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Ginger is excellent stuff and garlic is even better! Turmeric is a good anti inflammatory, more effective if consumed with black pepper, and cinnamon can help reduce blood sugar spikes too so I have read. I have some rather spicy porridge for breakfast every day which is probably an acquired taste.

I do find that most of the time the sensors work quite well and are very helpful. The night lows seem to be just after I have gone to sleep and I wake up in the same position as I went to sleep in. My wife confirms that I have not moved so I wonder if it is possibly a reduction in blood pressure...

I have had several replacements sent to me when there have been a lot of major discrepancies. Abbott are very good at replacing sensors that malfunction but that does not help with disturbed sleep. Having had some very serious noct hypos in the past I am wary of reducing the low alar too much. I...

I regularly have issues with my low glucose alarm going off at night when my blood sugar levels are not low. Normally I have the low alarm set at 4.5 but have been in the habit of reducing this to a lower level at night because it is too disruptive to my sleep. A typical example is that it went...

As far as I can see the jury is still out on the case for statins. They will be beneficial to some people but undoubtedly have unwanted side effects, some worse than others and potentially quite harmful. A few years ago I had a consultant who insisted that I needed statins and would not accept...

I find that drinking much at all later in the day will ensure that I need to be up more in the night. I always get up at leas once because I have an atonic bladder and it only half empties at best. (Autonomic neuropathy to blame there after fifty years on insulin.) I also find that I must eat...

I have been using libre for many years now and do find that my blood sugar levels surge upwards when I have a hot shower. Fingerprick testing agrees well with the libre reading so I do not doubt that there is a rise in sugar levels. Why this happens I have no idea but some things we cannot...

I generally scan about twenty five times per day and try to keep my carbohydrate intake fairly low too, always avoiding refined ones unless blood sugar levels are low and dropping fast. Also I will use small corrective injections if sugar levels are rising too much. These combined give me pretty...

I have been type 1 for almost fifty years now and I have found that rapidly changing blood glucose levels, and particularly high ones, have an effect on the ability of my eyes to focus. I believe this is down to the fluid levels in the eyes being altered through osmosis. When the sugar levels in...

I am normally very active and find that along with large amounts of exercise snacks are essential. If I ate larger meals to try and avoid snacking I would have very high spikes in my blood glucose levels. If I don’t need the carbohydrate and feel like having a snack then I will eat a few nuts or...

I am a type 1 on insulin and I have found that eating virtually no carbohydrates from mid to late afternoon and a very light evening meal generally keeps the blood sugar levels better overnight and greatly reduces, if not eliminates, the dawn phenomenon. This might be an approach worth trying as...

I find it can happen to a varying degree and I will have one or two units of Novorapid to counter this if necessary. If my blood sugar has dropped low in the night and I have had to eat something it is particularly bad. I generally try to avoid eating much later in the day and to keep an early...

I am a tea drinker myself and never have it with milk in it so there is absolutely no meaningful carbohydrate present. I do notice that drinking the hot fluid raises my blood sugar levels as does taking a hot shower. There are so many things that can affect our bodies that we often don’t consider.

I have always been very physically active and find that exercise of any kind will dramatically lower my blood sugar levels. If I have a day where I am not anywhere near as active as normal then I have major problems with high blood sugar levels and need to have much more insulin and eat next to...

I have been diabetic for almost fifty years now and always find that my bl sugar drops faster when it is hotter weather. As others have explained, the subcutaneous capillaries dilate and this increases the rate of insulin absorption. I always find that the best course of action is to slightly...

I have never waited at all when applying new sensors. When the old one is about to expire I put the new one on and activate it so after one hour it is giving me readings. I check this against a finger prick test and more than 95% of the time the two give comparable results. If there is a wider...

I have had numerous arguments with doctors and consultants in the past about HBA1c levels and how much they focus on them. For a long time they kept me on unsuitable medication and my sugar levels would swing wildly from very low to very high and all they would say was “Your HBA1c level is good...

I have been on insulin now for alm fifty years and I aim for about fifty for Hba1c but it is usually a bit higher than that. Since getting covid last autumn though I have had major difficulties in stabilising my blood sugar levels and control has not been as good as it used to be. I keep trying...

I persevered with the hearing aids for a month and things didn’t improve at all in that time. The increased pitch of the tinnitus and the greatly amplified background noises that I could hear were far from pleasant. The grandfather clock ticking sounded like someone hammering in a nail and the...

I have had type one diabetes now for almost fifty years and have some autonomic neuropathy as a consequence. I have had tinnitus now for several years and I can safely say that it isn’t related to any medication as I have only had insulin injections as I always have had. It is variable and at...