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I don't change my meter very often so every time I do, its a new type of lancet - 3 meters in 20 years! I called Lifescan and apart from having 20 questions to prove who I was, the service was fine and I have a new pen on its way out to me. Thanks again for your offer iHs, most generous of you...

Hi iHs, I'll try Lifescan first and give you a shout if I need yours Thanks for the offer

Hopefully someone can help me here. I use a One Touch Ultra 2 tester and the cap on the pricking pen has broken. Currently I'm trying to stab myself with the needle - a lot of attempts before I draw blood :shock: When this happened before, I ended up having to buy a new tester, which I keep as...

Hi I mainly buy Nairns oatcakes. The main problem with them I have is that my Tescos sells the cheese ones but not the fruit and spice ones, while Sainburys sell the fruit and spice but not the cheese ones. Sainsburys do sell gingers ones and the packet is very similar to the cheese ones. But...

Hi I'm no expert so hopefully you will get a better answer shortly. But remember that the swimming will increase your muscles and muscle is heavier that fat. Last time I did serious exercise, my weight stayed roughly the same but my body dimensions reduced as the fat went. It might be worth...

I'm an occasional poster but have had a lot of good advice from these pages. I like to be able to help if I can - as do most of the people who use this site. There is lots of good advice here, so keep browsing. Have a good weekend :wink:

I bought a Thermos brand lunch bag, its insulated to keep stuff cool. I roast meat, usually a lamb joint, on Sunday and take cold meat, cucumber and Sour cream and chive dip into work everyday. Plus I also make up sugar free jellies to take in. Low carb and I can vary the meat, salady stuff and dip

and you obviously know that is utter rubbish (insert stronger word here). try and do some google research on type 2 and hypos. I think its all about proving yuor case and not giving up

Try to buy some strips from somewhere. Keep a food and test results diary and present those to your doctor. If its your 'ordinary' doctor who has refused you strips, try the same action when you next go to a diabetic clinic, or vice versa. I was lucky in that just as my health centre stopped my...

Oi, stop wasting time on t'internet and go and cook me something. rolled smoked haddock, wrapped in bacon with a pea, broad bean and cream sauce will do nicely :lol: TABS girl indeed :roll:

aparently I'm named after my uncle Geoff, so how come I was called Geoffrey and my mum hates the name Geoff :?: Things I love to eat while low-carbing. Green and Blacks 85% dark chocolate. Oatcakes, cheese or fruit and spice ones steak, bacon and egg, almost all types of fish. bolognaise, no...

I was diagnosed at 30, although I think I had been diabetic for quite a lot longer. At diagnosis I was told I would almost certainly be on insulin by the end of that year. Not understanding diabetes or the treatments I assumed that being on insulin meant I would not be able to eat all the sweet...

During the week its 3 baby bels and 1 oatcake - all while sitting in traffic queues Weekend, bacon and eggs

My wife and I bought one early in the year and although we haven't used it for a while - kids home from uni laughing at us - it was a bit of fun for the both of us. I liked the step class and the hula hoops, however, please be aware that I will now have to silence everyone who has read this. My...

Hi Meggy My user name is the name I also use for email and just about everything else I register for online, and it comes from my company name - Mayhem Computing Ltd. The gef is simple, my name is Geoffrey (I hate that) shortened to Geoff, but when the first computer games came out, you were...

I'm a type 2, I take 2 metformin and 2 glipizide first thing in the morning and the same with my dinner. I also inject 20 unit of insulin last thing at night. Since I've been on this regiem, I test 4 times a day. First thing, before lunch, before dinner and last thing at night. I'm quite happy...

Its been going on longer than Atkins, but he doesn't count, because it was a 'fad diet' and as all the experts knew how things worked, no-one really bothered to do any proper studies. Try this. I have a copy of this that I email to just about anyone who I have a diabetic conversation with...

I have to say that most of the mismanagement was my own fault plus denial. But I certainly don't think I either the correct, or enough, advice when first diagnosed. I do remember being told by the diabetic specialist to stop low carbing as no research had been done on long term affects. The...

Hi Meggy Oh how I love your attitude. :D I just wish I had had the knowledge and bottle when I was first diagnosed. But there was very little internet then and no-one really explained diabetes to me, so I did what I was told, ate my pasta, rice, bread and tatties like a good little boy. Was...

I liked the consultant/doctor and his comments that control con only be achieved by testing - send a tape loop of that to the powers that be in the NHS. Apart from that I was hissing comments at my wife about these kids, their parents and their attitude to life the universe and diabetes. It all...