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Feeling a little annoyed with my partner

@donnellysdogs - poor you. Have they tried you on antibiotics at all?

I had some kind of bug years ago in India from drinking dirty water and constant diahorrea can get quite painful. You might find after cleaning with a moist toilet tissue that using vaseline to protect the skin might help you from getting too sore.
If the GP can't sort it you could always see if chinese medicine could help? Big hugs xx
 
Got a Gastroenterologist who is great.

I have oil of oregano tablets and garlic oil tabs everyday and these are apparently used instead of antibiotics to fend off bad bacteria in the small intestines.
Awaiting for blood,faeces and breath test now.
My new diabetes consultant said yesterday that a few T1's just get bowels that can just be at extremes.
Now just yrying to decide whether to -a) continue eating small tiny amount of limited foods and being pretty much ill all the time or eat larger amounts of food and be ill all the time....what a choice!!
Will wait till I see results of tests and soeak to Gastro chap before making my decision though.

Feel for people that havem't got fully supportive partners though.... Mine has always supported me, no matter if he chose different options for a very long time.
 
I've been diagnosed as T1 for 6 months but mrs still tells people "He's not allowed to eat xxxxxx". However many times I tell her I can eat whatever I like as long as I count the carbs and bolus for it, she still comes out with it.

p.s. That doesn't mean I shovel carbs ad lib.
 
My lady is superb, 99.9% of the time so if she wants a fish and chips then she gets fish and chips. I control my diet not hers, it's a small thing to let someone else have a treat so please let them and you will be surpised what you get back so stay strong to yourself, be awesome and show diabetes who is the boss
 
Firstly, please understand that I love my wife to the end of the Earth, but in the fortnight since I was diagnosed she has:
Offered me toast (white bread) and marmalade for supper the evening before a fasting test.
On a Sunday visit to a restaurant a friend owns she's gone to the kitchen to order me something 'special', which turned out to be tinned cream of mushroom soup with bread, while she sat down to a full Sunday roast.
At a friends birthday bash she insisted on approving everything I ordered from the restaurant menu, which prompted the comment "I've got diabetes, not dementia" cue an instant huff.
Yesterday we were at a carvery for Sunday lunch, I had a lovely plate of roast beef and assorted vegetables, without potatoes. Once she'd finished hers she had potatoes left over, so demanded I ate them for her so she didn't 'look greedy' for taking too much.
Yesterday she made a lovely savoury snack from lean minced beef and spices, but then 'glazed' it with a sauce from ketchup, brown sugar and apple cider vinegar
Today she's just handed me a bottle of Lemon Barley Water, "I thought you'd like this, it's only 11% Sugar"
She's a fantastic cook, she's cooked professionally all her working life, and a lot of the fault that my BMI is larger than my waist size is the huge portions of delicious food she's created over the last 25 years, but something has to change
 
Thank you Contralto, excellent strategy, much more subtle than 'accidentally' leaving my post on the screen for her to discover
 
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