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First, the blood sugar running higher could be due to a virus, it's maybe better to wait and see if she starts to feel better before making changes and just try bolus to control things at the moment. If not, her insulin resistance may have changed and she may have started to require more...

I have been taking the same basal insulin since being diagnosed 3 years ago and have never really experienced problems that differ at different times of day. I have had to change the amount I take on many occasions due to being more active, weight gain/loss etc. I always have found a number of...

Hi, recently I have been waking several times a night with extreme night sweats (to the point the bed is soaked). I do also have a small rash on my wrist. At first I was thinking I was experiencing hypo but my sugars most of the time i check are fine, my ketones too. Are either of these things...

I remember being told not to worry about test solution at the hospital. The box I got given there with my meter in it when I was diagnosed, I just checked and there is no test solution in it. If you think this might be useful do you know how to get this? Thanks.

Yeah I had just washed them using a regular unscented anti-bacterial hand soap and made sure not to touch anything except a clean paper tissue.

If you see the photo attached... All these glucose were taken one immediately after the other, each from a different finger. I feel like the variation is too much. Could something be wrong?

I’m finding that i’m getting higher numbers than i would expect after meals right now and wondering if someone can help. At the moment i take 1 unit of humalog for 15g’s of carbohydrate. For example today i ate a bowl of cereal with milk totalling 58 grams and for this I took 4 units, my blood...

In September last year I was told I had Type 1 diabetes. Some of the test results showed negative for Type 1 but i was informed this could just be a false negative and that I would be treated as if it was type 1 and be retested in around 3 years. In the last 2 months I have been doing MMA...