Recent Content by pm133

Thanks searley, I am testing continuously and will be getting a Libre in the next week or so to avoid DKA so that won't be an issue for me. The diabetes has not gone away and my insulin stuff goes with me and is primed to pounce back into action the minute my levels start to go up a bit. Will...

Well despite my bravado about waiting 6 months and letting others be guinea pigs, as soon as my letter arrived I took the vaccine. Got the delicious AZ/Oxford one. Bit of a sore arm but no other side effects at all. Right. Now that I'm done, can we get the pubs open now? :)

Hi everyone. I was diagnosed type 1 in September last year and have just hit my 6 months mark. Recently I have been experiencing some hypos and following my 3 month HBa1c result of 46 down from 142 at diagnosis my GP and Diabetes Nurse advised me to use less insulin to avoid losing hypo...

Quite happy to sit back for a few months and let others be guinea pigs. Don't feel any need to rush into it and others are in more need anyway.

Yes it will take time. Don't rush it as too rapid a drop can cause neuropathy problems.

Fair enough. A few of us were under the impression you didn't want to test. I'll leave it at that. Good luck with things.

In order to progress, you probably have no choice but to start testing your blood glucose levels before and after each meal to see what is keeping you higher than you'd like. You mentioned in another post that you don't want to do this but I don't see what other option you have.

I had a virus 4 years ago and never felt that my energy levels get back to normal. I lost about 5 stone in weight. My health got worse over those 4 years before completely crashing at the beginning of this month when I was diagnosed with Type 1. I'm pretty sure the virus kicked this all off.