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The Diabetes Specialist Nurse recently prescribed me Glucogel which she said is fast acting and can rapidly increase my blood sugar during a hypo. I've had three opportunities to test and it didn't have the impact I was expecting. Does anyone have experience using this? I also use Lift glucose...

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In your Diabetes Health Guide, it states that LDL cholesterol for diabetics should be 2.0 mmol/L or less, but I haven’t been able to find this specific target in any NHS literature. Could anyone point me to the official NHS guidance on this? I’m asking because, without my knowledge, my LDL...

I get all of that … I did not go into copious explanations and exhaustive examples because my post would have been toooooo looooong …. So I focused on what I wanted to know The trend is throughout the day. Eg I am at work. At 1124am my blood BG is 9.0 and in preparation for lunch at 12 noon on...

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What I am enquiring about is the medical reason why blood glucose levels increase in the seconds and minutes after taking insulin. It increases no matter what the activity. Here is another example, I took 90 units of Tresiba at 7:49am when my BG was 9.5mmol/L. As you can see - 9 minutes later...

I have experimented with higher corrective doses but the behaviour remains the same ... anyway, nothing major. Thanks for your reply.

This is a trend ... after taking insulin I notice that my blood sugar level starts to rise even though I do not eat anything. Here is an example this morning. At 7:24am my BG was 9.9 mmol/L. I took 85 united of basal insulin and 6 units of bolus for a BG correction ... to nudge it downward but...

Thanks all. The pharmacy I bought the medication says they buy Metformin from six manufacturers and each has its own marking. I thought I swallowed the wrong medication this morning

The metformin tablets I took this morning had a 'C' on one side and '323'. Seemed strange so I opened a new box and found '500' on one side and the other side blank. The leaflet in the newly opened box says this is what the marking should be. Why then is the other different?

That's very helpful. Thanks.

I am really puzzled. The blood glucose level pictured below is the trend. Every morning between 3 am and 7 am (when I think am sound asleep) my blood glucose level starts to gradually rise. Perhaps I am sleep walking and raiding the refrigerator? Has anyone else seen this or knows the reason...