Recent Content by pinkscaffold

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    Rescue Night

    Has anybody used Rescue Night to help them sleep and is it safe for an insulin dependant diabetic to use?
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    Type 1 stopping metformin

    I have had problems with metformin for the last 2 or 3 months so not the festive season. Yes I have attended our local DAFNE course nearly two years ago. I take 100 units of Tresiba and vary Humalog depending on carbs eaten. I struggle every day to balance everything and it does get me down...
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    Type 1 stopping metformin

    Always lots of other factors, so I cannot tell. I have never really been totally happy with my control, 47 years of trying. I do take the sloe release. I can never get hold of my specialist nurse but I have an appointment later in January, guess I'll ask then
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    Type 1 stopping metformin

    I have been taking metformin as well as insulin for many years but recently the metformin has been upsetting my stomach. I tried stopping, symptoms went away, gradually increasing up to 2000mg a day, symptoms came back. I stopped again for a week and began again now with only 500mg a day symtoms...
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    metformin for type 1

    I was diagnosed with diabetes 46 years ago when I was 20. I have injected insulin since then. Of course things have changed but I now inject at every meal and long acting once a day. I was at a meeting last night about horses who take metformin for a condition called Equine metabolic syndrome...
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    morning levels

    I was just told to retake the test in 3 weeks? I'm pretty sure I am ok on hypo awareness, sorry I sound so thick, I'm not really I just feel I have let myself meander along for too long
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    morning levels

    Sorry I am in the UK and at the moment I test 4 times a day
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    morning levels

    Impaired hypo awareness? my HbA1c is high, I haven't ever been on any courses. I spoke to a dietician a few years back who was very young and I felt expected a very strict regime. Any ideas what the blood in the urine could mean?
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    morning levels

    Thank you will bring that up as well, is the cost prohibitive?
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    morning levels

    Nobody has ever suggested a pump? I have always thought it would be difficult for me as I do tend to thrash around at night?
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    morning levels

    It does look complicated but I will talk to my DSN and see if he thinks its a good idea, I will try anything to get it right. I had a letter from my surgery saying I need to have a recent urine sample test repeated in 3 weeks as there was blood? I know at times the test I do in the night is not...
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    morning levels

    I know this sounds ridiculous but I think having been diabetic for so long I have not been updated on all the terms used, I don't know what basal and bolus mean? the time for my tresiba was changed from evening to morning but hasn't solved the high morning tests?
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    morning levels

    Hi this is my first communication. I am feeling pretty low. I have been type 1 for 44 years but in the last year I have had problems with night hypos. I was changed to tressibo from Levimir and this has helped the hypos, less frequent but my morning readings are always 14 to 18. Don't know what...