Recent Content by pegletbee

Thank you for this. I have resisted taking statins for years, despite regular badgering by consultants and GPS. Once again my consultant is insisting that I need to take them, but I am far from convinced that any minimal benefits will outweigh the risk of increased A1c and probable weight gain...

No I am in the UK. Swanson's arrived today - have just taken one with lunch. We shall see...

I was eating low carb before I started on the pump but my management was indeed very poor on MDI. I was persuaded to eat more 'normally' when I went on the pump, I think because if I ate no carbs there was simply no protocol for dosage as much as because they found it bizarre and unwise - too...

Thanks - had actually ordered some of the Swanson 100mg R fraction ones just before I read your post. Glad I chose a good one! Already feel better in myself for going back to low-carb and have lost half a kilo in less than a week. BSs still a bit crazy, but you can't have everything in this...

I'm pretty sure I only got the regular, but it is a brand I trust so I will start there, use a higher dose, and research a source of the R version that I'm happy with to follow up when I've used the first lot. I have taken vit D for several years now and initially found it the best thing I'd...

Great, thanks so much for the advice. I have never heard of lipoic acid before but it sounds very interesting. I have just ordered some on Amazon from a manufacturer I trust. On the subject of the proteins... Just been looking at the book I was given years ago in Holland which contains tables...

Wow - thanks for taking the time to explain so fully. I have the original Bernstein book somewhere, which is how I initially went low-carb when I was first diagnosed. I too am LADA, though it took a while - a couple of years if I remember right - for them to decide that. I was persuaded to start...

Kirsten - I just came across your remark about bolusing for half your proteins and I am really interested! For 15 of the 17 years I have been diabetic people have told me I'm barmy when I say protein puts my BS up. I do now get grudging acknowledgement that they recognise that large amounts of...

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If i was you and you wanted to keep on with your pump get in contact with PALS who will arrange a meeting for you and the hospital trust to explain their why they are taking you off the pump.[/UOTQE] Thanks - I have never even heard of Pals, but I will give them a try.

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I have been on a pump now for ten years. I initially started pump therapy when I lived in Holland, where they are very keen to get people onto pumps. I resisted it for years, in fact I only decided to go on a pump when I was about to move back to the UK because I knew that would mean I could...

Hello pumpers, it's a while since I've visited the forum, but I have a question. At the moment I live in Northumberland, where the health authority accepted me and my pump when I moved here from the Netherlands in 2010. The process was slow, but relatively simple and funding was not too much of...

For what it's worth: I've been on vitamin D3 for about 4 years now, on the advice first of my specialist in the Netherlands and later also in the UK. I used to get it on prescription in NL, but was advised to buy from Holland and Barrett here, as although it is accepted that pretty much...