Recent Content by Rubette

I’ve been on it years now, with no problems at all. Could just be your body getting used to it, so I would give it a few days and if you still feel u sure, talk with your healthcare professional. HEalth Anxiety? Tell me about it, I’d probably feel better without that added complication

Thank you ladies, clear answers at last. I never knew you could adjust down as well as up. I am on Insuman Basal, 36 units a day but because of other health conditions and drugs taken for them, plus age, my fasting levels are higher than most people, rarely below 10, often 14. Daytime ones are...

A simpe question.... is it safe to reduce insulin a little if blood sugars reduce and stay low? Can't ask my nurse as she is the only one we have and is on annual leave! And anyway, would rather go to those who really know about diabetes, ie the patients. Thank you.

Thank you, this has given me confidence to try the thighs for a change, and to be more flexible about where I can inject, hough the right side of the abdomen is out as I have a lot of scarring there.

I am on a whole load of other meds as I have four chronic illnesses as well as the diabetes. I am thankful this all happened later in life when I had done all I wanted to do and was looking for a quieter, simpler way of living. HaHa

Lucky you, not everyone can follow such a strict regime for other medical conditions that are life-threatening and have to come first. And not everyone wants to live on animal products.

I only started on insulin, once a day low dose increasing every fourth day by two units, ten days ago, but already the area around where I inject in my abdomen is sore and uncomfortable. So I thought maybe I'd give my thighs a go with injecting, but on the various forums, when I raised this...

I don't know how long you have been on Prednisolone but I've been on it thirty odd years and it has caused no end of problems with skin and other issues. However I have to take it following a renal transplant in the mid-80s which has given me all these years of life I wouldn't have had. They...

Thank you for taking the time to respond. Can’t see anyone else bothering, where’s the support in that?

Thanks for responding, but can I now ask those of you on a Very low carb intake, how the heck you manage it and what do you eat? I am on steroids after renal transplant surgery many years ago, and these increase your appetite and I have to take in some carbs regularly otherwise I begin to feel...

Can I ask how many carbs you aim for each day and how they are divided up?

Thank you... can I ask how often you test your bloods.

and am confused. I saw the nurse this morning and she told me what to do, how to use the pen, but when I read the info from the manufacturers o the pen, it was different. She didn't mention anything about setting it to 2 and tapping to rid the pen of any air and making sure I got the full dose...

The 50mmol she mentioned is the figure the nurse wants me to achieve, the meds aren't doing much good any more as I am at 124, hence the need to start insulin.

numbers, what do they all mean? My nurse said we should get the number down to 50. Fifty what, her explanation didn’t help me much, mainly because within a few minutes if her telling me, I’d forgotten! It’s an age thing.... And if any of you have routine appointments with diabetic nurse, are...