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I reaaaaaaaaaally don't think that's how peer review works.

That's essentially what Metformin does.

I'd double check what you were given at the hospital - it wouldn't be unusual to be given IV glucose, which will require more IV insulin to cover.

What about physical activity?

Yes, you are correct in that the action of lantus/levemir/NPH can be replicated with quick acting insulin - that's what insulin pumps are doing. In your particular case, if you stopped taking Lantus you'd expect your morning fasting sugars to rise a lot as there wouldn't be much insulin active...

I tend to use glucotabs, as I've never seen sachets of honey being sold in any shops.

Meh, program could have been cut by half if they had cut the completely unnecessary investigation into how red meats may be bad for you (if eating loads of bacon every day kills you faster, then you don't need to know if it's the fat or the EAHs or some other obscure chemical - you just need to...

Doesn't apply - much like you do not have to let me in your house to tell your children about the evils of organized religion, diabetes.co.uk doesn't have to let people use its facilities in ways violating the rules of the board.

I think you are confusing cereal with (breakfast) cereal

What do you do with the jar when it's full?

When you scan the sensor you'd also get 8hs worth of data, which means you'd be able to see any trends - if the BG has been stable for the last few hours then I don't think you'd really have to do a finger prick test on the off-chance that it randomly plummeted in the last 20min so I'd imagine...

Yes, but the description says that the sensor stores and transmits 8hs worth of data whenever you scan it with the meter, which means that you could get a whole day's coverage by scanning the sensor every 8h - are you saying that this is incorrect? From Abbot's homepage: "With every scan you get...

As demonstrated by their current-gen CGM, which is £1000 for the device and £300 a month in sensors?

Unlikely - CGMs don't, and this looks very similar (smaller sensor, and lower battery drain by having much shorter range thus requiring you to place the meter over the sensor). Abbot still gets paid regardless of whether you buy the device privately or the NHS pays for it, but obviously they...

Because the manufacturers do not make any medical claims - it's simply a range of products aimed at diabetics with the intent of making money. If you wanted to ban every food that doesn't cure diabetes all our supermarkets would end up bankrupt. Why? No one ever claimed that this product has...

Well, I got mine from the consultant at the hospital, at her suggestion (I'm fairly ambivalent towards "wizards" - if you can't do it without the help of wizard, IMHO you shouldn't be using one... which means that I don't really need the wizard...); I don't know if you can get them from other...

If the danger of infection outweighed the benefits from having the procedure done then the GP would not have recommended the procedure. Contrary to the common opinion on these boards, doctors are not hacks who randomly cut off bits or inject you with untested drugs at random.

Not sure how useful that is combined with a cgm, but the accu chek Aviva expert has a dose advisor which includes bolus-on-board.

More accurately, he started with abnormally low cholesterol which couldn't be achieved without using drugs, to normal cholesterol at the end of month...

By that same logic you should be willing to stand in the middle of a motorway because there is a chance you might not get killed. Yes, it's all about chance and that's why we need statistics in the first place: The group of people given a treatment have fewer deaths or whatever, mening that the...