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Hi there @Avetr7 , you are responding to a post that is over 9 years old. You may or may not get a response.

I agree with @EllieM and @lovinglife . I have the flu shot every year. Influenza is very different from a heavy cold, as dreadful as a cold makes you feel, Influenza is very different. I’ve had the flu a couple of times in my life and on both occasions I was very sick. One minute you are going...

@jaywak , I’m so sorry to hear your dear wife has passed. Sending my deepest condolences .

My personal thoughts, and they are just personal, if your night time figures are normal, then your natural production of basal insulin is enough to maintain normal blood sugars. It is your daytime blood sugars that are raised, which may suggest it could be food intake. That said I would still...

I agree with @lovinglife . Building muscle will add weight , however, muscles are glucose hungry so increasing muscle mass may help to reduce your blood sugars.

As I hike a lot I use O’Keeffe’s ‘Healthy Feet’ cream. I also like the peppermint smelling foot balm creams too which I get from time to time from Amazon.

There are so many possibilities for restless leg. Might be blood sugar related might be something completely unrelated. I think it is a good idea to maybe check your blood sugar levels :) A few weeks ago I had something similar. I had restless legs and arms. It is something I rarely get. It...

That’s useful @Jaylee thanks :)

Maybe try using a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) for a couple of weeks just to see what’s going on with your blood sugars. That way you can see what your blood sugars are doing 24/7. They are pricey, but I believe in the UK you can obtain a free trial Free Libre 2+ from Abbott.

@Jaylee when I visit the UK I cannot use the UK Libre sensors, so I tried downloading the UK Libra app. This was a while back, If I recall correctly it wouldn’t allow me download the app as it detected I had a Canadian iphone .

One possible explanation @fiona35 , although your blood sugars went quite high, maybe because of a mechanism called cephalic phase insulin release . Very simply put, this is when your body releases insulin on sight , smell or taste of food. The sweet taste of the sweetness may have triggered...

I believe they are completely different conditions @oconnorbp . Carpal tunnel is to do with nerve compression whilst trigger finger the tendon sheath is involved.

Hi there @Retanna . They are a scam. These devices are actually blood oxygen monitors being marketed as non invasive glucose monitors. If these so called glucose monitors were a reality the big companies such as Abbott would be developing and selling these monitors to great fanfare. If non...

Did they give you your full IQ breakdown @There is no Spoon ? If it's done as part of a psychological assessment you would likely get the full breakdown. Most people, if it's not done as part of an assessment , so like Mensa, would just get a number. Which as you say can be quite really...

How it is for me - I don't know where my body is in space. I cannot play sports. As far as my dyspraxia goes, I have difficulty with balance, which led to many injuries. I cannot do formal dancing, or follow physical instructions which require a sequence of events. I struggle significantly with...

I hear that Amazon UK maybe closing its food delivery service and replacing it with their supermarket chain Whole Foods. It's an American chain, but I imagine the Whole Food stores would be very similar to the Canadian Whole Food stores. The ones I've visited in the US are a bit shabby , the...

I received this information in my email inbox this morning. I thought I would pass it on here. I have cut and pasted the entire article here , but the link to the source of the information is attached at the end of my post. TYPE 1 Research Shows Benefits of Tirzepatide for Type 1 Diabetes...

I believe you just have to inform the court that you are a Type 1 diabetic @Circuspony . I don't think it's an official reason for exclusion.

I'm very mindful that this thread is about low carb products and not about gluten intolerance. So not wishing to derail . Very briefly here is the study around modifying some of the gluten proteins. https://celiac.org/2025/06/10/safer-wheat-for-celiac-disease/

Whilst I agree with much of what you say @Lamont D I'm very sceptical of those wheat intolerant stats - 20% is very high. I have not been able to find any link for those high numbers @Lamont D . Do you have a link ? Also, and this is only a n=1 study, but as I am coeliac I have a lot of...