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Hi Guys, long time no see .... all is well under control in the diabetes department ... mostly anyway :o) Pancreas is being a little s**t as usual :( My daughter asked me this question "would a single one off massive dose of sugar be likely to cause harm to an animal's kidneys" Says I...

Hi folks, I'm on Lantus (35 units/day) and Novorapid 30 - 40 units depending on food intake. For a couple of weeks of hot weather, I was struggling to keep readings down to 8 or 9 however much insulin I threw at it, whereas normally I can average about 6 over the day. After a bit of thought...

Hi, Managed to get a glucagon hypo pen kit for emergency backup as we live out in the sticks and are not on any satnavs so ambulances struggle to find us. Amazingly the Diabetic Consultant knows where we live and stumped up a prescription. My wife has been in fear of finding me collapsed...

Hi Folks Can anyone explain why the Blood glucose level at which I get that unmistakable sudden rush of hypo symptoms is so very variable? This morning, feeling fine & dandy, tested 3.5 Twenty minutes later started feeling onset of hypo symptoms at 3.3 & topped up with glucose and had...

Hi folks, Looking for information on Type 3c Diabetes aka Pancreatitis diabetes. This is a little known form of brittle Diabetes characterised by rapid and large Hi/Lo & Lo/Hi swings in BGLs. Chronic pancreatitis, apart from one of the most painful things that can ever, ever happen to you...

Hi Maybe a silly question, but then, I'm a bit thick :? We need insulin to allow passage of sugar to the muscles and cells so we can operate. Say I eat a meal that would require 6 units of insulin to give me a BG level of 5 two hours after providing I am just 'lazing around'. However...

Hi folks, I suffer from Chronic Pancreatitis and I am recently diagnosed with diabetes. Metformin & glicazide failed to make any difference to my +20 BGLs and I was put on Lantus and Novorapid. I have noticed that I have a pattern of high readings when I wake in the morning. I always have a...

Hi Folks, I had severe Acute Pancreatitis in Dec 2004, grew a 5 litre pseudocyst on the pancreas and 4 months later, was released following major surgery. Unfortunately, permanent damage had been done and my pancreas is now slowly but surely digesting itself and disappearing up it's own...