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That's a good point. Women can hold fat in a far healthier manner than men can. Men's fat goes around the internal organs ('apple shaped'), which is hugely dangerous, while I believe I'm right in saying that most women are 'pear shaped', meaning they put fat on the outside of their musculature...

Bernstein also operates with a glucose level of 3.5 or something stupidly low like that. Fine for an old doctor who sits all day to do his job and can afford to sit and wait for his liver to produce glucose on its own accord. For anyone who needs actual energy during the day, though, that would...

Point of interest, a high daily caffeine intake can hae a severe effect on reducing night-time hypoglycaemia. http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_chann ... ryid=11401 There are others around, but I can't be bothered looking right now. Caffeine also increases sensitivity to hypoglycaemia...

Now, I am not a woman, however, I am fairly sure that as most women lose weight, their bust size goes down, yes? Should your mammary tissue alone measure 38H, you would be correct, however I think I am right in saying that almost all women put on significat amounts of fat on their chest when...

I had that same problem, beginning this time last year. I cut out a lot of carbohydrate and suddenly became FAR more sensitive to it. Due to adopting that diet for a few months which wouldn't count as 'low carb', I now have to inject more insulin per gram of carbohydrate than I used to. I also...

Aggressive, yet with perfectly managed glucose levels! GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! :twisted:

Increased sensitivity study here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11475292 Anohter here: http://spectrum.diabetesjournals.org/co ... /2/77.full (scroll down to Methylxanthines) Additionally, a high caffeine intake reduces night-time hypoglycaemia as shown here...

I'm afraid I just don't have much time for people who would have me hypothetically endanger myself in order to satisfy either their comfort or 'rules'. As for why the coffee? Well firstly, in a form such as a latte, it gives you a nice hit of about 15-20gof low GI carbs - good fuel for a...

:wink: I don't see that having strongly felt, if uncommon views and announcing them without fear (or, if I'm being completely honest, much care for the feelings of others) makes me a 'troll'. If I lived under a bridge, maybe... Again, though, I find that I'm being told flatly that I'm 'wrong'...

Well, I hope it works for you. Sounds like a horrible situation to be in. Final idea, are you simply injecting too much Lantus? (I'm sorry, I know these are really basic/borderline-insulting questions). Maybe dial it back a couple of units each night?

Hahahaha. Somebody's bitter. If a job/working environment is legally bound to make allowances for a disease (and let's be frank, if you're saying that you NEVER, EVER require a few extra minutes/allowance due to a lapse in concentration or some other circumstance, you're definitely lying), then...

I suppose that begets the question (again, the same one being asked at the beginning of this thread): How much of a common denominator IS diabetes, especially when comparing the two different types? Let me illustrate: I have type 1 diabetes. One of my internal organs has failed (in one of its...

Teh. Well if you can't even give me a nudge as to why you or anyone else found what I said off putting, don't look for a change any time soon. I honestly don't think I said anything particularly unfair or that wasn't an established fact. If people are going to be oversensitive, I can't really do...

Well then feel free to point out exactly what I said that was 'out of line'. If need be, explain it to me with small words and visual aides. You might not agree with my view, but that doesn't make it any less valid unless you can deconstruct it to show exactly why it's invalid. My argument for...

I don't really see anything I said that was out of line. I really don't think many, if any type 2s appreciate that type 1 diabetes is a far more serious illness. The idea that seems to come from type 2s is that we're all in this together. But type 2 really just isn't in the same league as type...

Seems like a basic question here, but are you certain you didn't just have a levemir pen that went off? I had a bad pen about a month ago - essentially it was as if I was injecting myself with water, I just switched to a new one and was right as rain. I got started on Lantus to begin with, but...

All that means is that 4 out of 5 type2s are an unhealthy weight. And that of all the people of an unhealthy weight in the country, 1 in 5 have pancreatic systems that have already been put under too much pressure. I don't quite see what you're getting at. Are you saying that type2 diabetes is...

Unfortunately, it's not neccessarily an unfair judgement. Of course there will be exceptions, there are to every rule, but you try telling me the vast majority of type 2s aren't slobs when I see the people who I see in my clinic every time I pay it a visit? That's a tough sell. Around 85-90% of...

Ouch, that does indeed suck. I've been type 1 for two and a half years now (I think, I forget). I don't like the idea that my levemir will one day just stop working. That said, you've essentially described your weight gain as being due to your insulin, not your diet. Is there any third way? A...