Recent Content by Miniman76

Hello all. Hope everyone is doing well during these unusual and trying times. My question is about studying medicine which I hope to be doing in the next few years, I have however noticed that there aren't all that many t1ds in medicine (that I can find) (Australia). I was wondering if there...

11 mlU is only for a large bowl of pasta or something extremely carby. It's not an everyday occurrence.

Thanks for the reply. 1.havent gained/ lossed any more then 1kg 2. I regularly rotated sites around my thighs for insulin 3. Max insulin I have at any one time is about 11 mlU Thanks

I keep it in the back of the fridge

I've noticed sometimes either my lantus or novarapid Pens stop working as effectively when lowering my sugar levels. It's usually when I'm down to my last packet but there is still alot of time left on the use by date? I throw then insulin out and get new stuff and it fixes the problem. My...

Thanks for the thoughts. With the tea it's a thing that happens all the time. No matter if I have it at 11am (after my initial bgl morning spike) or 11pm it's always 5 units of my levels go through the roof.

Thanks everyone for the personal experiences. It's really reassuring and interesting to know that there are other diabetics out there with their own little bgl quirks. I guess it's just a weird thing my body does that's good to know

What's DP? And no it's just an all the time thing. Not a pattern that I can see.

Mine was 6.0 mmol yesterday which is slightly above average for me but they would like me to have a slightly higher average so I'm trying to go for 6.0 instead

Hello I was wondering if I could get some help / advice on why black tea (little bit of milk and no sugar) always requires 5 units of novarapid after I drink it. It doesn't make a lot of sense because coffee with one sugar and milk requires no insulin as it doesn't put my levels up by more...