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I used to work in a factory making baby food, about 2 or 3 times a week I took delivery of about 6.5 tons of maltodextrin, so I guess it is being fed to babies, but also took delivery of ton after ton of granulated and caster sugar on a regular basis. get the kids hooked early on their sugar fix

I use canderel and silverspoon, both basically the same sweetener, Tesco own brand Stevia was horrid.

iphones have something that might be of use, google ' iphone medical id '

My surgery gladly gives me prescriptions for Gluco RX test strips and sharps bins here on the West Coast. I try not to go overboard with testing, maybe once when I get up in the morning, usually reads about 7 and 9. and once before dinner, I mean tea time. They gladly take my sharps bins for...

right handed, wear watch on right wrist, my daughter does also, but I use my knife and fork wrong way round, so I am told.

I use my local Sainsburys pharmacy. Every 4 weeks They inform me that I have my 4 trays of meds ready to collect. Morning, afternoon and nigh time tablets are put in see through dated trays so you know if you have missed any. They order them from my surgery, nothing for me to do. My surgery...

recently had my bisoprolol increased by a third to 7.5 mg daily. I have not been feeling too well with it. very light headed, and very sleepy all the time. Good things are my pulse rate averaging about 60 bpm. and no real issues with blood sugars.

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Hi, Andrew here. I have Humulin I, this I inject at 18 units at night before bed. I also have Humulin S, which I inject up to 4 times a day depending on my blood sugar levels. both are kept in my fridge until I need them, once out of the fridge I am told the shelf life is 28 days. xx

I was told that I need to refrigerate my stock of insulin in the fridge, but when I take a new pen or cartridge out it has a shelf life of 28 days out of the fridge, if I have not used it all after the 28 days (like that would ever happen) it has to be disposed of, and start to use a new one.

everything seems to be back to normal, although readings seem a little low for me. Must be the attempt at low carb diet. xx

Thanks, that explains the 13.2 reading yesterday, got it under control again now.

Hi, doe's anyone know if antibiotics and pain relief medication has any effect on blood sugars?

not knowing where I am, (being lost somewhere strange) and losing one of my 3 mobile phones xx

waiting for match of the day, just got home from the pub, xx

donna has always been my favourite name xx can't get my head round this blood sugar stuff,

Things didn't work out as they should have, I made plans to make sure my wife was going to be ok. I had my first heart attack when I was just 42. It was supposed to be that I died first. Then things reversed, she was diagnosed with cancer and only lived for a further 4 months. My diabetes...

Hi, the picture is of our dog Honey(but we usually called her Bunny) for no real reason. Bunny would sit on my wifes knee all the time, a real ladies dog. Sadly she got a tumor on her spine and no longer had feeling in her front legs and could not walk anymore. I had to have put to sleep last...

I thought everything was ok, I knew I was type 2 and was on metformin. never bothered to test as I said, I thought everything was ok. Decided one day to test my bloods and my meter just read 'HI' scared me a little after doing a google. I am now on insulin, but I am sure the stress and...

I lost my wife due to cancer last July, blood sugars were hard to control, but I think I got it sorted.