Recent Content by lessci

Wrists and ankles always wrists and ankles. Since perimenopause began I describe my figure as a beach ball balanced on 2 cocktail sticks

When it comes to the smoking, don't give up giving up. I was a 20 a day smoker who quit many times before it stuck, I tried cold turkey, patches (was allergic to the sticky), gum, lozenges, it did eventually stick (although I gained A LOT of weight) I've been "clean" for about 20 years now. Be...

Give us some example of a days food/meals, and we can give you some advice on how to "tweak" them.

If you can check the readings against an actual finger prick - apart from that I'm sorry I don't have any further advice except maybe talk to you DN/GP for advice

Are you in the UK? Do you have the NHS app with access to your GP records? everything should be on there, and if you need help interpreting there are some very knowledgeable people here

Slightly off topic, but I'll loan you my Mum - she can smell ketones at 100 paces

"no need to test" means that they won't pay for it. Not testing is a bit little only looking at the speedo in your car once every 3/6/12 months and the wondering why you're getting loads of tickets when the "average says you're under the limit :), I wouldn't say go mad and use them all the...

Are the free CGM trials available to you? Both Libre and dexcom run them regularly over here on the "mainland" They can be useful in watching BG trends

Slightly off topic - but I'm old enough to remember this Holsten Pils Ad. And the tag line "all the sugar turns to alchol"

Five Guys is always good if you fancy a burger - ask for it in a tray & add what you want, Or most non-chain restaurants, I found that they'll be more flexible, more veg, fewer/no carbs

Just to throw my 2penworth in. The "headline" total figure is a much use as a chocolate fireguard. the LDL/HDL/Trigs is more informative but again under much debate as it's not as straight forward as good and bad cholesterol. I have a family history of heart attacks and strokes caused by...

See if you can get the free trial of the Libre and/or the dexcom CGM's they can provide a wealth of information

Potatoes - Yes Tinned ones work best for me. Rice - limited, Bread - sadly no, Pasta- not attempted recently as I tend to use Black bean or Edamame pasta if I really want some

They do a conversion from the Fructosamine to an equivalent A1c so they can compare apples with apples, rather than apples with oranges. When I was 1st diagnoses they were in percentages rather than mmol so my 1st A1c was 14.9% which converts to approx 135 mmol :eek:

I had a DN that seemed to have a fixation with me going onto insulin which I was resistant to, My thoughts being if I'm insulin resistant, why would I want to inject more instead of reducing the resistance? I turns out I've got a higher than "normal" red blood cell count, changing the blood...