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This doesn’t really help you answer this conundrum because we are all individuals but for what it’s worth, for me, eating something late in the evening no more affects my levels “throughout the night” than eating something in the morning affects my levels “throughout the day”. If it’s something...

I would second the use of both a pressure cooker and an air fryer. Of course if you don’t own these things then there’s the one off investment of buying them that has to be taken into account! I almost never use my oven.

This would make sense as I’m pretty certain that you *shouldn’t* use boiling water for coffee (unlike tea) - I can’t remember the perfect temp you’re meant to use (not a coffee drinker) but it’s something like 95°? The figure might be wrong. But anyway, a barista told me that water at 100°...

There’s nothing wrong with a flat arrow. It just means that your blood glucose is currently stable at that level, whatever that level is. So just think of the arrows as saying “it’s rising….it’s dropping…..it’s stable”.

Apologies if this has been posted already but this is a really encouraging (although small) study where medical students at Harvard were given CGMs to wear and are reported as saying that it has radically changed their views of nutrition education, particularly the emphasis on carbs in the...

Type 2 Libre user - I’ve just checked on the app, and it says I scan 25 times per day (averaged over the last 90 days). If I was finger prick testing, I would probably only do it these days after a “new” meal probably at 2 hours and then again at 3 hours if it hadn’t returned to baseline at two.

How much does it cost?

Are you on any medication rosemary? Maybe it needs tweaking if so? I do sympathise about being down about high numbers: I’ve had some oddly high numbers this week, and I know exactly what you mean. I think stress can definitely make things worse BG wise, and if it’s upsetting you enough to...

Back when I was first DX Type 2 thirst was definitely a major symptom for me - I was thirsty ALL the time. My HbA1C wasn’t super super high (I think it was 52 at diagnosis) but obviously high enough to cause thirst symptoms. Also, feeling tired, groggy and out of sorts. That’s definitely only...

It certainly does sound like she has some dodgy things about her, but *please* don’t use the fact that she was a former barmaid and dinner lady against her. We need more MPs who have the backgrounds of normal working people. Being a dinner lady is nothing to be ashamed of.

Ooh interesting that you can get away with baked beans, I’d written them off, I must try! That looks a great breakfast although for me, the bacon is not crispy enough :)

Hi! Of course you can participate here, we have people from all over, including New Zealand and Australia, even further away! I can’t answer your question about ring finger I’m afraid except to say, I really don’t think you have to use your ring finger if you don’t want to. I think people...

Awww Rosemary {{{{hugs}}}} - but 7.8 isn’t TOO bad, is it? Not for a first thing in the morning reading? Yesterday is gone; no, 10.5 isn’t great, but you clearly didn’t stay that way all night, and today is a new day, and your FBG was lower than the day before.

Good luck with your tribunal! Push heavily on the No hypo awareness with repeated hypos - that has very good scope for points, particularly for mobility (potentially 11f, enhanced rate mobility), but also even supervision for cooking and for bathing.

Fwiw the number of points you score for 3a(I) (“needing an aid or device to manage medication) is only 1. It’s basically irrelevant in the scheme of things as you need 8 points for an award of standard daily living, and most of the points come in two’s. So unless you score one of the rare threes...

We were there on 28/4, for my husbands birthday! Not a flicker of a rise on Libre, I think rodizio is a really good restaurant meal for me. I even had a scoop of ice cream :)

Fazenda?

I’ve lost about 25kg/50lb. I’d still like to lose another 10kg/20lb or so. No at just over 12 stone you’re definitely not that fat! Unless you’re very tiny lol.

My reply: It doesn’t work that way as in “lowering your blood sugar when you take a tablet”. There are drugs that do that: gliclazide springs to mind - it makes the pancreas produce insulin. Or insulin itself, of course. Metformin works on your longer term glucose metabolism, to reduce the...

No I definitely don’t think there’s ANY reason to be concerned about that. And eating more, or eating more carbs, is absolutely not what you should take from this: you WANT your blood sugar lower! And remember you’re NOT supposed to have a spike 2 hours after eating, you’re supposed to be back...