Recent Content by carlos37

after 1 year of having bs at 22 28 I class high as 10 11 and can live with that like it to be lower but not overly worried at that

just been summoned to the doctors and told my latest is 51 was told it needs to be below 47 and she looked baffled as to why I had been told to go up me personally very happy with that as to what it was before insulin 117 don't want to loose hypo awareness

just hoping someone can help me with this have googled it but as usual plenty of different answers I am traveling to Egypt in 6 week first time since being type 1 I have a letter of the doctor is this all u need for the airplane also have bought a wallet to transport the insulin my main question...

thanks again for all your replies I would never try to correct an hypo i was told 1 unit of novarapid is drops it by 2 t0 3 also 10g of carb without novarapid pushes it up 2 to 3 units this seems to be spot on for me it is very confusing I have took advice on board and re corrected levimier...

thankyou for your replies it really has me miffed I ve been on insulin 5 month now take 9 units of levimer in the morning and now 10 at night take novarapid for meals through out the day sugars are very good even at night mostly before bed 6.0 t0.9.0 mostly 6.0 occasionally have the odd high one...

i have been reading similar post to this and I can gather its called dp but I am really struglin with my morning readings I can go to bed anywere between 6 t0 9 no matter what I do or try am waking with readings from 11 to 16 the dn told me to reduce my levimir at night from 12 to 10 units and...

id agree with above post in theory if you tried to correct it with another unit it would drop it further so you would be back down in hypo territory again I got told by my dn that if its below 9 or thereabouts not to correct it hope that helps

just got mine today down from 117 wich i belive is 12 .5 somet like that to 50 wich is 6.7 in three month well happy hasnt been below 10 in two years and dont have to go back for 6 month well happy

i am slightly confused have been on insulin for 2 months me personally take 12 u in morn and 12u at night however am finding that if i take it at around 9pm and 10pm can wake up with good readings if take it earlier they are also 13 to 16 dont know why as i got told by the dn it takes 2 hrs...

you can follow any kind of diet you want to its just a case of finding one that works for you just try to cut down or stop having sugary things like sweetschange to diet coke instead of coke etc instead of having 10 peices of bread a day have 5 or 4 etc but to ignore taking medicaition in my...

its a bit of a nightmare isnt it gettin it right i was re diagnosed six week ago keytones 4++++++++++++ straight onto 12 units levimr and then novarapid to cover meals the main problem ive encountered is that sugars on metyer when re diagnosed were avg 22 34 now avg 8 13 lower sometimes but...

hi evan i am no expert by any means but going of my experiencei would agree with above post i can only suggest that you might have onset of type 1 diabeates i thought in was type 2 for 4years i have struggled for a long timw with sugar levels and ilness what are your sugars they must have been...

yes agree with above post if you are worried u can go to a and e they will check you there and then as that is very high dont leave it like i did for over a year i thought i was type 2 and was re diagnosed type 1 have been of work now for 1 month as i left it thinking didnt want to bother anyone...

yes thankyou it has been a terrible year regards to my diabeates at least now i have half a chance of being able to regain some control after years of exsersising for at least 1 half hours a day just trying to control my sugars 3 week into it now and feel a lot better just want to go bck to work...

please can someone please answer my question after being re diagnosed type 1 10 days ago things are finally starting to sink in sugars have improved greatlly to what they were and generally feeling a lot beeter 1st of all i was given a sick note to 4 jan when took this into work was told that i...