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Hi Kevin and thank you so much! It's good to know someone can relate. I have that same thing with the blankets over my feet.. almost unbearble, but it's also winter here, and my feet are freezing cold most of the time, despite 2 pairs of thick socks, and yet I still end up having to keep my...

Is there anyone who has improved either/both of these conditions as their BG management improves? It's driving me crazy right now. I'm averaging 3-4 hours of sleep and I've resorted to taking a couple of valium a couple of nights just to get those few precious hours. I used to take very high...

My "joke" answer is that I can't afford a personal chef like Oprah :( My real struggle is with denial and acceptance ( I still have this mindset that once I get this under control, life can go back to normal). I really hate that this is the new normal. I hope that my attitude improves. I feel...

I'm thinking that means a diet like the weight watchers type thing.. having x points a day to spend on the various food groups, where you can swap around what you have in each of the groups based on their point value. eg: 1 point = half a muffin or 1 slice of bread or 37.5g of steel cut oats...

The dietician I saw explained low GI quite well by using standard ice cream as an example of low GI - in that, anything with fat slows down digestion and delays but doesn't prevent the blood being flooded with glucose. So even white bread smothered in butter and jam would be low GI, right...

Wow.. really interesting discussion. I feel like putting on my tin foil hat and suggesting they're intentionally keeping us sick, but not sick enough to kill us, for as long as possible - because: profit. There's no law anywhere that says medical people have to care.. they can be just making a...

I just wanted to write to say you need to do what you're doing. Reach out and write about what you're feeling. You know that there are heaps of people reading what you've written and thinking "me too" right now, which is actually doing something to help those people too. So feel good about...

Wow, that recipe sounds delicious!

I have been getting crazy itchiness on various parts of my body for the last few weeks. Always at night, after I go to bed. I'm in danger of scratching myself to shreds. The back of my head, the lower abdominal area, my calves, lower back... and more randomly, nowhere is off limits.. soles of...

I'm Australian too.. Ladybird is similar to our "little golden" books. Ladybirds were the ones about **** and Jane. I suppose I'm showing my vintage now! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. My diabetes educator said that you're basically starving as a diabetic with tonnes of sugar in your...

I would feel uncomfortable giving or getting advice about meds on a forum, even this forum, with it's very well informed and educated members. However, I will say that I had an appointment yesterday with my diabetes educator, and showed her my impressive graph which shows how far down my...

Gosh, how do we trust them when they don't even understand the reason for testing? The whole point of testing, I would have thought, especially in the beginning, is to see how your body reacts to the various foods you put into it. That means you absolutely have to test after you eat. I was...

Yay.. you're so definitely on the right track! I don't know if they have twiggy sticks there.. they're like little skinny spicy salami pieces. You can't eat too many because of the heat.. but they really help with hunger issues, and are quite delicious. I think they'd go very nicely with...

I made myself a carb modified satay chicken and it was delicious, but how I missed the rice! So tonight I tried zoodles for the very first time! Zoodles are spiralised zucchinis. 2 minutes in the microwave and I nearly can't believe it's not PASTA! ZOMG... exciting times ahead! (2.1 g net...

I did read somewhere recently which suggested that you get an urge for sweet things when you're an undiagnosed diabetic as a "pick me up" for the exhaustion brought about by the hyperglycaemia. Makes sense that if your BGs are higher than normal and that's a recent change, that you'd start to...

I think that's really poor advice, from your nurse, when she told you not to test after lunch. Great way to get your numbers looking artificially great, but it's a bit of a "head in the sand" approach - unless I'm missing something? One thing I'm learning very quickly is to keep a healthy...

Only a few weeks before I was diagnosed with diabetes with 2 pathology lab tests a day apart for fasting BG coming in at 19 and 20, I visited my optometrist for my regular annual review, but I actually made this appointment because my vision was so blurred for reading and to some extent for...

My first eureka moment was realising my previous attempts at low carb were foiled by eating too much protein. My second was realising that statins were linked to high BG readings and type 2 diabetes diagnosis... and that's just in a couple of weeks of reading the forum and then following links...

When you say it has a cumulative effect, how long would you suggest it takes to be doing it's job?

Sadly, I already wear super strong multi focals and have a special pair of computer glasses I had made just before my diagnosis - apparently they'll be useless once my vision improves, so I have a bit of a fight coming up with the optometrist, who should have asked me a few questions because my...