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Coronavirus in the UK

Discussion in 'Health and Fitness' started by aposhark, Mar 4, 2020.

  1. aposhark
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    aposhark Well-Known Member Lifetime Member

    Will everyone be safe two weeks after the second jab?
    Last edited: Feb 25, 2021
  2. Anon220806
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    Anon220806 Well-Known Member

    I was constipated but in my case it was cheese that did it. So have reduced the amount of cheese. Fluid intake is important as when you reduce carbs you are consuming less fluid. Also there are a couple of ways of dealing with it.

    1) Artificial sweeteners.

    2) Psyllium husk. I add it to bread that I make.

    If your carb intake is low enough you will burn fat. So you will lose weight.
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  3. Anon220806
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    I wish I could see the column headings. :D

    You certainly have monitored yourself pretty well. :D
  4. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    Quitting booze reduced my weight anyway by a bit, lockdown had not been kind to me mostly because of a love for trifle, beer and wine :D

    I created this sheet years ago but I'm not recording the other columns just now, the lunch record on the second was probably just not cleared out from a few years back.

    The time of day is in column C.

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  5. Anon220806
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    I needed to add - 3 hours after sounds a bit long. More like 1.5 hours to 2 hours. I don’t test but millions do and that’s what they report. For me looking for the peak is going to be a bit hit and miss unless wearing a continuous glucose monitor. The up and coming watches from Apple and Samsung and all the rest of them.
    Last edited: Feb 25, 2021
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    It'll vary from one person to another Mike but in general with the Oxford AZ vaccine you could probably be pretty damn sure that the current UK variants won't kill you or hospitalise you, but you could still potentially get sick that's what the residual percentage is, say 85% it's efficacy for Oxford AZ then 15% will still get symptomatic COVID but won't get hospitalised hopefully.
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    The nurse said it was fine and I can't be sure exactly how long it had been since I had eaten that night, it was a snack and my only carbohydrates that day.
  8. Anon220806
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    You are right. Eating carbs will raise blood sugar. That’s the point. Catching the peak is ideal otherwise you get the wrong impression. Those using cgms can see all peaks and all of the peaks.

    Or the Hba1c test will give you your average for a 3 month period.

    It won’t be the alcohol, it will be the carbs in it.
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    I'm not drinking at all.

    She might have meant 7.8mmol/litre I don't know she just went off to the machine and checked it came back and said you're fine, I might even have misheard her the Liverpool accent down here gets me sometimes.

    edit: I probably got the units wrong above.
  10. Anon220806
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    She may not even have known the significance. what did they feed you on?
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    The put me on saline later, I had nothing to eat in the hospital, this is about 30 minutes after I arrived in A&E and I had eaten at home earlier.

    The hospital did a full set of bloods because I was suffering Tachycardia that's why I was there.

    My urine tests which I do at home are always perfect no trace of sugars.
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    Was breakfast like this?
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  13. Anon220806
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    Anon220806 Well-Known Member

    Your GP will not go by a urine test. They go by HbA1c and Fasting Blood Glucose tests.
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    They didn't keep me in I ate nothing at the hospital, I had a Tachycardia episode at 22:15 and was in hospital at 23:20 bloods were done by 23:40.

    I was observed until 13:30 on the Sunday when they said they could not find anything wrong.

    This was breakfast that Saturday made by me, I only have the sausages at the weekend.
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    Yeah I know HbA1c is an average though and I've never had readings taken in a way that would give me an average although there is one HbA1c recorded on my record but that was definitely a single test not multiple.
  16. Anon220806
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    This is with listening too. If you tell me you had a nice steak for lunch and eggs and bacon for breakfast I won’t believe you. Malhotra is campaigning for better food in hospitals. As he will tell you in the video.

  17. Anon220806
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    Brilliant. The food I mean.
  18. oss
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    The sausages are a pain in the backside to make so I only do them at weekends, I like cooking that requires little effort :) or that can be done in batches.
  19. oss
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    oss Somewhere Staff Member

    If you want I could switch to food posting on the thread about your wife's journey, it's not really appropriate on this thread.
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    I'm a decent cook, never made scrambled eggs before Dec 2019 when I made it for the kids in the Phils, those were made with some double cream and cooked in a knob of butter.

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