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I have been type 1 for 30 years and after my son lost a leg and his sight from bad control decided to keep to a tight control regime. My health has been excellent and when I have my retinal scan the technician is amazed how good my retinas look. This has been very much aided by the Freestyle...

I agree that there is nothing like a brisk walk to get your blood sugar down. But if you want something different try yoga, it is more strenuous than it looks and you can do it into your old age. Excellent for the joints too.

I'm obviously a bit out of date. I knew brown rice broke down slowly but not as slowly as that. Normally my fast acting plus long acting insulin works on that sort of meal quite well and my blood sugar is pretty good, about 4 by 9pm. I'll have to find out a bit more about GI for different foods...

I had 3 dextrose tablets (10 CHO) followed by 20 grams in the form of wholemeal bread. My blood sugar was 10 when I normally would have my meal so I waited after my injection for an hour then had 20 CHO brown rice and 10 CHO veg curry. MY blood was 14 at 9 pm so I had nothing else but it was...

Had a hypo yesterday afternoon and took glucose and had my normal insulin and evening meal but my blood glucose has stayed high for 14 hours. I had to take extra insulin this morning to get it down. I know the body produces its own gucagon. Has anyone else noticed this time lag effect?