Recent Content by Angela64

I’m on anticoagulant and I feel cold often. Assumed it’s this

Woo hoo 6.3 let hope it’s a trend

Breakfast bran flakes porridge ❌ Several pieces of fruit a day including dried fruit ❌ Jacket potato❌ peas’ lentils and chickpeas Plus my fave low carb veggies Protein chicken fish etc (no problem) Snacks cake with whole meal flour cereal bars digestive and oat based biscuits ❌ ❌ Carbs I...

Oow no I’d not realise Gherkins would be.

6.8 been erratic, had an ablation

No apparently they are not continuous, they read periods of time. The Dexcom is a continuous monitor. I was continously reconnecting the monitor to the app.

I managed to get a free Free style Libre monitor and it surprised me how things affected my numbers. I’ve got another monitor and will use it bit later, but I think I may well decide to buy Dexcom as the Libre is a flash monitor and not a continuous GM.

There is the ‘Dawn Phenomenon‘

‘Always stressed out’! This is another factor ‍

You can get wholemeal self raising which I prefer

I add scoop of mixed seeds to the base mix

The fitness lady at my pool is a T1 and she has allergy marks from the monitors

Only catering for T1 does not address what I need as a low carb T2D and only Empagliflozin. If i don’t eat enough protein my BG can go lower that I am comfortable with. T1’s if I’m right, inject and guess/know how much insulin they require. I can’t eat rice, potatoes, pastry’s, etc I limit...

My skin reacts to stick on dressings/plasters, someone suggested I try a spray on dressing before sticking the Libre disc on. I can’t stick an Elastoplast over it as my skin will react to that‍ A physio once tapped up my foot to treat plantar fascitis, NIGHTMARE, allergic reaction and took...

Well, I get allergic reactions to stick on plasters and dressings, SO, annoying. But I’m borderline T2 but my numbers are not reliable, have morning phenomenon it seems and I do wonder if correctly diagnosed. My T2 came on very suddenly, HbA1C of 134. So we thought to try a free monitor to see...