Recent Content by pleinster

I get that...but all this effort to hide it, and the stress of all that goes with it ? Not hiding it at all is surely way less effort and stress...and it will let you know who the idiots to avoid are. Maybe try it...one less thing to put you blood sugar up...and sometime showing that everything...

Hi. These figures one their own tell us very little that would allow for a simple answer. Personally, I find that my own system takes up to three hours to come back down rather than the much quoted two hours. We are all variations on a theme with this (just like we are in life) so little is...

No thanks. If you think that the frame of mind which has helped me combat inherited kidney disease followed by a transplant and ongoing complications....and successfully manage the Type 2 diabetes I then got from the drugs to fight rejection of the organ...purely through hard effort and...

Happy birthday, @Jenniewren1958 ....if I take your number as an indicator of your "big one", I think it is worth pointing out - word is that 60 is the new 59. x

6.5 early this morning...but I am finding that if I check again a couple of hours alter it's up around 8-8.5. Brutal tactics are called for..but I cannot be ar@'d.

I hope your energy picks up mate.

Happy birthday, John.:singing: happy birthday to yooo.

Things all heading in the wrong direction atm. 8.8 this morning ! I even hit a 9.5 mid day for no reason I can see. Not exactly the 5-6 range I was managing. Think I shall have to be very strict for a bit...but not sure I am in the mood.

Hi. Ask whatever comes up as you set about getting that HbA1c down. You will always get a response here. it's good you have a meter and a plan. I would advise you to keep a record of your readings before and about 2 hours after eating...along with a note of the food you ate. It will inform you...

What's it all about, John ? Things that help us harm us too. Nothing is ever plain sailing, eh ?

2 bleedin high

Hi. I hope you get someone on soon who has a very similar issue. Good luck.

So sorry to hear that, pal. x

John, I spoke with a couple of renal specialists and a pharmacist after my transplant about the things I should avoid on certain drugs..and while I was warned about the skin cancer risks of exposure the sun while on anti-rejection drugs such as prograf and mycophenolate, I was told that...

So...most of the people I know in Scotland are diabetic then ? Here, the sun is a kind of tease rather than a full on force of nature.