Recent Content by daniel1021

Hey, not sure what to do as it's the weekend now and all the diabetes team have headed home but I recently had an operation in hospital and from that my sugars were really high before and after struggling to come down, stayed there a week and came home been home for 5 days now sugars have been...

Just having a thought, correct me if I'm wrong but why would you need to go on insulin if you are type 2? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

But if you had a very high blood pressure you'd be refused to exercise anyway regardless of being diabetic.... What you say is very true no one takes responsibility for themselves anymore! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

I'm up for it!!! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

You still wouldn't need a letter. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Why would you need a doctors consent? The only reason you'd need one is to get a cheaper membership Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Hi guys! On July 13th 2013, I will be doing a skydive at 15,000ft for Diabetes UK to raise awareness and money for research into the condition itself, improving for funds for continuing research into medication and drug trials and breakthrough technological advancements for diabetes...

Re: Please post the good things about diabetes why do you li To the people that dwell on having diabetes take control of it ! Having diabetes doesn't mean you can't be happy you just need to take action. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Re: Please post the good things about diabetes why do you li I'm type 1 and being a PT having diabetes further instills my amazing discipline with my control, food, exercise etc that I already had. The only reason people are unhappy is because they let diabetes control them instead of the...

Re: What do you consider a dangerously high blood glucose le Hey guys, thanks for all the advice!! I know it's a very late reply I couldn't remember my password! In the end, the on-call doctor came out and took 4 hours to get to me so by the time I'd been seen and had a lot of insulin to manage...

My last HBa1c was 5.7% but recently for an unknown reason I've been getting very high blood sugar readings and higher than normal... just did one and got a level of 27.9. Just wondered what sort of levels you should show a worrying concern to?!

5.6%

I inject where and when I like and frankly no one will ever stop me, when I'm out I'm not going into an unhygienic toilet to inject everytime I eat. People can like it or lump it.

Exercise increases your metabolic rate, aerobic exercise for around the first 2 hours after exercise and anaerobic for a lot longer. So all that time after,your bodies are burning calories thus lowering your blood sugar. Also if you don't have enough insulin present in the body at the time of...

High intensity Anaerobic exercise can cause hyperglycemia and aerobic exercise can cause hypoglycemia. Exercise is great for lowering BG levels!