Recent Content by Horwendil

What are they called, please ? - or what does the carton look like ??

Re: Recipes. Here's a soup that I've been making once a week for the last couple of months. Roughly chop a medium onion, sweat it off in butter until it goes translucent. Add 1 teaspoon each of cumin and coriander powder and a good grinding of black pepper. Add a chopped up medium cauliflower...

This morning, and in celebration of a script for test strips, I went crazy and did two, yes two before breakfast test. One on the middle finger, and then, within a minute, one on the indexfinger. results: middle finger 6.6, indexfinger 6.1. What does the panel think?,and what do we take as true...

Thanks you both, for the explanation.... and the solution ! :D

I was looking at an advert for easter chocolate (as you do...) and came across the following info "Nutrition information per 100g (whole box of 12): 356 kcal, Proteins 3.7g, Carbohydrates 55g of which polyols 50.6g (giving "net carbs" of 4.4g) and sugars 3.2g, Fats 21.3g of which saturated...

When I was first diagnosed I had a variety of doctors see me because of the chest infection I had at the time. I made a special appointment because eof blurred vision over the weekend and took all my bg records for the previous four days (4 readings per day) which were all high (in the 20 s)...

If you mean your BG levels then get an Ultra Smart meter and you can download all the results, trends, etc to your pc and print off nice graphs :)

Hi Mike, last year (before I became type 2 this year) I had leg ulcers (I've had them on and off for several years) and alongside bandaging the ulcer clinic gave me a device which was a zip-up inflatable below knee boot with an electric pump and control unit. I used this once or twice a day fro...

I use The Calorie Carb and Fat Bible, more expensive but very extensive. Gives calories, protein, carbs and fat per 100gm/100ml and calories per portion for just about every food, and those with origins (Tesco, Sainsburys etc etc) and also fast foods by outlet.

Hi Bec, I know how you feel, or I did, and there are all sort of decisions to be made - but there is an upside. I was never one to have had cream cakes in any quantity before being diagnosed, and thought that I would miss so much of the foods that I used to eat, but now, having gone to a...

Hi Chocaholic, yep, it really is a wonderful forum and medium for us diabetics. Reading through a lot of the posts brings it home that we are not alone in this, and the words of encouragement and understanding givven to me and other posters helps enormously. I do favour the low carb and am...

Thanks Dennis, for a very clear explanation of what had happened. Although I personally favour a low carb diet, I have got quite a lot of weight to lose so I will have to keep an eye on the fats. Any advice on how many grams of carbs hsould be allowed per day on a low carb diet, please ?

Well, steroids now finished, doubled the dose of metformin to 2 per day and now the before meals bg is averaging 7.8. Blood pressure is up, but we can get that sorted at next meeting. Blurred vision has cleared and feeling a lot better, but still a bit "shaky" at times. Nurse came up with an...

Last dose of steroids tomorrow morning, so hopefully things will start to drop to a more maneagable level within a day or so, but will definately ask the doc about the dosage. Will have to try and get into a better routine - first day back at work tomorrow, but will have to take it easy as I...