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  1. kesun

    Miss eating what I like

    I miss the bland food, the vehicle, the filler - rice, porridge, bread, pie crust, Yorkshire pudding, all those things that give background to all the fierce-tasting fats and proteins that are now the whole of my diet. I feel a bit as if my food's shouting at me without the stodgy carbs to...
  2. kesun

    does porridge cause you bg spikes?

    I agree with that. If you have a condition that means you can't eat something, denial ("I couldn't possibly give up bread/porridge/Mars bars") isn't going to help. I just gritted my teeth and give up carby food, and after a while the new habit stuck. And as my condition progresses (I have...
  3. kesun

    Chickpea Alternative?

    Me too, though I've never eaten a large amount, just as a side dish such as a hummus dip. Kate
  4. kesun

    does porridge cause you bg spikes?

    ickihun raised the question in the context of wanting the good micronutrients from porridge but not the spikes. Like her, most of us old D hands come to the conclusion that it's not possible and either try to get the micronutrients elsewhere or go without them. My answer, like yours, is bacon...
  5. kesun

    A conversation between a doctor and me

    That may be the advice, but the main diet for epilepsy (approved by the NHS only if two or more medicines fail to control seizures) is the ketogenic diet, which is in effect VLCHF. As my daughter's neurologist says, fat is brain food :happy: Kate
  6. kesun

    Worrying Facebook Post

    At my GP T1s were all moved to a different meter, but we still get 100 strips a month. I escaped the meter change because my weird mitochondrial diabetes was put down as T2 in their computer system though treated as T1 in practice. Bureaucracy moves in mysterious ways. Kate
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    Hospital Menu for diabetic person

    As far as I can see from the menus, the only item in the whole two days they don't consider suitable for diabetics is apple sponge. I wonder why not? Kate
  8. kesun

    IFG only?

    That was the position I used to be in, and after several years I was referred to a consultant who said that IFG with normal OGTT results indicates a problem with insulin production (like T1) rather than glucose resistance (like T2). He tested for two things: MODY 2 (also called GCK-MODY or...
  9. kesun

    Can low blood sugar make you sick?

    Hi @Chrissie9 and welcome to the forum. It happened to me once; I'd skipped a couple of meals, felt woozy and ate a bowl of porridge with cream and drank a cup of coffee. The whole lot came out so quickly it was regurgitation rather than sick - it still tasted and smelt of cream and coffee...
  10. kesun

    What basis were u diagnosed as Lada rather than type 2?

    It doesn't make sense to me that diagnosis is related to age. I think there's still a lot of hangover from the days when children were diagnosed with "juvenile" and adults with "adult-onset" diabetes, and these were then changed to "type 1" and "type 2". So there's a kind of folk memory among...
  11. kesun

    Obesity Is Not Your Fault!

    I'm doubtful about the study's methods: apparently "Academics in Australia tested a group of people who ate a diet high in sugar and fat and low in fruit, vegetables and fibre and another group who ate more healthily." For me, sugar certainly makes me put on weight, but fat doesn't. On the...
  12. kesun

    Genetic diabetes MIDD.

    Hi Hayley @hayleyowen90 , and welcome. I have something very similar to MIDD - that is, all the symptoms are the same but it's a different gene mutation from the usual one. Congratulations on having one of the mildest form of diabetes available! About family: well, I don't happen to be deaf...
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    Eggs & T2- Should we eat them at all?

    Sorry, work's got in the way and made me into a mere weekend poster, so I didn't see this earlier. I use duck eggs exactly as I'd use chicken eggs. The only hygiene point is that the shells are much more porous, so you can't wash them in advance as you would chicken eggs; so I store them...
  14. kesun

    What to do with empty test strip pots?

    Me too! When I swapped from an elderly CareSens to a Freestyle Freedom Lite I thought at first that the miniscule pots were just a sample size, but in fact that's the regular size - so small that nobody over the age of 8 can get a finger in to extract a strip, so I have to tip out all the strips...
  15. kesun

    Eggs & T2- Should we eat them at all?

    I prefer to eat mine slowly, but I absolutely love them! I even keep ducks so I can eat big eggs with extra-big yolks. Eggs and bacon are my basic breakfast. Tea eggs are my standby for packed lunches and picnics. Devilled eggs have often saved me from high-carb cocktail hour hell. I deeply...
  16. kesun

    Strong genetic disposition to type 2: diabetes inevitable?

    Deff Jeff, have you been tested for any of the monogenic or mitochondrial types of diabetes (also known as MODY)? My consultant thinks that all non-obese people with a T2 diagnosis should be tested, but most doctors just classify all diabetes that isn't T1 as T2. The importance of getting tested...
  17. kesun

    how to sweeten and flavour double cream

    The only way I can make it work is to make a ganache: break dark chocolate into pieces and put it in a bowl; heat double cream till it's just beginning to boil then pour it over the chocolate. Let the cream melt the chocolate, stirring at the end if the lumps don't completely melt. Then let it...
  18. kesun

    LCHF vs ATKINS

    On the contrary, I try to keep my cholesterol up, as I'm convinced by the research showing high cholesterol is protective as women get older. Kate
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    ER visits

    When I have outpatient appointments at my closest hospital (Tunbridge Wells at Pembury), my GP always receives a report and I'm copied in. However, when I took my husband to A&E last weekend I noticed a sign on the wall saying that this would only happen for A&E visits if he asked for it. My...
  20. kesun

    Refused Flu Tablets at the Chemist

    Are you on any blood pressure medicines? If so they say you shouldn't take phenylephrine, one of the ingredients of Beecham's flu tablets, as it can spike you blood pressure. Kate