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It is difficult to say what is going on. 3ish in the morning is pretty low. The Glyxambi is supposed to increase your production of insulin. Could be that your change in diet/weight has reduced your glycemic load to a level that your body is able to cope with, unaided.

Did the nurse do any finger tests, BG and Ketones? As @EllieM said, if it is Type 1 with that glucose you will need to keep a close watch on your ketones. You should be able to get urine strips to do this, while you are waiting. DKA is the extreme end of things, but it is a hospital emergency.

Probably missed the boat here. Your HbA1C is not a good indication of your BG at the time of the test. C-peptide is an at that instant test, like BG. I had one positive test to GAD early in my journey, Which I remember as being at the very bottom end of detection. We have lots of little labs...

I think the situation is the same here. I am somewhat spoilt with my lab tests. My endo clinic is at a teaching hospital, and they are always adding odd tests depending on their students research at the time. So I have quite a lot of c-peptide tests over the past few decades since I was given...

I have heard a lot of theories for insulin resistance. Lipotoxicity as @Mark Rawlinson said. Glucotoxicity. A recent one that I read recently, applies to people using insulin (and probably secretagogues). It went that cells like to receive pulsatile insulin and that continuous insulin causes...

Probably a silly question. They say that as you develop resistance your pancreas makes more insulin to compensate. And this effort exhausts the pancreas. Has any one actually seen this, by having your insulin or c-peptide regularly measured?

Good point, maybe for a phone, but they cant see my reader. Is there a list of what all those entries in the log file mean? @Antje77, I did it out of curiosity too, having read posts of people asking this. If you do try it, make sure to position it properly, it may be more prone to bleeding...

I often lose them with a day or 2 to go, but this one had 6+ days to go. I think our customer care is in Singapore, and tends not to be very helpful. A bleeder is not covered as it wasn't applied properly, or so I was told. I did ring them for this one and they want me to send it back for...

As I said, It worked about as well as any other bleeder I have had, in that it read low. But it kept working until I gave up and took it off, about 6 hours. I've never found these to be particularly accurate, and never accurate for the whole 14 days. It had enough sticky left to hold it in...

OK this is a report of a rather macabre experiment I conducted ... it is not for the squeamish. A while ago I pulled an applicator apart because ... that's what one does. The applicator has an insertion needle that guides the sensor filament under your skin. So when my sensor fell off I still...

As far as I recall, it is broken down in both kidney and liver. Different references point to one way or the other. It is a protein, so it will be chopped up and reused by the body as amino acids, I would presume.

Great question. What a waste to toss it! I've heard of people using the same pump for upwards of 6 years. They are self funded here and not everyone has a spare 7K just sitting around. The 4-5 years is not a realistic assessment of the lifetime of a pump. Pump manufacturers run a line between...

I have to avoid anything I see as a treat, I will just eat it without need. Then when I do need it, I don't have any left. I am hypo aware, so don't often get into dire straights and can usually head it off with a not too tasty bar of some sort.

Hi @Susan SS, Welcome to the forum. Humulin insulins are based on regular human insulin. I think Humulin I is called NPH outside the UK. NPH is a 'cloudy' insulin with added zinc to give it a longer profile than regular human insulin, it is slower to start and longer to finish working. It is...

@EllieM , can you see what insulin the pump has added, and use that to update the basal profile that it will use the next day? Is the algorithm aggressive enough to temporarily double or triple the basal rate?