Recent Content by MarkUniqueUserName

Thank you all, really good useful stuff.

I think his depression and anxiety has not helped, so burn out is a worthy consideration. We don't know his HbA1C or when he last had it checked and need to press him on that.

Great, thank you. I agree, he can't have a clue of his blood sugar levels and I think he has consistently gotten it wrong in recent years. When he was younger and his mum would challenge him, he would take it and it would be fine, but perhaps his calibration has drifted over the years (thereby...

Yes thanks, his mum is always talking to him about his control habits and it may be that he has "gone deaf" over the years, but the reason I have posted is we want to take a fresh approach. He does tend to not take enough care I feel.

Thank you, from your response and the others it is possible he is running lean on insulin regularly, but the thyroid possibility is also interesting, which we will cover with him..

I agree about dietician, see my further response below, thanks.

Thanks for that, he has currently lost his driving licence due to a couple of hospital admissions. I get the lucozade / hypo thing, but he will drink lucozade normally and not just when he is hypo - indeed, all his hypo stocks (orange juice, mars bars etc) get used as consumables rather than...

Hi, my stepson has type 1, is 24 and is as skinny as a rake. However, his diet is high sugar, high Lucozade and Ribena (he glugs the stuff), high carbohydrate. If I ate like him I would have been 24 stone at 24 yrs old. Yesterday evening he ate two dinners at a friends house (curry and rice...