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All my bestest clothing for kite flying comes from charity shops. But in case you think i am a miser, i buy the books there and hand them back afterwards plus donate clothing from time to time. The local shop is run by Animal Welfare League, an organisation which places abandoned pets.

I recall those seasonal changes well. I used to imagine it sped up to movie speed accompanied by Wagner's 'Flight of the Valkyries's' sound track ( also used in opening of 'Apocolypse Now'). Swimming in a heated pool summer and winter seemed to slightly cancel out some of the differences in...

I struggled when working as a doctor, 1980 to 2014 with whether to tell patients i was diabetic. Mostly i did not mention it unless there were possible advantages in terms of gaining rapport with a patient or show that TID did not have to stop you fulfilling some dreams or that insulin was not...

Until you stop asking favours of friends to do testing of bits and pieces of you and find a diagnostician you can be honset with you are likely to be living in continued suspense. We cannot diagnose, just provide experience and support of a general nature (and as a collective they are vast...

Please send the talks and speakers over to Oz. The slow coaches here need a kick in the pants !,

Great in theory. But identifying who to yse the medication on and when are still challenges ahead. And hiw iften might it need to be used as a orevetive strategy. And coukd it have unintended side-effects?

Interesting but it is going to take time for anything definitive to be done and proven

Hi @DaisyChloe, Good questions! From my experience and reading, not as professional advice or opinion: Parts of our brain need glucose as the only fuel that will do. So it one's BSL drops too low for any reason our body has safety mechanisms in place to help defend these parts of our brain...

Hi there, you are not the first and will not be the last that this has happened to. Put it down to one of thise things, see if there are ways to prevent it in future. And if you look at Levemir's action on insulin, ( google pictures of Levemir profile) you can see the type of way it affects...

Oops! . Need to review that, don't you think?

Hi @Colin of Kent, you appear unscathed by your encounter with all things lipid, and that is wonderful! If you were to subscribe to zoeharcombe.com you woukd read that LDLcholesterol is a result caculated from other measurements such as HDL cholesterol. LDL cholesterol reads higher than...

Hi @Lily4708, From my reading and diabetes education, not as professional advice or opinion: one very important measure, of potentially like-threatening concern is whether your father has high ketones in his blood. If he is very low in insulin in his body he will start to break down fat and...

Hi @LindsayJane, as @Mbaker says your body is in a sort of transition so cholesterol levels are not in a steady state with which to make any of interpretation . If you wish to know the full truth about cholesterol and statins - i woukd suggest you subscribe to zoeharcombe.com. She is a Welsh...

Hi @Bassiette, Sorry to hear of your sleep troubles. As you might imagine the whole subject of thirst and making of urine involves a lot of body processes from the brain, hormones, digestion of food, uptake of water through to the 'plumbing' - kidneys, bladder etc. Just some thoughts, i agree...

Causes i have heard of : recent injection of B 12, liver problem leading to extra B12 being released from stores, lab error in the testing, large doses of B 12 by mouth. Also it can be associated with diseases of a number of body organs and the blood. Repeat blood testing and discussion with...

Hi there, Sorry to hear of your troubles. From a recent talk i attended hives tend to be caused by reaction to food, venom/toxins /insects and medications. As @Knikki and @urbanracer have said, insulin can be a cause, but sites like rxlust.com and drugs.com suggest it is very rare. Any new foods...

Carp ¡ nah, fulla bones !

You do have the option to not eat it !Just saying!

Oh, glad to have that cleared up! We all have typos happen ! It sounds like you need to be in close touch with your DSN to see whether there is a way to moderate the ups and downs ? Less carbs and more judicious use of long-acting insulin for example ? Just a thought. The thinking being if your...

The vety idea of glucose tablets tasting like chaulk is to stop one gobbling up too many, which can be a worry with sweeter tasting hypo remedies. In your initial post @SB.25 you mentioned ".... 1 or 2 hypos in what looked like " 44 months". Did you mean that or 4.4 months? Just that 44...