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Does ANYONE get the recommended NICE results for Type 1 before/after meals as suggested here ?? I only ask as if I'm NOT above 9-10 before bed then I'll drop to below 3 before dawn, sometime my levels rise after; to about 4, but I always get up around 6.30-7am never later, so if I'm about 5-9...

@MarkHaZ123 - I've found the L2 sensor a great boon to the constant finger-pricking we had to do a few years ago - loads of things got better over the 40+ years I've had it, gone are the days of boiling syringes before use and also the 2" needles that also had to be boiled before use and the...

Really lucky you - I' haven't had any appointments in over 3 years now :eek::meh:

I hate the thing about Type-1 is the inability to go out to all night parties and getting drunk and binging on food at any time especially between 3-5am on ANY type of food without thinking of Carb levels, from Kebabs, Patties etc, and constantly checking blood sugar levels - OH for the days...

Not attempting to advertise anything but we've noticed since my other half became dairy intolerant that Hotel C vegan chocolate doesn't raise my sugar levels too much (in moderate amounts) and also the chocolate cravings satisfied by :)

But it's not everyday - it's only sometimes, sometimes spikes to between 14-16, so how do I stop this as my routine's the same since working from home :)

I've set the alarms to DND overnight as noticed that although the sensor states 3.8 or lower the meter is mostly in the 4-6 range overnight, daytime readings all seem to be nearly the same ± 3, I've kept using the Accu-Chek meter as still not trusting Sensor's readings as they're tweaking it...