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What irritates me is how to judge how much insulin to inject. BS 140, weight 140, how many i.U. (what the hell are international units?). The idea is o keep BS to around 6.5. Any solutions out there?

HbA1C 47? Mine's 7.1. Obviously different scales. What is 47? Mg/Dl? Or what...?

Actraphane and no carb count. I was almost glad to start injecting - Metformin is bloody awful. Made me ill and this went on for 3 months. I then called a stop and had to blow €20 a month for other tablets without side effects.

Yerss...and I cannot resist the occasional chocolate. Very naughty of me.

I'm on Actraphane and do not carb count.

Handy info. Thanks! My diabetologist intends sending me on a cure to get my BMI down to normal as he's certain my problem is insulin resistance and not "real" diabetes. I wait with bated breath, Such cures BTW are covered 100% by the German version of the NHS. Unfortunately there are very few...

Given a body weight of 140 kgs, BS of 135 mg/dl, how many i.Us. of insulin need I inject to get the BS down? The idea is to keep HbA1c below 6.5. BTW - if anyone's interested - COVID messes things up nicely. As did my annual 'flu jab. The trouble and strife is not diabetic and had no problems...

I would welcome a table of how many international units of insulin to inject given a body weight of e.g. 135 kgs and blood sugar of e.g. 160 mg/dl. No such table/s seem/s to exist so I limit my insulin to a max of 50 i.u. per injection. This may sometimes be too much or too little - I've no way...

I'm showing symptoms of inlfuenzan and my blood sugar (I'm zype 2) has shot up to 186 mg/dl. Is this to be expected, or should I up my international units of insulin? Edit by mod.

I've never had a HbA1c over 9.0 %. This is in Germany. Do you use a different scale of measurement? Germany uses mg/dl but % for HbA1c only - very confusing.

It's frightening at first but getting a doc who knows his/her way around diabetes and its drugs is a great help. May involve changing GP. Other ailments need watching. Mine, believe it or not, is gout. Don't laugh. As a 17th century clergyman noted, it's like walking on your eyeballs. How is...

I had to abandon Metformin after a couple of months. The stuff made me sicker than a dog and I got very fed up with the daily early morning visit to the bathroom. They gave me different tablets costing €20 a month extra that had zero side effects. As I now inject insulin the problem solved...

HBA1c 68 - can't be right. What measurement are you using? Mmol or mg/dl?

Mine was 87 mg/dl this a.m. but I now have areas of brown pigmentation on the lower legs. Is this indicative of T2D trouble?