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I wonder whether the confusion is with fruit juices - quite often these have no added sugar but are of course full of sugar since fruit juice is. I use these for treating hypos because they act quite quickly to raise blood sugar fairly significantly. I too have been drinking no added sugar...

Re: Exercise Hi Stuart For me I found that I need either to take extra glucose or reduce my insulin significantly to prevent hypos when cycling. Like you I used to cycle to work - a similar distance. My carb ratio for breakfast was 1 unit to 8g carbs normally - on days when I cycled to work I...

Re: Diabetic chocolate Apparently prunes contain naturally occurring sorbitol. Neither prunes nor sweets containing sorbitol have any effect on me - do prunes have the same effect on those of you who have trouble with the chocolates? Just wondering....

It might be worth getting checked out by a doctor anyway - there are other things that could cause this, eg carpal tunnel syndrome - best to get it looked at I would say. If your HbA1c is so good you might cause yourself more stress by trying to reduce your glucose levels further - though it...

Re: How important is excersice for me , walk or treadmill i Walking helps me a lot, and I don't have to do much to make a big difference to my levels. Normally I walk for a total of an hour a day, split into three: walking to and from the station on my way to and from work, and I also go for...

I don't think this applies if you're on a mixed insulin - I didn't realise people still used this regime - but it is a lot less flexible than multiple daily injections (otherwise known as basal-bolus).

If it was me, I think I would eat something before going to sleep that would keep me going - something slow acting. Fortunately when I go to sleep I find that my digestion slows down anyway so a big meal before bed often raises my levels for several hours longer than it normally would. I think...

I'm not sure why you would have to stay in hospital overnight? With regard to swimming, I'm not sure how you would manage a 2 hour swim on the pump - it should be possible but you would need to experiment to find out how best to manage it. Even though you only have quick acting insulin on a...

Hi from another Pump fan! Mind you, I was on MDI for nearly 20 years before getting my pump and I don't think I EVER got up early or set an alarm to take my basal injection - I was always told that the basal dose is fairly flexible to within 3 hours or so! My pump isn't waterproof but as has...

I get low carb wraps and pitta breads from the low carb megastore, and use these to make myself a pizza if my other half orders one for his dinner. I wouldn't go to Pizza Hut. I would need such a huge dose of insulin to cover pizza that the margin for error is unacceptably high for me. I'd...

On what grounds?

I filled in the form for my licence renewal yesterday. There was nothing on it about requiring blood test results. The thing about more than one hypo is only if you couldn't treat it yourself. I'm not sure about the thing about not saying you always recognise hypos. I think with good hypo...

Is it possible that your insulin has gone off? It can lose potency if it does. It might be either your Lantus or your Novorapid. Also have you changed your injection sites? This could explain a change in absorption - if you have, the new sites may be less absorbent, or if you haven't, you...

Have you tried it without them? It might be just as nice. Or maybe as has been said, just reduce the sugar and substitute a small apple? Or you could double everything else, and freeze half for another day if you need to reduce the apple further. Just a few ideas, hope it helps.

Hi Julie I sympathise with your frustration at two things: the variability which is diabetes, and the way some medical professionals are treating you! You've mentioned that you carb count and have done some online training, and yet at the same time you also said in another post that your...

Re: Link to non-profit insulin pump security survey, very sh The questions all seem to assume that we have a choice in what pump we get. The way my hospital works - they decide which pump they will get and that's the one I will have, end of!

I struggle to keep my two hour post prandials under the recommended levels, let alone my one hour pps, and yet my HbA1c comes back at around 6.2%. I appreciate that people are saying that these spikes cause damage but I'm not convinced they actually make that much difference to the HbA1c. I...

Can I just clarify - did you do a blood test while you were having the symptoms? I know some people call their midday meal dinner but others refer to their evening meal as dinner.

Hi, it sounds like you are both going through the mill. Do you think the problem could be trying to change too many things at once? I know when nothing seems to be right, it's very tempting to try adjusting more than one thing, but then that makes it impossible to see what has affected what...

I have had one set of tubing which felt very sticky and when I tried to prime the tubing it eventually occluded. I reported it to Roche but it was just one in the box. Maybe you had a duff one. It's not really anything to worry about though as if there is a blockage you'll find it when you...