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Thank-you Mentat that is really useful. (Apologies for the lack of reply, every time I checked the site the forums were down).

Thanks - no, my husband doesn't actually like chocolate :shock: . He only ate a massive bar as a test. The honeymoon theory sounds plausible - how else would virtually the same eating pattern on 2 days result in such a massive difference in blood sugar? Unless his testing kit is not reliable?

Well...... blood sugar down to a respectable 6 tonight. Following almost exactly the same pattern of eating today as yesterday, when blood was 17. Honestly we are beginning to think this is just random......

Thanks - I will suggest he thinks about his carb intake. Blimey this is complicated!!! Amanda

Thank-you so much for this really detailed reply - lots to think about. No, he hasn't really been told about carbs - he was given a lot of information about diet when it was thought he was type 2 diabetic, but it seemed to be mainly aimed at weight loss - and my husband isn't overweight...

Hi I'm asking this for my husband, who was diagnosed as type 1 this time last year - he's 59. He has struggled getting any personalised advice from HCPs. When he started injecting his blood sugar levels came down quickly and all was fine, up until about a month ago. His sugar level started...