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As someone used to assessing people and giving constructive criticism I do find some of your posts confrontational. It is better to discuss and learn from things than dismiss something out of hand. That is how we learn. I would agree that Type 2's are more likely to be high rather than low but...

I see you are on Gliclizide so I would discuss this with your HCP as you may need your medication adjusting. Have you lost weight recently? This could affect how the Gliclizide is working, causing hypos. When do you take your Gliclizide? You should liver dump during the night when you get to a...

Grazer,diabetes is all about a lack of regulation in the way our bodies cope with glucose so as well as high blood sugars we can also have low blood sugars because of many factors including lack of food,exercise, stress and many other things. You cannot put diabetes in a box, as it is in itself...

Grazer, why must you be so nasty to people? That last illustration was exactly what can happen with low blood sugar as can a road accident or accident with anything that requires consentration. Diabetes is not a stand alone thing it affects every part of our lives. To say that the low blood...

oh dear I see this is still running. Ladybird. I am a type 2 diet only, I have a meter and prescribed test strips because I proved to the doctor I wished to be very active in my own treatment. I also had all the warnings on hypos. Perhaps you have a not very good clinic there, mine is excellent...

Just because the NHS service will not provide test strips due to cost does not make hypos not an issue! You know and I know that what diabetics need and what they actually get are two vastly different things! Until the NHS realise that diabetics can control their diabetes in some cases by simply...

7.5 is bad enough but I was told the other day by a doctor that 8 was fine! Not that mine is anywhere near that. I do not understand why NICE saw fit to up the anti on HbA1c when research points to more complications as your HbA1c increases. I can only assume that they feel that people will meet...

The Gliclizide will drop your Bg levels quite significantly if you are not eating much in the morning, What do you have for breakfast?

With all due respect Grazer it is always better to re-read what you have written in terms of someone not knowing anything about diabetes reading what you have written. Hypos are always an issue for diabetics no matter how mild or severe they are and generalisation does not help. You also said...

Aha ! Now what you are describing Sirzy is a lack of hypo awareness ! 4 is the floor was a good saying( I remember that too Viv) The original definition of hypo was below 3.8 but rounded up both for ease of remembering and also to give some leeway in avoidance treatment. I generally start...

Oh dear, yet again confusion between the medical definition of a hypo and the ordinary Diabetes perseption of a hypo. I am diet controlled but have had hypos after too much exercise. I have dropped to below 3mmol/L and felt awful. Thankfully I liver dumped and all was well. If I had been driving...

This may be what the OP is talking about. http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diabetes/medicines/glucophage.html

How about a 'confusion' of Diabetes, or a 'Test' :lol:

Did anything happen 6 months ago ? Did you start new medication or maybe have an illness ? Ask your GP to refer you to a specialist in allergies ASAP.

Hi Dibbly, if you do a net search using the words, 'stress, diabetes' you will find a lot of information. Here is just one site. http://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/diabetes/how-stress-affects-diabetes.htm

Quite right AM. Although there would be no reason for a diabetic with no sign of any neuropathy not to have an ice pack. It's just that they always err on the side of caution by lumping all diabetics together as automatically having some sort of neuropathy! :cry:

Hi all, excuse me for coming in on an already established thread but, after all these years of being an interested bystander on this forum, I felt the need to answer a post! To answer Sparkypony, I don’t know if you can access this person’s care plan but are you certain that she is,in fact, a...