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I missed my Cappucino's and didn't want to waste my carb quota on milk, so I was looking for an alternative. i have one of those milk frother thingy's :lol: . So instead off relegating it to the back of the kitchen gadget cupboard I went on walk about. I did not fancy Soy, it just dosen't taste...

Hi Peeps, happy new year everyone :D I have one of these new fancy splancy BG testing machines...phew :roll: Anyway what I needed to know was.... it does an average BG figure taken over the last however many months I have been using it. Will my next MOT HbA1C be in this ball park??? I know...

I was using much too long a needle on my pens....8mm, so was going into my muscles from time to time with much quicker uptake of insulin action to food digestion.And ensuing Hypo's ..quickly :shock: I was changed onto the 4mm , the shortest baby ones they do I think,with much improvement, as I...

Hi all How often do you change the needle on your pen? Do you change it every time you do an injection? I used to be really bad for making a needle last forever :oops: I have never had an infection, thank goodness , and I do change them now on my Bolus more often but not every time, kind of...

I'm not a great film buff or watcher, but with the passions for music thread. I was wondering what your all time favorite films are....the ones you could watch over again. We were on about this the other night...I love "One flew over the Cuckoo's nest", love Jack Nicholson. Also "The Shining"...

What a sad day yesterday was for me :cry: Sir James Savile died at his home in Leeds..They broke the mold when they made him. RIP Jimmy Savile His accountant stopped counting after he got past 40 million pounds which he raised for charity...A true star and one who really deserved a Knighthood...

I have just written on another post concerning this and would like to know other peoples experiences with it. If any??? I eat Low carb but find I need to Bolus for my no carb meals, virtually the same amount of units ,as if I had had some starchy carbs with it, maybe just 1 unit less on average...

I was being nagged by my Son to make him some pancakes this holiday, I hate making them ,it always looks like a bomb has gone off in my kitchen by the time I have finished..I'm never a tidy cook, but this dish really does bring out the worse in me...Anyway I relented at his pleading eyes :roll...

I'm interested to know what you peeps use to treat your Hypo's . Over the years various things have gone in and out of favour with me. I used to hate glucose tablets and never found them "enough", recently though I've gone full circle and gone back to them with great success and find a couple...

I know a few people on here use the stuff, I have used it for quiet some time for cooking and other stuff due to the health benefits and have used loads of different brands. I just wanted to give people who use it a little heads up on a real little gem of one I have found. It's Coconoil...

I was on Apidra and had the old Optiset pen's that were first used by Noah on the Ark I think, they were to be phased out by Christmas any way, even before the Apidra debacle set in. This pen moved up in 2 unit increments so it was hard for me to do a correction dose of even dose adjustment for...

Just before you were diagnosed, before you got REALLY poorly. Can you remember an incident where it was so obvious things were not "quiet :lol: right"? I remember all the weight loss and feeling Ill after eating ect ...and generally grinding to a halt. One incident that does stick in my mind...

Hi All I have posted this in here and in the Type 1 forum in the hope someone will have some advice ideas that might help me. I have been on a low carb diet (which I have used in the past) now for a few weeks , it has given me very steady good control over-all ,which is good considering it was...

Hi I'm in need of some help and advice/suggestions for low carbing and Type 1 diabetes. Do any of you Type 1 follow this lifestyle? How do you find it? I have found very good BG control since adopting this approach of late, very stable. I am eating a lot of food and a very varied and healthy...

I know it was mentioned earlier about Apidra running out.....well it's all gone now ,none ,zilch, the well has runneth dry! Here in the UK. I have had to be changed onto Novo-rapid and it looks like there won't be a chance to go back to the Apidra. Has anyone else had to change??? I did just...

Just out of interest, I was talking the other day to a friend of mine who was Diagnosed when he was 15 , I was diagnosed at 20 and we were discussing our Pre-Diabetic days , not just before we were Diagnosed or when we started to get poorly but when we were not, as far as we knew anyway non...

Hi Peeps Can anyone help me and point me in the right direction of an Ap to download to my Ipad so I can record my result's easily in mmol/L, the ones my DH downloaded for me have the other mg/dL so I don't want to be faffing with that one. I need one that I can fill in the carbs I have eaten...

Does Metformin make you lose weight even if you don't restrict calories ?

Hi I'm going on the course to get a pump fitted. I've been type 1 for 20 years. I have very little abdomen fat and leg fat so my fast acting injected into these areas is FAST :wink: I do all injecting into my butt cheeks as it is the safest place for me. I have used upper arms but hit a vein...

Hi I have always had trouble with night time hypo's ,erratic BS's on a night. Great during the day when I can control them but due to hormone changes ect being a woman :roll: nighttimes can go through phases of being a right pain in the neck....literally ,if I have had a fit :( Anyway I...