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In my experience, the wine I have with my dinners which is about once a week actually lowers my blood glucose after a few minutes and this eliminates the need to take insulin with dinner, or rather it uses the long acting insulin (Lantus) to lower it, where the wine is relatively dry and it's...

I don't know about beer, but I do know that in my experience very dry wine to medium dry lowers my blood sugar alot, where medium sweet would raise it a bit or more. The only situation was at a party where I had about half a small bottle of wine which was really dry and had a load of food with...

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My finger pricker just stopped working since the lancet keeps getting stuck on where its meant to prick you through. I don't know what alternative I have to drawing some blood to identify my blood glucose, where I try to manually prick myself with the lancet needle, but it's not even close to...

Not sure if I have mentioned this but, quite a few times recently I have found that (for me) my blood sugars do not change after eating 150g of carbohydrates from a bag of dried fruit (includes banana, peach, apricot, raisins, pineapple) or a 40g worth of fruit salad in a pot. Could this be...

The way I calculate my insulin I calculated that: 1 unit of NovoRapid will lower my blood sugar by 2 20 grams of carbohydrates will need 1 unit as 40g will need 2 units. This is the method I follow, but it may be different from other insulin types.

Wine and spirits seem to make my blood sugars drop sharply, where I find it good to eat alot during that time. The thing that makes me wonder is why I can eat so much dried fruit, since in the past I had 2 bags of them (not at once) each bag containing 160g of carbohydrate. I ate a whole bag...

Recently, I had so many things that have really annoyed me especially through the winter where it has become increasingly cold and illnesses have been floating around. The main purpose of this post is I have been getting throat problems, which could be linked to diabetes or not and thats what I...

Thanks for the reply, in the coming winter months and quite recently I have come down with quite a cold and cough and this may be the cause since just now my blood sugar levels are gradually decreasing and I am becoming less tired from the effects of high blood sugar. My nutritionist told me...

I was just wondering if I am starting to ease my way out of the 'honeymoon period' because today at breakfast my blood sugar was 9.4 mmol/l and had a milkshake to accomodate that when I thought I was excessively exercising by walking up stairs and a couple of miles that would bring the sugars...

I have been managing insulin and my carbohydrate intake well, but I am always thinking if I am getting too high on my blood sugars after let's say around 3 hours after lunch or tea. Here is what my typical day is: - I either have breakfast or lunch first depending on the time of day I wake up...

I don't know why I haven't made an introduction sooner since I have had an easy time managing my insulin intake etc. At the end of May starting my half term break from college, I started feeling sick when drinking so much sugary drinks, large packs of jelly sweets and felt that I could put up...