sugary but carby. Most type 2 would struggle eating this way with deteriorating numbers or increasing meds. Of course if you think you need further testing for types other than 2 then the dr is your next step.
 
Thanks. I will update once I can persuade my medical centre to do the tests. They sometimes seem to just chant the expected speech. I fell I am told the same as the patients who eat mars bars, pizzas and loads of fizzy drinks.
 
popdufc said:
Thanks. I will update once I can persuade my medical centre to do the tests. They sometimes seem to just chant the expected speech. I fell I am told the same as the patients who eat mars bars, pizzas and loads of fizzy drinks.
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The carbs we are pointing out do the same thing as the sugary ones you avoid as soon as they hit your stomach. The body immediately turns the grains etc into glucose. Ie sugar.
 
With that amount of carbs you eat daily and you being diagnosed 4 years ago, I think it's safe to say, if you were type 1, your fasting level would be a lot higher than 10... and chances are you'd be dead by now without exogenous insulin.
 
I have totted up your carbs from the day you quote. I have given you the benefit of the doubt @popdufc and counted small portions ie only one slice of bread. The dates shocked me 16g carbs each! Any way I reckon that day was around 150g carbs. Not low carb by Diet Doctors definition but lower than the average western diet.
https://www.dietdoctor.com/how-low-carb-is-low-carb
That aside the fact remains that fasting sugars of 10 indicate that if you are confirmed as type 2 you are eating more carbs than your body can cope with. Please post any questions you have if you decide to reduce your carbs further.
 
Do you also have weight you need to lose? That alone can help bring your sugar levels down alone
 
popdufc said:
Diet is not carb heavy.
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Oh yes it is @popdufc .... your assumptions are WAY off so don't look for improvement anytime soon if you continue down that path

EDIT - There are EXPERTS who've already advised you with thousands of posts and mountains of knowledge behind them. Listen to them.
 
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@popdufc - I won't add anything to what has been written before, in terms of dietary input, but I would encourage you to undertake a period of intense self testing.

If you can test yourself immediately on rising, then immediately before eating, then 2 hours after you start to eat, you will gain a valuable insight into what is happening with your blood sugars.

When I was diagnosed, I had a "good diet". We ate all home prepared foods, at regular times, sitting at the table, and no snacking, ever. I was bemused to be diagnosed.

When I started testing myself, it quickly became clear some things I was eating weren't doing me any favours, and would have to be either reduced in portion size or frequency, or be left out of my menu.

That real time, personalised feedback allowed me to reverse my diabetes in quick time.

I'm not suggesting exactly the same thing would or could happen for you, but the real time, personalised feedback from your meter will give you an excellent insight into what needs to happen.

When it comes to the detail of "what can I eat instead of", we can probably help you there, with suggestions, or links to pertinent reading materials.

Good luck with it all
 
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Thanks for all the advice. I am doing the regular testing and will reduce, and measure, my carbs.
My weight has always been good ( BMI withing healthy range) and I have been careful with my (normal person) diet for over 20 years. Caught a virus that really knocked me for 6 and laid me low for months. That's when a blood test showed I was just over the glucose limit for being a diabetic ( 5.9 fasting)
HBA1C was less than 40 and now (over 4 years) it is 60. I am also on 1gram Metformin. Still creeping up.
I will tighten up my diet and see what my levels do.
 
had my 6 monthly talk with nurse.
weight ( 5'8" 67 kg. I love mixing my imperial n metric), blood pressure and all good...
BUT hba1c crept up from 61 to 64. Nurse wants me to add another drug to my metformin but I have asked for 4 months to try to bring it down with diet.
down to daily target of only
4 cans of beer, or a bottle of wine,
3 Mars Bars ( or equivalent)
Large bag of Crisps n peanuts
IN MY DREAMS
 
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