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- Type of diabetes
- Reactive hypoglycemia
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- I do not have diabetes
Well, it's been a decade, and it's been another milestone yesterday, I just can't believe, that I have posted that many! I mean, I know I do long posts, but why and how did I get to that many?
I have learned so much being on here and I think I have been friendly enough to have friendship and comradeship, maybe a spaceship as well!!
And I'm still learning about my condition and about how we can be so helpful to one another, when we are really strangers looking for advice and answers.
The weird and wonderful world of RH, hypoglycaemia and other related issues and conditions.
I can safely say that I never thought, that I could and would, never mind should spend so much time scrolling through the the threads, trying to sort out those that may have a unusual medical story to tell.
I gonna thank the many posters in the RH forum, even those who have posted when I'm not around, the posters, who have tagged me. Those that have helped with the set up of those forums, the footie, the general chat, the word games, even the friendly chat across the forums, the many mods. And in particular, those and you know who you are, who have been so intrinsic in my hanging around here for so long.
I praise the knowledge and expertise with the amount of success stories, including my own, learning that the answer to so many of the issues on the forum are what goes in our gobs! And the treatment for many of us, is, We avoid those, that cause the spike that are part and parcel of most conditions we talk about on here.
So, for instance, you spike, cos you have too many carbs, that to me, is a bit obscure, and the term intolerant doesn't help, I think if you know how many chips, reach that level of spike, you shouldn't reach.
So if it's one chip, you are quite likely intolerant completely, to that one chip, that it is necessary to completely avoid it. So if you can manage two chips, with something that has good fat as part of some protein, it might stretch it to three chips. I have shares in the chip butty mines around here!
But there are those that can have a small portion of chips and only spike if they have one more.
How do you know, if that makes sense, how many chips you can have?. And because of so many different reasons, it is so individual and where you are on the journey. How the hell can we offer advice without knowing so many different things?
Particularly history of the posters health. We can't, and we have to be so careful and avoid breaking forum rules, bending them at times!!!!! Disagreement is to be avoided with the hierarchy!
So it's about being rational, courteous and understanding, with a pinch of, you have been here in the same place as the poster. And a sprinkling of humility and empathy.
I have gone on too long again! Once I start, I just can't understand why I just can't write a short answer?
It does seem that RH is becoming less rare, the amount of posts in our forum which sometimes floors me.
But I carry on, because I know what it is like to be swimming in the river of uncertainty, against the ebb and flow of blood glucose levels. And I think I know that there is always someone, who needs a helping hand to unravel the intricacies of having a condition where the doctors don't know why or how to treat it.
I am honoured and privileged to be a member and an Oracle (whatever that means) of this great forum.
I hope that you will extend my participation and grant me the wherewithal to do so.
I am so humbly your servent.
Best wishes.
Lamont D.
I have learned so much being on here and I think I have been friendly enough to have friendship and comradeship, maybe a spaceship as well!!
And I'm still learning about my condition and about how we can be so helpful to one another, when we are really strangers looking for advice and answers.
The weird and wonderful world of RH, hypoglycaemia and other related issues and conditions.
I can safely say that I never thought, that I could and would, never mind should spend so much time scrolling through the the threads, trying to sort out those that may have a unusual medical story to tell.
I gonna thank the many posters in the RH forum, even those who have posted when I'm not around, the posters, who have tagged me. Those that have helped with the set up of those forums, the footie, the general chat, the word games, even the friendly chat across the forums, the many mods. And in particular, those and you know who you are, who have been so intrinsic in my hanging around here for so long.
I praise the knowledge and expertise with the amount of success stories, including my own, learning that the answer to so many of the issues on the forum are what goes in our gobs! And the treatment for many of us, is, We avoid those, that cause the spike that are part and parcel of most conditions we talk about on here.
So, for instance, you spike, cos you have too many carbs, that to me, is a bit obscure, and the term intolerant doesn't help, I think if you know how many chips, reach that level of spike, you shouldn't reach.
So if it's one chip, you are quite likely intolerant completely, to that one chip, that it is necessary to completely avoid it. So if you can manage two chips, with something that has good fat as part of some protein, it might stretch it to three chips. I have shares in the chip butty mines around here!
But there are those that can have a small portion of chips and only spike if they have one more.
How do you know, if that makes sense, how many chips you can have?. And because of so many different reasons, it is so individual and where you are on the journey. How the hell can we offer advice without knowing so many different things?
Particularly history of the posters health. We can't, and we have to be so careful and avoid breaking forum rules, bending them at times!!!!! Disagreement is to be avoided with the hierarchy!
So it's about being rational, courteous and understanding, with a pinch of, you have been here in the same place as the poster. And a sprinkling of humility and empathy.
I have gone on too long again! Once I start, I just can't understand why I just can't write a short answer?
It does seem that RH is becoming less rare, the amount of posts in our forum which sometimes floors me.
But I carry on, because I know what it is like to be swimming in the river of uncertainty, against the ebb and flow of blood glucose levels. And I think I know that there is always someone, who needs a helping hand to unravel the intricacies of having a condition where the doctors don't know why or how to treat it.
I am honoured and privileged to be a member and an Oracle (whatever that means) of this great forum.
I hope that you will extend my participation and grant me the wherewithal to do so.
I am so humbly your servent.
Best wishes.
Lamont D.
