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Diagnosed IDD at 8 yrs (2 stone in weight when I went into hospital). I trained & worked as a dancer (Italian Operetta Co) and because I was doing dance classes, rehearsing & performing days and evenings it was easy to keep bg down and to remain stable. No one minded if I needed to stop & eat...

Well Done Tom!! Of course you could do it. Many who failed probably did so because of lack of training--the major non ingredient to guarantee failure!!! I have spent most of my life doing things that others, including medics, told me I would not be able to do and it gives me perverse pleasure to...

Thought of more--refused job in bank because bank doc said irregular working hours were not good for diabetics (bit of truth there but is out of context)!! I only know about diabetes management practise not physiology (good point but do not know why this was even said). How did I know about...

Apparently I look too healthy to be diabetic!!!! I shouldn't drive my husband, who is in a wheelchair, because I am driving him illegally(!!!!)! I can't have children! My children will have diabetes!! I look too slim to be diabetic. I only want to lose weight. I should enjoy my food. Being told...

I found research on this one by Joslin Centre for Diabetes USA dated June 2013: it records exactly how research was carried out and it came to the conclusion that fat, rather than inhibiting absorption of glucose in type 1, requires more insulin for glucose metabolism. Therefore how did diabetes...

Another classic was (diabetes nurse), after a succession of high blood sugars in morning after a hospital refused to let me have levemir injection at bedtime: have less bedtime levemir as it looks as though you it would lower your morning tests--she was sitting with test chart in front of her...

Eating favourite sweets to counteract hypo symptoms= corrective action!!!

The worst remarks come from doctors and nurses: "The cake you ate caused you to have a hypo" (G,P who went on to explain that my body then produced more insulin to counteract the fast acting carbohydrate which caused rebound low blood sugar--I have been type 1 for 52 years so if my body is now...

Hi I am new to the forum but have had diabetes (type 1) forever!! I am just wondering if anyone else has been told, as I was by practice diabetes nurse 2 days ago, that the reason I had an unexplained hypo was because I had eaten high carbohydrate food which contained fat which stopped glucose...