Peanuts have the peculiar ability to have little effect upon blood sugar
until hours later.
They can over a period of several hours starting at something like 6 hours
after ingestion increase blood sugars.

When I was diagnosed 3 weeks ago, I was sent home with a photocopied
diet sheet, with no quantities on it and told to drink 10 pints of
water a day.
I just ate salads and slices of wholemeal bread, which I quite like.

Question --- Have T2 diabetes (BG's average 170-225) and for the last few
months I have been trying hard to get my BG's down.  Fasting BG's are around
140.  After dinner BG's are similar, 140-150.  I take glucovance twice a day
(after meals).  However, today we went out for Mother's ...

Several times a week I wake up with a splitting-headache.
I don't see a lot of difference in readings.
Any clues?
Does eating after 7 PM affect this?

she couldn't have asked for better results.  My urine test showed no
sugar at all in the urine, and my kidneys are doing great.  She said she
hadn't seen anyone get their BG numbers down so quickly following a
diagnosis of diabetes and wanted to know what I had been doing.  I

FBG has been comfortably under 90 for a while.   I had a Hepatitis A
vaccination yesterday and today FBG is raised slightly to 110*.  Could this
be a mild reaction to the vaccine?
Peter

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Where can I get diabetes medications without a prescription?
I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic several years ago and have
a glucose meter which I use occassionally to test after meals.
The level has been increasing lately and I want to start a

Peanuts have the peculiar ability to have little effect upon blood sugar
until hours later.
They can over a period of several hours starting at something like 6 hours
after ingestion increase blood sugars.

I'm type1 diabetic since 1982, 56-y-o, take 4 insulin injections daily
(3xNovoRapid, 1xLantus).
In general, BG is well controlled and I'm in good health, in possesion
of all my appendages and no weight problems.

I thought I would bite the bullet and inform DVLA of my diagnoses with Type
2 - and after looking on their site it seems that I only have to inform them
if there are complications or if I have to start using insulin.
After having been told by everyone that I must inform DVLA I ...

No im not being rude!
Im just wondering how good(or bad) dry roasted peanuts are for a type 2?
After 18 months of eating all the right things??? at Christmas i had some
dry roasted peanuts which i enjoyed but have now got slightly addicted to!

I had a big breakfast and used pre-meal insulin. About 3 hours later I was
at Wal-Mart and my left leg got a pins & needles numb feeling. I have
suffered with Sciatica in the past so I thought it was coming back. I tried
to walk it off but it just got worse, the whole leg now had ...

A1C  6.4  which is amazing concidering that 6 months ago it was 7.6 and
three months ago it was 7.8. The Dr. had upped the glipizide from 2.5
to 5.0mg once a day.
I am still haveing troubles with the cholestrol though. 14 points too

I've been T2 for a few years now and generally my quarterly lab test
have been coming in acceptable. Well my Doc is quite happy with them.
But I'm not.
I know that often my bs levels are higher than they should be. I have