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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Rachox said:
I have some mag citrate on order but I’m going to start with one as I’m aware of the laxative effect it can have, but it may prove useful in that area too!
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Go easy on that stuff as it will clean you compleatly out,

This is the stuff they gave me before my colonoscopy, mix the powder in water and take the tabets.

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Plus twopackets of this to drink as well, one before the three tablets etc. one after.

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Riva_Roxaban said:
Go easy on that stuff as it will clean you compleatly out,

This is the stuff they gave me before my colonoscopy

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Plus twopackets of this to drink as well, one before the three tablets one after.

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Oh yes I’ve had a couple of colonoscopies with all the ‘prep’ required in the past :wideyed:! So I started with one capsule and was fine, so upped it to the suggested dose of two and I remain fine! Cramps have virtually disappeared :)

(edited by Antje77 to see if I could pull the trick - looks like it worked! :))
 
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Rachox said:
Oh yes I’ve had a couple of colonoscopies with all the ‘prep’ required in the past :wideyed:! So I started with one capsule and was fine, so upped it to the suggested dose of two and I remain fine! Cramps have virtually disappeared :)
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@Rachox I cant run fast any more so I am vaery wary when I have to take stuff like.

I updated my pix in my post can you edit the quote containing the original in yours please.
 
@Annb & @maglil55 I'm afraid to even imagine what you had to go through! How good that both of these stories have a good ending! It's scary to experience it personally, but it's even scarier to be next to a person in such a state and not be able to help.It always seemed to me that if something really terrible happened to me, I would just inject myself with a whole syringe of insulin, but I never knew what I would do if something happened to someone dear to me.
 
Zhnyaka said:
It always seemed to me that if something really terrible happened to me, I would just inject myself with a whole syringe of insulin
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Let's hope you'll never end up in a situation wher you need to consider this, but just a heads up still: Do NOT trust a full syringe of insulin to do the job.
People do die from insulin overdoses, either by accident or not, but it has a very high fail rate. Our bodies are capable of doing remarkable things to escape death, including surviving massive insulin overdoses, which may lead to brain damage in addition to the original reason you tried.
 
Antje77 said:
Let's hope you'll never end up in a situation wher you need to consider this, but just a heads up still: Do NOT trust a full syringe of insulin to do the job.
People do die from insulin overdoses, either by accident or not, but it has a very high fail rate. Our bodies are capable of doing remarkable things to escape death, including surviving massive insulin overdoses, which may lead to brain damage in addition to the original reason you tried.
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Wow, I didn't know that my body could do this and was always afraid to fall asleep if my BG dropped. I hope I will never do this, although since the beginning of the war I have been joking too often that if anything happen, I always have insulin with me. I hope all this will end soon and I will come come to your Hague to see the building of the International Court of Justice of the United Nations:hilarious: So far, I'm telling myself that Fred and Charlie (meaning Banting and Best) didn't work so that I would suffer and I should be happy so that their work wouldn't be wasted
 
Zhnyaka said:
Wow, I didn't know that my body could do this and was always afraid to fall asleep if my BG dropped.
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The problem is, you can't count on an overdose of insulin to kill you, but you also cannot count on it to not kill you, so you're right to be very careful with dropping BG at night!
 
Antje77 said:
The problem is, you can't count on an overdose of insulin to kill you, but you also cannot count on it to not kill you, so you're right to be very careful with dropping BG at night!
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haha, insulin, as well as diabetes, sometimes seems to be a very wayward thing. As if this is a person with a very capricious characte that's just also with a shotgun in his hands :joyful:
 
Baking day tomorrow - Em is here and I have some recipes I want to try out for some finger food at an event in Stornoway next month. One I want to try is a chocolate cake base with orange jelly topped with chocolate - all very shallow to be a tray bake. Then there are some raspberry cookies to try out. Other stuff too, so she'll be going home with a box full of baked goods tomorrow afternoon. It's quite handy having Em as a helper - that way I can still do my baking and don't have to eat any of it. Actually, now that I think of it, that's what I always did, even before diagnosis because I was always on a diet - not a low carb one, but definitely avoiding sweet things.

