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I bruise very easily too same situation not only at injection sites but bruises just appear. Amount of bruises I have currently is rediculous

I have been diagnosed 3 months now and managed to get control very early on and my BMs have been stable the whole time. I am carb controlled and today my BMs haven't been below 10 which is quite high for me. I have taken 10 units correction since 8pm and upped my night time lantus to 11...

My names Ashleigh from Newcastle but live in Dundee studying nursing. About to graduate in September

Yeah I count my carbs have been since about week 2 as I wanted to gain control at an early stage. I always have jelly babies and glucose sweets in my bag. Been going through half a bag of jelly babies some days though. I will definately phone my nurse on Monday and see if she has any tips thank...

Yeah I have had appointments galore the past month they stopped funnily enough when all the hypos started happening. I will give my nurse a phone on Monday see what she suggests thank you :)

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes just over a month ago. I have already had 14 hypos most of them being within the past 2 weeks. I haven't changed anything. Aren't stressed nothing like that. Is this normal?

I am a newly diagnosed type 1 diabetic (4 weeks on Thursday). I used to go to the gym regularly beforehand. Last night was my first session back and I ended up having my first ever hypo. Just wondering if anyone has any hints or tips to stop this happening?

22 diagnosed 2 weeks ago

Glad it was able to help you too. Good luck to you too it's a lot to take in

Thats great thank you :)

Thats great that its low was worried it was too high because my bms were 15.0 My meter says glucomen lx plus if that means anything?

I am a newly diagnosed type one diabetic. I have just measured my ketones and my machine came up saying Lo does anyone know what this means?

I'm actually finding it ok so far. I'm a student nurse so knew a bit about diabetes anyway. It's just sticking to a strict routine for my insulin

I was diagnosed type 1 last week and on novorapid and lantus. At the start my average was anything between 14 and 20. This week its gradually started dropping to between 9 and 12. Past few days I have been spiking anything from 14- low 20s so uncontrolled atm

Not the best of photos but this is in a booklet I was given. Tells you whats high and whats low. My dietician told me red is more for treats, amber is sort of middle and green is the lower amount