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  1. jddukes

    Competition / Nerves and BS rise

    Hi all, I play competitive sports and often with important matches where I am aware of being more nervous my blood sugars rise significantly. For example, last week I had a match, hadn't eaten anything for a few hours (I generally do not eat carbs either), my blood sugars were around 8 mmol/l...
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    Android update resulted in no vibration on libre 2 scan

    Hi all, A few days ago on my OnePlus 8 pro I had a system update. Now whenever I scan my Libre, I get no vibration, so have to turn on my sound to know if it has scanned and positioned correctly for a scan, which is quite annoying as I used to be able to just rely on the vibration. Has anyone...
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    T1D LCKD + 16/8 IF

    Has anyone who is insulin dependent used a ketogenic diet in combination with an intermittent fasting (IF) diet? I am trying the 16hr fast 8hr feed IF approach but also low carb (<40g per day). Wondering if anyone has experience in this? I wake at 5am, train at gym from 6:30-7:30am (6-7km...
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    Describing symptoms to non-diabetics

    How do / would you describe the way the following sort of situation makes you physically (and mentally) feel: Waking up in AM with sugars at 15 mmol/l. Correcting and later on in day bloods going to 2.1mmol/l. End of day bloods at 17.2 mmol/l. I find it hard to describe to others. For me...
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    Very low carb diet and BG levels

    Hi all, Just for anyone interested I thought I could post my experience on changing to a low carb diet (<40g per day max). I have done this before but got side-tracked by...carbs. So here are some results/comments for those interested: Week before 7-day average = 12mmol/l First week of <40g...