Recent Content by Tarabas

When eating only one egg causes so much trouble, be wise and eat two or three! :-D

If this could be an alternative: there are needles, where the needle is hidden from your view.

A little different view of mine: If you eat pizza all the day with a big coke and your by is worst, yes there is something wro... You could improve your diabetes handling. And LCHF / complete lifestyle change can be an option. But there are other ways, too. I am on insulin since my first day...

I have an insulinx. What I like: needs not much blood. Bolus calculator. Light. What I would improve: more finely graduated steps than just 0.5 for IE/BE, more different time zones for this And - there is no need to test the blood when eating and using extra insulin one hour after last usage -...

One test, one lancet, too.

Hi @amgrundy: since October no package for me :-/

I use it for lancets, needles and cellulose swab.

To have an excuse to eat it once in a month [emoji12] I use this: and duct tape on the cap when full.

I am using a key chain like this: http://www.diabetes-kids.de/artikel/diabetes-kids-notfallanhanger-2040 Hope they will find it in my trouser pockets.

At least there is a rotation pattern from DB http://www.bd.com/de/diabetes/page.aspx?cat=19104&id=31959

My question was about the statement "insulin is toxic to the cells". I found interesting theses, but no medical explanation. Toxic means "doing something biological harm to it". What is the damage which insulin makes to the cells? Without this, it is a thesis. Probably worth to make research on...

Dr. Fun has interesting statistics and hypothesis. But - I don't see the whole hour - there where no medical proof or explanation in it. IMHO.

Here the same, 3 month. But they said it would be not so quickly.

There are several possible explanations. Shame. Or the feeling using a test stripe is more about having a test you can pass or fail instead of monitoring/metering.

First time ever I read this: toxic? Do you have any source of this for me?