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You need to use the Low Carb Skipton site with the .co.uk address - the .com isn't working. https://lowcarbskipton.co.uk/low-carb-breadmaker-yeasted-bread/

I have also had a couple of hypos while awake - usually there have been other circumstances that fully explain those. From reading other people's accounts, it seems that hypos take many forms and your hypos will not be like mine necessarily, nor will my hypos always be the same. I don't really...

It has nothing to do either with my temperature or the ambient temperature. I've woken soaked and very cold in mid-winter, and not had any sweats in 40C heat. When they happen, my head does not sweat at all. There appears to be no consistent pattern. I'll not have one for a couple of months...

As it happens, I had an episode last night around 4am - heavy sweating, nightmares, woke up not knowing where I was. On this occasion, I didn't even get up and managed to get back to sleep quickly. Not using a CGM so no idea what my BG was. I still don't really know what's going on. In my case...

Involving people in their own care is supposed to be central to how the NHS operates. The NICE guidelines for diabetes reinforce this. Unfortunately, as with many things in life, there are a range of experiences from the very good to the truly terrible. You just have to look at how patients...

Hi and welcome. I had oedema quite badly - fluid used to leak out through my tissue-paper skin, there were blisters, that sort of thing. Lower legs were thickened and I went up two shoe sizes minimum. My kidneys weren't really functioning. I was prescribed both furosemide and bumetanide, which...

The real answer is "it depends". What did you eat? How many carbs? What else was going on? does this happen all the time, or only every so often? It's possible your system is very good at quickly turning carbs into blood glucose - so that you see the rapid rise you report - and also dealing with...

I agree. It's not just a low reading on the machine - it's a collection of things which are normally understood to be features of hypos. A forum member suggested to me that rather than the initial factor being a drop in BG, it could possibly be explained by a sharp rise in insulin, which then...

Ultimately it all comes down to what works and doesn't work for you. If everyone says X does Y, but for you X does Z, and you don't want Z, that's how it is. I often get the feeling that maybe in 40 or 50 years someone will be looking back at how we understood T2 in 2026, and be laughing.

Interesting. "[Results of]...our study demonstrate that sucralose affects the glycemic and hormonal responses to an oral glucose load in obese people who do not normally consume NNS." So they seem to be saying not that the sweetener increased BG by itself, but that it (slightly) inhibited...

I get cliff-edge drops in BG occasionally overnight which started around 2014. What would happen would be nightmares, heavy sweating, waking confused and disoriented. Usually around 4-5am, I'd never associated them with T2 until using a CGM. The sweats/nightmares correlate with sudden BG...

This is an hypothesis - I don't have any evidence for it. It's possible that an artificial sweetener might stimulate your liver to release glucose into your system - by promoting cortisol production, possibly. So the chemical of itself doesn't primarily affect BG, but its impact elsewhere in the...

Some people on this forum have reported that some artificial sweetners raise their blood glucose - that certainly doesn't happen to me. I regularly drink Coke Zero, low carb beers, and Lidl's zero sugar lemonades and caffeine drinks - no BG impact whatsoever. Food and drink manufacturers are...

Thanks for the tag @lovinglife What you're seeing is pretty much the normal digestion process - I wouldn't call it a "spike". Carbs/sugars seem to take around 45 minutes (it varies depending on the individual, but also on things like what else has been eaten, the temperature of the food etc)...

I've had three or four (never while playing, I'm another "walking" footballer) mine involve disorientation, inability to think straight or make decisions, that sort of thing. Nothing like what you describe.

To help with your decision you need to factor in that most cholesterol is produced by your own body - the usual figure quoted is around 80%. Dietary cholesterol has little if any impact. What statins do is affect the ability of your liver to make cholesterol - they don't affect cholesterol in...

I had quite bad neuropathy in my feet starting when my HbA1c was around 44/45 and rising. It was undiagnosed as diabetic neuropathy "because my blood glucose wasn't high enough". I was given some pain relief that had no effect at all. It went very quickly (within weeks) as I got my BG into...

37 is normal blood glucose - that is, most non-diabetic people have blood glucose HbA1c results around 37. Your liver will do its best to maintain your blood glucose levels where it believes they should be. But levels can also be affected by many other things - for example medication. You don't...

Is it really hunger? or is it appetite?

In general I really don't trust people's claims on YouTube unless they have a genuine and reliable existence elsewhere - published books, medical/clinical careers, etc. Even then - You Tube is first and foremost a way of making money, and the way to do that is to get as many views as...