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Thank you for your reply. May be worth a trip to the docs then :(

Hi yeah sorry :( . Lots of toilet trips and feel really dehydrated and tired :(

Hi, i have been diabetic for 24 years and have been up and down with control. I had a pump fitted 18 months ago and have seen a massive inprovement in readings. This last week i have been getting all the symptoms of high sugar but my levels are normal? Any one else experienced this ? Thanks Nick

Sorry I didn't read the first post properly I didn't realise she was so young :( 15 g does seem crazy for some one that small

That's right, as long as the basel is set right her bloods shouldn't alter too much unless she is more active

The diabetic nurse told me when I did the dafne course that I could eat 10g of carbs between meals with no bolus. This was because 10g could move bloods up between 2-3 mmols which would be ok. This seems to work for me but as said before everyone is different and is just trial and error.

Good luck i've had mine 3 weeks and still getting use to it but love it !!

My dad was diagnosed when he was 15, my uncle when he was 20 and I was diagnosed at 13. Plus numerous other family members so for me it definitely runs in the family. I have the same worries about my 4 year old daughter :(

I seem to be having the opposite at the minute, I started using a pump last Monday and removing the canula feels like it is taking half my skin off with it :)

Thanks let it run and was fine :)

Thanks phil

Hi this might sound like a stupid question. I have recently gone on to the insight pump and am going swimming in the morning. I know the pump needs taking off but do you just stop the insulin? I do this when I go in the shower but the pump alarms all the time I am in there there, am I missing...

Thanks for that, ill have a look into that book as well

I am using the accucheck insight, it was the only one the trust offered but to be honest after researching it was the one I wanted anyway so that was lucky. I will get on amazon and have a look for that book to be honest it feels like being diagnosed all over again. :)

Hi, thanks for the replys everyone, I have spoken to the diabetic nurse who says that she thinks that my body wasn't absorbing the pen injections which would make sense as I seemed to be on huge amounts compared to other people I know. I have dropped right down to about 50% of my normal basel...