Recent Content by Mickroberts

Wife doesn't know, but nurses says she is still producing insulin. B4 meals, she can be low between 3&5. By the next meal, same again with no insulin when she is active & out & about doing stuff. Nurses are not classing it as starvation keytones, did all the tests b4. DN's are helpful, Normal...

is she definatley type 1 ? and have the doctors got her condition right? Well, this was something that has been asked for the past 2 years as she has managed it largely without having to inject. All the Doctors have been baffled as well, as they have never known anyone who can manage Type 1...

More information, + some replies to your comments-And any more advice from u lot much appreciated. When she first got diagnosed, she got told to inject 4 times a day etc. Well, she found that doing it the 'strict nurses' way, the insulin was bringing her levels down too low, she then had to...

She got diagnosed 2 years ago, trying to manage it without insulin, doing exercise & not eating a lot. Getting to the stage now where she's always ill, in hospital for infections, can't fight anything off, has muscle cramps, aches, keytones were high the other day with sugar level of 3.8. We're...