Recent Content by Nessinoo

As I'm using so much insulin it hasn't been out of the fridge for long. Ketones are clear. This has been happening over the last 2 days. What do you mean by basal testing? I'm wondering if it could be the start of the menopause? Do hormones affect BS levels??? Thanks for your replies...

I've been a type 1 diabetic for 36 years and have been fairly well controlled. However my blood sugars have suddenly been all over the place. It doesn't seem to matter how much QA I inject, my BS just doesn't seem to come down. Throughout the day I usually give myself 36 QA units. At present I'm...

Wow! And I wanted a simple life! (T1 diabetic for 36 years on DAFNE)

Hi, I just want to say 'I know where you're coming from'. You know what you are doing wrong, but it's hard to change old habits. The symptoms you describe are all symptoms (in my experience) of high blood sugar. If you can get those down you will start to feel better, then when you start to feel...

I'm so glad someone else suffers with this too! I thought I was going mad! My blood sugar drops dramatically when my period starts, then is normal for about a week, then starts to get higher and higher, so much so I am injecting regularly throughout the day to bring it down, to little effect...

I wonder if you could help me? I was off work at the beginning of the year due to stress, which had a knock on effect on my diabetes making my blood sugars run higher than normal. I was off for approximately 4 months, and went back to work hoping the situation would change and the stress would...