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If your current reading will be unrepresentatively high, that just means your next hba1c after that will look even more impressively low (once you get BGs under control you never manage as steep a drop again, so give yourself a chance to enjoy it). They won't tick you off if your BG diary is...

Re: How many forum posters does it take to change a light bu I'm going to keep bumping this till everyone has read it... :D

Never mind. Get back on as fast as you can, and leave this thread well alone! :)

Re: How many forum posters does it take to change a light bu You forgot the post about getting a fitted kitchen instead.... :lol:

Well done! You are now allowed to feel smug! :D

Hi Anita -- there is a forum section for 1.5/LADA and I suggest that you re-post there. There are plenty of people who are in your position who should be able to give you support and advice. To other posters: WHY give advice to someone diagnosed as 1.5 when you admit that you don't know what it...

But Lynn that is the point -- it IS killing you. Until you get the diet sorted out, the exercise, meds is not going to fix it. Diabetes is nature's way of telling you that you have to act NOW.

Re: Have you ever had mental health issues related to diabet Thanks Giverny! It might still have been interesting to know which percentage of correspondents had not had mental problems related to diabetes, but never mind.

We've all been there :wink: All I can say is that you will feel so proud of yourself if you can resist. Good luck!

Try a shower instead? :D

Even if you don't tell anyone, your pancreas will find out -- he always does - and then he'll go and tell your retina, and your toes, and your kidneys. Try to be strong - it is SO easy for occasional indulgence to become a habit... :roll:

Oh **** **** ****. I wish I hadn't read this.... There goes another bit of pre-diagnosis life...

Sorry StephenH -- re-reading I can see that the first sentence might have looked like it was criticizing you, which certainly wasn't my intention at all.

Re: Have you ever had mental health issues related to diabet How on earth can you have a poll with the question 'have you ever had...?' when there is no option for 'no'?? This is absurd. 'If you have ever had mental health issues relating to diabetes, what were they?', perhaps?

Conspiracy theories are a lazy and frequently foolish way of avoiding the effort of trying to understand why things happen. The trouble is that sweeping accusations of conspiracies in NHS, NICE etc can distract attention from the scandalous and well-documented systemic flaws in the way that the...

This case was resolved perfectly amicably. There is no point in taking offence (as a diabetic or for any other reason) unless offence has been deliberately given. Like most diabetics, I am the regular recipient of ill-informed comments -- sometimes I try to correct them, sometimes I don't...

I think you're exactly right to go for a quiet word first. It gives her the chance to apologize without losing face, and if the main aim is to make sure that she learns not to do it again then everyone is a winner. Formal complaints should ideally be the final resort, and always cause more...

Oh goody -- if the NHS wants us to have access to reliable information, and support to use it, that will enable us to participate fully in our own healthcare decisions, and will support us in making choices, that must mean that they will be happy to give all T2s meters and test strips, doesn't...

Thanks mo -- I'm very keen on the bottled stuff. Trouble is, most fruit (incl. grapes) spikes me, especially in the morning, so I stick to berries..

I'm just off to Rome for a week, and am wondering what I'm going to do about breakfast. I usually have berries and yoghurt and a bit of granola -- I assume there isn't going to be much chance of getting this in cafes and restaurants. Does anyone have any recommendations? One friends tells me...