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    Breakfast Cereal

    its funny, but i was told bt my diabetic nurse that bran flakes were okay to eat in the mornings but then i noticed that bran flakes had more carbs & sugar than weetos confusing!
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    Breakfast Cereal

    what breakfast cereal do you eat or try to eat every morning? any advice on the best type or at least the best of the bad lots (i.e. bran flakes, weetoes, cheerios etc)
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    Levemir Drug Trial

    so, i signed up for the Drug Trial and ended up being put on the Levemir. since then my sugars have been all over the place, although the Trial Nurse reckons that this might be due to me having the flu over Christmas etc. i'm going to give it another month or so and if my HbA1c has gone up by...
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    Levemir Drug Trial

    i am on insultard at the moment - evening & morning working out very well at the moment - i am at my lowest Hba1c since i got diabetes. pretty proud of myself actually!
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    Levemir Drug Trial

    thanks sugar, i'm not pregnant at the moment. they are doing trials on diabetics who are looking to get pregnant in the near future so they can monitor before and after. my Hba1c is 7.4% at the moment so they won't let me get pregnant until its down to 6.5% as you say fingers crossed so!
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    Levemir Drug Trial

    Hello everyone, i have just been selected, through my Diabetic Day Centre, to be part of a drug's trial to prove that its safe to use Levemir while pregnant (in Ireland) Now if i take part in this there is a 50% chance that i will not even be taking the Levemir and staying on Insulatard (without...
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    Pregnancy ?

    thanks a million for the reply! some sound advice although, what i meant was my DDC won't let me get pregnant with my HBA1C at 8.0. i have even considered whether i'm physically able to get pregnant or not hah! knowing my luck, i'll get the blasted HBA1C's down to middle sixes (fingers...
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    In search of diabetic cases?

    i have the frio wallet...had it for years now still works brilliantly, although i think i lost my large one...after looking at that site, i might buy a new one
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    So... a question: That GlucoWatch thing

    yeah, but how cool would it be to just look at your watch and have your numbers right there?! i dream of a watch like that.......*sigh*
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    A New Name for Diabetes PLEASE!

    i have type 1 and my husband calls me a "smellibetic" oh, and janabelle, that receptionist who told you that diabetics were abusing the system....my god, what a cow....like we just LOOOVE to prick our fingers more times a day than necessary you should get your finger pricker out and go to work...
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    Gah!

    oh, oh... you should get one of those cheap little DVD TV combos....then you could watch all those DVD box-sets that you insisted on getting, but haven't had time to watch..... oh wait....thats me i want to get a cross-trainer & a DVD/TV combo thingy so i can do a half an hours exercise at...
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    Gah!

    you should buy an exercise bike and anytime your sugars are high - hop on the bike for 15 mins or so.
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    having children and diabetes

    hi sophie, i think your doctor was just saying that if you got pregnant the way your sugars are at the moment, then you would have complications - especially if you don't have full control. i don't think he meant you couldn't have children ever, in the future (i hope this is what he meant -...
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    Diabetes and tattoos

    thinking of getting a little black star on my left wrist, just for starts. see how i deal with the pain. then i'm thinking of getting something, somewhere on my back...maybe another star design...like a cluster of black stars.
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    Blurred Vision

    the reason your sugars went up when you were working out might have been because your sugars could have been high before you started exercising so you may have had keytones, and if you do anything energetic while there is the presence of keytones, this causes the sugars to go higher sorry if...
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    Diabetes and tattoos

    i think i will. i rang the tattoo place yesterday and yer man said that there would be no problem. they have a diabetic lad who comes in all the time (aparantly he has 2 sleeves done - and keeps adding) he recommended that i bring a sugary drink or something, in case my sugars go low. nice guy...
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    sugarfree red bull and coffee

    before i got diabetes i used to drink vodka and red bull on a night one night after a few, i felt like i was having a heart attack, couldn't breath, heart racing, pains in my chest haven't touched the nasty stuff since, not even the sugar free stuff....its evil i tells ye!
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    Diabetes and tattoos

    hah! but of course! i'm sure there are many things i'm not supposed to be doing, but i am trying to be good
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    Diabetes and tattoos

    thanks for the reply. do you reckon the diabetic nurse was just covering her behind by saying that i cannot get it done? thats what i think anyway.
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    Diabetes and tattoos

    i asked my Diabteic Nurse about this just the other day and she said NO WAY!! risk of infection..blah, blah....slow healing.....blah, blah but i think i'm going to chat with the tattoo artist anyway and more than likely get one done sure, amn't i better getting one as soon as possible before my...