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Oh, @cott97 - much love to you, from another pain person. I don't use insulin, so I can't advice you on that aspect of your troubles, but I do find that I go up as much as 3% when it's acutely bad, and then it takes about 12 - 18 hours to drop back to "normal" when the pain has come under...

Oh, oh, oh, @Guzzler ! I so completely agree with you! It's AMAZING. I don't use a nutribullet, though: the fat in the cream stops the fruit from freezing it into a total lump, so you can mix and move it around, and as you do so, the fruit (especially the raspberries and blackberries) break up...

And here's me pondering the next Tesco order... Awesome EDIT: SCORE! Double-choc chip AND Caramel Pecan in my Tesco. And Euan's birthday on Tuesday.

@donnellysdogs I loved this: I think that's my new forum sig.

You guys are amazing. Thank you so much for yesterday. Your kind words and compassion really carried me through, and I could write an essay on what it means to me to have such brilliant support. Thank you, particularly, to @JohnEGreen for that wonderful research - I'll let you know how it goes...

I've filled out Exceptional Costs forms for families I've worked with - they're quite complicated but they're not difficult. But they do need the GP's support (which, I know, Dr Jenny won't oppose but I don't know the Practice Policy on this), I've got contacts in the Children's Commissioning...

I'd taken what I could to chill out and had been able to have some quiet time (Euan wasn't home, so I could take a few minutes to straighten my head out and have a talk with myself) before leaving the house. Once in there, I was doing my HPDB (Happy Place Deep Breathing). I'm not scared of the...

Double-post: Apologies. Have just found this, could be a life-saver (or mobility saver?). Does anyone else have experience on this? http://www.uprightmri.co.uk/

I'm just back from my MRI for my back and it went really, really badly. Knowing I'd have to lie on my back in the machine, I took a double-Tramadol / Naproxin (NSAID) well ahead of the appointment in an attempt to get myself through it (pain killers and general opiate haze inducers), but to no...

Not to be the bad apple in the bin but... I've worked with families like Bradley's and the one thing I can truly say, hand on heart, is that all this media attention, all that money, all these well-wishes, all this turning him into a media star will not help them a single bit in coming to terms...

Hi, @Dude26 and welcome to the forum. Diabetes can lead to a few lacking minerals and vitamins, which can - in turn - lead to tiredness, grumpiness and whatnot. But, from the little you've said, I suspect that your diabetes is the cause of your change in mood in that, maybe, you're still quite...

Hi @Mummymaw and welcome to the forums. I'm guessing that you're thinking a low sugar, low fat diet with "sensible" carbs is the way to go? Unfortunately, carbs will turn into sugar when they are digested, and what you described in your last post is a fairly high-carb day (though admirably...

There are plenty of T2s who have to take insulin, and plenty of T2s who have hypos. I don't see there's much to be gained from a "Mine is worse than yours" contest - we're all in this together, and no particular diabetic group (1s, 1.5's, 2's and all the others) is being either well-served by...

I'm only suggesting you try it for 2 days, that's all. After that, your numbers will galvanise your determination. Small steps lead to big changes in this marathon. You'll be fine <3 P.S. And as @Fleegle says, graze on things like nuts. My son and I have fallen wildly in love with pepperami...

Here's the interesting thing to do, now you have a meter. Spend a week eating completely normally - don't change a thing. Instead, write down everything you eat, when, and what was in it, and take your BG before your first bite. Then wait 2 hours and take your BG again. Note your readings in...

Hey, Pipp, can I ask - because I've seen it often mentioned here and there and I'm really curious - what is your experience with the Newcastle Diet? How did you get involved, when, all that jazz. To quote your sig: If you wouldn't mind and have the time, you've got at least one eager reader...

I'm going to tag in @Pipp - our resident Newcastle Diet pioneer who may be able to give you more info.

Here's how I see it. I know which vitamins I'm deficient in (Iron, Vitamin D, Magnesium, Calcium) - I take a supplement for Vitamin D because it needs to be such a high dosage to get my levels up that I couldn't achieve that with diet and sunshine and whatever alone (plus I'm not really in a...

I do wipe! Lots of reasons for this but mostly, unless I've just washed my hands it's a pain for me to stand up and get to the kitchen to wash them again just to test, and wipes sit in a little tray next to where I sit or fit neatly into my meter kit in case I'm going out. Also, the little foil...

There are newspapers in the UK (and I'm sure elsewhere around the world) that are just not, well, true. These are the types of papers who ran mock-up reproductions of Iraqi hostage abuse (Piers Morgan now making lots of money in the US - seems to be where our disgraced and besmirched go these...