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Hi - new Type 3C patient

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Good morning people!
 
Good Morning Paul,

You might enjoy joining in the long running thread on the General Message Board called "Group 7-day Waking Average". It no longer has anything to do with 7-day Averages but rather has morphed into a general posting or information Thread which people use to chat about how they are doing BG wise (although that is not obligatory!) and to post comments on some daily event or hassle, challenge or good news - if they want to. I pretty much read it every day, but rarely post anything. But I have been so busy and pre-occuoied with so many other things that I've deliberately not got drawn into this thread, yet! Just a thought.
 
Proud to be erratic said:
Good Morning Paul,

You might enjoy joining in the long running thread on the General Message Board called "Group 7-day Waking Average". It no longer has anything to do with 7-day Averages but rather has morphed into a general posting or information Thread which people use to chat about how they are doing BG wise (although that is not obligatory!) and to post comments on some daily event or hassle, challenge or good news - if they want to. I pretty much read it every day, but rarely post anything. But I have been so busy and pre-occuoied with so many other things that I've deliberately not got drawn into this thread, yet! Just a thought.
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Hi Paul,
Good advice from Roland about the Group “ waking average” and is there for anyone who simply wants to stay connected to the forum without getting involved in any specific discussions about diabetes which can be discussed on separate threads.
It is more a “ social” thread where we talk about what we have been up to/ how we are managing our BG and sometimes wider considerations.
It is very friendly and open and each person can get as involved or not as they want to be.
Anyway best thing is just to observe it and decide from there and you can decide if you want to join in or not.
Take care
 
Good morning Wendal!
Yes, I'm very grateful to Roland and everyone on the forum. I'm still learning, and I guess I will make mistakes too, but it's all part of learning about the condition. How are you and is life being kind to you and your condition? I do know now everyone's case is different. By the way, I'm very glad to part of the forum.
 
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Proud to be erratic said:
Good Morning Paul,

You might enjoy joining in the long running thread on the General Message Board called "Group 7-day Waking Average". It no longer has anything to do with 7-day Averages but rather has morphed into a general posting or information Thread which people use to chat about how they are doing BG wise (although that is not obligatory!) and to post comments on some daily event or hassle, challenge or good news - if they want to. I pretty much read it every day, but rarely post anything. But I have been so busy and pre-occuoied with so many other things that I've deliberately not got drawn into this thread, yet! Just a thought.
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Hi good morning, Roland,
Yes, I will look into that, thank you.
It's always good to be involved and meet more people, I do hope I can also contribute to the group. I'm sure I will learn a lot!
 
I have a question, does 'BG' mean blood sugar or blood group?
Can anyone enlighten me, please?
Thanks
 
Probably Blood Glucose.
 
Busdriver60 said:
I have a question, does 'BG' mean blood sugar or blood group?
Can anyone enlighten me, please?
Thanks
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Blood Glucose.

Actually, it might seem a pedantic distinction, but I think it's fairly important to sustain the distinction. Sugar is just a type of carbohydrate and we know that our carb intake, not just our sugar intake, is what affects our blood glucose. We quite often get newly diagnosed T2s joining this forum and who have got the mistaken idea that they can regulate their D by cutting out sugar from their daily food. I think that partly occurs because others refer to elevated blood sugars rather than more accurately talking about elevated blood glucose. Thus from that somewhat lazy vocabulary the myth grows into "cut out sugars and everything will then be fine".
 
Proud to be erratic said:
Blood Glucose.

Actually, it might seem a pedantic distinction, but I think it's fairly important to sustain the distinction. Sugar is just a type of carbohydrate and we know that our carb intake, not just our sugar intake, is what affects our blood glucose. We quite often get newly diagnosed T2s joining this forum and who have got the mistaken idea that they can regulate their D by cutting out sugar from their daily food. I think that partly occurs because others refer to elevated blood sugars rather than more accurately talking about elevated blood glucose. Thus from that somewhat lazy vocabulary the myth grows into "cut out sugars and everything will then be fine".
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Absolutely true. Helps to have done "O" level Biology !
 
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