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I had my first ever hypo when my blood glucose dropped to 6. I was in hospital recovering from the DKA-induced coma, and my glucose was 64 upon admittance: to my body at the time, 6 was a massive crisis. 13 years later, I don't get symptomatic until I'm at 3.9 or lower (frequently much lower)...

Egg mayonnaise, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, poached eggs, fried eggs. I'm a big fan of eggs.

Dawn phenomenon and morning insulin resistance is a very common feature of diabetic life. My blood glucose often doubles between first testing at 5.30 and getting to work at 8.30. I have found that eating an extremely low carb diet (20-40g per day) eliminates the problem. I have also found that...

Mixed insulin regime was appalling for me. Did not work for me at all - insane swings, uncontrollable highs, terrifying lows even after I switched to a the-same-thing-eaten-every-day-at-the-same-time-every-day-for-a-week diet at the request of my DSN. I put myself back on basal/bolus against his...

Excellent stuff. While I am indeed doing a PhD, it's in literature. Bah. I'll have to find some other way of contributing.

Re-animating an old thread because I am in desperate need of advice. HRT helped stabilise everyone's blood glucose then? I'm perimenopausal not menopausal and the thought of my glucose fluctuations getting even worse is beyond horrifying.

As everyone else has said, yes - stress has an impact on your blood glucose. Like you seem to be experiencing, I went through a period of agoraphobia a couple of years ago. It can have a hideous effect on glucose levels, as do panic attacks and anxiety. The mechanism is fairly simple if...

I was diagnosed when I was 32 and pregnant, and for ten years it made no difference to me at all. Just like it doesn't for all the smug, unhelpful people who show up on boards like this telling other diabetics how easy the condition is, and how they must be doing something wrong. Then I hit my...

Thank you, people! I knew you'd come through. 3c? I had no idea such a thing existed. Cheers for the info! -t

Hi all: I'm posted here before as a T1 diabetic; my father joined the ranks on the 1st of December after a Whipples procedure with a full pancreatectomy. He was discharged from hospital - where he was on a Novorapid drip, BG stable between 4 and 6 - a week ago. Since then his waking readings...

I had no idea mine was so exceptionally high: 1200 mg/dl - I was living in the US at the time. 66 mmol/L. I was 20 weeks pregnant and went into DKA and premature labour. Both the baby and I were given 50/50 chance of making it. He's the kid in my avatar.

After all of your helpful feedback and a letter on Friday announcing that I'd developed background retinopathy, I went to the GP. He promptly signed me off for two weeks so I could sit at home and take the time to learn how my body works for the first time since I was diagnosed ten years ago...

'Do you have your-fault diabetes or not-your-fault diabetes?'

I've been in the same situation for the last year, and totally failed to get a handle on it because I put it at the back of my list of priorities. I've just been signed off work by the doctor so I can stay at home, monitor and record everything obsessively, and try to get a much better sense of...

I've had it for ten years: went into DKA mid-pregnancy at 32 years old (the baby lived and was miraculously undamaged despite my 66.5 bg)

Irritability, lack of ability or desire to concentrate, loss of interest in things that normally engage you and lethargy are all classic symptoms of depression. Not saying you're depressed - just that all of those things are on the depression inventory check lists. Check out this information.

I'm a teacher, and can tell you that your school is doing absolutely everything wrong. Here's how it's supposed to work: all staff, but especially your subject teachers, should have detailed information about your status as a medically at-risk student. In every school I've worked at, your...

Like Mrs Vimes said, most of the time I don't feel stressed at all: tranquilisers wouldn't help. Unfortunately (and fortunately: it's what makes it fun), the adrenaline-inducing aspect of teaching is unavoidable. Even at its smoothest, you're performing before a tough crowd for 5 to 6 hours at a...

Thank you for the advice, everyone! Mrs Vimes - fabulous to hear from someone who understand my classroom pain, and really good to know that this is a fairly normal reaction to workplace stress. Have adjusted my basal upwards this evening and will discuss the endo with my GP this weekend. Cheers!

Hey all: Looking for some advice on managing bg control in the classroom. I'm in the middle of my first year of full-time teaching, and from the very start, my bg levels started to rise dramatically as soon as the first set of students piled in. By three months in, I started getting muddled...