Minimum Blood Glucose Levels?

[MaryJ]

I think we have a fabulous range of contributors on this forum,

All are out to help fellow diabetics, without it I would be un-informed and no doubt heading to out of control BG levels.

I want to take the chance to thank everyone for their input from the long standing, very experience to the absolute newbies. my knowledge is increasing all the time, I don't always agree with everyone, such is life. I just move on to another thread.

PLEASE let's not lose ANYONE.

Mary x

 

[lucylocket61]

I have not attacked anyone.

and I havent reported anyone either. I have pm-ed daisy1 to ask for advice in forum etiquette to see if I am not aware of how to express myself properly and so am seeing confusing discussion and disagreement. My problem, I have to find a way to deal with it.

I dont know why you are saying I have attacked and reported anyone. I think you are making big assumptions.

I am very grateful for the advice I have received on this forum. I always say Thank you to everyone, and express my gratitude.

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[Paul1976]

I'm not articulate enough to participate on here in all fairness,I've been a member as long as xyzzy and swimmer2 but I'm regarded as a 'Newbie' and I wish I could debate as well as you guys about low carbing and research but I'm not intelligent enough and I'm too depressed with it all now as ULC has done nothing for me or meds so this I don't belong on this forum and I'm getting sicker by the day and A&E just told me to go back to my GP,my GP didn't know what to do so referred me to Endo and I still have 2 weeks to wait to see him and i've had enough now of it all so Adios world

 

[catherinecherub]

Not having contributed to this thread until now, it did go off track and seemed to me to be a bit pointless. Who was right and who was wrong? Individually they all thought they were right. It is called opinions Lucy and some people in life think that you can have opinions but they will always be right.
It is not worth getting upset about IMHO. Just use the first few posts that answered your question and leave the rest.
Without newbies this forum would lose it's way so keep posting about anything you are not sure of and sift through the information you get until you are happy with it. You are new to the forum and your contributions are as valid as anyone else. Nobody here has priority and we do not always agree with each other as in life.

 

[MaryJ]

Bigfatpaulie

Your post sounds very very down.

You are every much a welcome contributor as everyone.

Is there anyone you can talk to. I think I would be back at GP or A + E and explain HOW I was feeling, not just in body. This condition is abismal sometimes.

Take care

Mary x

 

[Anonymous]

I'm not articulate enough to participate on here in all fairness,I've been a member as long as xyzzy and swimmer2 but I'm regarded as a 'Newbie' and I wish I could debate as well as you guys about low carbing and research but I'm not intelligent enough and I'm too depressed with it all now as ULC has done nothing for me or meds so this I don't belong on this forum and I'm getting sicker by the day and A&E just told me to go back to my GP,my GP didn't know what to do so referred me to Endo and I still have 2 weeks to wait to see him and i've had enough now of it all so Adios world

Goodness Paulie, don`t go. I want to hear about you getting better!

As for the debate, I would be very sad to see anyone leave. I certainly wouldn`t have the control, or the knowledge, I have already from being here. We can`t all think the same, that is one of the great things about being here. We pick up information from many different view points.

 

[Paul1976]

I'm sorry to sound morose-I'm just SO down,My body and mind are still in a mess from last years cancer and colostomy which I still can't accept and now this Diabetes hits my body like a train-I'm that tired i have actually fell asleep standing up,I have boils everywhere,I have thrush in my mouth and in the trouser department,I visited the dentist today and my gum disease that I recently developed is not responding to antibiotics and a load of my teeth are loose,I can't stop peeing or drinking gallons of water and I'm so drowsy I've had to stop driving my car and sometimes I just need to lie down but cant as me and my wifes children are disabled and need a lot of care and I didn't have much of a childhood due to abuse and having to grow up with Asperger syndrome and I'm only 36 now but feel 86 and I want to scream!!!!! :cry:

 

[catherinecherub]

Have you told your G.P. how low you are feeling? Have you mentioned all the trials and tribulations you are facing as detailed in your post here? You need more help than you are getting especially for all the emotional aspects. Please go back to your G.P. and explain how low you are feeling, make an emergency appointment, this is an emergency.
Keep posting and even ranting, it may help.

