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Hi @slayer , we cannot give dosing advice on the forum. Those numbers look pretty good to me! You see a bit of a rise after getting out of bed, which happens to many of us. It's called Foot on the Floor effect, your helpful liver dumping some glucose in your bloodstream to help get you going...

With an hba1c of 8%, your average blood glucose must have been around 10 mmol/l (183 mg/dl). Now you have significantly lowered your bg by lower carbs, and the hikes likely dropping you a bit more, it may well be you are experiencing false hypos. Still in the normal range, but so much lower than...

Hi @Philip Havelock , welcome to the forum. You say you've adjusted your NovoRapid, but our basal needs can change as well. So if you're taking more of your Toujeo than you need you'll keep going low. Do you have an endo or diabetes nurse you can contact to have a talk on how to adjust your...

You said you usually have supper at 21:00, do you take NovoRapid for that?

No, I manually input my insulin doses.

@Grant_Vicat , I think you mentioned somewhere you had diabetic eye problems 40 years ago, improved your blood glucose, and I've seen for myself you function and drive just fine a couple of months ago. Maybe worth telling your story again? @Soph895 you improved your BG, so you have every reason...

Perfect! I have no idea why the nurse thought it had to be specifically taken with breakfast, especially because you already told her that having to eat breakfast gives you a lot of stress.

I'm so sorry your eyes have gotten worse right after greatly improving your diabetes. It's not fair, but this is a thing, quickly improving blood glucose can worsen retinopathy. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6587545/ I hope the laser and injection will solve the problem. Long time...

Hi @shellz78 , welcome to the forum. Have you been prescribed metformin to take once a day or twice a day? If once, it doesn't matter with which meal you take it. The reason it's recommended to take metformin with food is because this lowers the chance of side effects, especially diarrhea. But...

Do you still use the Freestyle Libre? I simply use the LibreLink app to log those things. Get well soon!

Hi @Limezer , welcome to the forum. Apparently, dry eyes can be a side effect of metformin, although I didn't have that side effect myself. Can you ask your doctor or diabetes nurse about it?

What medication are you on for your diabetes?

Why the cracker? A cheese platter only needs cheese. And if you want the cracker, grate some parmesan or other hard cheese on a baking sheet and zap it in the microwave for a couple of minutes, voilá, crackers! Or just buy 4 or 5 different pieces of cheese and cut part of them for your dessert...

Give it some time, it's not the end of the world. Sometimes diabetes simply doesn't behave as we'd expect, and tomorrow is a new day!

Chocolate hardly ever happens for a hypo, sadly. Toxic to dogs so I don't carry any, and my 90% cocoa chocolate is safely in a closed box because dogs, and it wouldn't do anything for a hypo anyway. In my bag I tend to alternate winegum type treats and liquorice (but definitely not allsorts...

On the other hand, while glucotabs and the likes will work faster, I also hate them with a vengeance and lows make me pretty stubborn and not wanting to eat, even if I know I must. So chocolate works better for me because I'd at least eat it. :hilarious: I absolutely love treating hypos with a...

Oh, I'll need to do a search around my Dutch Lidl. They have all sorts of ridiculous high protein stuff suddenly this week (high protein mozzarella, erm, whut?), and who knows, they may have this as well!

It says that your hba1c (which tells you something about your average blood glucose during the last 3 months) is 24. Diabetes starts at 48, prediabetes at 42. Anything between 20 and 42 is normal. On your form it says 'neuropathy'. If you have this, or if they think you may have this might be...

Type LADA or 1.5 are both the same thing, and they both mean T1 diabetes: caused by an autoimmune reaction killing your insulin producing cells. So if it is indeed T1 (LADA, 1.5), you'll produce less and less insulin until you cannot do without, no matter your diet or other medications. Flozins...