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I save my bread for treats now. I probably only eat it once a week or so, when before I used to eat bread daily. I've got used to it now, but I never thought I would.

I think it's possible that you can live on foods you like, once you know what they do to your body. The only way to know is to go very low carb for a while and reintroduce a food at a time, to see what effect it has on your blood. I have to say though, that even with the food you're eating...

Eating certain carbs does it for me. I used to think it was spiking that caused some hot flushes, until I checked my readings, and would find them ok. It took a while for it to sink in that it was the type of food that seemed to be causing the flushes, rather than the height my level climbed to.

I count them all, but use myfitnesspal to track as it contains almost every food known to man, both natural and processed, and is very quick to do. I've relaxed my carb count now that I know which foods do what to me, but I keep to under 100 - 150 a day, and most of those come from fruit, which...

Underactive here too. I've been told it's quite common to go together, type 1 and 2. Both metabolic conditions.

Hi, My HbA1c was 54 in June & 41 end of July, and just waiting for my latest result to come in, but I'm confident it will be around the 40 mark or less. Well, fingers crossed anyway. I'd suspected diabetes for a while, so it wasn't a major shock to me, but still, it's been the kick up the...

I've had flu jab for about 4 years as a carer. Two years I've had an aching arm, and this years one gave me nothing at all. I've only ever once had what I would call flu, and I hope I never get it again. My other half on the other hand, always says he has the flu, when he has a cold!

I don't know when my mum was diagnosed as she has dementia and doesn't really remember, but she's over 80, insulin twice a day, no blindness and all her limbs still attached. I'm just hoping I do as well as she does when I'm her age. The diabetes is, and always has been, her least limiting...

I've been menopausal since my early thirties. I'm not aware of anything that we need to do any different for diabetes.

Hi D&C Type 2 and Underactive thyroid here. I started low carbing, but through testing, I've found the carbs, and how much I can eat of them without spiking. I only test when it's foods I don't know now, and if I eat a larger portion that I know the likely result of. At the start, I was...

I have bought some sugar free sweets at times, but need to keep them at a minimum, as some of the polyols used can give me a gippy tummy. I can cope with maltitol, but sorbitol seems to make me ill. I have mint humbugs & Atkins chocolate bars for emergencies. I almost jumped with joy when I...

Keeping a food and exercise diary and using that as a means to show commitment to managing diabetes, along with choosing a sympathetic GP, might help persuade them to allow you a few tests a day. That's how I got mine, after initially being told no.

CREAM CHEESE PANCAKES – LOW CARB & GLUTEN FREE 110g Cream Cheese or Quark (Tesco Quark: 75 Calories, 4g Carb) 3 Medium Eggs (180 Cals, 0g Carb) 2 Level Teaspoons Stevia (4 Calories, 2g Carb) Butter or Oil to Grease Pan - I used One Cal Spray. (20 Sprays: 20 Cals, 0g Carb) Optional, Teaspoon...

Sorry, you'll find my version here. http://scottishmum.com/2015/06/no-base-low-sugar-virtually-fat-free-cheesecake/

I use it for frying at times, though I find I need less of it than I would of other oils. It's a hit or a miss. Sometimes I love the added nutty taste, other times I dislike it, but it's a great hair conditioner and for many years I used it as a moisturiser, but have moved on to Oilatum recently.

Steamed, stir fry or in the actifryer for me, along with a pile of mushrooms.

I'm another who would have raspberries with a little double cream, or I often mix it with quark and stevia so that it's also low calorie as well as low carb.

I am not sure of the regs now, though I used to work offshore. We had T2 onboard, but no T1, probably for obvious reasons, but the T2 were checked at the medicals re having their diabetes under control.

It took a few weeks for my stomach to settle on Metformin. I was about to ask the doctor for SR, then my stomach seemed to get used to them. Hope you get it sorted out.