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If you want any help and guidance shout out on the low carb section on here or PM me. Lots of recipes online, cauli rice is lovely for instance.

I care for both my parents and work part time, life is uber stressful pretty much all of the time. Low carbing enables you to have less room for error with dosing and also lower doses in general. The result is that you don't get the rollercoaster ride you would on a normal level of carbs. If...

Plus I belong to several LC FB groups most of whom are overseas. They mostly have pumps and cgms and you can see the lines are smooth day in day out. My hypo awareness is totally intact thus far.

Because you test regularly. I test on waking, before driving, injecting etc etc and as soon as you get any symptoms of a low you test. Hence I have caught any hypos around 3.9. I put my results into On Track software on my phone and my A1C tallies up with the results on there so I pretty much...

A lot of people with sub 6 A1Cs are doing it via low carbing, you don't get the highs and the lows, if you have a cgm or Libre on you can see how little eating a meal affects your levels. My A1C is 6.1 and should be in the 5s when tested next week if my software is correct. Very few hypos...

And it is dirt cheap...... it is actually proven to only lower BGs by a very small amount but it has a lot of benefits IF you can tolerate it aside from BG lowering. However too many people are left to suffer the side effects in silence and if it doesn't work for you, speak up!! High BG levels...

It is your life and your illnesses. If you want to try diet control then tell them that, they cannot force you to take any medication, it is as simple as that. All they do is record that on your notes....... go on, empower yourself and go in there and tell them what YOU want to do given your...

Some of us just don't tolerate it, end of. No matter what version, it goes straight through, I am one of those people. There are lots of alternatives but metformin is dirt cheap so the first line of defence....... get it changed to something else. Ali

Blimey you are in a pickle, what a nightmare for you. I hope you start to get your CCG to see some sense and soon! The diet somebody recommended above is MORE carbs than you are already eating so definitely not the way to go but you know that. Sometimes if you go into ketosis it can worsen...

Looked it up and you get 30% quick acting and 70% slow acting with your insulin. So the quick acting is not sufficient to cover the carbs/sugar in your meal in other words. It might be worth talking to your GP about the alternatives or a mix that is 50/50 perhaps. Basal/bolus will give you...

Nope I use basal bolus which is 2 injections of long acting and 3 of short actings alongside low carbing. I think your insulin is a mixed insulin, is that right? Does it contain some short and some long acting insulin? It doesn't give you much control and if you are eating a high carb diet...

I would refuse to deal with a DNS who doesn't even know the basics as clearly defined by the DVLA and Government quite frankly. How dangerous to issue such advice to an insulin user! This test strip nonsense is all about cost savings and not what is legally and morally required. Sheeesh. Ali

Group 1 entitlement ODL – car, motorcycle Must satisfy the following criteria: must have adequate awareness of hypoglycaemia must not have had more than one episode of hypoglycaemia requiring the assistance of another person in the preceding twelve months there should be appropriate blood...

I only eat half a one at a time and I bolus for the 5 carbs on normal ratios, no problemo. If you want a home made low carb option, google swedish buns. You will need a few odd ingredients but other than the Lidl rolls they are about the most palatable I have found. I think there is also...

I have had a weight problem all my life but I started on basal/bolus a year ago and haven't gained any weight. I essentially follow Richard Bernstein's way of eating, 30 grams of carbs a day, being low carb moderate fat and protein, and it works brilliantly. If you follow standard NHS advice...

Yes that is the correct avenue Scardoc, because IFAs are whole of market they are able to use avenues that tied reps can't. It is not impossible to get unless your control is horrendous of course, but you do need to get specialist advice. Ali

There are a whole ton of low carb recipes online. For starters look up fathead pizza, really nice and minimal carbs. Not difficult to make either. Ali

If you take insulin though your 3.5 ton plus entitlement will have been removed, so if you tow a large caravan you may be towing over the maximum gross vehicle weight allowed. Ali

Um, pretty much what I said lol and whilst I am not currently authorised, I WAS an IFA for some years so at the sharp end of it all, have filled in some health questionnaires in my time I can tell you. Ali

Meters have a tolerance, strips have a tolerance, add them both together and it is not unusual to be a good percentage different to a lab result apparently. Hey ho, strips are far from a perfect solution but in the absence of a mobile lab about the best we can do. Ali