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I once watched a documentary I think on the BBC about several teens with the same issues. It seemed to stem from one or both of two things. 1. Wanting to be the same as the other kids 2. An eating disorder (diabulimia) He needs to see a specialist diabetes mental health professional, not a...

I use Windows 11 and have not been able to use it since the ‘upgrade’ to Glooko from diasend in early 2021. The only thing they can ask is if I have another device to try it on. And they “can’t find” my account even when I’m logged into it. Unbelievable. Fix your product!!!!

I'm going out now but I'll try to dig out that issue of Practical Diabetes later, it's got a lot of info in it on this very subject. I take it you're not on insulin?

Crikey! What happens if you eat really slowly, does it help or hinder the situation, have you tried it? I don't suppose any diabetics are going to have any useful ideas because we get hypos for different reasons than you, and they're sorted out by eating, whereas with you it seems eating will...

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Oh Ausra please don't feel you upset me, because you didn't, you've made me laugh out loud and cry tears of real mirth, and thank you for the offer in the third person plural (which is normally a sign of either being the actual Queen or having borderline personality disorder, but, obviously in...

Excellent advice and also remember a chest infection will have kept her sugars high, and once the pills started working, her sugars would have come down (along with having moved injection sites away from the lipos) so I would have thought the hypos were to be expected. I don't think there's...

I know how you feel, had to take steroids for a week last year. Hideous. Have the injection, and when it comes to it, post on here for advice when you need it. You'll get the help you need, I promise. You'll really have to up your insulin, it's scary though to suddenly inject several times more...

I'm type 1 and haven't got any problems at all with caffeine, I drink a lot of coffee. A friend of mine developed a totally carb-free one called ubershot. It's got something in it that is officially a carbohydrate in scientific terms but it does not convert itself into useable carbs in the...

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Re: i have bad control my hp1ca was 14 You are not carb counting as it is known among type 1 diabetics. You might well be working out what carbs you're about to eat, but with no blood tests, you have, as you stated, no idea what insulin to give yourself, and in fact, without knowing what...

A cold's never done that to me, are you sure it's not flu or some other virus? Are you checking for ketones too?

One day you too will eat chocolate whenever you want to :) not long now. There's so much to get your head around to start off with that it's best just to get the basics sorted, but you will be able, one day, to work out how to eat whatever you want. I eat whatever I want, whenever I want, but...