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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

Hope it goes well for Mr Emma_369. I don't think Low Carb is a huge problem for many people but the ultra low carb is an entirely different species. Throw in fasting, cream in tea and all the rest and it becomes a snarling, vicious master than can control you if you aren't careful. Should be a piece of hiss for him
 
He’s just a pasta addict - I think he was Italian in a previous life but if he can get past that he’ll be fine as I’m not ultra low and don’t do the cream in drinks so nothing too odd for him
 
He’s just a pasta addict - I think he was Italian in a previous life but if he can get past that he’ll be fine as I’m not ultra low and don’t do the cream in drinks so nothing too odd for him
He sounds a good man. I definitely ate huge portions of pasta, rice, potatoes and bread in the Old Country. Now I just drink lots and lots of tea (mostly with homemade almond milk) - winters are very long with this WOE
 
Monday morning and it's 8.3. Feeling much happier with that after a few days in the 9s. HB1ac blood test tomorrow to see how things are shaping up.

Spent most of the morning figuring out a driver problem on my computer - 50 pages of a 15 year old dissertation to scan and the blasted scanner packed up! I was thrilled when I got it sorted.

Hope everyone has got through Monday morning, at least that's that done for another week.

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I get my BP done three times a year at the GP surgery. Mine, like my cholesterol has always been fine. I do get the feeling that checking blood pressure too many times contributes to elevated results.
Mind how you go.
 
Good morning all,
4.7 for me.

We discovered yesterday our carport roof is sagging in one spot - a result of all the heavy wet snow and ice we've gotten this year (3 times the usual amount). It's a repair we need to have done this spring/summer before next winter - sigh.
 
I get my BP done three times a year at the GP surgery. Mine, like my cholesterol has always been fine. I do get the feeling that checking blood pressure too many times contributes to elevated results.
Mind how you go.

My doctor said not to even bother checking my own BP at home anymore. Last time I did it was up and down 10-20 points in as many minutes. And the medics keep lowering the "ideal" numbers all the time ...

FBG 7.1 this morning. Then a check of the weather told me of killer tornadoes in the county where I went to university. Thankfully my friend's daughter, a student there, was home celebrating her mother's birthday and not in the path of the storms, but gosh, the destruction and deaths out in the countryside.
 

I know! My consultant was trying to fight it for me, but I didn’t want to waste time fighting when I could be revising as the university said here was no extra time that could be given to me. I tried to explain risk of hypos etc but hey wasn’t having any of it.

I think the university’s view was that ‘it might go away’. Bearing in mind I’m not overweight and I’m young it seems unlikely a lifestyle change would have got rid of the diabetes..... and 4 months later here I am being insulin dependant.... clearly was never going to go away lol!
 
It's the last thing you needed. But you are rising to the challenge (s!).
 

Not the same I now but it was pretty windy in Lincoln last night and Keiran's student flat is on the top floor of a quite high building made him a little nervous.
 
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