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    Test Strips stopped

    Hi Stoke bloke, I have spare machines and a ton of strips I bought cheap off the bay when my doc thought I had diabetes but they were wrong so now going spare, I was going to resell on the bay, but you seem like a deserving cause. I am disgusted,no, horrified, at the fact that doctors are...
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    Limbo Dancing Diabetes?

    I kid you not, but that shakiness and trembling have been happening to me for years and I was actually diagnosed with MS (with completely normal brain and spine MRIs and all tests normal)! It's only in recent years that I stated to correlate it with my food and now have a new GP who says he...
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    To test or not!

    Helen Not to put too fine a point on it - your doctors are full of sh*t. A reading of 7 or above on the plasma glucose meter (on which you are reading 6.9) is so close to diabetes that they should be doing something to assist you in getting your bg down, even if it's simple diet advice for...
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    Meter readings versus blood test/lab reading?

    Good work! Which meter is that?
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    Type 2 with 'true' hypo?

    There's a documented phenomenon whereby established diabetics "lose" the threshold for hypos and start to experience hypo symptoms at higher thresholds than the "routine" 3.9 for example, so even at say 5, they can have hypo symptoms, even though it shouldn't happen at 5. Sorry but off the top...
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    Meter readings versus blood test/lab reading?

    Hi Anyone have any info on how closely/accurately the glucose meters actually reflect the real values in terms of blood glucose, compared to lab results?
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    Limbo Dancing Diabetes?

    Hi, just curious, when you say your legs stop working what do you mean? Do they get shaky/weak feelings in them?
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    New Diagnostic Strategy

    Hi, wow that's quite a story!! Could you explain what you mean by explaining the numbers i.e. if they're good blaming it on hypos? Could hypos even out the number? Also what is C peptide? I'm due for tests soon and this is listed as one of them I think, as is fasting lipids. Any help...
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    New Diagnostic Strategy

    Thanks for the info, you've done very well to get the numbers down!
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    New Diagnostic Strategy

    Good God, that can't have felt very good! :shock:
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    New Diagnostic Strategy

    http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?s ... de=4125181 There are proposals to use Hba1c as the diagnostic test for Diabetes in the near future in the UK, instead of fasting glucose etc. America are apparently using HbA1c as of Jan 2010 to diagnose and this has resulted in more diagnosed cases...
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    Is a Atkins Diet Dangerous?

    I used that one only as an example, if you wanted more carbs that would be up to you...add something else or use a different powder. Or you could try something like LipoTrim which is labelled up as a meal replacement but nutritionally is no different to constructing a properly balanced meal...
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    Is a Atkins Diet Dangerous?

    Hey! Come on, don't get all bent out of shape about my silly sense of "food humour" people! As for my carb binge, yes, it was FANTASTIC :-) but I know, not good for me, but hey, you gotta live and if I could avoid carbs ALWAYS, I would, but I can't. Hell, I'm human! I call bread, "death bread"...
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    Is a Atkins Diet Dangerous?

    Hi - actually there ARE protein shakes that are a full meal..they've come on a long way in recent years. Also, the bog standard protein shake can be blended with a banana and a spoon of peanut butter which gives essential fats and they can (depending on brand) have all the nutrients and micro...
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    To test or not!

    Ginnie I find myself utterly speechless at your story, because, unfortunately, it sounds all too familiar. Let me explain a bit about my own circumstances in the hope that it will assist you. Ginnie, I too was diagnosed with a peripheral neuropathy and then indeed MS several years ago...
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    Is a Atkins Diet Dangerous?

    Hi, just a suggestion, but have you ever considred buying a tub of protein powder, for example Optimum Nutrition chocolate flavour has 3g of carbs per entire shake (32g of powder) and you can mix it in water or low fat milk, it gives all the nutrients of a meal plus a nice level of protein to...
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    3.8 and feeling a bit weird

    Hi again Thanks for all the responses. I had some Lucozade and that got me back up to 5. something then I went to sleep. But I am confused as to why I would go to 3.8 in the first place, as I had been eating snacks all evening, in fact my last food and drink was 11pm-ish, including a mini...
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    3.8 and feeling a bit weird

    No formal diagnosis of yet, just borderling readings but ate as normal tonight and now dropped to 3.8 plus my vision feels just a bit strange and I feel a bit spaced out. Any thoughts?
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    all diabetics have the right to try an insulin pump?

    Kimberley >>apparently in my area of scotland the funds given for pumps has been halfed & as they cost over £1000 they choose the patients who are allocated 1 very closely, this will be even worse now funds have been cut. My diabetic nurse told me 'if you want one so badly, buy one yourself', i...