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    no control

    for the past few days i cant get my blood sugars under controll im not eating any different at all i have quit smoking (day 13 now) and its been hot here the past few days, i have been through everything ive eaten and the amount of insulin ive had and nothing is differnt except for my sugars...
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    stopped smoking

    can any one help ive quit smoking its been 12 days now ive been very carefull with what i eat and pick on to replace the ciggs im a type 2 on insulin i take glargine at night and nova rapid after food, my sugars before this quiting smoking have been very good but over the last few days my...
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    diabetes getting me down

    ive been on insulin for my type 2 diabetes for a while now figured out what gave me spikes and what didnt followed the low carb diet tried to do everything right but its all going wrong now have had to increase one lot of insulin and my nova rapid dosnt seem to be bringing my levels to where...
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    hypo

    what do your blood sugar levels drop to if you are having a hypo i tested just before my dinner as i normally do and my levels were 2.5 i had no problems normally if my sugars drop below 3.5 i get shaky and bad tempered but didnt have any of that today so not sure if it was a hypo or not
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    cant cope

    i have been diabetic for a few years now started on metfomin and the medicines just kept increasing and increasing and then 8 months ago they put me on insulin and untill i found this site i knew nothing about it all i was just told inject this much and come back in a month, a month later...
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    bad day

    as i discover more about this diabetes the more confused i become and the more confused i become the more i worry and the more i worry the more the chance of me finding choclate which is what has happened tonight i know as a diabetic i shouldnt eat choclate but the temptation was just to much...
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    sort of low carb

    well i had to modify the low carb diet because i became really ill (severe constipation) im eating a lot less carbs and sugars are staying fairly stable but was really really fed up, with all my hard work on the low carbs and then being really ill and hardly eating at all i did not lose a single...
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    fed up

    well things had being going well on the low carb diet i had reduced the amount of insulin i was taking felt full all the time and blood sugars were staying stable ( between 6 and 6.5) then the constipation hit i followed all the advice increased my fat intake and drank more water still no joy...
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    constipation

    well woke up this morning blood sugars were good 6.1 but ive got the headache from hell and im constipated is this to do with the low carb diet or just one of those things if it is the diet what am i doing wrong can any one help
  10. M

    ice cream

    ive had a bad evening spider in my slipper, dog and two cats having nervous breakdowns due to fire work ect and my sweet tooth is back with avengance im following the low carb diet and i really really want an ice cream dare i risk it :D
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    day two :(

    well on day 2 food wise its ok basically i just eat what ever i have cooked for everyone else i just remove the carb stuff and sling more veg on my plate seems really strange using real butter again and eating cheese and the joy of frying my cold veg (left over from yesterday) in butter was...
  12. M

    blood glucose levels

    can any one tell me what the guidelines for the blood glucose reading should be mine have been steady at 4.9 for the last couple of hours and my husband thinks this is way to low
  13. M

    day one

    well im just about through day one of the low carb diet its been a strange day i had 2 eggs scrambled with 2 rashers of bacon for breakfast then picked at a bit of chicken at lunch wast really hungry just needed to chew something lol for dinner tonight i had roast lamb and veg (im having a bit...
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    help

    ive been on insulin for nearly a year now i have novo rapid after my meals and glargine at night i keep having to increase the amounts of both and am still not getting good results my fasting levels are about 10 and even after the nova rapid two hours later my sugars are over 11 but 4 hours...
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    hypos

    i cant get my levels right my doctor said he wanted my sugars at around 5 after 2 hours of eating which if i get that right by 4 hours later my sugars are below 4 and im a mess i really dont know how to get round this saying that sometimes even if my sugars are not at 5 after 2 hours by 4 hours...
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