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Hiya, Suzan here, I have been a type 1 diabetic for about 8 years and havent always had the best track record with my blood sugars, but lately my body has been going completely nuts and I have no idea what to do about it! When I first became diabetic I gained 30 kilos in a year and was unable to lose that weight for the next few years to come. This year, I finally decided that I had had enough of feeling uncomfortable in my own body and began a diet - the combination of exercising a lot more and eating a lot less was very bad for my blood sugars. I use my meals to bring my blood sugars up enough to exercise, so I dont have an exact and consistent number of carbs I use before workouts - but I would estimate around 30-40 grams of carbs, but I have not been able to balance the timing or amount of these carbs so that I do not have either hypo's or hyper's. Coming back to university has been incredibly hard on my blood sugars - and the brain fog and mood swings that come with high blood sugar have not been easy. I have had a blood sugar above 25 mmol once every day for the past week (normally in the afternoon or after exercise). I just checked my blood sugar and it was a 28. I gave myself an appropriate correction that I suspect will lead to a hypo. If I had given less (as I have in the past) my blood sugar will remain high for the next few hours - which if it is above 25, is not ideal. This is incredibly worrying to me and I dont know how to approach it- I dont want to stop exercising completely, but this seems to be the biggest issue. My body's response to exercise and carbohydrates also seems to be constantly changing - an hour of running used to bring my blood sugars down about 15 mmol, but lately it hasnt been bringing them down at all. I am also constantly waking up with blood sugars around 2, which is incredibly scary and disorienting. Although my blood sugars are high in the afternoon, they are ALWAYS low in the evenings. I dont know what to do! All I know is that I am incredibly worried for my health, and am really suffering both bodily and mood wise. I am also very very very worried about my eyes. Does anyone know what is going on? I feel like going to the doctor wont be very helpful because they usually have about as much knowledge as google. Does anyone know the science or what I can do to prevent these hypers and hypo's! I feel like such a failure and my sugars seem to be completely out of my control!