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Have you got a half unit Pen? I always tweek Tresiba I half units.

Yes I use stomach and legs on rotation for bolus and bottom for basal.

Welcome @Cathy Cally yes your numbers are high, but you are recently diagnosed and your DN will want to increase insulin in a slow measured way til you hit a lower level. The reason for this is twofold, the first so you don’t end up going hypo overnight, and the second important one is slow...

Never heard of the plus. Wouldn’t want an extra day as like to change at same time of the week. Plus luckily not having trouble with accuracy.

It was interesting reading this thread. The divide between just diagnosed and long timers stands out somewhat. I don’t mean to be rude or dispiriting to those early in your journey, but with those expectations on relatively small amounts of insulin at the moment you may be setting yourselves up...

Each to his own. But as someone whose stomach and legs are covered in bruises I want as sharp a needle as possible going into my flesh.

As @Ushthetaff states it’s not what you eat but how you manage your insulin to match it. Amounts, timings, corrections etc. some people manage very well eating anything and succeed with a low HbA1c. Do you wear a CGM and have high and low alarms set so you can see patterns?

@barbarapreston Wow! What an achievement 70 years. A well deserved medal and a reminder to the newly diagnosed that this disease can be lived with.

From following Partha Karr on Twitter, who has driven this and also written many articles on it, the money is already in place and ring fenced.

Ooh the quicker the better please @KennyA

Interesting. I most definitely do.

I would contact the health care team, thank them for the offer very much but that whilst waiting you have addressed the issues yourself and no longer need to do the course. You can say that you feel it would be more appropriate to hand your place to someone waiting and desperate for help. Well...

Look on the bright side. Like Libre it will filter through eventually. You have a low HbA1c because you work at it and prioritise your health and well being over anything else. Remember there are some people who do the above who still don’t achieve good results. And no child will be diagnosed...

No, my insurance company was not interested.

@RoughcutAU a better graph than mine. I put virtually no sugar in mine. Mainly just fruit sweetened. But big hitters never the less.