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The counter argument that I would suggest is that low-cal diets work because they are, by necessity, low-carb and not just because they leave you energy deficient. The fact that they are energy deficient means that they are impossible to stick to because your body is specifically designed to...

I'm sorry you are having a difficult time with your little boy - I find that the overnight glucose control is the hardest thing by far to get to grips with. Controlling blood sugar is plate spinning basically; there are lots of things that can affect it and you have to try and narrow it down to...

Send me that low-carb fish Paul-born-in-1976 Dillinger

Well done! Taking the NHS to task when it lets us down is not anti-NHS it is in fact the only way you can make things improve. We are not in a situation of 'My NHS Right or Wrong.' If we don't go after them for stupid mistakes they make then we allow them to behave like they did in Mid Staffs...

Hi Becky, Are you on statins? I had bad sporadic pain in my hands whilst on statins which stopped when I stopped taking them. Best Dillinger

Yes it can; blood sugar can be raised by food, glycogen dumps from your liver, being ill and stress, also reducing exercise can make you less sensitive to insulin which can contribute to raised blood sugar levels. But don't worry about it! :)

Ooops; you're absolutely right; I misread the link here http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-units-converter.html They give it as 5.5% which equates to an average blood sugar of 6.2 mmol/ml If you can keep the hypos at bay then that's even better! Best Dillinger

Well, 'not an awful lot of benefit of having and HbA1c of 37 compared to 50' he says. The DCCT and EDIC trials which are the cornerstone of the NHS treatment strategy for diabetics say; 'keeping blood glucose levels as close to normal as possible slows the onset and progression of the eye...

Hi Danny, I find that by dropping carbs as much as possible all my levels balance out; you get off the rollercoaster situation with 'normal eating'. Also, the thing is that there are a lot of variables with insulin and carb counting; on one side none of us can constantly perfectly estimate the...

Hi, I have moved from Novorapid to Apidra and now to Humalog as my short acting. I think I've finally hit the best short acting for a low carb lifestyle with Humalog; it has a longer peak than Apidra but is not as 'fierce' as Novorapid and seems to be really helping. Here is a link that...

You'll need to order more! I was kind of amazed at how quickly I plow through them now; previously a box of 100 would have lasted months now they last 2 weeks.

I operate on the basis that everything that my DSN tells me is wrong, so it did take a while to verify that suggestion...

I've made 2 changes recently to my low-carbing and they have really helped with weird blood readings the first is to change the needle for every injection full stop. I used to change the needle with each vial, and I'm sure that contributed to strange readings. The second thing is I've...

Charles, I thought this video about low carbing was very interesting; much of this we know already but it's really good to have the low-carb strategy explained so well by a doctor (of all people!!!). Your point about the rollercoasters of high to lows whilst eating plenty of carbs is repeated...

Good stuff; thank you very much. Dillinger

I missed that post; so, don't like to say it but I told you so! I think you can expect to have an even less logic based conversation with the dietitian. Essentially your DSN was saying you can have bad control because the complications from that won't manifest for 10 years so what's the...

So, where someone is asking about how to low carb it's ok for you to come along and say 'watch it, it can be dangerous' but not ok for me to question that statement? I've already posted on here with suggestions to Charles about how to handle things; you have just come along, like a stuck record...

Ok, name one then; if there are so many. Dillinger

The fear of hypos is one of the key influences that pushes up HbA1c's in Type 1 and insulin using diabetics - I think many of us have had direct experience of that from our healthcare providers. I wonder though on what this is based; I'm not aware of any diabetic dying from a hypo; Phoenix do...

Hi, I think it's essential that you started carb counting because one can't really take insulin without reference to how many carbs you eat. You seem to be taking quite a lot of insulin; certainly your basal is relatively high; how long have you been on Lantus? I found that it was not much...