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    SWINE FLU THREAD

    hi my 6 year old daughter has got swine flu, diagnosed today. the rest of us have got a cold, but what do i look out for? i have type 2, my hubby has asthma, and my son has a heart condition. im very worried about my children.
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    ill and bs.

    hello thank you for the reply. that answer explains every thing very well. how are you? take care
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    ill and bs.

    hi im sorry i have not been around, i have been ill for over a week and my bs have been high, (between 8-16) and thats even if i dont eat is it normal for bs to be high if you are ill?
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    potato substitute?

    hello thank you for the reply. hardly any, ive cut out potatoes, bread, rice altogether. i have omlettes, mushroom or cheese or bacon, scrambled eggs, boiled ham, salmon, broccoli, leeks, curly kale, cauliflour, iceberg lettuce with boiled eggs, dry spare ribs from chinese shop, steak, pork, and...
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    potato substitute?

    hello thank you for the reply. so far i feel fine, just a little light headed feeling. how are you doing? take care
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    potato substitute?

    hello things are going great now, since i had my morning bs of 9.1 yesterday, imagine my suprise of getting these bs of 3.2, 5.9, 7.7, and this morning my bs was 3.2. a great improvement. one question tho is 3.2 too low? i wish i had done this ages ago. but im not turning back now. thank you.
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    potato substitute?

    hello well its now been 10 days since i went on a low carb diet. ive gone from my bs being as high as 12 as was on 08/10/09 and now since yesterday they have been 7.2, 8.8, 6.6, 7.1, 7.9 a lot better from what it was before i started my low carb diet. and this morning it was 9.1. i am very...
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    LOW CARB DIET - A NEWBIES GUIDE

    hello a quick question are those big crackers you get at a chinese take away ok to eat
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    potato substitute?

    hello thank you both for your replies. ive just done my bs and it is 10.9 ive had nothing to eat since breakfast. im starting to feel a little despondent. but yes i think you are right, i think it will take a little while for my body to adjust. i wish it would hurry up lol. take care
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    Emotional Management of Diabetes

    hello well done. can i ask, what foods did you eat to controll your blood sugars? take care
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    potato substitute?

    hi thank you for the reply. my bs was 8.6 before bed. take care
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    potato substitute?

    hello im very confused i did my bs when i got up this morning and it was 12.3 i only had a drink of dandelion and burdoch last night, and a few sips of strawberry flavoured water in the night that has a trace of carbs and a trace of sugar. can someone explain it please?
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    potato substitute?

    hello i just did my bs after 2 hours and it is 8.6 its a start in the right direction.
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    potato substitute?

    hi one thing is puzzling me, when i did my bs when it was 11.6, i had a lot of trouble getting blood out of my thumb, in the past when that happened my bs was low, so could that have been a false reading?
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    Energy drink with no carbs

    hello after drinking diet coke for nearlly all my life, circumstances changed that and i stopped drinking it in june this year. i have since found asda brand of dandelion & burdock which is very nice with 0.5 carbs and only a trace of sugar, with NO ASPARTAME. which is good.
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    potato substitute?

    hello thank you to you all for your replies, your comments have been noted. this has been my first day of trying to eat right. for breakfast i had a mushroom omlette, which was cooked with a no carb oil. i really enjoyed it and i was not hungry for about 2 and a half hours later. i had some...
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    hello

    hello thank you for the welcome. take care
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    problem

    hello thank you for your replies. i bought one from asda. ive just done my bs, it was 11.6 the first time in ages. that is a lot better than my previous bs, but all the same it is not good. i will be testing it regularly from now on, and seeing which foods work for me. i feel so ashamed of...
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    problem

    hello ive lost my bs monitor, what should i do? will the drs give me one free? or do i have to buy one?
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    help needed i cannot find low carb foods

    hello today is the first day of the rest of my life. im going shopping later to get some low carb foods, i had a look in tesco's earlier but every thing i looked at is high in carbs. can anyone give me some ideas of what to get that is low in carbs please? are eggs ok, bacon, liver?