 

[Anonymous]

Have you told your G.P. how low you are feeling? Have you mentioned all the trials and tribulations you are facing as detailed in your post here? You need more help than you are getting especially for all the emotional aspects. Please go back to your G.P. and explain how low you are feeling, make an emergency appointment, this is an emergency.
Keep posting and even ranting, it may help.

seconded Catherine.

 

[Defren]

Have you told your G.P. how low you are feeling? Have you mentioned all the trials and tribulations you are facing as detailed in your post here? You need more help than you are getting especially for all the emotional aspects. Please go back to your G.P. and explain how low you are feeling, make an emergency appointment, this is an emergency.
Keep posting and even ranting, it may help.

I couldn't agree more with this. Paulie, you know, recently diagnosed people like me (three weeks today) find that the help and support offered is something we couldn't be without. I, even in that short space of time feel close to certain posters Jeannemum being one. Diabetes diagnosis hits most of us like a train, if you read my very first posts here, you will see I was in tears, lost, frightened and alone. I don't feel like that an more. Yes, I still have bad times/days and only the other day had a meltdown, but yanno what? Posters came along, kicked my ass (I needed it) and got me back to where I needed to be. I couldn't imagine not being able to come here, just to be able to talk, to ask questions, to vent. This forum is safety, understanding and compassion, as well as a place of friendship and knowledge. I can't debate as well as most others, I can only post my own experiences in the hope they may help someone else. I am not thick, I am an educated woman, but not in diabetes. That is why I come here, to learn, to educate myself, and hope, one day I too will be as knowledgeable as others.

Please don't leave, I can't imagine a single poster here would want that. As CatherineCherub suggests, make an emergency appointment, and spill everything out to your GP. Hopefully, this is when he will see just how bad thins have become, and help you. I wish you the very, very best of luck.

 

[Defren]

I don't want to get into he said this, he said that.
In this thread I think there's been some misinterpretation on both 'sides' and it's become akin to counting angels on a pinhead.
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Couldn't agree more Phoenix. The pity of it is that everyone concerned means well. Personally , I don't get upset by disagreements but occasionally I feel that it is more about personaliies than facts and that should not be.

I understand the need for the newly diagnosed to have some simple , straighforward guidance and everyone concerned in the disagreements does an excellent job in that respect as do some others.

I don't think the forum should be constrained by the fear of confusing "newbies". There is easily accessible information here for them and specific areas where they can go.

The fact is, that there must be progress. Things are not set in stone - well some things are but maybe shouldn' be.
The science is evolving all the time and i am very grateful to those who bring it to my attetion.
Anone who wants certainties has been chosen by the wrong disease.
I relly don't think anyone should get upse at parameters and edefinitions changing. This wil happen all the time.
It is very understandable hat those who had a good initial experience upon diagnosis . like sid , for example . and many others will have more faith in the system than hose of us who have had to muddle our own way through.
Sid has not become complacent and and still keeps strictly ot the regime which works for him and may well work for many others.

Perhaps a little more mutual respect genlemen? I would hate to lose any of you. I would hate to seee this forum stultified and diminished.
I think we have an excellent mix of old and new and if sometimes these clash - we are all adults and can choose what yo take from the discussions.

Thank you all , [and phoenix] for your input.

I agree with this, especially the highlighted part and I am a newbie. I can ask questions and find the answers I need. If there is heavy duty debate going on, I skip past it as in the main I don't understand it, especially when there are numbers and abbreviations used. For me, I don't allow things to upset me (much :mrgreen: ) I just post where I want to, and ask what I want, and so far have always received the assistance I have needed.