Recent Content by lettey

Hi all I have been type 1 diabetic for 6 months and I am 26 years old. I work do shift work and my shifts range from 7-3 and 2-10 with an occasional night shift on the odd occasion. My problem is that on my early week I work 6 earlys on the trot, with a day off at the end followed by two more...

ah! thanks... i'll have a look now... it's funny i've searched all over the Internet, but not the place that's been a godsend to me!

Hey all I was wondering whether you record everything, for example, what you blood sugar numbers are, your insulin doses and food intake, excercise too? My nurse gave me a "home monitoring diary" however it only has room to put my insulin doses and my blood sugar readings, im sturggling with my...

hello :) Well thats some good news I guess! I think I am LADA - they havn't said that word yet but I suspect I am. They changed my diagnosis from type 2 to type 1 and hypos were what I was very frightened about, so i'm glad that my body is looking after me in some way or another by realising...

hi all silly question I know... but is it possible for my liver to dump enough sugar if my body recognises it's 'going low'? You see, I made a mistake this evening - I took my insulin as required before dinner, two hours after I tested and was at 5mmol which I was very happy with. I then went...

I was extremely ill a week ago, suspected gallstones - ended up in hospital and the blood test I had done whilst I was there showed raised White Blood Cells. I went to the docs when I got out of hospital and she sent me for a OGTT because I also had raised sugar levels whilst in hospital. She...