I always used to be irritated by people who told me that all they did to lose weight was cut out cakes and/or biscuits - because I didn't eat them anyway and still put the weight on. I always walked miles as well (and used to push a big coach-build pram with 2 children and shopping in it up a very steep hill in Dumbarton (Garshake Hill, if anyone knows it). If that didn't burn calories, then nothing would. Nothing did. But everyone who had managed to lose weight, and some medics, blamed me for eating the wrong things and not doing enough to burn off the calories I was consuming. "It's a simple equation" they used to say, "100 calories in x 105 calories burned = weight loss. 100 calories in x 90 calories burned = weight gain".:arghh::arghh::arghh:
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I'm finally going to paint my "bedstee"!
A bedstee is a bed in a closet in the living room, something seen in many older houses in the countryside although not many are still used as a bed.

I love my bedstee for sleeping but it does need a good clean and some fresh paint after almost 9 years of living here.

You're not getting a picture because way too many cobwebs but if I remember I'll make a 'before' picture after cleaning. :)

The new design will be pretty wild, if it works out well I'll be sleeping in the sea, fishes and all, with a blue sky and a sun above my head!

The plan is to have every friend who visits add a fish or a bird or such so my bed will be full of reminders of friends!

I'll paint it with a friend, we've planned two days to finish the job.
Neither of us are very good painters so I'm really excited to find out if the end result will be anything like it is in my head! :D
 
Antje77 said:
I'm finally going to paint my "bedstee"!
A bedstee is a bed in a closet in the living room, something seen in many older houses in the countryside although not many are still used as a bed.

I love my bedstee for sleeping but it does need a good clean and some fresh paint after almost 9 years of living here.

You're not getting a picture because way too many cobwebs but if I remember I'll make a 'before' picture after cleaning. :)

The new design will be pretty wild, if it works out well I'll be sleeping in the sea, fishes and all, with a blue sky and a sun above my head!

The plan is to have every friend who visits add a fish or a bird or such so my bed will be full of reminders of friends!

I'll paint it with a friend, we've planned two days to finish the job.
Neither of us are very good painters so I'm really excited to find out if the end result will be anything like it is in my head! :D
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That’s a lovely way to remember friends’ visits.
 
Stumbled across this, in the online store of a fabric company and thought of a couple of people who would definitely like a t-shirt in it:

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(I can't add a link as it is in a "Private" Facebook group.)
 
Annb said:
I always used to be irritated by people who told me that all they did to lose weight was cut out cakes and/or biscuits - because I didn't eat them anyway and still put the weight on. I always walked miles as well (and used to push a big coach-build pram with 2 children and shopping in it up a very steep hill in Dumbarton (Garshake Hill, if anyone knows it). If that didn't burn calories, then nothing would. Nothing did. But everyone who had managed to lose weight, and some medics, blamed me for eating the wrong things and not doing enough to burn off the calories I was consuming. "It's a simple equation" they used to say, "100 calories in x 105 calories burned = weight loss. 100 calories in x 90 calories burned = weight gain".:arghh::arghh::arghh:
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. It's easy for someone to lose weight, but it's very difficult for someone, it depends on the metabolism, and since you have diabetes, your metabolism is not all right. Insulin make you fat even if they don't eat anything, and you inject it all the time. You know, T1 has a very bad, but very effective way to lose weight - just stop injecting insulin and eat whatever you want. I do not recommend it in any way, because it can lead to a coma, I mean that without insulin it is impossible to get fat even by a gram, so it's not about food at all
 
I missed my basal today and went to my parents without charging my phone, as a result, my phone ran out and I couldn't read data from libre, so I had to run to my neighbors and ask for a charger. Ha-ha. My libra is only three weeks old, and I'm already dependent on it. Of course, I also had a glucose meter, but when skipping the basal, I had to measure sugar very often, especially since it didn't immediately occur to me that I missed the injection and I couldn't understand why my bg was growing, and then I was afraid that I double the morning dose. Hahaha, well I'm a loser today
 
We didn't make any cakes today. Em decided she wanted to make cookies so we dug out a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. The recipe made a huge amount so I took half of it an put it in the fridge for another day. Em decided she wanted to make tiny cookies because she found a very small octagonal cutter in the drawer. It made dozens of tiny cookies and used all the chocolate I had in the larder - still wasn't as much as the recipe asked for but I think it was OK. She took a whole, large box of them home, so she, Braidie and her mum will be scoffing cookies. Alistair isn't keen on sweet things.
 
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