Recent Content by claridge

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    My story with stress...

    Learning to express myself and finding who l truely am is not an easy thing. Any tips of how to do that? :)
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    My story with stress...

    Hi all, I have been diabetic type 1 for 4 years and been low carb and high exercise that whole time and controlled and happy. However l have had various emotionally draining issues since the diabetes (and further back which l wonder what may have caused my pancreas to give up)and over last year...
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    Carb question

    Also a tiny part of me wonders whether my severe eczema was partly caused by low carb - possibly not but l dont know. With stress making me severely insulin resistant l wonder whether my body was not taking in any glucose etc...
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    Carb question

    I will do so with playing around increasing it a unit or two. I increased my morning insulin by two yesterday to 32 in morning and ate carbs (anywhere from 20-40 at a meal porridge, rice type thing) and the 2 unit increase of background helped a lot, although if l didnt eat carbs l may have gone...
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    Carb question

    Thanks :) I have had a lot of stressful situations in the past 4 years - starting with my diabetes, then parents split, dad had an affiair, then mum well ended up in hospital, huge stressful emotionally draining situations with ex, then emotionally bullied past year by the woman l work for. It...
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    Carb question

    Hi all, So l have been type 1 diabetic for 4 years and low carber (no bread pasta pots rice, beans, legumes, or cooked starchy veg) and always had great control. Over the past year my background insulin of 25 has gone up to 60 (yes severely insulin resistant), my health was incredibly bad and l...
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    ketones keep returning

    Also can you please suggest type of and amount of carbs l should be having? Does fruit, advocadoes etc count or just grains?
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    ketones keep returning

    Hi Thanks for your replies. Im only upping my carbs due to the recurrent high ketones. For the past 3 years l low carbed with no problems at all. What concerns me is the constantly recurring high ketones, also the insulin resisnance - for my age/weight l should be on 30 a day (l was on 22) and...
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    ketones keep returning

    hi, I keep getting constantly recurrimg ketones. I get rid of them, then it seems when l have a high blood sugar they come back- l wonder if its due to being so dehydrated and the high BS makes me even more dehydrated=ketones. I have been low carb for 3 years with very good control but due to...
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    help needed - recurring ketones and insulin resistance

    I low carbed as its easier to maintain BS levels - well it was ha. For the past 3 years l have eaten low carb - meat/fish/eggs/veg/salad/nuts/seeds. Basically just no bread pasta pot's rice or high sugar veg, weight unchanged in that time with lots of exercise, never had a problem till this...
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    help needed - recurring ketones and insulin resistance

    ha l have been to see everyone - GP, dermotologist, healthcare team etc but they all see it as eczema= steriod cream as not related at all to the diabetes. I ended up going to a&e last night again to get checked (due to drinking gallons of water l was fine) but he referred me to a diabetic...
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    help needed - recurring ketones and insulin resistance

    Also definitely dont need to lose weight, type 1 and skinny.
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    help needed - recurring ketones and insulin resistance

    Thank you for the reply. However l was doing the low carb diet for the past 3 years and not once did l have a problem. Its only the past year with stress etc. Im just really worried about my bs continually going up, l just keep upping my background insulin almost daily as it just goes up and...
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    help needed - recurring ketones and insulin resistance

    Hi, I have been diabetic for 4 years and the past year have had a lot of stress from work - l developed a severe rash all over my body (even neck and face), later discovered l had high ketones, stopped exercising due to rash. My ketones keep going high though and l have become insulin resistant...
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    No carbs or Carbs?

    Interesting - my BS has been going up again to needing novorapid but l havent done any exercise for over a week - back to the exercise me thinks! And try and get back to not needing Novorapid..