Search Results

My nurse has told me the heat will make your body process any glucose in your system quicker. For me it raises my blood glucose by a quite a bit. I am struggling today and have had to take 2 extra insulin injections. I wonder if the people who have hypos process their food quicker and then as...

Try putting Greek yogurt and berries into lolly moulds in the freezer. Also I find sugar free jelly very refreshing

No problem, I too have learnt from experience! Glad that’s working better. Yes it’s too hot for me too. Always makes my blood glucose rise, I am struggling today to keep around 10 and have had to take extra insulin twice today, drinking water now and hoping my BG of 13 despite not eating much...

Do you have any sudocreme? I am sure it says this is good for sunburn and it’s a bit thicker than gel probably would stay on all night

Definitely check It may well have been 57mmol/mol This is how my doctor measures it. If so I am sure you will improve on this and 48mmol/mol is not too far away. Mine was 108mmol/mol on diagnosis (I am type 1 though) but I have got it down to the fifties, mine varies a bit as type 1 can be hard...

Hi Yes I noticed, I had one fall off recently, Abbots were very good and replaced it. During the conversation it was mentioned that if you don’t let the area you have used the alcohol wipe on dry properly it sometimes can effect the adhesive. This wasn’t my problem think I had a one off dud one...

You make an excellent point, just googled this and 6.5 is equivalent to 48mmol/mol Rachel how was your HbA1c measured?

Hi Rachel I know it’s so upsetting when getting diagnosed but you have type 2 and you can get on top of this, get yourself back into prediabetes range and possibly even better. You have done exactly the right things low carb, resistant exercise (this helps me immensely) you already walk 10,000...

Hello I have found putting the Libre on and waiting 24 hrs has worked for me, usually they are at most 0.5 mmol out, I might ring Abbott’s about it. They were very good the one time one fell off. I am wondering if this one just could not keep up when I was ill and seems to have lost track?

Thanks for your quick reply, I am thinking the same, the basal is still wrong. Difficult with varying readings, I might believe the Glucomen meter, as it’s the middle number and the more expensive meter.

Hi I have a question, any ideas would be appreciated. I have been very ill recently and had to reduce my Levemir by about a third and my Fiasp has been inconsistent too. When I am ill I go high very easily with ketones and also easily have hypos, some caused by too much basal hence the Levemir...

Hi If out I inject in the back of the upper arm, the flabby bit! I have a little handbag/lipstick mirror that I prop up so I can see what I am doing. Short sleeves and a cardigan works well.

Hi You have done brilliantly, that’s hard work as well so you deserve a lot of credit. Why don’t you cut the testing down slowly. Could you not test today after lunch, as you are getting no surprises? You could test after dinner and fasting tomorrow and just slowly cut this down. Or you could...

Just a few more points that I hope will give you information to help, my B12 was sky high, they could not tell me why on my type 1 diagnosis (I was not taking any supplements); she has a wound slow to heal, also a sign; sleeping all the time is a sign of high blood glucose. Eating will be...

Hi Stomach pain is a sign of ketones and DKA. Please look up DKA, as a Type 1 who has been in hospital with this please do everything not to let it get to that stage. This is on google ‘Abdominal pain is a frequent DKA manifestation (present in 40-75% of the cases) and its prevalence...

Hi I had exactly the same issue, after a year I came off it for a fortnight and my BG figures improved, my nurse then agreed that the days I had diarrhoea were probably aggravating my stomach so much it was raising my BG. I would usually have a day a week where I had trouble even leaving the...

Thank you that’s great, I might give that a go too

I started on the same combination, perhaps mention the nausea to your nurse? I did have nausea the first year but thought it was the metformin as it disappeared when I stopped taking it, however this could have been coincidence

Hi What are you taking? I felt very sick most of the time for the year I was on metformin SR. As I am type 1 they agreed to take me off it, think I was only on it due to being misdiagnosed at the beginning anyway.

I had a similar range at the beginning, keep a food diary. I find I just can’t eat rice, pasta bread couscous … very occasionally I will have one small potato that’s my limit. However there are some great cookbooks and actually I don’t miss these things now