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I ordered my usual batch of creon capsules this week and when I went to the pharmacy to collect they could only give me one box instead of the normal six. They said there's a UK supply shortage. Has anyone else found this?

In the BMJ today there's a very interesting and hard hitting article by Dr Partha Kar in which he delivers a critical analysis of the dysfunctional processes within the labrynthine layers of the NHS and how these impact on the delivery of cost saving and life extending glucose monitoring...

Since Abbott rolled out 'upgraded?' drivers for LV I can't upload from my reader via my PC. I can though access all my previous uploads. I carried out all the checks on my PC suggested on the pop-ups after a failed upload, and my PC meets and exceeds ALL the criterea. I'm using the latest...

There is a major project aimed at discovering more about many aspects of hypoglycaemia about to start in the UK. It’s part of a huge international project – Hypo Resolve. In the UK diabetic participants will spend 10 weeks wearing two Libre sensors, a FitBit watch and recording answers to a...

The Food Databanks online database is an easily accessed and quickly searchable online resource. It is based on data extracted from PHE's McCance & Widdowsons's Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (aka CoFID)which is about as comprehensive as can be found for data about the composition of...

The CoFiD - Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset is about as good as you'll find and covers hundreds of foods. It was first established in 1940. Up to recently it was only available as an Excel spreadsheet (massive!) but has now been released as a searchable on-line database. For anyone adept...

I've just injected 17 units of NovoRapid instead of 17u Lantus. Should i just eat extra carbs with breakfast? Normally I inject 9u NR to cover about 36g of carbs. Should I skip taking the Lantus for today?

I discovered today that an "Alexa" will tell you the carbs per 100g of most common foods. All you you to do is say "Alexa how many carbohydrates in xxxxx". If you want detailed nutritional info just ask "Alex what is the nutritional facts for xxxx". There are of course many other ways of finding...

Hope it's ok to post this here as I'm T2, but insulin dependent. How long do folk find it takes their blood sugar to peak after a meal? My peak occurs between 3 and 4 hours and after a fairly slow initial rise. I normally bolus novorapid about 15 minutes before a meal, but am starting to wonder...

Is there anyone who can comment about the impact of radio therapy on blood glucose? I commenced RT on my prostate a week ago and have found that my BG has risen beyond what I would normally expect. Any ideas as to how I should manage this would be mosr welcome.

I’ve been using the Libre reader and Libre View to record and review my glucose levels, carb intake etc. And I’m certainly finding them very useful. I’ve also been reading Gary Scheiner’s book – Think Like a Pancreas – an enormously informative publication. In it Gary suggests that WRITTEN...

Hope this is the most appropriate thread to post on, but it does concern Food and Nutrition. I have on my desktop PC the Diogenes Database and this provides me with data on carbs and GI and GL on hundreds of foods. In original downloadable format the Diogenes data is in spreadsheet format which...

When I go hypo I resort to glucose tablets, glucose juice or jelly babies. I friend has told me that Love Hearts work faster than tablets. Has anyone tried this romantic cure? I bought a packet out of interest and by my calculations they work out at 1.15g carb per sweet which means scoffing...

I know about the plastic bag and liquids rule and I have a letter from my DSN regarding carrying insulin etc. Do I have to remove my pens from their box when I place them in the bag?

I'll be provided with a Libre CGM soon and can see that the Librelink app could be useful. However from what I've been reading on the web Apple have turned off NFC on the iPhone apart from use with Apple Pay. Can anyone confirm that an iPhone works using NFC with Librelink?

I've just started on insulin so need an easily carried hypo booster. I've bought some "Dextro Energy" tablets, but finding it hard to estimate how many tabs to take to manage a hypo. Can anyone enlighten me please? Dave

It seems likely that after 3 years on Gliclazide and a LCHF diet that seems to have ceased having the desired effect, I'm quite possibly likely going to have insulin added to my meds. I've a pal who is T1 and can more or less eat what he wants so long as he adjusts his insulin accordingly. My...

I know my situation is relatively rare in the diabetic community as most folks are wanting to avoid calorie intake and shed weight. I on the other hand need to gain weight as I've lost a lot. Weight loss started before I was diagnosed about three years ago, it rose briefly when I started meds...

I’m shortly having a C-Peptide test as I’ve queried my T2 diagnosis and suspect I may be LADA or T1. I’m currently taking gliclazide, a sulphonylurea which as far as I understand, pushes my pancreas into producing insulin. Now, to my non-medical mind if the test is to accurately assess insulin...

For the past three years I've manually entered results from my GlucomenLX Plus meter into an Excel spreadsheet that I created and it has provided me with a good overview and graphs of how my BG levels are going. Today after downloading the Glucolog app to my PC and getting a free connecting...