Recent Content by superdom

Advice = Go to the gym/ run/ swim to burn those nasty calories off. Reassurance = Remember moderation is good.

As you can probably tell cara147m, most people just get lucky most of the time when their results are so low. Don't worry about your results compared to everyone else's.... as long as your basic diabetes management is around about where you want it to be then don't put pressure on yourself...

If I go to bed with a blood sugar level of below 10mmol/ls, I expect to wake up on a level of between 1.8 and 2.4 7 hours later. I have messed around with reducing my basal dosage regularly but have found having a high blood reading before bed is the only way to negate the morning low effect...

I don't take anything with me. I don't run far. 12km is my limit at the moment. I test my blood before I go out. If I am lower than 9.0 I will eat a snack or drink a small amout of lucozade. I often wonder what happens to my body when I run. Sometimes (last night for instance) my bloods can be...

I change my needles as I change my insulin cartridge. So I do about 30 injections using the same needle. Have done for 25 years. And yet I still live! As for, fingerpricking, I have never changed the needle on my pricker. I think I have had it for 2 years. It still draws blood. I am...

That sounds far too complex and boring for me to fulfil LucySW. I let my diabetes run my life to a certain extent, but am not planning on studying everything I do, eat, dream about. Just not got the time nor inclination.

Lucky you

I don't have a rule for when to take my insulin before meals. Loads of variable factors play a part in my decision. A couple of instances will show why.... I went out for a run before my evening meal after work last night. Blood level before the run was 5.2 so I boosted my short term levels...

If I go to bed on anything less than a 10 then I woke up in the low 2s. Even slow release pasta/rice, etc doesn't change that figure.

A Snickers and a gulp of Lucozade usually does for me

I have gone whole weeks without taking ANY insulin while on holiday in hot countries. I have relatives living in Southern Spain. The first couple of holidays there meant I was living off sugary drinks while trying to balance food and insulin until I realised insulin was not helping my diabetes...

Can someone explain to me why a prolonged spell of highs happens? I know illness is a reason, maybe stress (or whatever the new in word is nowadays).

Is this serious? You would not eat Chinese at all? :?: I don't often eat takeaways, but when I do (in the evening usually) I pump myself full of insulin then dealing with any lingering high blood levels the next morning.

I went on it 2 years ago. Did 4 consecutive Thursday mornings at my local diabetes centre. I attended having been invited by a random letter. Am under the care of the nurse at my GP and hadn't visited my diabestes centre for about 10 years. I got a lot out of it. I had understood what carb...

Thanks for clearing that up Snodger. I thought I was going to have to go on another course