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In answer to a couple of posts, Coca Cola use Stevia in Japan because they can. And have done for guess how long - forty years. Think about that - where they can, they do not use aspartame. Stevia simply isn't licenced for use in this country or the US for drinks. Why would that be...? What a...

Hi Louise, I got diagnosed in March so we're practically twins (plus we almost have the same name) and my last two proper hypos were, I reckon, brought on by going walking too soon after injecting + eating. I read here somewhere that some people stop processing food if they start exercising too...

Oh my God I'm sorry derailleurs, I shouldn't laugh, but that was funny! Only once so far have I had anything like that, I was in a taxi in the dark and saw a shadowy 20ft tall man jump across the road with a single step. I thought that was a bit odd and when I really thought about it, I realised...

Depends how low - I had to learn the whole list of symptoms from wikipedia because if I was going between 3-4 I was getting all kinds of random ones, including suddenly crying, sudden hunger, being confused etc. The lowest ones produced the whole thing, waking up hot, getting hotter... take...

Well, that’ll teach me to attempt communication with blood sugars at 14. I swear I didn’t know until I went to bed. Those digestives had been looking at me for hours and that’s my only defence. Anyway, I would like to say thank you very much to the two people who have been so kind as to offer...

Can I *please* say something. Diabetes.co.uk felt it necessary to email all members announcing there had been such a hoo-ha over all this that it now has its own space on this site. So what is this thread doing here. Please, please, to the people who just can't let it go, and you are almost all...

That was explained to me too, but the reason was a bit hideous - cos if I go blind, I'll need the pads of my fingers to read braille and you can't read braille with callouses on your fingertips. Great. But, ultimately, sensible and useful advice......

To all the tired people out there, I had a big review last week, 7 months after diagnosis, and explained I'm always tired and can't do anything cos it knackers me out for ages, got short term memory issues, have to have a siesta at weekends, talk gobbledegook when tired etc which is all very...

I started getting cysts in my breasts at the same time as T1 was coming on slowly in the background, on the day I was diagnosed I coincidentally had another appt at the breast unit so I was running round the hospital all day dragging my new blood sugar monitor with me, up to diabetes, down to...

Thank you for this Trinkwasser! When I have time at the weekend I'll have a dig around - I also have a microbiologist friend coming round on Sunday so we can look together. Thanks again, it all makes sense of course - especially cos it's now happened twice..! Not a coincidence, methinks -...

To Gigi, I can't say anything positive because I feel the same way as you. But maybe that's exactly what both of us need to hear - there are others who feel the same way, we're not alone and we're not wrong to feel this way, and it's normal. Well actually ok I can say something positive. I know...

I took Seroxat when I was still undiagnosed and spent a week feeling like I had permanent morning sickness so had to drop it. It made me feel so bad that I'd rather stick needles in my eyes than try it again! Yet, I took it once for 2yrs with no problems. Mind you, the real problem was an...

Yeeees, I am planning what to say at my sometime-in-the-future appointment as we speak....!! Don't know whether to go in with v low sugars and be an idiot at him and force him to sort me out whilst I scream "jelly babies!" at the top of my voice, or eat loads of chocolate beforehand and show him...

Last week found research that confirms the higher the hba1c, the higher the chance of depression - hba1c of around 11% = 44% chance of depression. Each small increase in hba1c led to a much higher chance of depression. I was depressed before I was diagnosed (coincidentally, got savagely...

Yeah I met him in January at my local GP's surgery, he said there was "nothing wrong" with me, got diagnosed by someone else in March, had an hba1c of 12.8% so there you go. It transpires he is in fact the diabetes specialist doctor at my GP practice!! :shock: One day, I'll make an...

P.S. at least my hormones are under control even if nothing else is!!!

Hi Dennis, I'll be going on the DAFNE course in about a year apparently, and I know two people who've been on it and have only good things to say about it, so I'm looking forward to it. I'm also now in the honeymoon period so am treating myself to a few things here and there :-D My Novorapid...

Hi Hollie I work strange hours and sometimes need to get to sleep at difficult times when I'm not really sleepy. I bought a kind of hyponosis CD called Deep Sleep Every Night and although it didn't seem to work for the first week, in the end, bit by bit it worked so well that as soon as I hear...

Hi Herby I was diagnosed on 10 March, very recently, so I hope what I have to say can help. My biggest little surprise has been the "honeymoon period". Your pancreas can decide that it's had a lovely holiday now that you've been injecting insulin for a bit, and to thank you, it can suddenly...