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My GoogleFu has failed me on this one, so I thought I’d ask the hive mind. :) I’ve managed to get everything back under control to the point that I no longer need insulin and can go back to pills (Rybelsus once a day, Metformin twice a day), and it all looks good apart from the fact I live in...

Been a while since I posted, been so busy with life and all that, but I thought I’d share this for all the people who get despondent about it all. So on the 23rd of Jan, 2021 I started to feel terrible, like all people I assumed it was COVID. When I started to have trouble breathing, we called...

Hi, not sure if to post this in low carb or low calorie but I think we'll try here first. So to help control my diabetes I'm on low carb and low calorie to lose the weight. It's going well but I have a real hankering for pizza. I'm not a fan of any of the riced cauliflower bases, and a recipe...

So been trying to work out how to handle high carbs as I’m on a Disney cruise (actually right now! :) ) and got a couple of coping mechanisms in place. Sat in the restaurant as we speak and got a sinking feeling as they said they couldn’t give me specific carb numbers (so time to do...

So I've been using the site for a few months now and realised I never introduced myself. :) So Hi, I'm Jen (now it feels like an AA meeting, I'm imagining a load of people chorusing "Hello Jen" ;) ) I'm a 51 y\o woman working in the IT sector with a loving wife, a cat, and a lizard for...

Ok, this is a silly one. So I used to drink low alcohol drinks as I liked the taste and drive too regularly to get much alcohol in my system, but those are off the menu because they are empty carbs. However, I'm off on a cruise in July and so don't have to worry about driving and was thinking...

Just phoned up to get my HBA1c... 36. Down for 131. The diabetes care team has told be to stop taking NovoRapid for the weekend, double my Metformin and up my Lantus from 4 to 8. They think I might be able to get back to my body plus pills doing a lot of the work rather than insulin. In...

So I've got my numbers under control at home, with home cooking and the occasional 6" subway, and while keeping my carbs from going too high, I'm not ultra low carbing (around 90g - 110g a day on average) and not taking loads of insulin to compensate (around 3 - 6U depending on the meal plus a...

So, got my Freestyle Libre 2 training yesterday, simple, painless, and set up during the call. Anyhoo, the numbers were a bit low but I knew it wouldn't be a direct match so didn't think much of it, then it said I was dropping into a potential hypo. Bit worrying as I don't normally go that low...

So, I'm fairly new to this insulin lark but doing pretty well (Now I've got the regime sorted it's 4s and 5s most of the time, and the highest being a 6.), however I'm on a fairly strict carb regime so I don't have to vary my insulin intake. I'm off on a cruise soonish (Woohoo, Disney UK...