We are metric over here. We used to be miles now we are kilometres. I will ring my diabetes office in Brisbane on Monday and look into it and let you know. I know they were changing the top line before it was dangerous from 7.5 back to 5.5 I think it was, which drifts me over. I held under 6 for five years and have now started to drift although doc said he was very happy with it the other day. How long have you had this disease? I did a good course on eating with local hospital then was sent to a private dietician who had just left university to bring the two diseases together in a diet and she was useless, left me totally confused! Grrrrr. BP medications are used for the kidney disease but no medication yet for the diabetes, for which I am grateful. I had heard they weren't nice and reading your orignal post sounded like they were pretty bad indeed.