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Thanks for your help here and offer of support. I based it on my experience, albeit probably in a flawed way, you're right. I thought there was protein in salmon and that seems to make my bg go up over time, not down. That might happen for me only with steak though, so I might be havering...

I would usually take that amount of insulin for that kind of meal and it would be fine. That's just one of the confusing parts. I haven't done basal testing but have taken the same amount of basal for more than twenty years, all I've done in the past year is increase it by one unit, which I've...

Last night I had no carbs for my tea, just a big bit of salmon and vegetables & tomatoes which I covered with 4 units of insulin. I ate it about 6pm. I had nothing else to eat and went to my bed about 11pm, with bg at 5.7. I had two hypos during the night which I took some lucozade for. Bg was...

Thanks. I'm on Tresiba but might need to reduce it. I do use the Dextrose, prefer a bit of choco right enough, which isn't helping me!

Thanks. The worst part for me is being so tired and then getting woken up two or three times during the night. I am getting a bit burnt out, if not there already. It is very hard to live with and because I look healthy (yet have to work so hard to manage it) people think you're fine. I'm not...

I like the libre 2, but it's a double-edged sword as often it's a bloody nuisance. I get sick of alarms as, similar to you, every time I get one it might as well be singing 'you're a total failure' to me in an annoying voice. In the middle of the night it's particularly annoying as if my bg goes...

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Hello and thanks for your advice. I agree about the strain caused by hypos, and swinging bg levels are not helping me either. I have had period of eating low carb but I find it hard to maintain that as you need to plan your life like a bank robbery to get by and I find that difficult. It's...

Thanks Grant. I know what you mean about hypos like that - you feel so bad it's impossible to explain to people. They are awful. My issue is probably more to do with depression if I'm honest, and I think I just wanted to get that off my chest - that I'm struggling. I'm not the type of person...

Hi all I am struggling and have been for some time. I’m struggling with, I think, depression, linked in ways I don’t fully understand to my type 1 diabetes. My hb1ac (or whatever you call it) is good, very good even perhaps, but it’s taking a real toll on my life and hence I’m struggling. I...