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If I want to add fizz, I use soda water these days - bought a new bottle of gas for the incredibly ancient machine and an adaptor so I can use ordinary bottles for the water. I replace the plastic bottles regularly as there seems to be an infinite supply of them.

Do you mean Diabetes Specialist Nurse? I am Type 2 but my intake of any sort of grain as very low - some weeks I might get down to zero. From time to time I use gluten for baking, but that is just a couple of times a year - it is the carbs I need to look out for. As a rule I do not anything...

I got myself some cheap plastic foam clog type things, completely flat sole with a wide toe box - for use in communal showers, and was amazed at the change in my feet and joints after wearing them around the house for a few days. The circulation in my feet must have improved as my toenails are...

@Jon454 As you are not into the diabetes range you might be able to resolve the problem by reducing/avoiding all those 'healthy' carbs we are advised to eat - I was full blown diabetic on the diet sheet given to me by my GP and in normal numbers on what is basically the Atkins diet. Rather than...

My surgery kept me from being diabetic by not repeating a flagged test for almost 10 years - by which time I was well and truly in the diabetes range. I have never had any problem with the diagnosis altering anything to do with insurance, it did get me various checks and - had I been younger I...

I did some roadie work and always wore ear defenders during work ups. The others would laugh, but I never got the ringing in the ears that bothered all the rest of the team.

@Hoodiegirl3 these days there are so many ways to keep in touch - when I left home my parents didn't even have a telephone landline. It was 1969 - we wrote letters. In the 1800's people went to the other side of the world and still managed to keep in touch - I think you'll be just fine. It...

@mack76 Those nurses do have a certain inability to do joined up thinking. How a high HbA1c number could protect against hypos is a superb non sequitur. I altered my HbA1c 91 t9 41 in 6 months just by reducing my intake of carbs during that time - if you are unhappy with the idea of medication...

It could be something as simple as a shoe being too tight and affecting the nerve. I have had bother with my feet in the recent past - but they have recovered - admittedly there was severe pain needing antibiotics and a lot of cushioning underfoot, but even being over 70 did not mean I did not...

I have found that - admittedly after a long time eating low carb, that my need to eat is rather low. I can easily eat just one meal a day and feel fine - but I eat protein and natural fats - a chop or steak with mushrooms or stirfry for instance, full fat Greek style yoghurt and berries, coffee...

I have the temperament of a Viking Berzerker - I don't have anger problems, other people do though. I lose my temper with a gleeful smile and enough adrenalin to pick up small cars. It happens very rarely as I am usually perfectly peaceful - I never start trouble, but if people come looking then...

Mayday morning I go out in the dark and dance up the sun on the deck in the back garden, just to make sure that Summer gets going properly.

@Nicksellick I am currently reading a book describing the ways in which intelligent people tried every which way to make the geology they could see and even stand on somehow match the description of the creation of the world in Genesis. In some ways it is amusing and in others heart breaking. It...

@IanA123 Do try to start Metformin when you can be at home for a couple of days, just in case you are one of those unlucky enough to react badly to it. Some people can take it and be absolutely trouble free - for others, moving more than ten paces from the bathroom is inadvisable.

it is the Low Carb Support group on Facebook - but it is years since I was active on there as it is not directed at diabetics so I would not know how far back you'd need to go to find any information. It was not the diet causing the trouble it was people already taking BP lowering medication...

At home my blood pressure is around 110 to 120 and 60 to 70 - I think that is due to the very low carb diet I keep to. It is higher at the surgery but I suspect that the climb up the stairs is the culprit. I used to run over mountains, but that was long ago now. My husband has been put on blood...

You might find one held in a private room at a pub, or in a hall or even someones home. My local club is Sunday afternoons at a church hall - free coffee, tea and biscuits.

Do you check your after meal blood glucose levels just to check that all is on plan? That was how I picked up that I should not eat beans and other legumes as I can get more carbs out of them than the value listed. It could be that you are eating a 'healthy' food which is elevating blood glucose.

You could try making 'looks like noodles' which are eggs and soft cheese mixed together thinned with a little water so it will flow, then make thin pancakes with butter in the pan,, do not brown. Roll up the pancakes and slice into ribbons so as to look as noodle-like as possible.

@Hoodiegirl3 I did very well with my playing and making in the years after leaving Portsmouth Polytechnic. t has made quite a difference to my life since leaving home. Back then I used to crochet caps with peaks - they were all the rage back in the days of hippies. I still make them, - since...