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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

RFSMarch said:
I know a few people with that same attitude. There are shockingly a lot of people who do that - and when I think about the 'advice' I was given by my diagnosing GP (basically shut the hell up and take all the tablets I want to give you) it really doesn't surprise me.
HIS view was... "I will dose you up on Metformin, you don't need to manage your BGs with anything, just come back in six months" ... he was FURIOUS when I got my bloods down with LC and monitoring with a Libre and I had to plead with him to sign a Libre statement to take on flights along with spares. He told me to my face I was "wasting my money" to which I retorted it was my money to waste.

With attitudes like that in the healthcare profession, is it any wonder there are people out there who think metformin is a miracle tablet that lets them eat whatever the hell they want?
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Exact attitude of the doctor who is the Diabetic Expert at my Health Centre. I don't know for certain but I suspect drug money is involved somewhere along the line.
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Thanks, interestingly we asked what happens when MILs money runs out, family top ups was the answer paying the difference from what the state puts in. No real figure given but anything between 200 and 500 per week was casually mentioned as though it's nothing.
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Oh yes, well, that’s OK then. What a sad state of affairs.
 
Thursday in Breckland - don't forget the black bins are a day late due to the Bank Holiday. A sub-optimal 5.1 via Swipey and the reality could be anywhere between 2 and 20. There are obviously reasons but <20 gms carb surely not the culprit. 160 gms protein? or the weird bug circulating the wider family, stealing voices? COVID home tests with while you wait at home results = I'm clear of that. Other key markers remarkably buoyant on high protein:woot: Your new TV sounds a challenge to install @dunelm. I hope the appraisal went well @BRSBRI and that you are very much still in the game @Mrs T 123. Hope all goes well with Majorie's jab @lindisfel. Hug for the aches and pains but mainly for the care home fees @Muddy Cyclist. A good friend of mine has a 100 yo mum whose CH fees are over £1000 per month (per week?) - ouch. He isn't called Sandy, but here's my mate Syd for you @dunelm. I'm thinking he should be made Minister for Education. Cordwangle oh, me dearios.
 
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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen.

A 5.9 this morning on that meter that is slowly driving me back to sanity........where me and me's are at the moment is such a better place and the straight jackets are reasonably comfortable.

Today my tasks are many fold, but will involve sorting out my motorcycle clothing, woodworking on those planters and drinking copious amounts of tea and koffy.
Now I must go and partake in life away from the forum, have a great day all.
Remember the stay's.
 
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dunelm said:
good morning everyone on a morning of mystery and anticipation here in the dark and dangerous north.
The wonder wheel of home made burger with a cauliflower and parmesan colcannon came in at 4.7 this am. (Blimey - just typed that without looking. Only one transposition and no keys locking - oh, that’s a four banked Imperial).

A new TV - or is it now an entertainment station or something - whatever, all this new fandangled electronic super smart tech takes forever to set up and even needs your mobile number so that it can send you codes and then you have to have your brain scanned and your eyeballs engraved with mystic symbols before answering the riddle of the Sphinx, ticking the squares containing traffic lights and swearing that you are in fact not related to Deep Blue.

Yesterday I was playing about with marbling on rice paper using ink -Mrs Miggins was not impressed with the kitchen sink but hey, that’s what bleach is for. Anyhow, some worked, some didn’t and some worked and then Mr Sausage fingers ruined them. Never mind. This one didn’t come out very well at all but I used the sooty smudge to do a quick (don’t think about the brush strokes) pair of wading birds. Hope that everyone has a most pleasant Thursday - I am now slurping koffy.

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Very effective @dunelm
I love it. I can almost see a blue Buddha in the hills...
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
Exact attitude of the doctor who is the Diabetic Expert at my Health Centre. I don't know for certain but I suspect drug money is involved somewhere along the line.
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Totally agree. Even having changed to a much more progressive GP who sees the value of testing regularly for a T2 - his insistence I take Metformin to cure everything (his latest thing is to prevent heart disease) I draw the line at taking meds and extra ones at that just for the hell of it.

We know they are incentivised for Metformin and most likely other diabetes meds ... but that does not make it acceptable to have me rattling around the neighbourhood like my portable pill-box!!!
 
lindisfel said:
Hi,
The better half gets her second A.Z. this am with mixed feelings.
The story seems to be coming out in dribs and drabs and I am not sure we have had an accurate assessment of the probabilities yet? However, I am sure they are much better than having Covid in ones 70s and 80s.

5.8 this am.

Have good day all
D.
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I think you are right about the risks of having blood clots with Covid 19 are much higher than the risks of having blood clots with the AZ vaccine.

I recently read this about the risk from having Covid 19 - which is really scary:

Recent data from the Netherlands and France suggest that of the patients with coronavirus who are admitted to intensive care units (ICU), 30-70% develop blood clots in the deep veins of the legs, or in the lungs.

