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Thanks, folks. I tend to use irony in my efforts at diplomacy, and yes, I agree that it backfired. I'm not so good at guessing what's okay here and I can't see how I'd be able to do any better in the future...though to be perfectly honest, I'm not eager to try because that means taking the...

Beve, Sorry - yes, borofergie put it well. Go with that. :) Borofergie, Thanks! :) All: I just got a private note from the forum moderator that derailing threads is not acceptable (which, no matter what I wrote above, I had NOT intended, I assure you all. I thought my post would be...

Oh dear, I feel a compelling need to derail this conversation...mods, please remove this post if it's too far off the path or offensive to anyone... Beve, Are you sure about her diet being bad for you? A low-carb diabetic diet reduced my cholesterol significantly. It wasn't in the...

Hi, about the low energy - were you sure to get enough fat in your diet? When you go low carb, you generally want to replace the carbs you gave up with extra fat - so plenty of high-fat foods like butter, tallow, lard, cheese, nuts, seeds, coconut oil, olives, avocado, cream.... It's a total...

Hi, Have you read Dr. Richard K. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution? I thought of it when I read your posts. I think you'd find it valuable. I read the book several months ago and was really amazed he's not a household word in diabetesland. He was a Type 1 who several decades ago basically started...

We MAY have gluten intolerance in our family - don't know yet - but I do know that a few years ago, I altered our household to a gluten-free household for many months. It was a lot of work - there were a lot of considerations - trace amounts of gluten in unlikely ingredients and products, the...

So sorry...I didn't mean to incite extra worry. I'm certainly no professional. It's just that he asked twice if anyone else experienced this in connection with diabetes, and nobody seemed to confirm or deny this. Since that seemed to be what he was asking, and I remember reading this, I...

Apparently it's not uncommon. Dr. Richard K. Bernstein in Diabetes Solution, p. 406 (Little, Brown 2011) says "Erectile dysfunction affects about 65 percent of diabetic males, and is the result of years of elevated blood sugars." (In case you're wondering, "elevated" to Bernstein is stricter...

I don't have a Kindle, but a family member does and LOVES it. She carries it everywhere and it has allowed her to thin out her bulging hard copy book collection, which has created some much-needed shelf space. I don't know how they are in the UK, but the large sized Kindle here is not backlit...

Hi Saoirse, Welcome from a semi-newbie! I know you've already tried low-carbing, but have you read Dr. Richard K. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution? He addresses many practical problems with low-carbing. He's had some success helping Type 1s prevent lows and even prevent or reverse...

I think they, along with other internet social venues, are the wave of the future...heck, the present...especially for anyone who doesn't regularly meet scads of new eligibles every day. I don't know how it is over there, but in the States, I swear they're becoming the only sensible way to meet...

Anyone? I'd really love to find out if anyone else is taking this tea or knows more about it.

Hi Truffle, Try testing again to confirm. Did you wash your hands before testing? Any hint of sugars on them could affect things. Also, since you're eating low carb and are Type 2 still producing insulin, that number does seem a tad odd. It's worth verifying the meter's accuracy by asking...

Davide, You won't starve. I love(d) carbs, too, but the cravings really go away. You are not just left with indifferent and joyless eating, either...at least, I wasn't. I love food and love to cook, and still enjoy eating...just different foods. MANY more fats. The main thing is that if...

Angie, I'm pretty new on this board, but I have to say I really appreciate your posts. I'm frantic to learn everything I can about blood sugar control and diabetes, and your contributions stand out as being very informative and showing a lot of experience. I hate that you're feeling depressed...

Hi Beadysmum, I'm a prediabetic who has reduced her blood sugar rises by quite a bit through low-carbing. At first I called it eating lowish-carb, but then when I kept reducing and reducing the carbs, I finally and shamefacedly had to admit I was on the low-carb bandwagon - driving it...

Oops, I missed that it was your thumb. That might be the flexor pollicis longus. Davies says that trigger points in this muscle "can cause the last thumb joint to lock...Locate the belly of the flexor pollicis longus about a third of the way up from the wrist on the radial side (thumb side) of...

For what it's worth, I'm a huge lover of trigger point therapy for pain (including tendon pain). Has anyone tried it? From the Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Clair Davies, flexor digitorum trigger points may be implicated. You can try this right now in front of your computer. "The...

Oops! I didn't see that you'd just been on it a month. Ignore. :)

Did you just get a refill? Jenny Ruhl has said that Metformins are not all created equal - even within the same brand. When she hunted around, suspicious that her Metformin wasn't working as usual (she'd been on it for years), she found that the manufacturer had changed, or they'd switched the...