Recent Content by Antje77

Hi @Steve Ella , welcome to the forum. If you're worried about a cut or a wound not healing well, please see your doctor about it or ask for advice through 111. In general, it's not advised to apply creams to open wounds.

Hi @Bobby105 , nice to meet you! Have you found any patterns relating to your food or the timing of your insulin with the hypers and hypos? Have you ever used a continuous monitor like freestyle libre to help finding patterns? They do a free trial if you've never used one before.

With my long acting I've never noticed a difference. I usually use my arms, but have done thigh, bum and belly too. My quick acting usually goes in my belly, occasionally in my arm. I've never noticed a difference with this either. I'm so tempted to try! :hilarious: Rather hard to reach...

I've been wondering about your type of diabetes ever since I've met you on the forum, years ago. More so after you started to grow bold with your insulin and decided to follow a typical T1 approach, combined with low carbing. Your diabetes seems to behave remarkably similar to my own, and...

We T1's start out as prediabetics too. Which can last for quite a while with the sometimes slow progress of LADA.

Please show her this. (And tell her that this doesn't even include all the misdiagnosed 'T2's on insulin' who were diagnosed between their 40's and 90's. Finding out you don't have T2 is often initiated by the patient, not their hcp, and if people are told very early on that T1 is impossible...

For what it's worth, I change my lancets about 3 times a year, and I test about 3 times a day. Doesn't hurt for me. Not officially recommended but many of us do so.

@Jim Baxter , the weather is getting right again for those who like a leasurely sail in good weather, go out! After many years of working on sailing ships, I'm now trying to choose my weather and only sail when my coffee won't get blown out of my mug (although I do love sailing in winter in very...

For me, the 'negative' reasons mentioned above do play a part. Of course I don't want to lose my eyesight, feet, or kidney function. More short term, I never again want to feel like I did during the time before diagnosis, 9 years ago, with high BG worsening my depression, giving me this horrible...

An hba1c going from 44 to 144 in only 3 months is a very good reason to suspect it's not T2. There are more antibodies than only the GAD ones, so being negative fpr them doesn't tell you anything. Some T1's test negative for all currently known antibodies, antibody testing is very useful to...

Just a practical idea to make it a little easier to get some sleep: What about using earplugs so you don't hear the noise?

You'll want one with the cheapest teststrips, the strips are the ongoing cost. I'll tag @Rachox for you, she has a list of meters in the UK. Very happy to see you sound so much better today than yesterday! Tackling the confusion by learning, way to go!

How long ago did you start insulin? Finding the right dose takes time. Some people need 10 units a day, others need 200. An overdose is very dangerous, so finding the right dose means slowly titrating up until it's more or less right without going too low. Are you having regular contact with...

According to your profile, you're on metformin only, is that correct? If so, you can simply lower your carbs to lower your blood glucose, here's a very clear explanation of how T2 diabetes works in relation with food. It's written by one of our members...

I'm so sorry it went like this. It's a bit of the luck of the draw, but if you meet the wrong person just not fitting to who you are, 'help' can work gainst your mental health. At what point can the traquilizers be of help? If you need them to have a break, use them. I've had long, borderline...