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asweetlife.org/a-sweet-life-staff/featured/tethered-to-the-body/3901/ Enjoy.

Like other have said, and we can't stress it enough, your vision will return to normal. Do not panic. Do not rush out and buy glasses.

That's great chaps, thanks a lot :) Useful info on cholesterol there.

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Can you shed more light on this? Why not in the UK?

24-year-old socialite, happy to discuss diabetes and its affects on an adolescent life (only been T1 for 18 months though).

Regarding carbs, am I right in thinking you subtract any fibre content?

Hi guys & gals, It's been a while but I'm still around. I had my latest set of results and, as usual, they're confusing! Doctor rang and told me that the HBA1c has come back with two results: "4.2%" and "6". Assuming that the 4.2 is my actual HBA1c result, what would the 6 be? Average BG? Also...

Re: Idiot Brains comming through Tony, What's your basal? Sounds like it might not be enough.

I can't claim to have had it as hard as you - I've only had Type 1 for just over a year, but I can totally appreciate the feeling of being 'cut down in your prime'. I was diagnosed a week after my 23rd birthday. But no, I am absolutely enjoying life. You've just got to accept it, make peace with...

If I doctor ever told ME not to test I think I'd....bite them! (How many carbs in a mouthful of human flesh? 8) )

I do the same as Mark. When testing at work, I whack them back into the wrapper, ensuring the 'blood' end goes into the bottom. But then, I just throw them in the bin. I'm fairly confident they're not going to be fished out or dropped anywhere so I don't see the problem.

I actually did some tests through the night, last night. 4u Levemir @ 10pm 5.0mmol @ 12pm 7.0mmol @ 2am 6.2mmol @ 4am 8.0mmol @ 7am To me, that makes no sense. I can't even figure out what's happening.

Sounds like we're having the same kind of woes lilibet :p I think it's just a case of thinking differently to how we did with premix. It's like, a totally different game. This ratio stuff is baffling me though. Woke up @ 8.0mmol, injected 6u to cope with a 5g carb breakfast and an hour later...

Cheers iHs. It really helps just to hear what other people do and what options are available to me. Now I have a plan and I feel a lot more confident because of it.

Argh, just took 6u for 3.6g carbs and now I'm at 7.9. Terrible :/ That's less than 1:0.6! My basal must definitely be wrong. I'm going to try increasing my Levemir to 5u tonight and then i'll give it another week (already been one week on 4u). Alternatively, it seems like splitting is pretty...

Nick, that's fantastic, thank you. I'm going to wait for a morning that I wake up with a decent BG level and then do a fast, in exactly the way you've described. I am also convinced that my basal is too low, considering several examples already where I'm experiencing unexplained rises during...

10.9 this morning... Man, I want to punch something.

I understand that it's very specific to me, I mainly just want to know what indications I should be looking out for that perhaps my basal needs to go up? It just feels a bit too low... At the moment I'm waking at anything between 7 and 16. Today, for example... Woke up with 11.2mmol...

Well, this could be promising. Will keep an eye on it. I know this shouldn't matter but it kinda annoys me that the people selected for the trials are people who don't really look after themselves and are in "most need". We'll all be bottom of the list because we actually care about our health...