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Hazey For stomach bugs etc, take your usual basal insulin but also do a correction with your bolus insulin to get the high bg down. Even though you don't feel like eating anything, you've still got to give yourself some insulin. Sip plenty of boiled water from kettle (left to cool down)...

I've got the Wavesense Jazz. It came yesterday free of charge :mrgreen:. I will also be giving the company some feedback. I think its main feature is that it will give users a 90 day average of their bg values, so you should be able to use the average to work out roughly what the hba1c is...

Hello Hazey Sorry that you're not well. Sounds like you've got a really bad cold/cough. Amoxycilin will only help if you've got a cough that has gone to your chest and is making you cough up yellow phlegm. Most GP's do prescribe this antibiotic though as a safeguard. Like Phoenix has said...

Hello Margaret The reason why your bg levels are a bit raised is most likely due a steroid injection being put into your shoulder joint when you had surgery done on it. This effect on your bg levels will probably carry on for a few days so just keep an eye by doing bg tests and altering the...

Hi You can get wild spinach along the banks at Jaywick, right the way along the coastline up to Holland on Sea. It tastes great :)

Hello Catherine Think twice before you ask for surgery on your shoulder. The pain that you will get down your arm when you wake up from the anesthetic after a manipulation will be terrible. Much much worse than the pain that you are in now. There's a lot of bone crunching to free up the...

Hello debbie The Hypal is good and not good in one. If your son tends to have the odd hypo during the night then this device will work to alarm but sadly your son wont probably wake up as his bg will have fallen to below 3, hence the sweating being picked up. What it will do is wake you up so...

Hi Awful isnt it - frozen shoulder. What got me down was not being able to blowdry my hair and do the back of it. I also had to stand on a chair to put stuff away in my kitchen wall units lol. You could try a tens machine and also a magnetic shoulder wrap (lots of chemists sell these)...

Most hypos can be avoided Hazey but either eating more carb or if you dont want to do that, the other way is by reducing your insulin by one or two units to see if that does the trick :)

Martin, I waited for about 18 months from the freezing state, then to frozen and then the thaw before having the first MUA done. My shoulder was well and truly frozen

In addition to what Martin has said, if you do decide to push for an MUA, that on its own wont fix your problem. You will need to have really good physio done more or less straight away or else your shoulder will just start to stiffen up again. The physio sessions will need to go on for quite...

Kev As you are not going hypo in the night, the only other reason most likely for the rise up in bg in the morning will be down to you not using enough Lantus at bedtime. Try increasing it a bit, still eating a bit of carb like you are already doing and then see if your bg is a bit lower in...

Hi Louise Lantus can be a weird insulin to use at times. The reason why your bg is up in the morning is probably due to one of two things, it's either because of the dawn effect or because you are not injecting enough Lantus to see you through the night. If you are not eating any carb before...

I also picked up on the link you mentioned involving Warwick some time ago. Last year I was told that I had the start of background retinopathy in one eye so that made me pull my socks up a bit and I tightened up my control by testing 6 times a day and watching what carbohydrate I ate for...

Crikey That's one huge carb diet that Tesco are recommending. I hope diabetics dont automatically follow it, thinking that its ideal :roll:

Try not to be too worried about the hypos. I'm not sure what other users of Apidra and Lantus get hypo wise, but I just feel extremely tired (yawning) when going low now as an early sign. Apidra does appear to give a longer warning of a hypo coming compared to other insulins.

Hi there Rather than increase the Lantus, just increase the Apidra. As long as you can test frequently, you'll be able to sort yourself out by adjusting the fast acting insulin to the action of the Lantus and also of course the amount of carbohydrate that you need to eat. Apidra is quite good...

Hi Its very common to get up in the morning with an ok bg but find that your bg starts to go up in the morning using Lantus at bedtime and not injecting any bolus in the morning and not eating any carb either. Why this is so, who knows? Try increasing the Apidra a bit at breakfast and dont...

Hello again On reading your message, I notice that you are injecting the same amount of Novorapid for each main meal. Are you also eating the same amount of carb for these meals? If so, you could try either reducing the amount of carbs or increasing the Novo a bit, like 50 units for BR and...

Hi Have you tried reducing the amount of carbohydrate that you are eating for your meals in order to balance up the action of the Novorapid? If not, that is your first option. Secondly, you could try talking to your dsn about the possibility of injecting glargine twice a day instead of just...