Hi Loraine, I got mine from Medic alert S.A that was way back in 2000,im allergic to penicillin. Only became diabetic later. By purchasing one from them one has to pay a yearly subscription fee as… read more
Contact your local hospital and ask them if they offer free medical ID bracelets. If they don't, ask if they know of any medical foundations in the area that provide these bracelets for free
Or… read more
I have begun to bake a lot more to control the desserts I eat (have huge junk food addiction) but the only Splenda brown sugar I have found is small and expensive. Is it ok to use regular or do other use monk fruit brown sugar, regular sugar... please help would like to get a handle on my health and baking at home seems to work but its seems to be no cheaper.
See my previous post. . . . I have found that cutting the sugar and brown sugar by 50% does not take away from the recipe. Don't bother with splenda or Struvia. . . just stick with the originals and… read more
Nov 14 is world diabetes day.
Thank you, will. Heck on Pinterest.
Why do so many people from South Africa have no idea what a carb is and that both sugars(simple carbs) and carbs(complex carbs) have similar effects in raising blood glucose numbers. Baby steps.
Many seem not to know why their blood glucose numbers are high, and why we should cut carbs slowly. Baby steps.
It's as if they are operating on only the partial information my parents were given 40 years ago. My parents both followed that information, cut sugars and passed within 10 years from… read more
Good for you.
Type 1 diabetic with Medtronic pump
I'm ok with one Weetabix with milk( and sometimes blueberries) but two sends my bs soaring.
Dried fruit has too many carbs.
Try contacting Diabetes South Africa and see if they can help
Is it time for a new dr.?
Some of us test far more than that- fbs,before meals,two hours after meals,before bed,at times of feeling odd.Thats where a cgm is preferable to finger pricks