Recent Content by Ann_W

Thank you all very much for your replies. I am going on one dose of insulin per night at the moment and we’ll take it from there so I can’t get the libre prescribed unless I go on to need at least one more dose per day but I think I’ll self fund another couple and use them as educators. You’ve...

This is what I’m doing at the moment and it can be a bit of an eye opener. Yesterday I had a small piece of thin base pizzaI tested before and two hours after and got the result I pretty much expected. What I didn’t expect though was watching the numbers continue to rise on the libre for about...

It makes complete sense to do that , thank you

The nurse has said she can prescribe them if I need insulin so we’ll see. I’ll be checking against the meter until I’m confident with it ans even then I agree it doesn’t go amiss to check now and again

Thanks Jaylee, all this knowledge is so useful

Thank you for these tips, much appreciated them

Thank you for this. At present, there’s a good 2 mmol difference between the 2 when they are measured at the same time. The finger prick monitor was given to me by the nurse so I’m confident with that. Thanks for your reply, I want to make the libre work for me so that I don’t do what I did...

Hi everyone, I’ve been type 2 diabetic for 10 years. Unfortunately, my control isn’t what it was (I was warned this might happen) I’ve always had to self fund monitors. We’ve moved 4 times in 5 years and am with my best diabetes nurse yet. 1st thing she did was give me a monitor and encourage me...

I am and have been for about 7 weeks hubby had open heart surgery 8 weeks ago and I need to minimise the risk of taking anything home to him as much as possible

I’ve got the book which is very good but these recipes are different. We had the Hunter’s Chicken today and it was delicious. If you don’t want to buy the mail, they are online...

I've found that using a magnesium spray at night coupled with higher salt intake has significantly improved dreadful palpitations for me. Maybe it'll help with AF too?

Try not to worry too much, I have background retinopathy but it hasn’t changed in 3 years

So far you’re more or less mirroring my journey. On diagnosis in oct 15 A1c was 101 I also chose not to be medicated and was down to 79 in 2 months. Nurse (who practically had to be rescucitated when I refused medication) admitted that they wouldn’t have expected a result as low as that in that...

Mine was picked up on a routine blood test because despite an A1c of 101 I was asymptomatic. Officially I was told by the diabetic nurse when I went to see her - unofficially, I was told by the receptionist ringing me to say that following the blood test the doc wanted me to make an appt with...

He's one of my 'heroes' and has been for some time now. This video is very well worth a watch