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Hello, Are any members involved with this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60133358 If so could you let us know how you are finding it? Is it a game changer or does guestimating carbs make it unwieldy? Does it have low glucose alarms like the Freestyle Libre? Thanks Dillinger

This is the real deal. My wife makes a mean pizza for our kids using the bread machine to make the dough. I tried this version alongside theirs and in the interests of diabetes research compared it to a small slice of real pizza stolen from my son. The texture was pretty much identical. The...

Hello, I was thinking that a lot of the 'diary' type posts on here where people discuss recent diabetic issues in their lives fall into 2 broad categories; either ‘success posts’ or ‘failure posts’. I hope it's not just me but sometimes when struggling along with diabetes it's the failure...

Well, this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/12157789/Diabetic-woman-died-of-heart-attack-after-waiting-nearly-five-hours-for-an-ambulance.html It doesn't specifically say so in the report but I'm betting that the poor woman was in DKA. Most of the time diabetes is not very...

Carb creep is a persistent problem I find; those devilish carbs are everywhere. So, does anyone have little changes/improvements they do to keep the carbs at bay? I've realised that I'm drinking a lot of coffee at the moment which I have with milk; not much of a problem for 1 cup but 4 or 5 a...

Anyone seen this? Sounds pretty good. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12016532/End-of-daily-injections-for-diabetes-as-scientists-restore-insulin-production.html If it's blocking you this is the gist of it: "The end of daily injections for diabetes sufferers could be in...

We all know the drill I suppose; there are loads of examples of really poor advice given by dietitians in the NHS and today I had my first meeting with a dietitian for maybe a decade. It was outrageous! The dietitian completely agreed with me on low-carbing!!! I fell off my seat. He was...

If you do want to live forever and you're taking statins then you are out of luck I'm afraid. The average extension to your life is between 3 days for primary (no previous heart attack) and 4 days for secondary prevention (previous heart attack) with statins. That's a whopping 72 to 96 hour...

Not that I read the Daily Mail you understand... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3135298/The-end-injections-diabetics-Smart-patch-automatically-release-insulin-bloodstream.html Probably 10 years away as are all diabetes cures always. Best Dillinger

Hello, I asked to be and have been referred to the above as I'd heard some very good things about the clinic. Is anyone else here a patient there and would you recommend? Thanks Dillinger

Hi, Does anyone attend Kings for their diabetes care? If so; do you rate it? I'm looking to sign up with them and have heard some good things but would like to know from the horses mouth. Thanks Dillinger

Hi, My chemist is saying that they can't get hold of Freestyle Lite test strips at the moment; has anyone else using them found that? I'm on a back up meter (One Touch Ultra) and it is so **** compared to the InsuLinx monitor I normally use. I got 3 different reading within a minute of each...

Hello, I was talking to a friend of a friend recently who was very interested in low-carb diets because the thinks her 10 year old daughter (who is not a diabetic) is having a lot of difficulty eating carbs/sugars. She describes her as becoming emotionally unbalanced; angry, hyper, tearful...

HI, I haven't religiously recorded my results for some time; I just refer to my meter. Having used an app (DiaConnect) for the last 3 weeks however has been very helpful I think; and I hope to continue to do that. Information is no good if it's just sitting there and not being used. I've...

Hi, I think that treating hypos correctly is one of the hardest elements of diabetes control; your brain is not working quite right, you are hungry and can be anxious so tend to stuff yourself with glucose/carbs/anything you can find... I've recently changed my strategy for treating hypos and...

Hi, As a Type 1 I don't have issues in getting test strips for which I'm very grateful. I know a number of Type 2 diabetics are told that they shouldn't test. As far as I can see that must be a combination of short term costs and the generally very poor results that diabetics get following...

It's a tricky one to get a straight answer to that; there is a lot of discussion on here about it but I have just found this old blog that suggests 4.7 to 5.7% is what 95% of non-diabetic are at. Is that a possible or even achievable level? Bernstein suggests between 4.2% and 4.6% - but I've...

This sounds pretty great; but I hope they don't cost the Earth http://richarddawkins.net/2014/07/google-partners-with-novartis-to-create-smart-contact-lens/ Best Dillinger

This sounds pretty good to me; growing insulin in your gut! http://richarddawkins.net/2014/07/it-may-take-guts-to-cure-diabetes/ Dillinger

Well, that's the plan anyway. Is anyone up for joining me in a very quick bit of High Intensity Training of a morning and seeing what the effects are on our blood sugars? What I propose is this; 1 minute of a plank 1 minute of burpees That's it. It's even easier than that as the burpees are...