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Hello @Antje77 yes I did try moving the dose to 30 min before eating and that seemed to reduce the spike at breakfast, so I am adopting that for the start of the day. But the evening dose just seems to run out of effectivness and the spike just rises hours after the meal with no little snacks in...

Hello @Lakeslover yes I can imagine alcohol delaying BG rise, but I saw that alcohol does not go well with diabetes, so I decided 9 months ago to cut all alcohol out of my diet. I am not so much a reformed alcoholic, rather a person who looks carefully at whats actually in the diet. It is this...

hello @Lakeslover yes originally I tried calculating a dose base on how much carb there was on the plate, but found the amount of insulin changed dependant on what the carb was, and I could not find a simple units ti carb ratio. It seems to depend more on how quick the food is digested. So as...

Hello @Lakeslover , I have not found a way of calculating the number of units, I just wind up the pen till I see the BG at a good level, and the 25 units I take in the evening is not doing that. My regular evening readings are 11 - 15.5, which I correct with a 3 unit shot just before bed. It all...

So, I have been persuaded by my doctor to use a Libre 2+ CGM. I put it on and find there are three main spikes in the day, as expected, and saw that my evening units were not doing much to my evening food. I do the injection 15 min before eating, the BG rises for about 3 hours, and then spikes...

@andyasw Hello I have Fiasp and Tresiba pens. When I got them the nurse said do not use the needles more than 3 times, and always test the pen before injection, so thats every day for fiasp and if I remember for tresiba. There is a risk when you put the little white cover over the...

Hello @bde987 and welcome to the forum, you will find there are many people here who can answer your questions and point you in the right direction to find out more. I am not taking prednisolone, but I have been taking prednisone for the past 5 years. My neurologist sent me to the diabetes...

Hello @Deemedi, thanks for your reply. I was in my 60's when I found out about lactose free alternatives for milk products. So after living without anything that looked or smelt like cheese, butter, margerine or milk, I found I was too set in my ways to let them in. So I like coconut, and...

Hello @Antje77, so my neurologist put me on prednisone 5 years ago, and told me I will need to be under a diabetic doctor as my BG will be all over the place. The hypo's came by strict low carb carb diet, and close BG control with insulin. I was very ill with a hypo, then insulin stopped...

Hello @Grant_Vicat, and thanks for the link to the kidney org. I have been stage 3b for a long while, and 7 years ago when I first went to see the nephrologist he pointed me to this info. But I was only half a unit under the red line, so I just stuck to the reduce red meat, increase green veg...

Hello @Antje77 So, diet is a balance and I now have high cholesterol, even though I have meds for that. So I would not want to try increasing fats. With insulin I am up to about 85 fiasp units with meals and 25 Tresiba overnight, and I suspect that is a bit high, but necessary to drop my BG, I...

So, thanks for your replies to my question. I am lactose intolerant, which means for 67 years I have looked at labels and just not eaten things that contain milk, butter,margarine, and cheese, I never found replacements as I just did not eat food that triggered my intolerance/sickness. I do not...

So, simple question how do lactose intolerant T2 diabetics deal with low carb diets. Royjk

Hello @grantg I know that needle phobia thingy, but I have so far managed to just focus on the windows, or intensly study a spot on the wall and pretend nothing is happening while the nurse does her stuff on my arm. With 5 days infusions, there is normally several bloods and up to 6 hours a day...

Hello @jujubirch63, welcome to the Forum, going to hospital can be OK for diet control of type 2 diabetes. The hospital will have a dietitian to help with ensuring you keep to a suitable diabetic diet. Let the nurse know you need to chat with them when you are admitted, and they will do their...

Hello @InDeathsWaitingRoom , it is interesting that people talk about calculating carbs and from there setting a dose for insulin to be taken 15 min before the meal. So far I have found no link with insulin dosing and the amount of carbs in a meal. It seems to me that different food has a...

So, several months ago I had a problem with taking insulin, due to BG dropping too low putting my body into a hypo situation. I stopped taking insulin completely and had a feeling that diabetes was finished, that |I could cross it off from life's problems. I spoke to the doctor and was told...

So I was diagnosed in August 2021, just as a precaution my neurologist from the myasthenia gravis clinic sent me to the diabetic clinic soon after I had my sternotomy to have my thymus removed. I guess she though my steroid treatment might give me high BG, but diabetes was never on my real to...

So, I do not really know if it is good or not but 7 months ago I was surprised to find myself with an HBA1c of 103mmol/mol. I started on insulin, and here on this forum discovered that lots of diabetics have a carb low diet. Kenny and Jo pointed me in that direction. It took 5.5 months to get...

Hello @grantg So, diabetic nurse put the sensor on and said, see what it does. I will see the doctor in another week. I have been 'ill' for 5 years now and diabetes is just something I picked up on the way through the hospital. My feeling is that 4.8mmol/l - 7.2mmol/l is a good range and...