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A new study of people with diabetes hospitalized with COVID-19 has found that Type 1 diabetes may be significantly less dangerous than Type 2 diabetes...

Saturday debate, quite pertinent as there’s a plague on. Are our immune systems stronger or weaker than a person with a fully functioning pancreas? I’m going for (in my case) just as strong, if not stronger and maybe a bit misguided. My T1 was caused by a gastric virus that sheltered in my...

Afternoon chaps. Looking distinctly as if I might have picked up a dose of Norovirus from a leaky patient on Wednesday night - the symptoms and timings match up. As on the grounds that "if you can smell it, you've inhaled it" usually hold true, and despite a thorough clean of the ambulance after...

Just out of curiosity, any others working shifts? Do you tend to just flip daytime for night time and have a decent sized meal at horrible o’clock in the morning, or eat proper meals before you start and when you finish with just snacks, so that you’re only really eating in what passes for...

Fantastic to see Greggs sharing the astounding success of their new range with their employees. And at only 21g carbs each, that’s only a couple of units of insulin for most type ones using DAFNE principles. Win:win! And even if you eat as low carb as I do, it would still be within my daily 30g...

Afternoon friends, I was lucky enough to be “upgraded” from the Libre to Dexcom G6 on Friday - so it was quite a day, all in all. Clinical exams in Swansea the morning, straight to the clinic just north of Cardiff in the afternoon! There as only two patients in my clinic with the G6, I’m the...

This article about keto v Bernstein explains really well the difference between the two, I know a lot of people get them confused :) https://asweetlife.org/dr-bernsteins-diet-vs-ketogenic-diet-which-is-right-for-you/

Here’s an interesting article about DP & FOTF :) https://www.believethehypo.com/post/dawn-phenomenon-and-feet-on-the-floor-syndrome-the-inconvenient-truth

This blog post popped up on my Facebook timeline just now, and while it’s written about a type one diagnosis, there’s some points relevant to all flavours of diabetes. http://thegirlsguidetodiabetes.com/2019/07/24/diabetes-the-great-provocateur-can-make-you-better/

All of these except eating stuff off the floor! https://beyondtype1.org/gross-unless-youre-type-1/

Now that I’ve recovered from turning myself literally purple by attempting the first day of Couch to 5k and recovered from the resulting low, I’m after advice. Total exercise noob here. Mainly because I don’t get any endorphins so don’t really have much motivation. And of course I made the...

There’s been a few posts recently from people who follow a vegan/vegetarian way of life who were asking about combining it with low carb, so I thought I’d start a thread with some meal ideas, and the full nutritional breakdown (MyFitnessPal checked against labels for accuracy). Full disclosure -...

I have my first ever nightshift tonight, 1900-0700. Can anyone give me some hints as to how to manage my pump settings? Normally I’m asleep :D I usually run a fairly steady rate through the night, this programme is tried and tested for this particular phase of my cycle and keeps me dead level...

Can we tell it’s the first day of the school holidays? Each bottle represents a month’s supply of insulin for me, so it’s going to take a couple of years to fill the chain of lights! I doubt they’ll cure me in that time, so unless I die... INSULIGHTS!

From the Spike dev team: “IMPORTANT/URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT. ALL USERS PLEASE READ!!! Hello, Spikers. Please read this important/urgent announcement and act accordingly. This is an urgent matter and applies to EVERYONE. If you want to continue using Spike then please follow the guide listed in...

I’m currently working as a supply teacher and have been asked to teach the “disease” module to years 10-11 pupils over the next few weeks - and this is the section on diabetes in the biology textbook. Goes without saying that I’ll be going into a bit more detail when we cover this!

Some good news from this T1 of twenty years I thought I’d share... I had a letter in October saying I’d been referred to the ophthalmologist as they’d seen maculopathy in my left eye and pre-proliferative retinopathy in my right after my routine eye scan. To say I was bricking myself for my...

An amusing read about modern fruit cultivars... https://www.newsweek.com/zoo-weans-animals-fruit-because-its-increased-sugar-makes-them-fat-and-rots-1145259?fbclid=IwAR04fHjOvBkAVsjaKiOBP2uQ9AnL9EutsYRIqjx9WCE9y6QtSvGzI-AMGEg

Hi, my name’s Mel and I’m a chocoholic. Many of us know and love the Lindt 99% or even the 100% Hotel Chocolat loveliness, but it’s expensive and not always easy to get hold of, for me at least. So in need of a chocklit fix this evening, and without anything chocolatey in the gaff, I tried...

Got the results of my retinopathy screening today only to find I have pre-proliferative retinopathy in one eye and maculopathy in both. Was just background last year... hard not to panic. I’m now aware that rapid improvement of HbA1c such as mine can cause this - but I was never told about it...