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I AM a Type 2, on insulin.

I have recently been changed from Levemir and Apidra to Humulin. I have found it very difficult to control my BG levels on Humulin and e-mailed my DN, who said we would discuss this at our next appointment at the end of June. However, I have just tested by blood, and it was 26.4. For lunch I...

Thank you so much for this. I will do my best and follow your lead!!

Thank you LGuk. This DN is new, and I felt she jut anted to make her mark. I e-mailed her to say that my BG levels were all over the place with the Humulin and I was stunned to get her reply that she felt I was on the wrong insulin, and we would talk about a different regime when we met at the...

Cherry, I am in awe of you. How on earth do you manage to work out all these figures? How do you manage to do this around work, a social life, holidays, unforseen events, eating out, going to friends for dinner, just generally being human and all the foibles that go with that?

Connie, I was prescribed all those pain drugs over a period of abut 8 years, and it was only last year I realised that it a those drugs that were responsible for an anxiety disorder that was ruining my life. I stopped taking them, and the withdrawals were horrendous - I thought my husband was...

Thank you so much Freema. I am so sorry though for you and your poor mother, I have nothing like that. x

Hi Indy51, just read an article on DPN cocktail, very interesting. I did try ALA for a few weeks, but gave up as it did nothing (on its own) and it was expensive. I am seeing my GP Monday, so will take the recommended article with me. Right now I have smothered my feet in Perskindol and wrapped...

Thank you Daibell. Firstly, in our surgery the GP will not deal with diabetes, they leave it to the specialist DN, and I cannot see her again until the end of June. She is new, and she changed everything when I saw her for the first time. She is the only DN in a 50 mile radius, so is always...

It's 3.45 a.m. and for around the fifth time tonight I have been woken by the neuropathy pains in my feet. I am at my wits end. The pain varies, always worse at night, but tonight it is almost unbearable, like someone smashing my toes every couple of minutes. Ordinary pain meds don't help, and...

Can anyone point me to a formula, or a guide that explains how to keep your BG levels even and low?

No processed food, no potatoes, pasta, rice, bread or sugar, 90% of the time.

Levemir at night, and Apidra before a high carb meal (so not often).

Hi all. I have been a T2 for around 10 years. I take Metformin and insulin. My DN recently changed me to Humulin M3. Despite following a mostly low carb diet and getting regular exercise, my BG levels are all over the place. My fasting blood sugar was 9.8 this morning. I wasn't hungry and didn't...

I hate this freakin' disease. I am now around 13 years a T2. For many years I was in denial. I now follow a low carb diet, and try to exercise and have a healthy lifestyle. My DN has changed my insulin, and I now have to take it before breakfast and before dinner, which is fine if my schedule...

Excellent. That is my aim. I HATE injecting myself, and it's getting worse.

Just back from the doctor for the result of my HbA1C blood test, which was done just after I had started the Blood Sugar diet, therefore based on my WOE before, which was out of control. My HbA1C was 107 .... . If anything has hardened my resolve to stick to this new WOE, this has done it. In...

Saw my DN this week, she told me that they may discontinue Levemir as it has been found that it does not last the 24 hours it states it does. Anyone else heard this, and any idea what could replace it?

I was told years ago that the pains in my feet was PN (but this was based just on my symptoms). However, I had a check up yesterday with the DN, who checked my feet, and there was no numbness. But I am in constant discomfort with them, it is as if the skin is stretched far too tight, and as if...

Reading all your responses makes me so despondent for diabetics. In the UK they believe there are possibly 4 million with diabetes, and maybe 1 million are undiagnosed. This is costing the health service billions. So surely it is in the interests of the medical profession to get as informed as...