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Hiya, I take microgynon and I stopped for a few months a couple of years ago and found it didn't have any effect (as far as I am aware) on my sugar levels. It could be that everyone is different and different pills have different side effects etc. I would check with a nurse or your consultant to...

I have had the same result for about the last 5 years - mild background retinopathy. Provided you look after yourself there is no great cause for concern. My doctor told me once that mild background retinopathy can sometimes repair itself if your control is good!

Ha ignorance!!! I've had a work colleague ask me before if I should be doing drugs at work.....moron!

Hello all, Has anyone been signed off work before due to exhaustion/stress plus the diabetes on the side too?! I'm currently working close to 60 hours a week (6 days), 1 full time role and 1 part time - this is due to finances, not out of choice lol! On top of this I am not sleeping well and...

I woke up this morning with a blood sugar of 18 - I went to bed with a blood sugar of 6 but slept longer than usual (the joys of annual leave!) and woke up, checked my blood and almost had a heart attach!! But my heart has been racing for the last hour, is this normal??

Lucozade and a couple of biscuits, same sorts of foods and amount during the day!

Does anyone else find this? If I have a hypo in the middle of the night I treat it and always wake up a few hours later with really high blood sugar, but this doesn't happen with a day time hypo (as in I never go high after). Why is this?!

Can I come too lol!!

I know exactly how you are feeling and nothing I say will make you feel better, so just stay strong and remember you are better than your diabetes!!!!!

Thanks for replying... I absolutely do not leave work at work (I wish I could!!!) and stress about it for hours on end, never looked at it this way!

I was in a bar once and they ran out of Diet Coke, when I told the lady serving me I could not drink normal Coke (she poured me one without asking) she said to me 'well you shouldn't drink anyway if you are diabetic'. Grrrrrrrrr....!!

I was wondering whether my constant work-related tiredness affects my diabetes or not? I work two jobs and have one day off a week. I sleep on average 6 hours a night which for me is nowhere near enough for me and I always have some sure of a cold due to lack of sleep catching up with me...

If I don't take it my sugar is sky high all night - can't win! Have an appointment in October so I will see if they will change my insulin at all

I've done lots of basal testing due to struggling with my levemir being too low in the day and my day time levemir is finally perfect - my weight is healthy for my height and I'm not over weight. My evening dose is between 10pm-midnight, depending on when I get home from work. My levels are...

I take 23 units of levemir in the morning and was taking 15 before bed - the day time dose is perfect, keeps me steady all day. But the night time dose has been giving me all sorts of problems. I've been waking up around 6-7am each day without fail with a hypo so I've been slowly reducing my...

Thanks everyone - I'm a meat eater but tend to stick to chicken and fish. I don't have much time as I work two jobs so I eat a lot of eggs, chicken salads, fish and veg, that sort of stuff. I'm not carb free, just trying to cut back!

I'm trying really really hard to stick to a low carb diet (not a weight loss but to help my sugars) but I find myself eating the same things all the time! Does anyone have any easy, quick low carb meal ideas?

I feel fine just peed off!!!! I put 3 units in of novorapid and half an hour later it was 18. I don't abuse my body with drink drugs or ****** food and I'm worried about the consequences in the future!!!!

I just feel like what's the point!?!? I try hard to get my sugars under control but nothing works!!!!! Bg of 12 when i got up, had 30g of carb for breakfast and put in 5 units and my sugars were 17 2 hours later. This is happening a lot, what's the point when nothing I do seems to bring my...

Happened to me on a night out....was given Pepsi instead of diet, I never drink diet Pepsi only diet coke so I couldn't taste the difference!! Ended up with a BS too high for my machine to read, a fever in the night and a trip to a&e with ketones!!! If in doubt ask them to change it....I've seen...