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As a few folk have pointed out, if he's Basal/Bolus and has his ratio's sorted, eating/drinking whatever he wants at Christmas should be, pardon the pun, a piece of cake! That's the good news...it's also not necessarily about 'planning' meals, to me it's more about noting what we're taking in...

Hiya bud, I was on solpadol for 4.5 years due to chronic pain (Solpadol being the brand name, what you're effectively on is 30mg Codeine and 500mg Paracetamol with each tablet there), along with 50mg Trammadol tabs on occasion for breakthrough pain, and now on 30mg Dihydrocodeine and 500mg...

If getting specific info from the work canteen is an issue I'd suggest using the 'carbs & cals' app for your phone (if you have one that is I suppose?) it has pictures of foods you can search and you pick the pic that best matches and they give what I've found to be a pretty accurate nutritional...

Hiya BallyBall81, Being a bloke I can't answer the pregnancy specific queries, but one of your point was not knowing what stage of Kidney Disease you're at. If they're advising Transplant needs are imminent but you've not yet started dialysis treatment then the most likely stage you'll be at...

So unfortunately I have an update...it's not great however =(. This morning at about 2:30am my meter 'broke'...it initially has said the strip has already been used (after trying 6 new strips 1 after the other I decided against believing it) and then has come up with an error message that when...

So if I may ask Robin - *WHY* does double digits = Hmm, not so good? For you anyway? I'm not questioning wether they are or aren't to be clear, but that's a very sweeping statement. Some replies above had said it's down to weight gain, not feeling healthy on the diet that led to the regular...

So a really interesting (to me anyway!) discussion popped up on another thread and I was beginning to feel like I was highjacking it by asking so thought I'd start my own! The other thread asked 'what's the biggest does of <bolus> insulin you've injected to cover 1 meal?' and the subject that's...

@Robinredbreast again as a curiosity why do you think you'd end up in hospital from a either a carb intake/insulin dose that size? Where does that belief/thinking come from? Same for yourself @coco44 ? I'm really intrigued by this now! =)

Ahh right, I see. That makes total sense =) I've just heard a lot of people being very concerned with large doses/high amounts of MDI recently so I was wondering what bit of info I was missing on it being a 'bad' thing to do! Think it's just one of those preference things, a lot of the things I...

Just out of curiosity why wouldn't you? I'm just curious as If you'd carb counted accurately and had no bolus-on-board then there is no risk in taking 40u of insulin I'm aware of, so just wondering why lots of people seem to be up in arms regarding large amounts? Not just on here mind, I trained...

Thankfully my basal/bolus insulins have always had different pens and cartridges.. the original Lantus pen I had was ungainly and weird with a digital display for unit counter (was considered very hi-tech at the time!) and my bolus has either been Actrapid in the past & now Novorapid so I've...

Good point. *IS* that the only way to achieve that outcome though for that person though? I for instance have reduced my sugars in the last 2 weeks and if anything have increased the carbs I've eaten, rather than reduced them. I'm testing more, and using a bolus calculator that is better at...

Hmmm. Interesting. The article intimates it's not the ketones themselves that do the harm, it's the acidosis, which I can get behind...what I'm curious as to with myself then is I've been informed that my kidney damage is down to, in part, how long I've had untreated ketones 'floating' about my...

Years ago I remember injecting 32 units in a single dose as 'I felt a bit high'...I wasn't testing at the time but just felt all the usual symptoms of being hyper. The scary part for me is that I didn't go low, or hypo or have any adverse reactions to doing so...I just felt less high. I'd hate...

Thought this was the best forum to post this in as technically not diabetes related but also not really 'off-topic' I'm aware the risk is probably quite small BUT I have a friend who insists on using varying Ketosis style diets and is on about their 11th attempt at 1 to lose weight (that they...

Signed - it must be a real pain for all you guys in England that have to go through this =(. There's not many but being a Scottish Diabetic certainly has it's advantages! lol

Lol - that's great for you if it's helping though! :) Think we've just seen/interpreted different posts -it always comes across to me as very 'you MUST do it because it's so good!'...I remember the first post I seen on it was someone, in response to a person asking 'what can I do to lower my...

I think some of the advice can come across that way, I'm sure the posters don't mean it to and work from places of good intentions though, it just reads that way across t'interweb to my eyes/brain. As an example, a post I was reading the other day had a girl asking about pasta (I think it was...

Looks like I'm not the only one having a bit of a ****** start to the year =/. I 'admit' to being depressed all the time, I've 'known' I've been depressed for years, and years...I've been depressed due to diabetes and a few other factors for so long that I genuinely can't remember the last time...

Did they give you a reason for changing your meter OTHER than they think the strips will cost them/the NHS less money? For the most part meters are meters, some have fancier screens and nicer software...a few of the newer ones test for Ketones and have bolus calc's on them etc which are all...