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GPs prescribe sharps bins, and I guess you can buy them without a prescription from pharmacies. Disposal varies; in some places the council collects the, in others you have to return them to pharmacies, etc.

Firstly, you completely fail to understand the idea of evidence based medicine - I don't care how persuasive your argument for why testing should work is, and that's all this is. Secondly, the answer to 5. is in fact no (it's well known that e.g. Diabetics produce much more glucose in their...

Glucotabs come in more convenient packaging (cardboard tubes vs wrapped in foil) so I pick those.

There are essentially none - Metformin is first line treatment because it helps with insulin resistance without major side effects, but if that's not enough then a cocktail of drugs is added to increase insulin production, up to insulin injections. Those drugs work the same way, and will have...

I've heard from a friend that the Accu Chek Mobile is not available in the USA; this would seem to be corroborated by the their US site not mentioning the device, and Amazon.com not selling it. Sorry.

If you think the lottery is a good way of getting money for any project then it's no surprise you don't understand the intricacies of which drugs and defies the NHS funds. The companies that have developed the CGMs have a strong interest in everyone using them, so all you'd need to do them with...

I really doubt that the multivitamins will do anything of the sort (for a start, they'd require a warning that they cause hypos). The claim sounds like they are trying to get by the FDA (which means they can't make any specific medical claims without evidence, but stuff like "promotes wellness"...

And normal meters aren't? Get a 2nd meter, test 30min before every "on the record" test and treat hypos if necessary - you now have a perfect record that shows that you never have any hypos

PLEASE tell me this is a joke?

I can't explain why eating a lump of pure butter makes me nauseous, but it does. Putting it into coffee won't help.

If you want to use lucozade, make sure to use orignal which is the only flavor made with glucose syrup. To have a look at this http://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/Downloads/services/bhrut-pathology-glucose-tolerance-test-cp171001-0212.pdf No it won't - the amount of glucose involved is no more...

Obviously it has the potential to work, but on the other hand a lot of stuff that works in rats doesn't work in humans (92% don't pass human trials according to the FDA)... So all that's left to do is to wait for human trials.

The purpose of having carbs for exercise is to counter exercise increasing the effectiveness of insulin in your blood stream (a healthy person will reduce insulin released during exercise but we are stuck with whatever basal appropriate for mostly sedentary activity we injected the previous...

Sorry, but dead-in-bed syndrome is hardly unheard of. We now have some theories as to what might be causing it thanks to the increasing prevalence of CGMs, but we still don't really know what causes it and thus don't know how to prevent it. If there's nothing we can do about it, I would try to...

Re vid: Well, if the goal is to make me lose weight by making me too nauseous to eat anything then it might work.

Could I suggest that you pick a different title for your threads? Calling all of them "happygirl1949" makes it harder for people who know about your problem to notice the threads.

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Sanofi makes the Clickstar pen, but others may work with the cartridges as well

Your best bet is probably to test your BG more frequently during exercise until you get a better idea of how much carbs you need to keep it steady (you don't need to be > 10 to exercise - you merely need to counter the fall in Bg due to exercise). As for reducing insulin, I'd imagine it would...

Yes, the "BG up = carbs eaten" is a ridiculously oversimplified lie-to-children which falls apart all the time. Simply put, hormones (e.g. released in response to stress, exercise, illness) have a massive impact on BG but this is a little known fact (e.g. cortisone injections can induce...