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    Mody 2 and pregant!

    Hi Clare, Congratulations on your pregnancy - hope the rest of it goes well! That site is really good if you can check it out - but just thought I'd give some information too. MODY 2 is a defect of one of the gene's involved in blood sugar control, glucokinase. You will have one normal copy...
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    High BM, no ketones - when to worry?

    Hi, I'm currently on gliclazide which is working pretty well, but the last couple of days I've had some through the roof blood sugars (20+) double checked after hand-washing. However have also had some totally normal readings, and I've no ketones (I have had ketones in the past with high sugars...
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    Sharps Boxes

    rogbert your post interested me as I am originally from herts too, fortunately I had no sharps bin when there. now I'm in south london - my GP take mine, I'm sure you've tried asking yours but just another thought I couldn't see mentioned
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    ketones - God's joke for the diligent diabetic?

    Just a thought but how many carbs a day are you eating now? Because ketones are not always bad: non diabetics can have "fasting ketones" when waking especially after not many carbs the evening before (up to + or even ++ on the ketostix). Also people on the "ketogenic" diet, generally thought of...
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    Sharps Boxes

    you could follow the advice of a bottle when out perhaps, and then when it comes to disposable time put it into your sharps bin? a bottle has the advantage of being quite subtle too. and for lancets/test strips as sue says the boxes are really good. just a thought, but I keep my (agreed very...
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    No longer diabetic......TEST RESULTS

    Just a quick thought... but have they checked your kidney function? Given how long you were diabetic for and that it was well controlled it is unlikely, but sometimes diabetic damage to the kidney can lead to a reduction in insulin requirement (as the kidney is involved in insulin breakdown). A...
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    3rd person in my family has been diagnosed with type 1

    Hey, just a thought but has it been considered that it might be MODY? I was just struck by your signature that suggests you were diagnosed with gestational and it never went away, and are still honeymooning... Not sure how much you know about MODY but some forms cause insulin deficiency (genetic...
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    Choosing insulin? And experience of Avandia?

    Thanks very much for all your advice. Trinkwasser: I have been tried on metformin (metfartin...love the name!) but couldn't tolerate it - severe vomiting/diarrhoea. I know these reduce with time but no vomiting/diarrhoea was at all practical if I am to carry on with my work and when I mentioned...
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    Choosing insulin? And experience of Avandia?

    Hi! Despite the fact I've previously suffered from hypos I'm discovering diabetes has its own agenda and my pancreas appears to have gone downhill rapidly - in the past month BMs have been up to 18 so have had my medication increased from 30mg gliclazide MR, to 60mg, to 90mg. As of yesterday...
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    Sick day advice?

    I really really wish I'd paid more attention when this was given to me at diagnosis... First time I've had an illness that's sent my sugars soaring - they're up to between 10 and 15, although I'm barely eating at all (I've just a cough and it's making me feel really naseous). It's silly as...
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    C-peptide

    Thanks for your very quick reply Dennis - that site looks really helpful. The C-peptide itself was actually done a few months ago, I just only got the results at my last appointment! It was done to check I was not a LADA - which was ruled out in the meantime with GAD65 and response to...
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    C-peptide

    Does anyone know either what units are used or what the normal range is? Mine came back as 986 recently (think that is pmol/something but not totally sure).
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    Sharps disposal

    I just have lancets and test strips to dispose of but am struggling to know what to do with them as I'm apparently not allowed to dispose of them openly as domestic waste - running out of boxes to secretly dispose of them with. Do you know if I'm entitled to get a sharps bin for these or is it...
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    When to seek hypo help?

    Starlix? Thanks Hana, I'll look that up. I quite like the gliclazide if I can keep it (it certainly does the job - my HbA1c now down to 6.2 and no longer getting massive post prandial peaks) although not the hypo period, especially as I'm mostly alone, extremely scary. Hopefully the dose I'm on...
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    Do these look like diabetic levels to you?

    I'm not an expert so I'd take most of what I say with a pinch of salt, but just some thoughts. I wouldn't say that your levels are anything to acutely worry about - it'd be unlikely for you to have rapid onset type 1 for example if they're high but not really increasing in severity over the...
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    When to seek hypo help?

    Thank you for your help - I just realised I said it lasted 5 hours... meant 5 days. I live in a communal flat so there were people around for parts but no-one I could have asked to spend multiple nights/days with me. I was treating it with short then long acting carbs, getting up to about 6 then...
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    When to seek hypo help?

    Hi! I'm on gliclazide modified release once a day for a while now and have mostly found it totally fine except for a period of debilitating hypos. I never went totally unconscious, always able to self treat, however they were long-lasting and relentless (lasted about 5 days with me having to...