Recent Content by Ruth1961

HI I am a new type 1 (5 weeks in). I had roast chicken dinner last night, and carb counted for roast potatoes and parsnips/adding 6U NovARapid. Finished eating at 7.45pm. BS didn't seem to rise with the meal....had Levermir 4U at 8.30pm, but at midnight, started to go up, and I was 14...

Hi Everyone, I posted on here a couple of weeks ago, following a severe DKA. I am told my immunotherapy treatment 'fried' my islets - both alpha and beta cells. I think that means no honeymoon period, I have fallen off a cliff edge. I am on 30U Levermir at 8am, and 4U at 8pm, and am now carb...

Thank you Mat I had a very severe DKA 3 weeks ago, and I think they think it is taking a while to settle down, but you are right my last immunotherapy dose was on 6th July, one week before the DKA, and may still be effecting things...the effect is cumulative. I was in hospital for 10 days, where...

Hello everyone. I am a new type 1 diabetic, having had a very severe DKA 3 weeks ago caused, they think, by my immunotherapy cancer treatment 'frying' my beta cells in my pancreas. I've found the last few weeks scary, with my blood glucose very high, and hard it seems to bring under control. I...