Recent Content by Pee Wee

Hi All, and a belated Thank-You for all your advice. Right, where to start? I have been religiously trying to control my BG levels since last post, and monitoring the effect of different levels of carbs vs insulin etc. I had come to realise that for me personally better control is at the...

Don't worry, I'm not much of a coastal sailor anyway, so unless you're diving in West Kirby Marina! :lol: Or if I ever get out to Dahab, but I'll keep an eye out for those little floaty marker things you use!

How random does that sound? But you never know!.. I haven't been out in a while and to be honest I'm a bit too unfit at the moment. But I was always amazed at how much it would bring my BG down, even hours afterwards. Sailing from Casta Teguise in Lanzarote I was outside my comfort zone and...

Thanks for the replies. Yeah, I thought as much and I'm in the process of doing just that, unfortunately I'm having lots of hypos in the process, now at the moment I'm working from home but when I go back on the road again it's not quite that simple. Anyway, reducing carbs does work for me...

Ok, am I the only person who would like a monitor, integrated storage for test strips and lancing device the size of a pen or a mobile phone? C'mon people how hard can it be? Latest device I have seen is really small and fits onto the top of a bottle of test strips (although the bottle looks...

I use syringes, snap the needle off the end, remove plunger, place needle in syringe, replace plunger and chuck in the bin. Have only been using three or four a year though, I'm still on the original lot I was given when I was diagnosed 17 years ago! (but I've been a bit poo and I'm not...

Potted History. I've been type 1 diabetic since age 17, now 34. I've not had very good BG's ever I don't think to be honest, I could always have a big push to bring them down, only to find I was having lots of hypo's and it scary and inconvenient, particularly when working at height! I have...

Sincere thanks to the last two posters.

Just to add that I have always noticed my hypo awareness dropped when I tried to keep my levels low. I have also learned that my awareness of a hypo varies depending on the speed of the drop in levels. For example on MDI regime if I had say too much insulin for a given meal, then a hypo would...

Absolutely right. The problem as I see it is that there is a fine line between demonstrating that a poor regime will lead to complications and scaring the c**p out of young and or newly diagnosed diabetics who MAY react in the way I did. I felt that I couldn't control it, so buried my head in...

I'm interested in this too, Seems a load of articles dating back to 2003 on the net, but nothing current.

Well, I got my results, HBA1c 8.9 (lower than I anticipated) But much more worryingly Albumin present in urine. I have done another test and get the results in a week, I've also been to buy some test strips and they do indeed confirm the presence of albumin around about 0.3g / Litre by the...

Thank You Jen, My blood glucose machine got a hammering yesterday, and it's been quite interesting. I think the regime I set myself wasn't too bad when I was eating three square meals a day (as I did yesterday) it's when I'm being rubbish and snacking on junk that I lose control completely...

You're absolutely right, health problems are on the horizon if I don't sort myself out, it's just that being told that hasn't really motivated me in the past kinda like somebody who smokes seeing an advert on the telly about the dangers of their habit and immidiately reaching for the cigarettes...

Hello Everyone, Well, I'm 34 and after 17 years with diabetes I have just checked out this (or any) diabetes forum for the first time. I guess you could say that I've been pretty poor at being diabetic, without really realising it I don't like to admit that it gets in my way to any extent, and...