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Hello from the uk city of culture 2017!

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the blue wildebeest

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Greetings to all contributors and readers. I have been T2 for several years, but had to change GP practice to get a correct diagnosis, with Metformin as the first prescription, plus Amlodipine and Lipitor. Currently still taking 1000mg Metformin twice daily with 2 40mg gliclazide also twice daily.

HbA1c 24/5/2016 125mmol, 27/7/2016 57mmol, 14/9/2016 49mmol, 25/1/2017 43mmol.(BMI 24/5/2016 23.4).

Very variable BG daily: late night yesterday 4.8, and this morning, 10.9.

Access to any professional advice seems to be very limited. I have never met the GP to whom I am assigned, and always have to ask twice for specific test results. (At the latest I was told it was "abnormal but expected")

Does anyone else recognise the experience?
 
Greetings to all contributors and readers. I have been T2 for several years, but had to change GP practice to get a correct diagnosis, with Metformin as the first prescription, plus Amlodipine and Lipitor. Currently still taking 1000mg Metformin twice daily with 2 40mg gliclazide also twice daily.

HbA1c 24/5/2016 125mmol, 27/7/2016 57mmol, 14/9/2016 49mmol, 25/1/2017 43mmol.(BMI 24/5/2016 23.4).

Very variable BG daily: late night yesterday 4.8, and this morning, 10.9.

Access to any professional advice seems to be very limited. I have never met the GP to whom I am assigned, and always have to ask twice for specific test results. (At the latest I was told it was "abnormal but expected")

Does anyone else recognise the experience?
Hi the blue wildebeest, welcome to the forum 🙂 Looks like you have done a good job of bringing down your levels, well done 🙂

How soon after waking did you do your morning test? If you had been up for a while then it's possible the higher level was a result of 'Dawn Phenomenon' - this is when the liver starts releasing extra glucose into the blood to give you an 'energy boost' to start the day. People with diabetes would rather do without this boost! If this is the case then usually having a little something to eat - a small protein snack, for example - usually slows the process down, as the liver no longer considers you to be 'starving'.

Many healthcare professionals seem reluctant to give actual numbers, I think it is often due to a misguided general judgement that we won't really understand them. Annoying! 😡
 
Thank you. I think "late morning" would be the correct description, as I feel less lively on winter mornings.
Having originally been advised not to bother with a meter by a nurse, I was fortunate to see a GP who was T1, and just said "This is the one I use".
Shortly after the HbA1c of 125mmol I was prescribed Humalog insulin, but was able to stop after 48 days. It seems that I am now permitted to make my own estimate of the Gliclazide needed. With variable results. Yet to meet an endocrinologist. I expect to rely more upon advice here than from the elusive/overburdened professionals.
I will speak firmly to my liver about the "Phenomenon".
 
Hi and welcome to the forum. I'm an oddball when it comes to my diabetes, rare type and unusual readings. Always high in the mornings. Its taken 18 months for me to get a hospital referral.
 
Hello and welcome. I've still not seen anybody about my D, diagnosed Feb 2016. I am going on a course next month though. 🙂
 
Welcome.🙂
 
I was prescribed tablets, but had very bad consequences from both so I gave up on them and am just eating a low carb diet. I had a second blood test done, it came back with the same comments as your for the blood glucose, but I have dropped below diabetic levels for the HBa1c test, so I'm too boring to bother with now and will just have to keep on doing what I'm doing.
I did find that abandoning a low fat diet lowered my cholesterol - there's a turn up. All those lovely crispy chicken thighs with the skin on, the cream in coffee, the oil and vinegar salad dressings, the real mayonnaise - not mentioned in the diet to save your life stick to it or die sheet from the doctor which didn't have much effect on cholesterol levels at all. Funny that.
 
Hello and welcome to forum
 
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