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When it comes to communication, clarity of expression is sometimes quite important. Everyone has their own way of writing, of course. And I don't like to be picky. But it's difficult not to notice some questionable spelling on some of the headings of the threads published on this forum. And I...

I thank heaven I don't have to deal with all that.

I didn't say I don't eat in the evening - I just tend to eat less as the evening progresses. I don't eat a substantial evening meal. Rather, I eat a moderately substantial early evening meal - always before 7pm. And I'm sure that's a significant part of the explanation as to why I need so...

You're very welcome, Pamzy2.

Hi diabeticdancer, I can't say I know what you were eating in the hours before your appointment with the dietician. But I believe I know what you WEREN'T eating: you hadn't eaten any rye bread. I judge this from your description of the hypo: it sound like it was a rapid descent. The reading...

It's a piece of cake. And coincidentally, I am just munching some. I'm sorry, I forgot about your 4 year old. Small children need a varied diet, I know. But I hope she'll get a taste for rye bread. Together with fairly frequent testing, it's what keeps me safe.

I eat quite a lot of carbohydrate: I certainly always eat 220g of rye bread each day. (This tends to stabilise my blood sugar, and it helps me to avoid hypos.) My past few HbA1c readings have been 27mmol/l. (I've been diabetic 31 years.) And that's a normal reading for a non-diabetic. I...

Well, fine. If you need to test using a meter on those particular occasions, then that's the thing to do. But clearly, that doesn't rule out testing MORE OFTEN than just on those particular occasions.

Meters are acceptable for the legalities surrounding driving. I use a meter too.

I am in effect a continuous blood-glucose monitor myself. But mostly I use visually read strips, because they're a lot simpler and far cheaper than using a meter - http://www.betachek.com/uk/ The cost per test is a fraction of that using a meter. (I mostly use my meter only first thing in the...

For safety's sake, I go to bed with the absolute bare minimum of insulin operating within me. This means I take a bare minimum of slow-acting insulin (last thing at night). And I never eat a substantial evening meal. (The last fast-acting insulin I take is at 4.00pm.) But otherwise, I barely...

I haven't felt shaky or sweaty with low blood sugar for 30 years. The main symptom for me is anxiousness and difficulty thinking, or reading and suchlike. With a certain light, my vision too will be affected. I find it's the fast drops that are most dangerous by far. And I know these would...

Amongst other things, it depends on what you tend to eat, and on the way you eat. If I mostly ate white bread and potatoes and stuff - or even wholemeal wheat bread and potatoes - there'd be no chance of me safely achieving a non-diabetic normal HbA1c reading.

Hi, I'm small and skinny. And my weight stays absolutely stable because I always take the same insulin (always at the same time, too) and I cover that insulin with what I eat. That's the reverse of the way you'll have been instructed, in which one has to try to anticipate what one will eat...

Nobody mentions diet and eating habits. If you have a normal Western diet and eating habits (breakfast, lunch and evening meal), then a near-normal HbA1c could not - in my opinion - be safely achieved. My past few HbA1c readings have been 27mmol/l, which is normal for a non-diabetic. I manage...

The only repetitive bit is that I eat around 220g of rye bread per day. (I don't eat any after 4.00pm, or my blood sugar would rise in the evening and overnight.) This is quite repetitive too: I almost always eat it with Biona Pear & Apple Spread! I eat other stuff too. Indeed I eat very well...

I eat around 220g of rye bread per day. This helps me to safely keep my blood sugar near normal, all the time. I'm very slim, and always have been. But if I wanted to put on weight, then I'd simply take more insulin, and I'd eat more of everything!

I don't even need to 'count carbs'. (I wouldn't have a clue how to do that, either.) I almost always take exactly the same insulin, and I test my blood sugar quite a lot - around once per waking hour, on average. (I mostly use visually read strips, rather than a meter.) I have never had a...

My blood sugar is unusually well controlled. And 8mmol/l isn't very high. You can get away with such readings for a very, very long time. But rather than think in terms of acceptable/unacceptable blood-sugar readings, if I were you I would concentrate on the art of control. And for that, in...

I count anything over 6mmol/l as high. My blood sugar is near normal most of the time. I manage this safely due to the food/insulin regimen I follow. And I test my blood sugar quite a lot - mostly using visually read strips, rather than a meter.