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It helps to have something more liquid when treating a hypo as it gets into your system quicker, if I have jelly babies it takes a bit longer for them to work than if I have a juice box. A banana is a good source of long lasting carbs but to start off with if you want to get out of your hypo...

I have had 5 hypos today and I have treated all of them appropriately and followed up with long lasting carbs, I had quite an intense training session yesterday and then ran 7k this morning so I don’t know if it’s to do with that but I don’t understand why I’m still having hypos if I’ve even had...

Hi everyone, I've had the flu since Wednesday so it's been a while now, my bloods have been super high but they're still high and I'm just at the end of it now, how long does it normally take for them to get back to normal?

Hey, I absolutely know how you feel, I have been type 1 since march this year and had just come out of dance school so already had issues with food, when I finally started having insulin again I put on about 2 stone in weight, I felt similar to you in that I felt scared of putting any weight...

Is it dangerous to be on a low carb diet as a type 1 diabetic? I have ketones of 1.3 today but my bg is only 6?

Sometimes I find it so hard to carry on. This is so difficult, the moment I feel ok something goes wrong and I feel depressed all over again. I feel sad most of the time.

Could be dehydration or even low on potassium? Unfortunately I've not found the answer to it yet but I can empathise

Yes absolutely! I'm type 1 (diagnosed 4 months ago) and I had horrific cramp in my legs before my diagnosis, my dsn told me it was because I had such high blood sugar that my blood was struggling to reach my extremities because it was so thick so my muscles were cramping to help it get there...

I've recently experienced moving out of the honeymoon phase, it's very depressing for me as I now feel like I have no idea what I'm doing and now I'm guessing all of my doses because my insulin to carb ratio is all wrong. Anyone else find this depressing?

Yes I'm eating a low carb diet, do you think it could be that? X

If my ketones are 2.8 but my bg level is only 6.7 do I need to be worried?

Hi there, it's very common for your bg to be high after weight training, when you start to exercise your liver kicks out some glucose to help with the effort, if there isn't the right amount of insulin at the right time to use that glucose then that's why it can be elevated for a few hours...

I have several very uncomfortable mosquito bites on my legs, would they be a reason for my elevated blood sugar levels?

Hi everyone, quick question, I'm on holiday in Italy and I was told by my nurse that my blood sugars would go down in the heat, I've found the opposite though and my blood sugars have been a lot higher than normal and I'm injecting more units to compensate, Anyone else had this experience...

I would bake a cake and eat the whole thing :p