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Couldn't agree more! It's the same for me: hubby and close family just seem unable to understand the difference, remember it and/or believe it. Friends have no clue whatever, let alone job fellows, and as for strangers… one can imagine. I keep explaining and telling and pointing out the...

Hi, Mountaintom! Yes, I used to meet a good counsellor at the diabetes clinic but it was a long time ago and it was not exactly all about diabetes (when I was dxd I was struggling with a difficult situation at home, I was very young and my mom had taken to drinking and things weren't good in so...

You are lucky to have such nice, dependable people around you! In general I think it wiser to let people know I have type 1, but I must admit I don't often feel safer when I do. In my country there is no special awareness about the different types of diabetes and even in my own family (husband...

Hi Bassiette, I suggest you simply ask your doctors what kind of food you should avoid. I had high cholesterol levels a few years ago, and I was told to avoid full-fat milk and full-fat yogurt, then cheese, butter, red meat (that is veal, pork, mutton, beef…), fat fish (salmon, mackarel, tuna)...

I have been living with T1 for nearly 40 years and heard all sorts of rubbish. 1. Doctor: Rice is a high GI food, you shouldn't have it often. Me: I don't, but for the opposite reason: it makes me go hypo. [because it takes a lot to get assimilated with me, and I gather this is not entirely...

Hi lordbladdermere, I am a T1 and have been for more than 30 years now. I was put on Tresiba some 4 years ago but I didn't experience all the troubles you're having. The only different thing in my therapy was that I have always used Tresiba before sleep, but that shouldn't mean much… I am on...

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Hi James@CType1, you are surely amazing in finding time and energy to hit the gym! Only be careful, 'cause when your BG is high, exercise may be counter-indicated… Can make it higher, I mean. If you like exercising, I wonder if that could provide motivation to better look after yourself… Just...

What kind of diabetes? T1 and T2 are different conditions with very different problems and challenges.

Hi jayLeigh, I used to loathe going to appointments, bu then I got fed up with this and decided to complain to the head of the relevant hospital department, and it worked! It is definitely worth trying. You could write an email to the person in charge of the clinic (or whoever is your doctor's...

I used to be on Lantus, but it didn't worked well for me (hypos both in the night and in the morning, with higher numbers consistently through daytime… a nightmare!). So I was changed to Tresiba, which is doing a far better job. So perhaps Tresiba could be worth a try: ask your consultant...

Yes, insulin correction factor varies, you bet it! In my experience it may depend on time of the day, day of the month, month of the year, hours of sleep, previous hypos or hypers, general health, physical activity level, kind of food I am going to have for a meal… you name it. AND mine is...

Hi, Callum, I have been Type 1 for more than 30 years and a few years ago I experienced quite a long a spell of fatigue. I was sent to test for TSH as well, but numbers were ok and I still hadn't a clue about the cause of fatigue. To cut a long story short, it was the slow-release insulin I was...

How good you are at painting!

Impressive! And… very pretty as well! They could make original brooches, I guess.

By Jove, Spencer67, you wrote something really awesome: 'even getting family to understand type 1'… Please tell me, how did you do? I have had T1 for some 30 years now and only last month I discovered my family was persuaded I was T2 all the while, and doesn't care a bit about knowing the...

Dear Fatima, I guess your medical student friend still has a lot to learn, AND, most important, is not a full-trained endocrinologist (endo), ie a medical doctor who specialised in the care for people with diabetes, especially T1. Your frequent hypos may depend on your having a very high...

Well, for me it worked the other way round: when I had periods, my BG was always running low. It was not uncommon to experience as much as 5 or six hypos a day… not pleasant! Now I have outgrown all visits from Mother Nature, but BG is still on the low side on the days I used to welcome that...

Your first thought was exactly like mine: I guess that peolpe who exercise more will also be those who have less difficulty in avoiding hypos and hypers, besides perhaps receiving more support in managing the balance between exercise and therapy and daily/monthly/yearly fluctuations.

I would so much like to have some HCP to celebrate, but unfortunately I can't. I have been living with type 1 for more than 30 years and never met a really good one. Best I can do is never lose hope, though.