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Our shopping bill has gone up with lockdown inflation, and also with my low carb diet. My husband lost his job at the beginning of lockdown, so it's been really important for us to budget. He follows a fairly normal diet, likes his carbs, and wouldn't be fully on board with low carb...

I'm on day 2 of my free trial, and it's amazing. Firstly, the application is no worse than the pain from a finger prick, and you don't know it's there within a few minutes. I was a bit worried about how it would fare overnight, but it's been absolutely fine. I might do as others have...

This is interesting. I have chronically low vitamin D, and it rarely gets anywhere near where it should be. I take prescribed high strength Vitamin D, but over the last 3 years haven't managed to get a level above mid 20's. The first time I had a VitD test (I was having musculoskeletal issues...

I've done low carb for several years, with the exception of going off the rails last year... never reached remission. Even doing Keto for about 2 years, still needed insulin. I'm now on around 30-60g of carbs per day, 44 units of long acting, and 6 units per meal of fast acting. If I wasn't...

I tend to pour a glass whilst I'm making lunch or cooking dinner, but the majority of that glass will be drunk after the meal. That's more habit than anything else. I noticed a big difference with hunger. The reason why I drink more in the morning is that I do intermittent fasting, and it...

From personal experience, I was put on a GLP-1 injectable (Lyxumia) similar to Ozempic a while back. When my husband and I decided that we wanted to try to conceive, I had to go off all medications and the GLP-1 was deemed to be the worst for potential pregnancy, and my body had to be...

I do exactly that. I set various alarms throughout the day to encourage me to drink. I do this for water, coffee and herbal tea. Coffee is my luxury, and my alarm is to remind myself to step away from work, have a break and make myself a drink. Herbal tea is what I drink to stop me from...

5.6. The best it's been for ages.

Lunch - I made a chaffle. I thought I'd love it. I'd rather just make a cheese omelette! Had two heck chicken sausages. Dinner - chicken breast with ricotta and spinach, with loads of brocolli.

Diabetes anxiety has been a large part of my life for the last couple of years. I felt that numbers were a reflection on me personally, and that bad numbers meant that I was a useless person. It got to the point where my life was taken over by negative thoughts. It spread to everything number...

Congratulations on the weight loss! About blood test machines - In order to comply with ISO standards, blood glucose monitors just have to be accurate to 15% . There are also lots of other factors which can make each reading slightly different (the number of red blood cells in each sample size...

I hope you get some answers from your GP. For me, 12 seems to be the point where I really feel hyperglycemia. I feel thirsty, tired, and sweaty (but normal temperature like you). I can almost tell from the symptoms when I've gone above 12. There can be lots of reasons for a sudden...

3 chicken heck sausages with Goats cheese and beetroot salad for lunch. Homemade Kebab meat and salad, with Sauerkraut and onion coleslaw for dinner. Had a phonecall from my GP this evening, discussed my insulin usage. She wanted to know why I don't eat breakfast. I explained intermittent...

I tried it some years ago. I remember that I liked the flavour, but the texture was a bit different to what I was expecting. If I remember right, it's quick setting and I think it's more "solid" feeling that the sugar free Hartley's that I'm used to.

I hit a patch at the end of last year where I stopped taking insulin. For me, it was a case of being so anxious about the constant monitoring, the disappointment at seeing poor blood glucose levels, and feeling like a total failure... it was so much easier to stick my head in the sand. I got...

Sure, I loosely follow a plan set out in a book called The Diabetes Code by Dr Jason Fung. The basic premise is fasting encourages reduced blood sugar levels, and weight loss. For me, I especially need the weight loss part. Since the end of December I've lost about 2 stone just by cutting...

10.6. Had to do a urine sample for kidney test. I have some dipsticks, and decided to dip it when I saw that it was the colour of Tizer. Apparently I have a UTI. Already got an emergency supply of antibiotics from my GP, so started on those this morning and hoping that will take care of the...

Depends on the day, but I'm not too scared of eggs! Between 1 and 4 daily, depending on whether I'm feeling ravenous after fasting for 18 hours, or whether I can wait to cook something else.

Dapagliflozin was my favourite diabetic drug. I was taken off it because there was a potential that I could get pregnant at the time, so it couldn't be risked. However, I lost weight, my bg's were the most stable that they had ever been. The only side effect that I noticed was thirst. Be...

My husband has had similar issues with DWP. He recently completed a New Enterprise scheme in order to start a self-employed business. He completed the scheme and was advised to await a call from the DWP and that he couldn't start self-employment officially until he'd been signed off by them...