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I would like to see organisations that advise diabetics on their diet to review their advice. As insulin dependant diabetic I feel that I have been mislead (I am sure not intentionally) on how adversely carbohydrates affect most diabetics often hesitating large amounts of insulin The suggested...

It would be interesting to find out how many people who have had the flue jab, ended up with a dose of flu anyway. Regards John

Hi Bonerp I posted something similar on 6th May. As soon as I started to low carb (20-30 grams of carbohydrate per day) I started to get near normal B’S’s. I also managed to more than halve my insulin intake. I was need less to say overjoyed at these results. I then started to get bleeds in the...

Hi All Most of you seem to be in favour of having the flu jab. I did have quite a bad reaction to it a few years ago which has somewhat put me off having it. There seems to be little credible evidence that it does any good at all. Some people have taken it every year for 10 –12 yrs and haven’t...

Hi All It’s the time of the year when most GP’s surgeries seem to be promoting the “Flu Jab” Over the years I have become quite cynical and I was wondering if the “Flu Jabs” are in anyway beneficial or is it the pharmaceutical companies who are the main benefactors. It would appear that last...

Hi All Their web address is http://www.lowcarbmegastore.com. The ingredients are as follows NEW RECIPE - Despatch Mon 22nd Sep Rating: Serving Size 1 slice Carbs/Serving 1.9g Protein/Serving 5.6g Nutritional Info Per 100g Energy Kcal 223, Carbohydrate 30.2g, Dietry Fibre 7.1g, Fat...

I have been using the fresh baked bread from lowcarbmegastore for some time now and I have always enjoyed it. They have now introduced a different loaf, which is 1.9g per slice as opposed to the old recipe which was 2.5g per slice. I personally don't think its a patch on the original recipe. It...

I would like to hear from any one who has had laser treatment for diabetic retinopathy and if it improved their situation. I am told that I need to have it done but I have been advised that it is not without risk i.e. you can lose your night vision and possibly some peripheral vision. The only...

Hello Everybody Stockcar you are so right. It really would appear that the pharmaceutical companies have a lot to answer for, there is now overwhelming evidence that cholesterol levels have little or no relationship to heart disease. The pharmaceutical companies of course perpetuate this myth...

Hi Sue Didn't mean to ignore your post. I am not taking asprin on a regular basis. I do occasionaly take it for headaches. However I will now refrain from using the stuff. Regards John

Hi fergus That is encouraging. The website I quoted in my first post on this subject states “A sudden improvement (lowering to normal) of glucose levels in a person whose diabetes has been poorly controlled for sometime may cause rapid and often uncontrollable retinopathy. This is a very common...

Hi Fergus Thanks your last post was encouraging. The eye surgeon I saw seemed to suggest that unless I agreed to extensive laser treatment, I would go blind. (I did make him aware that my B’S’ over the last few months have now improved and are now very near to normal.) I am not entirely...

Hi fergus, The one thing I won’t ever do is revert to my old high carb diet, which I now realise was killing me, having at long last achieved what I have been trying unsuccessfully to achieve for many years. What I find annoying about all of this is that for years of visiting my diabetic clinic...

Hi Everybody Over the last few months I have at long last got my B’S’s to pretty near normal and have been feeling quite pleased with myself. Yesterday I suddenly ended up with a huge blob in my vision from the right eye. I saw an emergency ophthalmologist who told me it was a pretty hefty...

Hello Everybody I wonder how many people have been put off eggs by all the adverse publicity? I eat between 3-5 eggs per day. (fried, poached, boiled, scrambled, omelettes etc) I personally do not subscribe to the theory that eggs are harmfull. The links between high cholesterol and heart...

Hi Everybody I was put on statins some 4-5 years ago before I was aware of the “cholesterol myth” I took one tablet (can’t remember the name) at bedtime. I started to develop daily migraine type headaches. I mentioned this to my GP who gave me some painkillers that were not far short of a class...

Hi fergus Have dropped the lantus by 12 units per day. It’s all coming to-gether well. You were right when you said that this would probably happen. By the way is it OK to still call you fergus, as I am aware that you have recently been canonized or would you prefer me to put the saint in front...

Although I have had type1 diabetes for some 37-38 yrs my understanding of diabetes until relatively recently can at best be described as abysmal. After for many years trying to achieve the unachievable and keep my B’S’s at reasonable levels, I came to a realization that my problem was...

Hi All I use Low Carb Megastore for their bread, which works out at 2.5 g per slice. They also seem to be the only UK based store that I can buy Gluten flour (8 g of carb per 100g and not to be confused with gluten free) My wife mixes this flour with a small amount of soya flour or ground...

Hi fergusc I think you might be right over the last few weeks I have been decreasing the Novorapid very slightly as my B’S’s have been slowly improving. I actually had a 3.8 yesterday. I of course no longer increase my carbs but decrease the insulin. It is however those large doses of Lantus...