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I was diagnosed T1 at 51 years of age. I too believe it was due to trauma. My father died unexpectedly a year earlier and my mother did not take it well, I had to hold my grief in to look after her.

More or less exactly what happened to me! Diagnosed with type 2 and put on metformin in January 2013, I was 51 years old not overweight, I was 5ft 6" and weighed 9 stone . My brother was diagnosed type 1 at age 13, he is one year younger than me, so I thought I was lucky just getting type 2 all...

Thanks for the advice @catapillar and @GrantGam. I tried both ways. For the morning shift I ate and injected for it. By the end of the shift I was 4.8 so not bad. For the afternoon shift I was already on 9 before I started (no idea why I was 9, I hadn't eaten anything and only had one cup of...

See this is what I cannot understand. The KitKat and the apple routine work perfectly well for the two hour shopping trip. When I get home i'm still on the 6-7 mark! @catapillar I read that your liver dumps glucose in because there is not enough in your blood for your muscles to cope with the...

Thanks for the reply. I eat an apple and a kit kit and no I don't inject for it. I figured it would be enough to cover the exercise. It's only dog walking, a number of dogs, each dog gets a walk round a field. There's also cleaning of the dog pens. I'm afraid to eat more but maybe that's exactly...

Hi all, I'm a 55 year old T1 only been diabetic for 4 years now. The whole time I have had a desk job but recently changed to a physical job and am finding it difficult to control my sugars. They rise dramatically, go from 6-7 before work and end up 17+ after only a couple of hours! I eat...

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