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After being diagnosed as type 1 lada 1 year ago, with Hb1ac of 11.3, I have successfully managed to reduce it to 7.3. I have reduced my level of carbohydrates and generally been very careful with my food and drink intake and checking my blood levels and taking my insulin 4 times every day...

Thanks Heathenlass, first thing tomorrow I will pop into the farmacia and find out what glucose tablets are available here. Until now I had not even thought about glucose tablets. When I lived in the UK and was playing a lot of soccer, a few games every week, I used dextrose tablets for an...

Thank you Vic Hill, I will have to check between what type of carbs I use to compensate a hypo, to be honest I have been taking juice or a few biscuits one time, and another time a cake , another time a small chocolate biscuit. I will have to try glucose tablets and see if I they suit me.

Thanks for your imput Heathenlass, as I am still only learning about the complex way diabetes has to be treated, any help from people with similar problems is much appreciated. I think trying dextrose tablets may be one path to try. I live in Spain , but I expect the farmacia here will sell the...

After being diagnosed with type 1 LADA last year, and after studying the results of my blood levels for 6 months, my diabetic specialist in the hospital gave me a ratio of 1 unit of insulin to 10 grams of carbs. The target that she gave me for my blood results was to keep between 140 mg/dl and...

I am wondering if anyone has found unusual blood sugar levels after having surgery to repair a Inguinal ( groin ) hernia. I am getting odd readings , some high and some low for no obvious reason. My specialist in the hospital is still trying to sort out my what amounts of insulin that I should...

As a 69 year old newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetic, ( 2 months ago ) who 9 months earlier was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic I have a problem with weight. One year ago I weighed 96 Kilos and after 9 months of treatment with metformina , Repagladina tablets and 1 injection of Lantus last thing at...