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Your TIR of 96% is absolutely BRILLIANT! I'm currently hitting the low 90s and have only once got above 95%. As far as diet goes you can eat more or less what you want though will of course have to balance carbs with insulin. You may find that you have to increase creon if you have a...

Hi @Rleady1357 and welcome. I'm in pretty much the same boat as you are. My pancreatitis diagnosis came largely by chance after a CT scan for another issue and after a bit of further investigation it turned out I've a calcified cyst on my pancreas. Now, the good thing about your and my...

This gives a fairly accurate picture of the relative carbs in various fruits. Note that although most berries fall towards the lower end of the graph, blueberries are quite high.

It's given me far, far better control of my blood glucose levels, and I don't need to worry so much about carbs so long as I balance the carbs with insulin. Also because I'm using a Libre monitor I no longer have to stab my fingers to test my blood glucose.

Just sit back and wait. Time will tell.

I'm not totally convinced that a clipped needle in household waste is safer than a needle confined in a needle cap, as one in a cap is pretty unlikely to stick in anyone unless they try really hard. I wouldn't fancy handling household waste with clipped needles in it.

I bought the Low Carb Diabetes Cook Book by By Dr David Cavan from Diabetes.co.uk (This site) about 5 years ago when I was low carbing and found it very useful. It cost £16.99 later reduced to about £15.00 but at present it appears to be out of stock. I've also now got a stack of low carb...

I’m very happy to have my annual review discussion by phone. It saves me time and also frees up a bit of time for the HCPs to ‘see’ more patients. And, importantly it reduces the risk of spreading infection in a clinical environment. Prior to the pandemic I attended a specialist diabetes clinic...

Never had a problem injecting, I do it discretely and my wife is usually in the seat next to me.

I use a plastic flip top chewing gum container for used needles when flying. I inject sitting in my seat.

I'm always a bit hesitant about signing up too, but this site seems to be very safe. I signed up a few months ago and have had no problems with spam etc. Here's a screen shot of a search I've just done for 'bread' it's showing only a fraction of the list that was produced. As far as regards...

The Food Databanks online database is an easily accessed and quickly searchable online resource. It is based on data extracted from PHE's McCance & Widdowsons's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (aka CoFID)which is about as comprehensive as can be found for data about the composition of...

I use the same pens, but have had no problems at all.

Doesn't seem to be much of a problem here in Tayside. I had an interim 6 month review in July and also had bloods taken for testing for another condition three weeks ago. I've a phone consulation with my endo' consultatnt at the end of this month.

When I had to finger prick, after a few weeks of recording results I developed a fairly good idea as to how various foods and exercise impacted my BGL so I reduced stabbing my digits and would test for just one meal per day and alternated breakfast, lunch and evening meal over a 3 day period. As...

I suspect your carb counting may be a bit off, but much depends on how sensitive you are to carbs as some folk can tolerate more than others. Your lunch-time figure of 8.6 would delight me, but your early morning numbers would not, for me at least, be ideal ,and I' like you would want to reduce...

Your story does sound very like my own; after initial diagnosis as T2 I adopeted a low carb diet and was put on a daily sulponylurea and this worked well for a while and I nudged into remission. However eventually my levels started rising again and it was decided that my pancreas had gone on...

Porridge, in any shape or form , is high in carbs and probably best avoided by anyone trying to manage diabetes largely by diet. I’m labelled as T2 (might be T3C) but am now insulin controlled. My usual breakfast is a serving of instant porridge made with milk and it is 35g CHO and this takes...

You really need to get your basal insulin dose sorted out and not keep adjusting it day by day. I adjust mine occasionally based on any overnight lows I encounter. But when I do make any adjustments I wait for a few days to assess the results. Recently I increased my basal to 14 units as I...

I was prescribed gliclazide on initial diagnosis and it combined with a low carb diet and exercise did certainly reduce my HbA1c levels for a while. However eventually my HbA1c started to rise quite rapidly and my GP referred me to secondary care and the diabetes clinic where I was prescribed...