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  1. sarahjf21

    Help with carbs

    Thanks Charles, will find this so difficult re-educating myself loved the odd bag of chrisps and naughty foods, i have found bread on amazon really low in carbs and only £2.49 so not so bad also jam with 0 carbs, calories etc but have yet to try them so could be grose
  2. sarahjf21

    Help with carbs

    Thank you Yorksman i do appreciate the input, i am lucky that my partner is very supportive and does the cooking
  3. sarahjf21

    New diabetes uk site + informing DVLA

    on the dvla website it states u have up to 3 months to inform them that you are on insulin
  4. sarahjf21

    Help with carbs

    Thank you, come sept i will be travelling to uni 2 hours each way on the bus so up early and in late getting concerned that i will struggle, as at the min not receiving much dietry advice from my GP or DN
  5. sarahjf21

    Help with carbs

    Thank you for this
  6. sarahjf21

    Please help!! Waitrose refuse to stock 'LivLife Low Carb Bread'

    just ordered 2 loafs from amazon @ £2.45 each
  7. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    oh yes don't have much faith in the NHS
  8. sarahjf21

    Help with carbs

    I am trying to cut my carbs down but with difficulty can anyone tell me what they eat through the day to keep their carbs down as now struggling
  9. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    my friend was given metformin as they told her she was diabetic then a couple of years later they told her she was'nt strange huh
  10. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    oh ok
  11. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    hows ur wife now
  12. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    i am seeing him next week, so fingers crossed
  13. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    yes but cant seem to get a grip of the insulin seems to affect me in various ways too
  14. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    yes it is nasty really upset my gallstones plus caused me low back pain
  15. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    Right as i took humlog yesterday morn mon with a bg of 14.4 when i started the Lantus last night just took half the normal units which were 24 units, this morn i had a fasting reading of 11.3 i will take 2 gliclizide with breakfast then at 7pm will do normal 50 units of Lantus but without the...
  16. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    no just No just Lantus, inject at 7pm, can't remember if i was taking gliclazide with it previously but just the Lantus at the min
  17. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    Thank you for taking the time to explain, have been back to the GP today not my normal DR as he away they have now changed me back to Lantis as seemed to have better control but BS ranged from 2.6 up to 15.4 on lantus before the change and that was on 58 units per day, also took bloods as he not...
  18. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    yes it is the Humalog mix that i am on now, was on metformin but interfered with my gallstones as mentioned previously, i was then on gliclazide and sitlagliptin worked for a while but then seemed to stop, how much should my carb intake be a day so that i can start to regulate this
  19. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    Hi Thank you for this i seem to understand what you are saying, any idea with the swollen feet they are so painful Dr says it is not fluid, just fed up of being pushed from piller to post with different meds and nothing seeming to work, starting to give up a bit now as feel worse now tiredness...
  20. sarahjf21

    FED UP !!!!!!!

    Thank you jack