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My rapid insulin has had really poor effectiveness today, after an hour 2 units dropped my blood glucose by 0.1.. I’m worried the heat has affected my pen. Still a newbie so not really sure? To note I am on steroids at the moments following a chemo dose but other similar days have had much...

Having only been diagnosed a few weeks, I’m still getting my head around everything but with this hot weather I just thought - will I ever be able to have an ice cream again! I suppose I can just calculate carbs and inject but any pitfalls to watch out for? Better after a meal with protein I...

I’ve been diagnosed a couple of weeks and started on long acting insulin (14units) morning and night but was still having highs so started on some rapid yesterday. Long acting dose was also dropped to 12. For the rapid I was quite conservative on units to carbs (20g to 1 unit to start as per...