Search Results

I wonder if you might find someone to share with.

Of course, 2mmol/l is very close to the edge. But the point I'm making is that I just walk relaxedly to the fridge for some fruit juice, and I eat something and I carry on. That's pretty well throughout the day my blood sugar is wavering near the edge. But it doesn't aggressively yo-yo like...

I alway eat around 220g of rye bread, every day. (I don't eat it after 4.00pm, or my blood sugar would rise later in the evening and overnight.) But I eat other stuff too. I do not understand why the rye bread moderates my blood sugar and enables me to tolerate blood sugar levels which...

The point is that this is a correct definition of 'hypoglycaemia': "(Symptoms resulting from) low blood glucose." Low blood glucose itself (however measured) is nothing other than low blood glucose. Hypoglycaemia involves behaviour. But the behaviour resulting from low blood glucose can be...

I certainly manifest symptoms with a 2mmol/l reading, but normally nothing severe. The severity depends on things like when I injected, and - above all - what I've been eating. I'm a carer for my 93-year-old mother. She'd notice symptoms if I showed them

My past few HbA1c readings have been 27mmol/mol. So the meter's fine. But I mostly use visually read strips, anyway.

Well, I've just checked. And according to the orthodoxy, I am indeed having a hypo at this very moment. But I won't dwell on that too much.

Is that 'Healthcare Practitioner'? Do you mean, ask if I'm having a hypo?!

So it's like 'hair of the dog that bit you', right?

Here's a line from the official, supposedly informative thread from the beginning of the 'Type 1 Diabetes' section of this forum: "Hypoglycemia is the term for when we have low levels of glucose in our blood. A blood glucose level of under 4 mmol/l is considered to be hypoglycaemia (a hypo)."...

Would you like a spare? xxx

Go back to your doctor, and maybe take a print-out of what you've written above. If he or she still won't help, you should certainly ask to see a different doctor.

The photos are clearly a fraud.

How to use brackets: "(Symptoms resulting from) low blood glucose." I found that definition somewhere on the internet. It's particularly notable - and shocking - that the OED entry makes no reference to behaviour.

No dictionary is faultless. And one should always bear in mind that the etymology of a word is one thing, and the meaning quite another thing. If you found me sitting in a freezer, and shivering, you wouldn't stop to take my temperature before wrapping something around me. Let me repeat this...

dissimulators?

If I communicate effectively, then I'm happy. So what follows is for @zand, and others. Each and every day, I quite commonly have blood-glucose readings below 4mmol/l. Not at all uncommonly, I get readings around 2mmol/l. By and large, however (touch wood), I do not have hypos at all. It's...

As I wrote in my first sentence, what I'm particularly concerned about is communication - for which "clarity of expression is sometimes quite important". Nothing controversial there, I believe. Spelling and grammar aren't always crucial; but they can be. And spelling and grammar are just the...

I wonder what that "Needle used 6 times" was used for, exactly. If it was used by a normal diabetic to self-inject, then I can't imagine what my currently-in-use needles would look like under a microscope. However, I know full well what they'd FFEL like. So I'm not taken in by those pictures...

There are plenty here who seem not to have any problem at all being diabetic. I'm one of them. And I certainly wouldn't want anything attached to me either! - there'd be no advantage for me at all. You're in the right company here.