I'm employed under my own company, so that's a no go.

I use Levemir / Novorapid same as I did in the UK - just buying from pharmacies here as prescription isn't needed. Test strips I still buy in bulk UK and DHL them over as they work out cheaper (and CGMS supplies, not available here)

Double ouch!
I feel you....
How much do they cost inclusive of couriering them here?

I buy Accu Chek mobile as I like the format (cartridge with 50 tests and the finger pricker attached) which aren't available here, and don't need to carry separate parts.

50 tests cost anything from £10-18 depending on the time and how many I find. They come in boxes of 2 so 100 in total - can send 10 boxes and a spare tester for around £20 or so.

That's really cheap. At least 50 cents cheaper compared to the local price here.
I think I'd consider teaching people doing so next time...

If you want to taste sweet switch to stevia sugar , dont used those fake sugar like chemical based on that you can get in pharmacy.....Insist only at stevia....

Please start running at least 5KM a day.
10K steps a day.
At least 160KM a month.

But my underarm & neck darkened. It called africanus symptoms. Curious if this suggested pre-diabetes.

Yes definitely a sign of pre-diabetes or even diabetes.

Just curious, can diabetic consume dates? aka kurma

It's sweet..

Haiz.

Didn’t go for diabetic counseling and diabetic diet education?

The answer is depends.
Diabetic diet is based on each individual allowed “bread unit”.
Every food item and quantity has certain assigned bread unit.
So whether allowed to eat or not depends on the bread unit the person is allowed to eat.

I'm not a diabetic, but i like to eat kurma
Especially when i'm on low carb diet, kurma is the only sweet thing i consume...

So im wondering if consuming too much of it will cause diabetes or not...

The cause of diabetis is often complex and not due to one single reason.

Just curious, can diabetic consume dates? aka kurma

It's sweet..

The recent film What the Health raised the question as to whether sugar or other carbohydrates cause diabetes. Because blood sugar levels are high in diabetes, a common notion has held that eating sugar somehow triggers the disease process.  The American Diabetes Association and Diabetes UK have labeled this notion a “myth,” as has the Joslin Diabetes Center, which wrote, “Diabetes is not caused by eating too much sugar.” These and other organizations have worked to educate people about the causes of diabetes and the role that foods play in the disease process.

a few days ago doctor say i am diabetic.
i am not shocked, because my family are diabetic.
my mum was diabetic when pregnant with me. - is it true because of this my chances of being diabetic is higher?
doctor say my sugar is very high. like super high. now go down already but still in 11 to 14 range.

at first when he found out high sugar, first few days he keep on inject insulin when my sugar is higher than 14.
so now no more insulin because below 14. so he gave me 850mg metformin 2 times a day for 2 weeks. then 3 times a day for like 2 to 3 months.

i know what i am getting into and well aware what is going to happen.
but i want to understand what is going on with my body right now. i read here and there but i cannot understand a few issues.

i am supposed to be type 2 diabetis. the doctor didn't explain much. asked the diabetic nurse to coach me.
she say because i whacked too much sugar, so now my pancreas is damaged. cannot produce insulin. so need to cut sugar and eat medicine.

i don't understand, so now is my pancreas damaged and cannot produce as much insulin or am i insulin resistant like what they wrote in medical website?
or cannot determine whether my pancreas is doing fine or just that my cells becoming insulin resistant? you just can't tell?

why am i prescribed metformin? what does it really do? from what i can recall it is supposed to make my cells more sensitive towards insulin and make me produce less excess insulin into my blood stream? i need an answer.

why do they need to treat me like a chronic patient?
"unfortunately, you have to live with it now"
"there's no cure, it is a chronic disease, but you still can control it with healthy lifestyle"

now the problem now is, that metformin is giving me terrible diarrhea.
it happens for a few days already. yesterday no pass motion. i don't know why, but today..

i shit in my pants on my way to work. i cannot control my bowel movements at all. when i need to go, i cannot tahan.
i take public transport to work. i already reached office today but took a cab back home because i shit in my pants.

this week i shit in my pants for 5th time already. now i am having problem getting to work.
i am thinking to quit my job now due to long travelling distance in the morning.

before i take this metformin, i don't feel sick at all. i can run and jump. but this medicine is making me sick and taking a lot of MC this week.
please share your experience with me because i am getting depressed right now.

seriously considering quitting my job and wear adult diapers.

i kinda confuse....my daily fasting sugar level is 4.9 but HBA1C is 6.1....am i pre diabetic?

It’s difficult to determine just from those 2 numbers. FWIW my last fasting blood test was 4.5 or so and A1C 6.5 and I’m a type 1

Normally doctor would do a test - take a BG measurement, eat a certain amount of carbs and then check again to see the increase