banie01 wrote: » Metformin doesn't actually lower your blood sugar, it improves your insulin response. It's a subtle but important difference. There are medications that lower your BG directly but they are for more extreme use, and if you were on them you would need to inform the NDLS and it would affect your ability to hold certain licenses. Metformin is a good 1st line treatment. Quite often T2 develops from insulin resistance and it's increasing over time. Couple up Metformin, with a general reduction in carb intake and your overall number will improve. On the finger pricker, I'd be one of those who also changes once in a blue moon. When I feel it as blunt or have to dial past 4 to get the drop the needle is changed. Poor practice of course, but never caused me an issue.
johnnie T2 wrote: » I am wondering what's really going on! really want to start the testosterone treatment as getting that issue sorted is one my main short term worries! so hoping the Endo can help me with that. anyway back to try and eat less carbs again after that weekend
Xofpod wrote: » As bad as things can be for diabetic care in Ireland sometimes, just be thankful you don't live in this dystopian hellhole: (and I'm not talking about Mexico...)
johnnie T2 wrote: » yeah was wondering this as my blood hasn't been very high when i've checked it so far so wondering why i'd take blood lowering medication in that case. my medical card hasn't yet arrived anyway. that's good to know about the needs id been throwing out the need and strip each time, do you just leave the needle you use in the machine? is it not a risk of infection?
CramCycle wrote: » To be honest, stick with a healthy diet and based on the readings you have put up so far, I imagine you are very early prediabetic. It shouldn't take any medication unless your bloods start staying high.
gctest50 wrote: » That user won't be posting anything, it be a rereg troll yarrr
CramCycle wrote: » ........... Post it up and let us rip you to shreds ..
CramCycle wrote: » To be honest, stick with a healthy diet and based on the readings you have put up so far, I imagine you are very early prediabetic. It shouldn't take any medication unless your bloods start staying high. Better diet, more exercise and lower the drinking (no point living if you can't feel alive is the expression and I enjoy a drink now and again). keep a record for a week and post it here. Record your bloods before eating, and 3 hours after eating, and what you eat (and portion size). Certain foods will send a normal person high for half a day, hnce record the food and portion size, everything changes your readings differently. Post it up and let us rip you to shreds seriously though, I find when I record what I eat, I eat better and my bloods are better as you have to think about it, which most people never really do. I change it every time I lose a machine or the fingerpricker, so once every few years, flash git yourself :pac:
johnnie T2 wrote: » Got a free meter on way home in my local pharmacy. Just did my first test - was 4.7 mmol/L What is this in the other reading I had 55 for previously?
gerrybbadd wrote: » Look at you flash with the needles! I might do mine every 6 months ������
jimf wrote: » forgot to say you don't need a new needle every time you test I might change mine every 6 weeks
johnnie T2 wrote: » Just checked hour after food & I was 6.1 - had scrambled eggs, steak, Franks hot sauce and a blue fulfil protein bar. I suppose this is my new lower carb meals rather than rice stir fry I had been having! Do you buy these strips and needles in bulk must fly through them
jimf wrote: » 4.7 is your reading at this particular time which is perfect however you may not have eaten in the last few hours eat your normal food for this time of evening test again I hour later ideally should be under 8 test again 2 hours later it should now be coming back down again the 55 was your hba1c test which gives an average for your blood sugar over a 3 month period this could be made up of good numbers like above 4.7 at other times after eating and been on the lash it could have went as high as 12 etc a hba1c of 55 would equate to an old reading of 7.2 %
jimf wrote: » 4.7 is your reading at this particular time which is perfect however you may not have eaten in the last few hours eat your normal food for this time of evening test again I hour later ideally should be under 8 test again 2 hours later it should now be coming back down next again the 55 was your hba1c test which gives an average for your blood sugar over a 3 month period this could be made up of good numbers like above 4.7 at other times after eating and been on the lash it could have went as high as 12 etc a hba1c of 55 would equate to an old reading of 7.2 %
banie01 wrote: » That's the one I thought I linked to but made a balls of
jimf wrote: » https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-to-blood-sugar-level-converter.html this a handy chart to have
banie01 wrote: » You need to convert the numbers, old style that a lot of people still use is a %. New style is mmol.https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-to-blood-sugar-level-converter.html
banie01 wrote: » Sure if the sessin matters more than your health to you, you may as well never take them. Your GP gave you a prescription, granted you may not have been happy with how he framed the diagnosis and acceptably so. My advice at this point would be stop drinking or at least cut it back for a while, One of the complications of Diabetes is funnily enough liver disease, which isnt helped by excess alcohol. I'd also advise that you either write up a list of questions and get another appointment with your GP and put those questions to them, or contact the Diabetes team at Beaumont. Yes many of us on here are dealing with the long term impact of Diabetes, but we aren't doctors and your posts are veering ver close to requests for medical advice which are not allowed.
