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You can also get dizzy and other weird feelings with very high blood sugars. The frequent toilet and thirst is one of the primary symptoms, so I would definitely go and get checked out by your doctor. It won't do any harm if you are fine, but could save your life if you find you do have...

Re: Can I claim job seekers allowance while on a DAFNE cours For goodness sake, don't lie and tell them you are on holiday. I cannot believe that the jobcentre would insist you sign on while away for medical appointments, and a DAFNE course is a week long medical appointment designed to improve...

I keep my Lantus completely separate from my Humalog nowadays. My humalog stays in my handbag and goes everywhere with me, while the Lantus sits in the cubby hole in my bedside table and is the first thing I reach for when I wake up, then it goes back in the cubby hole and can't get muddled up...

The public need educating. If TV programmes featured hypos being treated instead of diabetics being ill because they need insulin, we might get somewhere. Next time a TV show does that I think I'll write in and complain. It's dangerous because is perpetuates the myth that diabetic people can't...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Mind, someone told me a recipe years ago that just involved strawberries and mixing them over and over mid-freeze! I think there must have been some milk or cream added, but she only told me and never wrote it down. I'm pretty sure there was no sugar involved at all...

That's almost certainly true, but not all of us can stay well controlled. I am lucky and I seem to be ok - no complications after 36 years of type 1 - but many people struggle. And loads and loads of Type 2s have complications even before diagnosis. Maybe I'm being a little sensitive, but your...

I did it with Humalog instead of Lantus once. I wondered why the pen seemed so far screwed out but just put the stuff in anyway. It was an awful lot of humalog and I ended up using glugagen to deal with the hypo because I couldn't eat fast enough. Horrible thing to do, but at least it was...

As Noblehead says, a DAFNE course will help you sort it all out. Ask your doctor/nurse for some education right at the beginning so you know how to sort it out. It is so much easier to use carb counting to work out how much insulin to have for each meal. You really only need to count the carbs...

I don't know what the parameters are for diagnosis, but if your doctor says it's diabetes, then presumably it is. However, with good control, as you are doing ,the levels should come down to normal. That does not mean that you are now not diabetic, just that you are controlling it really well...

What was the BS before you had the glucose?

Welcome home, Callumgracie. I can't find a hug smiley on here so 'HUGS'! :D I know what the mental health side of things is like. I have had diabetes since I was 17 - that's 36 years, so you can do the maths - and I know it's not only the diabetes that has affected my brainworks, but it is a...

I know nothing about being in a big, many peopled workplace because I don't do people very well and have always chosen to work in an environment where I can be on my own. But I'd like to offer some moral support. I can't see that ten days off in a year is a problem and certainly should not be...

I haven't read any of the person under discussion's rantings, so I don't know what they contain, but may I ask a question about it such things in general? Is the ethos of the forum to allow free discussion so long as no personal attacks are made on other members? I am assuming that is the case...

Carrots are good. There isn't much else that I can think of, but it really doesn't matter too much. As a type one you don't have to worry about low carb foods, only about balancing the carbs with the right amount of insulin. How much education have you had from your Health care people? Are you...

I know this government wants things to be sorted at local levels, but some things need to have national rules applied and this is one of them. For people to arbitrarily be denied blood testing (which saves the NHS millions in treatment for complications) just because of where they live is insane...