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Thank you for letting us know @Brunneria - very sad news. During an inter-beneficiary service this morning, I was playing the organ while over a hundred people remembered their lost loved ones. Jill was very much in my mind.

Have they considered that by transferring plant eating from cattle to humans is simply transferring methane production from one source to the other?

I trust most 16 year-olds don't have retinae that look like a road map of London! Thanks for the lifting of spirits

As promised, here's the result: Had the drops put in at 15.50. The minute I left at 16.15 I put on my reading glasses. It reminded me of the vicious hypo-induced auras I used to get! Guess I won't wear these then. Could see very well with any lights having an aura, but not blurred. I am...

If it hasn't come down any further and 111 don't send you to hospital, I would get someone to take you to A&E. You have nothing to lose and would be a priority - one of the few benefits of diabetes! Do you find breathing laboured? Do your muscles feel generally "crampy"? If the answer to either...

Having had a pancreas transplant I am on 2 different Immuno-suppressants each day. 3 years ago I had a scare on the exact fifth anniversary of the op. I felt completely fine, and like you had no pain. The hospital rang to tell me that my lipase and amylase levels were 3 times over the acceptable...

Seeing @xfieldok 's post at the top, it has a link to @JoKalsbeek 's Type 2 nutritional thingy. I reckon this will help you enormously

Looks like you are still doing very well! The morning readings suggest your liver is raising your glucose to make sure you can actually wake up (glucose dumping). By the way, skimmed milk has more carbs per 100ml than full cream milk, in other words a lot! Porridge and all cereals are also full...

Really interesting @Antje77 ! I had thought that drops had become less intrusive over the last 40 years. I now think the reaction is age related in that in 1978 my eyes were so blurred and intolerant of light that my wife-to-be would lead me over the road from the hospital, wearing dark...

This is a small excerpt from https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/tendonitis What causes tendonitis and tenosynovitis? The cause of tendonitis and tenosynovitis is often not known. They may be caused by strain, overuse, injury, or too much exercise. Tendonitis may also...

Do you for example play any keyboard instrument? I used to get pain in both wrists from trying to play the piano too fast without being overall relaxed. What else could cause strain in both wrists and how often does this happen? I don't think I could ever have blamed diabetes for it. It would be...

I fully sympathise, but we could be having a worse time in some other well known countries! We need to hang on to the NHS , but as @NicoleC1971 says, the providers need to avoid wastage. There is still far too much of it. It doesn't help that if you take a prescription home and find an item is...

This raises an interesting question. If a non diabetic, let alone a diabetic is taking medication before eating, and swills it down with diet fizz in the belief that this will not cause digestive acids, could the action of the liver dumping glucose cause the stomach to release acid and therefore...

Here is a letter (edited!) which I wrote 9 years ago to the Complaints Manager of our Surgery Pharmacy: 19th November 2012 Dear Ms, Thank you for taking the trouble to write to me on 16th November and for clarifying matters raised in my letter to J C. As a patient who relies on Insulin being...

Chronic diarrhoea can be the result of persistent high average blood glucose. This may not be an "additional" problem, but as others say, requires medical attention immediately. Here is something that happened to me 36 years ago: It was in 1985 that I realised that violent episodes of diarrhoea...

Hi @simply_h It might be an idea to take a graph of readings over say 2 weeks. This would give a good starting point for the doctor and an indicator as to what, if any, medicine is needed. My blood pressure is the finest it has been since 1973! I've almost got a bus pass...

I always called donuts "Death on a plate"!

I haven't completed the algorithm calculator, but I would like to add to the comments made above. Since 1959 I have become increasingly sceptical about such predictions. After all, I was told at the age of 13 in 1971 that I might make it to 20. An actuary told my father in 1980 that I might make...

Superb result!

You could scroll up to the top of the page until you see search (top right). Type in 'nutritional thingy' and this should lead you to @JoKalsbeek 's blog. Very useful info there. Good luck!