Recent Content by hollyh97

Thanks for all the advice! The dawn phenomenon sounds about right to be honest and yeah I do understand that messing with my own doses early on is abit risky so I'll wait for my appointment on Thursday and keep you all updated and hopefully will solve the morning highs! [emoji1] Sent from my...

Hi everyone, having only been diagnosed with Type 1 for just over a week I'm still trying to work out my doses. At the moment I take 8 units of lantus in the morning and 8 units of nova rapid with my breakfast and then 4 units of novo rapid with all other meals, however from checking and...

My family talk about it too much! Very comfortable and supportive but sometimes it's a bit stressful having 5 different people ask you how your blood sugars are! Especially if they are all over the place because sometimes they're disappointment makes me feel like it's my fault when realistically...

Hi all, I'm 18 and a very new T1 (since approx a week) and still getting used to everything. I'm fine with getting over the injections etc but I wanted to know if there's a way of figuring out my insulin/carb ratio without going to the dietician as my appointment is yet to be posted to me. I...

Hi all, I'm 18 and I've only very recently been diagnosed with T1 (as in last week) and I'm eager to get my head around things. I know it's going to take a while but the forums look really useful to get advice from experienced T1 people! My main query is that my nurse said I can still eat what...