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Yes, it was to do with correction. Can you expand on it please?

i saw the doc at my Diabates clinic this morning and he gave me a bit advice but I cannot recall exactly what he said. It was to do with adjusting my insulin, if it went too high. There was something about 3 in it but the details are fuzzy. Can anyone help?

My readings are erratic and I am used to abrupt swings up and down. However today, after a normal breakfast at 9am, I had a coffee and toasted teacake, with butter, at 11am. I got home at 1.15pm and my meter reading was 22! Surely a teacake could not push it up so high. Perhaps I should have...

Get your thyroid tested too.

So many helpful replies, many thanks.

As well as Metformin, I take fast and slow insulin. My readings are always too high, so a few months ago the D nurse talked me through counting carbs and adjusting insulin to suit. I still have problems and I am now so sick of potatoes and pasta that my stomach turns when I look at them. Any...

Possibly both. I would like to strike a good balance.

I am having a short break soon and I know the breakfasts will be fabulous. Fresh fruit, cereals, all sorts of hot food, toast croissants etc . What is the best breakfast in terms of low calories and feeling full till lunch time? Type 2 metformin, insulin.

I am T2, taking Metformin and insulin. Does that make me insulin dependant? I wouldn't die if I got stuck somewhere with no insulin would I?

Whats the proper name for the small machine we use to make our finger bleed? Mine's is a bit unstable just now. How do I get a new one - whose responsibility is it to provide new one, or do I go to Boots and buy one?

Whats the difference between Diabetes Discussion and Ask a Question? Which is the best one to use for queries?

I often waken with a headache and take the above tablets to try to shift it. Could these be the reason for a high reading this morning (19) about an hour afterwards? I take Met and insulin, I am T2.

Why did I have a hypo last night? At 6pm I had melon, baked potato with egg mayo, then fruit. At bedtime, I had a plate of porridge Readings were good all day. Then, I woke at 4am sweating and shaky with 3.2 reading.

These are advertised in my Balance mag, and I wonder what people make of them. I regularly wake up in the morning feeling rubbish, even though I went to bed feeling fine. I have headaches, confusion etc. I suspect I may be having a hypo during the night and this monitor would be very useful. At...

I am type 2 and inject 4 times a day. Occasionally, when I inject, a bead of blood pops out. Will the insulin have been lost in the blood?

I live in Edinburgh and feel my diabetes is well looked after and I have no complaints. However, I asked this week if I could go on a DAFNE course to help me control my diet and was told my name would go on the list and it would be 2016 before I was called!

Are these courses available in Edinburgh?

Are these courses available in Edinburgh?

What exactly is meant by beans and nuts? What kinds? does it means Henz? I am trying to up my vitamin B.

Is there any reason why I should not take B6? I am type 2, on insulin and metformin. I used to take it occasionally for PMT years ago, and wonder if it would help my feelings of 'edginess' just now.