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

great 48 for you Vicky. How strange the gp not seen these numbers before. It's a shame the medical profession doesn't have time to pop into our jolly thread and read some of our success stories
 
What a fab story! Well done you, but please don't grow up too fast,
 
Poor Eden
 
I hope the tests prove to be fine. Thank you for the beautiful piccies.
 
6.3mmOl or 113mgDl. I need help to understand what's "normal" for "prediabetes" (my most recent diagnosis). Testing with SD codefree for a few days after a 9 year break from testing. Post-meal I'm getting low numbers (5.0 - 5.5) if avoid bread. This is so different to when I was last testing, when I could get fasting bloods down but not post-meal. Any simple sources??
 
Mmm, another weekend in France ... another overindulgence over banquettes! How is that bread so nice

So up at 7.8 today had a stinking cold while away so that reduce my resistance levels (that’s what I’m telling myself). Wish the cold and cough would be gone!!!!

Got note for Doc to say cholesterol up at 5.9, need to check details. Wants to up my meds - not that I’m taking them! Awaiting HBA1c news ....

Need to get myself back in check, all going wrong - but I know I can fix it ....

Thanks for listening
 

well yes but on the other hand there is so much injection work and blood testing in type 1 diabetes and also the risk of having devastating hypos ... which is hardly there in a type 2 non medicated... , so well there are advantages and huge burdens in both conditions... but well you are right eating things that tempts of foods and treats candy and so on demands a strong character to keep staying on the very narrow road... ... but well I do in no way envy type 1 diabetics... I do however think this is the first of the two conditions that will find a "permanent" cure like growing pancreas tissue and sew it into intestines maybe more than once.. but still much better than injecting insuline all day long and measuring blood glucose like crazy...
 
good morning to all

4.3 today

looks a bonny morning so far with a pleasant breezy air, (on the other hand, I had to have 4 goes at jabbing myself this morning to get enough to test, so the air inside is rather blue ).

Off to the wicked city today to get some paint for the bedroom we've been working on at mum's so Mr Gee and I will treat ourselves to lunch out
gee
 

Ok if you can get a culture of your own cells done. If a transplant then you may well have no insulin injections BUT you would be on anti-rejection drugs which are a whole different ballgame indeed. Talk about the devil and the deep blue sea.
 


Type 1 is not really terribly complicated although some of us like to over complicate issues. The 'rules' with type 1 are there to be followed. As with type 2. if you stick to them then you have the best possibility of a positive long term outcome. You just integrate the blood testing and insulin regime into your daily routine. I can look at a plate of food and pretty much instantly work out where it will put my blood sugars if I choose to eat it. This has only come with long term experience. I have of course had a few harum scarum moments. Like all type 1's I suspect. I once wrote a car off while hypoglycemic on a motorway and almost lost my driving license. another time with very low blood sugars in a petrol station the lady behind the counter became frightened I suppose and rang the police. The gentleman who arrived felt that I was some kind of crazed drug addict and threatened me with a can of CS spray. Bless his cotton socks. I nearly drowned while sea trout fishing in the pitch dark at 2.00am in a morning with no hypo treatment within reach. That one really scared the **** out of me. I have had an episode of DKA with elevated levels of potassium in my blood stream. That one nearly did me in. God it was bloody painful. I got stabbed in the hand by one of 3 'gentlemen' whom I was escorting from a night club in which I worked. My blood sugars had dropped and they decided to take advantage. They quickly saw the folly in their misadventure and we parted as friends. My most recent fun, fun fun episode was in June this year and while thrashing around on my own bathroom floor I broke 2 of my own ribs on my bathroom cabinet. My wife bought that unit and didn't want to take it with her when we parted company. I have always hated the damned thing. I am convinced that she bought it just so that I would do myself a bit of personal misadventure with it.

Having read through this post before I hit the green reply button things appear all rather hectic. They are of course not. This is an accumulation of silly events in 33 years of the condition. I think the most difficult thing facing all of us type 1's and type 2's today are doctors with the best of intentions but very little practical experience of what we are all about. I am lucky in that for the most part they tend to leave me alone. I really actually quite fear for the rest of you. Particularly type 2's which is why I am so vocal in my support for you all. You really do seem to get a raw deal.
 
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