Around one in four coronavirus patients admitted to ICU will develop a pulmonary embolism.

These rates are much higher than we would usually see in patients requiring admission to ICU for reasons other than COVID-19.
 
RFSMarch said:
I know a few people with that same attitude. There are shockingly a lot of people who do that - and when I think about the 'advice' I was given by my diagnosing GP (basically shut the hell up and take all the tablets I want to give you) it really doesn't surprise me.
HIS view was... "I will dose you up on Metformin, you don't need to manage your BGs with anything, just come back in six months" ... he was FURIOUS when I got my bloods down with LC and monitoring with a Libre and I had to plead with him to sign a Libre statement to take on flights along with spares. He told me to my face I was "wasting my money" to which I retorted it was my money to waste.

With attitudes like that in the healthcare profession, is it any wonder there are people out there who think metformin is a miracle tablet that lets them eat whatever the hell they want?
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That is a really shocking attitude from your GP. I cannot believe that a GP would give such wrong advice.

It reminded me of a Hospital Doctor who told me that I was deluding myself if I thought I could stay off insulin and maintain remission with a low carb diet. He got angry when I gave him some stats and shouted back at me that T2 Diabetes was a progressive degenerative disease. I am afraid I did struggle a little to stay calm and polite during the consultation. I desperately wanted to say that it was only a progressive degenerative disease if I carried on eating the high carb diet, but I don't like being shouted at so I didn't say it.
 
Hectic morning so am late posting fbg - 5.3.
Yesterday's walk around Sheringham Park was lovely. More rhododendrons flowering than last week. We tried a new path through the woodland and went deep into the valley. It was really hilly and steep - but magical.

It was freezing initially but all the hill walking made us quite warm and at the end we sat outside in the sunshine drinking our coffee. A perfect end to a perfect walk.
 
gennepher said:
Very effective @dunelm
I love it. I can almost see a blue Buddha in the hills...
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Thank you @gennepher. A cousin of mine mentioned that she could see a face so I explained to her that it is The God of Small Things and that the birds are the fraternal twins - I don’t think that she has read anything by Arundhati Roy. Wholly untrue of course - the ink is random - our brains of course are programmed to find faces in everything that we see.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
It reminded me of a Hospital Doctor who told me that I was deluding myself if I thought I could stay off insulin and maintain remission with a low carb diet. He got angry when I gave him some stats and shouted back at me that T2 Diabetes was a progressive degenerative disease. I am afraid I did struggle a little to stay calm and polite during the consultation. I desperately wanted to say that it was only a progressive degenerative disease if I carried on eating the high carb diet, but I don't like being shouted at so I didn't say it.
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An obvious hug for their attitude & demeanour* ..
A HUGE agree with the reasoning.

A WIN for remaining SO composed

And a HIGH 5 for having the last laugh over their pompous attitude, and if not proving them wrong entirely, certainly derailing their obnoxious timetable for their railway of death.

<* Insert your own expletives> :banghead:
 
Keto? Hot Cross Bun eaten and being tested. Here's the mackerels - nice amount of protein and tasted like a HCB - more or less (- some fruit and any sugar) P:E ratio of 1.61 so ok there. I really do have all the gear and absolutely no idea:arghh:
 

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jjraak said:
An obvious hug for their attitude & demeanour* ..
A HUGE agree with the reasoning.

A WIN for remaining SO composed

And a HIGH 5 for having the last laugh over their pompous attitude, and if not proving them wrong entirely, certainly derailing their obnoxious timetable for their railway of death.

<* Insert your own expletives> :banghead:
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Thank you @jjraak . You wouldn't believe how much I wanted to see that doctor again and say stuff like 'another year has passed and I am still in remission. What have you got to say to that?'

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I never saw him again.
 
Son in Law gave me a work out on the bike, 2 hours 30 minutes and we never stopped. He suggested we ride The Monkey Trail and ended up doing ten miles on the trails like I have posted below, that's SIL in yellow jacket on the first down section after a huge switch back climbe, as you can see I didn't see him again until we finished the technical trails, I'm fast but he's young and intrepid.....
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And of course what goes down must go back up, great ride, good fun and he wants to do more sections next week.
 
HC bun gave a .2 rise at 2 hrs. Would prefer flat or drop - e.g. fish salad - but I'm not properly in the game these last few days so not as many steps and bugs flying about the wider family. One more test then freeze 2. Hopefully they will do these next year when I'm not so sedentary. I am truly perplexed by what to eat on this regime or T2 diet generally. Red meat for evening meal - what can't be cured must be endured. Freezers are full. Yes, I'm aware large parts of the world would be overjoyed to eat red meat. I'm also aware lying is not the way forward - well, except for ex POTUS and ..... allegedly. Haters gonna hate:angelic:
Edit: Dropped by .8 by 3 hrs which may be a better guide due to Libre lag.
 
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