Hi all, managed to let far too long go between visits again. Not fully caught up but tried to read a few weeks of backlog.
@ColinUK love the photo of your great great grandparents. I don't have any photos of that many generations back (not sure if someone in family does) but I do have the remains of wedding China from one set of paternal great great grandparents, and a lovely veneer covered solid wood chest of drawers from another set
@Gwynn sorry to read of the difficulties you and your wife have had with accessing care for her, I hope that prescriptions come out right going forward and that she continues to find the new meds help
@TinaD hugs and hope that treatment goes well for your daughter
my teens are finished with exams now and therefore off for the summer early, one stress down for me but plenty more things to stress about! (Like organising my upcoming wedding...)
Fasting blood sugars keep being a little on the higher end of "type 2 normal range" with still quite a few 6s and very few HS. At my last appointment at
diabetic clinic we agreed to increase my SR Metformin to 1g per day, I think they are a little better since but still not quite at target. HbA1c was taken at that appointment, and I managed to get GP (seen for something else) to look up result for me as it wasn't showing on Patient Access and it was 39 (will try to get around to working out average fasting blood sugar for whoever it was who is interested in the correlation - Northerner?). Still within range but higher than the last few, and I had been on the 500mg SR Metformin for around 3-4 months by that point. I'm still not sure if it's the not quite being so strict with carbs, the bit of weight that I have gained, or something else that is causing it. (Not had any alcohol for 3 months either, so maybe it's partly related to that? I've tried to stick to mostly lower carb alternative drinks but sometimes there isn't really one available, or I just want a non-alcoholic cider and the pub we happen to be in only has higher carb ones. And I try to avoid sweeteners still so that makes finding lower carb drinks other than water more difficult)
This morning was slightly better at 5.5. This evening pre-meal 4.8 and post meal (approx 1 hour 15 mins after starting to eat) 7.1 despite a higher carb than normal tea so it's anyone's guess what tomorrow morning will show...