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I'm an idiot. No, really. I spent last week trialing generic methylphenidate, and I completely forgot to check what it did with my blood sugars. Checked pulse, checked blood pressure.... Completely forgot to poke! So here's the thing. In 2005 a shrink diagnosed me with a whole bunch of things...

Had a dinner last night, with my in-laws. I did my research at home, so I came prepared. Even got the ideas okayed by the one throwing the party a week beforehand, as I knew I'd be ordering a side and be more expensive than the other guests, so offered to pay my own way entirely. I couldn't have...

HI all. Been a while since I've been properly on here, and I still don't quite know whether or not I'm back. I was advised to just talk for a bit to you guys on here, so yeah... I just don't know where to start. There's been so much going on. The past year's been.... Well, difficult. A year and...

Good morning all, While I was going through my newspaper this morning, (Het Algemeen Dagblad, https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/nieuw-nederlands-onderzoek-mensen-met-diabetes-hebben-lagere-levensverwachting~a531419f/ and the study itself, alas, also in Dutch...

Hello, you lovely people, I know it's been a strange year. More horrible to some than to others, but none of us have been left unaffected, I think it's safe to say. Christmas'll be looking different in The Netherlands than what I'm used to. And I'm sure, whether people celebrate Christmas...

I don't usually post funnies, or original posts for that matter, but this one just really.... I hope to one day be like this lady. And I thought it'd make some of you smile. :)

Hey good people of the forum, Forgive me if this is all over the place, and a tad long, but you know how I can ramble. And I'm out of my depth here, I need a little input. I've been dabbling a bit with Carnivore, and realised that that is exactly what I'm doing: Dabbling. I'm applying what I...

Hi Folks, Yeah, I’m asking the hive mind for help. I have a suspicion something’s wrong, but I don’t know quite what yet. So I want to pick your brains, if that’s okay. So there’s a few things going on, and while I know they’re not directly diabetes-related, they do involve diet. And no-one...

I've been self isolating since the 7th, and watching the world go by on my PC. Much to my frustration. Quite a few of you know I suffer from depression, and as I can't take antidepressants, it's the outings in the weekends that keep me going through the week. You know, to the little cat café's...

Hi folks, Was just wondering about something. I have varicose veins, a few spidery ones which don't matter, and a few deeper ones... Those deeper, bigger ones hurt every now and again, get inflamed or something. They hadn't for quite a while though. But... A week ago our cat was put to sleep...

While we were visiting with my mom yesterday, she came up with a whole box of chocolate praliné's. I haven't lived in Tilburg for well over a decade now, so I didn't catch the developments at what used to be my childhood idea of heaven; Chocolatier Boulanger, with it's large glittering chandlier...

In about 15 minutes I'm going to call (which is a big deal because I hate phoning anyone) for an appointment with my GP. It's looking more and more like I'm in perimenopause, at a mere 40 years old, and I want her to figure out what's going on with me and puzzle out what to do about it... From...

I've tried keto mug cake/bread before. It so didn't work for me. I always ended up with a tasteless brick. Today, I finally managed to make a proper one, turned it into 4 slices, one of which never made it into the airfryer for toasting, because I ate it. That stuff tastes good! Couldn't've...

You know, so often you get doctors who don't listen, are closed minded, or just plain see so much of something they've given up on their patients. My GP, she's not very much at home in T2, but she followed my LCHF/Keto/IF adventure with interest and support, curious to see how it would go, and...

Hi you guys, I'm about to head out for the day, but there's something on my mind and I was wondering if you guys had solutions. I'm really happy with keto and intermittent fasting... But my insides aren't. I'm loving my HbA1c of 34, I feel energetic and all that... But I'm constipated as...

Every time I think I've got this T2 thing down, something throws a wrench in. I'm doing keto and IF, hover between 10 to 20 grams of carbs a day... And on Monday my fasting bs was 9.4. Considering the amount of pain I was in I figured it was an infection and went to the GP; diverticulitis...

Hey guys, I'm stumped. Maybe you know what's going on with me. Today was another weird one. I could accept that the heat from a couple of weeks ago caused a hypo, as circumstances were extreme, but today.... The weather was normal to cool. And I think my sugar should've been relatively high. So...

This Saturday my left shoulder joint became inflamed. It hurt like heck, and my bs went up 2 to 3 mmol compared with what is usual for me. On Sunday I started on diclofenac, an NSAID, and while it helped with the pain and lowered my bs some, I have stopped taking it today (Wednesday). The nose...

I've been trying IF, and that went well. You know, just skipping breakfast. But any time I try to go beyond that, and attempt to fast until dinner, I go below 4.0. It's 3.5 to 3.9 mostly, about an hour or two before the fast is to be broken. No hypo feelings, just a little tired/lethargic, but...

Yesterday I tried a 24 hour fast for the first time. It went better than I anticipated, and by the time the 24 hrs were over, I was at 4.1... Naturally, I over-ate when the fast was broken. But I'm fairly certain I didn't go over 10 to 15 grams of carbs. (I do keto, usually it's 20 or less per...