My diabetes nurse has all sorts of sayings – one of my favourites is “pizza is poison” which is due to pizza being so stodgy and fattening, it can take up to seven hours to allow your BGs to return to normal. Another one she has, which springs into my head from time to time is “5 before you drive” (as in, your BG should be 5.0 or over if you plan to drive a car).

I’ve talked about the dangers of driving with low blood glucose before, here. I am getting better at detecting large swings downwards in blood sugars these days – it used to be that I wouldn’t know until I was really, really…

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