Recent Content by Angela64

Evening dinner was salmon in pastry parcel, swede, broccoli, small lemon tart and raspberries. I’d drunk some cider vinegar water beforehand to help keep the BG from spiking too high.

Bananas are digested too fast and I believe sugary. I can’t stand them and allergic to em.

I’ve written about my experience, I wasn’t forewarned about the Dapagliflozin and was just prescribed it without consultation and I follow a Low carb diet since diagnosis!

Is that a Libre CGM? They have become very unreliable and I’ve changed to Dexcom which you can calibrate which is useful.

Yes it is cheaper! I’ve been on Empagliflozin for a long time, it suits me and I’m happy with it and suddenly GP changed it to Dapagliflozin! I was incensed, of course I googled it and found it is indeed a cheaper drug! The last thing I wanted was to change and find it caused me problems...

Failed Libre’s - I see this a lot on a Facebook book group, I’ve had a couple of failures. Contact Libre they should replace them. https://www.freestyle.abbott/uk-en/support/sensor-support-form.html

Hi My eyesight issues were not caused by my diabetes, just probably inherited aging process, my experiences having had procedures are sadly on going. If there is an interest and you think it could be a topic people would be interested in, maybe there could be reason for having a separate...

Yes. Cataract surgery using lasers, replacement lenses. My lenses were replaced, then the capsular bag in which the lenses were put went opaque, which often happens. This was recommended by the Consultant as he thought just laser would not have a lasting effect on my sight for long enough. Then...

Well I had a bacon sandwich in home baked bread, only one round mind and 3 skinny rashers, did enjoy it even though the bread spikes me. Got fresh fish tonight with ‘few’ potatoes and veg.

My first diagnosis was very dramatic, was an emergency case - UK 999! Confused and out of sorts, had no symptoms. I felt weird and spoke to my hubs who did the FACE tests, I realised he thought I’d had a stroke and my First Aid kicked in and said ‘phone the ambulance’! Ended up in hospital for a...

I follow a Low carb protein diet for the past 5 years and what the others have said, too many carbs in your meal. Even though I’ve followed the Low Carb diet I’m still learning and not got all the answers either. I try not to start a meal later than 7pm, looking at the length of fasting time...

My total cholesterols 6.4 ish and they want me to take statin! I eat Low Carb high protein which may have an impact on that, but I don’t eat fat I’d cut it off. I am not wanting statins as I don’t want the side effects reported, I’ve just about had enough ailments etc…. So consultant Endo...

I have followed Low Carb since diagnosis 5 years ago. It can be very challenging eating out and on holidays. I’ve found it more so as the years have gone on and the menu’s have changed towards high fat processed fast foods☹️ Salads and veg can be a rarity :(( Sadly cholesterol can increase with...

Our neighbour at the cottage we have, has diabetes, he is into his 90’s and has always been quite determined to manage it with diet, exercise and medication. We were told that his dr had said to him he can have what ever he likes as it wouldn’t make lot of difference due to his age. I suppose...

The itinerary my hubs has takes in some rural areas and not necessarily cities Your information is what I expected. I thought if we were only going to cities it wouldn’t be as bad but Hubs is worried that we’ll get encouraged to go and then find we’ve been misled as we had been for Thailand...