Recent Content by WorriedPartner

I hope you get on top of it soon. We've just been discussing wrongly assuming unrelated problems are related to diabetes, to turn this around, my wife is just coming to the end of the menopause, last year she had a lot of strange things happening, and what did we do (including the doctor), we...

No, it was thought (by doc) she had angina several years ago and they give her a spray, but she never needed it and about 2 years later they said she no longer needed the spray.

So true, see my last reply.

All makes sense, she's going to need to seek the diabetes team's advice on how to manage the overnight swings, we're struggling to make sense of how the numbers can shoot up or down overnight when she's doing nothing different. Agree totally, she's got other health conditions, and had a lot of...

Doctor told her to reduce, the following is from my first post Some additional info in case it means anything to someone, she's got an under-active thyroid, she was steady for many years, her medication was at 75, then early last year she started to need a higher dose, up to 100, then 125, then...

An update. Not a good week, my wife passed out again on Tuesday, yet her numbers were ok (8). Short Synacthen Test (if that's what it was) come back OK. She tried having a carb free day, first 6 hours were ok, numbers steady between 8 and 8.4, then shot up to 12 then 15 (hours 7 and 8), then...

After diagnosis she struggled, she built her hopes up that it would be type 2, she's the kind of person who would have got herself out of it by diet and exercise, but she went downhill when it was confirmed type 1, from then she slowly improved, she was doing really well, felt supported (by...

That's exactly what we'll do, I don't want to push my opinions, but to show her what other's have said, however, do you realise how many abbreviations are used on forums like this?, then there's many helpful posts that assume you understand some of the terms being used, I didn't, my wife wont...

You're absolutely not a horrible person, and I can understand why you say all that you do. My wife had previously been in an abusive marriage where she was almost a prisoner, and that was an improvement on her childhood, I've always been aware that even though my intentions have always been...

I'm beginning to understand this.

Selling the MiaoMiao idea to my wife isn't going to be as easy as I first thought, we talked this morning and she didn't seem in favour, she took a few readings through the night, all reasonable, in the 7-9 range, but this morning she looked at the libre graph and noticed she'd dropped to 3...

Just a side note, My wife never had a sweet tooth, and we estimate she now has 10 times the amount of sweet stuff (than she had before diabetes) trying to stop her numbers going too low or to recover from a hypo, this has reduced a fair bit since we upped her target levels.

Hi Jaylee, I'm not sure of the name of the long acting insulin, but Lantus doesn't ring any bells. The slow acting carbs idea is useful to know, I lean more toward just getting her numbers back up ASAP, in life she's a very strong and independent woman who always knows what to do, so to see her...

Thanks for the excellent info, the carb free + no short acting is a great idea, do you have a useful link for carb free meal ideas? (google's full of sites, but, I love cooking most Asian cuisines, and have slowly learnt the web is full of really poor websites, and finding the real authentic...

it's happened twice while sleeping, both times she woke up. We've learnt a lot along the way, she has sweets (that don't need opening) everywhere, also sugary drinks, they go with her everywhere, since we upped her target level we also upped her trigger level, if she drops below 7 she'll eat...