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  1. kellyb8511

    Insulin neuritis

    Hi I know this is an old thread. I’m currently going through this now and it’s awful I almost died at Christmas after ending up in hospital with diabetic ketoacidosis. My hba1c was 14.5% quite a few of the doctors mentioned they had never seen a hba1c so high in all their career. This was due...
  2. kellyb8511

    Rapid weight gain

    hi thanks for your response :-) I am currently on levimir and nova rapid Levimir I have 40 units a day and nova rapid is different with each meal but generally about 5-6 units. I have approx 2 hypos a week. My doctor said it was because my body is used to being so high that it is having hypos...
  3. kellyb8511

    Rapid weight gain

    this is 100% me!! I have kind of just lived with the constant thirst and peeing which also results in other issues but as soon as I start having insulin properly my weight just piles on and I look swollen. It definitely isn’t anything to do with food I am eating but I think it’s water retention...
  4. kellyb8511

    Rapid weight gain

    hi thanks for your reply yes years ago I was tested to see what type of diabetes I have as I don’t seem to fall in any category. Unfortunately my results seemed to leave the drs even more confused. There only answer every time seems to be to change which insulin I am on! But the underlying issue...
  5. kellyb8511

    Rapid weight gain

    Hi thank you both for your responses. My diabetes is a very strange 1 and the hospital are still My diabetes is a very strange 1. Even though I don’t eat that much I need masses of insulin but what you have wrote suggests to be accurate. I think my best course of action will be to go back to...
  6. kellyb8511

    Rapid weight gain

    Hi everyone I have suffered from diabulemia for years. I have been down to 8 stone and still felt extremely conscious about my weight. My arms and legs were stick thin but I have a big belly. Anyway I have made the decision to start my insulin properly. It is making me feel awful. I am forever...
  7. kellyb8511

    8 year old daughters sugar level was 8.1about 10 minutes after tea - should I be concerned

    hi everyone - brief background My 8 year old daughter - is very fit and active and certainly not overweight I am a type 1 mother so I check her blood every now and then say if she cuts her finger or starts drinking a lot of fluid all of a sudden . She has had a few quite high readings but then...
  8. kellyb8511

    Type 1 Diabetic And Found Out I Am Pregnant. Need Advice As I Have Suffered Miscarriages In Past

    Hi guys thank you all so much for your support and encouragement. I have just got my latest hba1c and it has gone to 7.6% and that is with me not looking after myself in turkey and since finding out I haven’t really been over 7mmol so fingers crossed this is my happy ever after xxx
  9. kellyb8511

    Type 1 Diabetic And Found Out I Am Pregnant. Need Advice As I Have Suffered Miscarriages In Past

    hi guys need your help please Brief history I didn’t use my insulin for almost 2 years to basically lose weight! Then 2 years ago I found out I was pregnant after trying for 6 years to conceive I was ecstatic but end d in miscarriage. I tried to get diabetes under control from that date and...
  10. kellyb8511

    Type 1 Rising sugar levels through the night

    Hi thank you all so much for this information I will request an appointment with my diabetes team but in the mean time I will aim to eat earlier and just take novarapid with my meal and then have my levimir at 9ish My issue is I usually go to bed 7:30 - 8ish as I get up for work at 4:30 so I...
  11. kellyb8511

    Type 1 Rising sugar levels through the night

    Morning, thank you for your replies I did have a big debate with myself about if I needed a snack before bed last night usually hypos wake me up instantly BUT there is a chance I’m not noticing them as easy anymore so yes it is a big possibility. I will aim for 5ish for sugars before bed I...
  12. kellyb8511

    Type 1 Rising sugar levels through the night

    hi guys I hope you can give me a little helpful advise I have noticed my sugar levels are rising through the night even though I am not eating from about 6:30-7:00 pm Last night I checked my levels at bedtime 10pm and it was 4.2 woke up and tested this morning 17.7!!! I take 24 units levimir...
  13. kellyb8511

    levels rising but not eating any carbs

    I weighed myself this morning and I have gained weight and up to 10st 7 so havnt lost anything - I think its due to the fact iv been having more insulin again :-( I feel like I could cry
  14. kellyb8511

    levels rising but not eating any carbs

    Hi again thanks for the response I am have next to nothing carb wise but I have been having atleast 2 units of insulin as working out exactly what I have eaten and going by my usual ratio carb/insulin doses I have actually been having more then enough but yet my insulin is either not effecting...
  15. kellyb8511

    levels rising but not eating any carbs

    Hi thanks for the reply I am 5, 7 and last year I dropped to 7 stone 13lbs and now I am 10 st 6 so a massive increase which my body is struggling with
  16. kellyb8511

    levels rising but not eating any carbs

    yes i am type 1 with insulin resistance, my doctors are regularly baffled by me! and unfortunately i went 3 years with very little insulin and had a hba1c of 14% to which my doctor came and did a house call as it was the highest he had ever seen, all to be thin. so this time i am doing things...
  17. kellyb8511

    levels rising but not eating any carbs

    also i have to point out, i have just remembered yesterday i had 2 doses of levimir 10 in morning and 20 last night as my sugars where very high so that is only a drop in 10 units ish and i literally had next to no carbs all day :-(
  18. kellyb8511

    levels rising but not eating any carbs

    thanks for the responses, i will have a look in to treating my protein intake with insulin but that was the idea of going on this diet, as i don't want much insulin as it causes me to gain rapid weight maybe this diet isn't as suitable for type 1s as generally thought as so far my sugars are...
  19. kellyb8511

    levels rising but not eating any carbs

    hi im slightly confused and hope you all can help I started a no carb diet just over a week ago, the first few days where fantastic I had 15 units of levimir (a drop of approx. 30 units) I also drop my nova rapid from about 10 units each meal to approx. 2 units each meal but after 2 days I...
  20. kellyb8511

    Type 1 diabetic mother worried sick about my 5 year olds sugar levels

    Hi Jaylee, she has just been acting giddy and is constantly in the fridge and asking for drinks - even tho she is only having a sip (far from the gallons I drink when bs is high!) she has been going to the toilet more aswell but before hand it was always a struggle to get juice and food in her -...