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Hi -- not much more you can do when it comes to meds, and moving to insulin won't be great for your LGV license. So worth looking if there's any flexibility when it comes to diet and exercise. Are you overweight? What's your diet like? Can you find ways of building exercise into your day...

VERY BAD IDEA!!!!!!! Don't self-medicate like this, whatever you do. Check your blood sugars carefully over the next few hours to make sure that you're not plummeting. And in the meantime book an appointment with your GP. And update your profile giving details of your medication. And let us know...

Your profile says diet only????

Ahem! Some of us can't have beers and a curry -- or does that mean that we're actually more self-disciplined than you are???;)

I don't read The Guardian. I don't vote Labour. I'm not a vegetarian. I'm not anti-American. (just trying to guess how many ways you are trying to typecast me) I have also not said that people should use their diabetes either to get a job or not get one. I applaud the success that you have made...

Hang on, I thought you said the problem was people who declare their diabetes 'on a job interview to try and increase the chance of being selected due to the Equality Act'. Make your mind up -- are people immorally exploiting diabetes to get jobs, or to not get jobs? Or is this just a Daily Mail...

I agree completely, but I think there is a danger that those who have control of diabetes can end up blaming others who haven't for simply lacking the will-power. I'm reminded of that recent head of NHS preening himself in his valedictory speech how he got control of his T2 diabetes because he's...

It's important to have more success stories, but just as important to grasp that having a positive attitude and being self-disciplined aren't in themselves all that is required for diabetes control. As should be clear from the forum, there are plenty of people with other severe health problems...

Sounds good, but could we have numbers as well as percentages? Or could we know what percentage of the 80,000 responded?

Sorry but I did read what you wrote. Do you seriously believe that most HCPs are aware of the dangers of BGs being brought down too quickly? Some of us are only aware of this because of what happened to a forum stalwart, and the whole point there is that she was NOT warned. I still think your...

Sorry douglas99 -- I know we've been here before, but I just do not buy your line that this is all conscious pragmatism and setting of practical goals. Of course it is true that drastic fall in blood sugars can cause problems; of course it is not necessary to rush into a low-carb diet. But that...

Could we suggest that Douglas simply didn't notice that it was on the low carb forum (I often forget to check when looking at 'recent posts') and move on?

A useful compromise (given how high the alcohol content of spirits is) would be to have your first diet coke with vodka, and then have refills without (while of course telling others that there is still vodka in it). new year resolutions and all that;)

Let's see if I've got this right. You are saying that the NHS gives dietary advice that they know is relatively bad for diabetics as a pragmatic response to the fact that the current diets of the newly-diagnosed are even worse and they couldn't cope with the truth. The NHS does this on the...

I think you have done more than 'tune' your diet -- you avoid starchy carbs and the NHS positively urges their consumption. The way that you have 'tuned' your diet matches what many other diabetics have found to be a necessary way of changing the NHS recommendations. You are in good company. Why...

Hi douglas99. 'the eat well plate that we all appear to love to demonise', as you call it, includes 'PLENTY of potatoes, bread, rice, pasta and other starchy foods '. On another thread today you advised a poster to 'Avoid classic bad foods first. ... potatoes, white rice, white pasta, white...

Garr is right, but I think so much of this is down to diabetes itself and how it works. If all diabetics in early stages felt instant pain or nausea when their sugars were too high then uncontrolled diabetes would not exist. It is only human not to make the connection with a gradual, silent...

What's your problem TT? Are you wanting to be ticked off for being so bloody irresponsible and immature so that you can feel daringly reckless? Or do you genuinely want to reform? Plenty of people here to help if you really want to do the latter, but it would help if you actually showed it.

I agree with noblehead -- play safe and go to A&E. If it's not serious you haven't lost anything (apart from a lot of worrying); if it is serious then you are in the right place to have it dealt with. Good luck!

Looks like you've got a conspiracy theory of your own there, AlexB! :D