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If this is breakfast time is this maybe dawn phenomenon effect, not so much the amount of insulin or carbs you have dosed and eaten? I had no idea this was happening to me till a couple of months after diagnosis I was given CGMs and as I walked into work one morning the CGM alarm went off, I...

Be kind to yourself. Figure out your favourite foods/meal and activities and schedule them in. If you are newly diagnosed…T1DM takes a lot of getting your head round. Have you had a chance to do a diabetes management course yet? Apart from the information given you will meet other people with...

Was diagnosed 2 years ago and hospitalised for 5 days, during which time they taught me how to finger stick and inject insulin and gave me 3 very serious talks about the hazards of alcohol consumption, now I was diabetic! I thought the medical staff must have decided I looked like a 68 year old...

Uff, what a difficult situation for you. Wondering why he has to wait 18 months/2 years for a pump??? Would that solve the problems do you think? Is it the sheer mental effort of having to figure all the numbers out all the time? I am at the other end of the age spectrum, 70 and diagnosed just...

Don’t try and change everything all at once. Undertake an exercise routine you can stick to.. a little bit a couple of times a week is still better than no exercise. Just small changes to your diet can have an effect. Find out about carbohydrate values in your favourite foods and maybe adjust to...

Only time I have had an ‘issue’ at airport security was returning through Gatwick earlier this year when one of the personnel checking stuff into the bins saw I had pulled a new CGM out and said.. mm they’re not supposed to go through the X-ray machine are they? This is what I had read.. but...

I ‘acquire’ the individual sachets of sugar from cafes and restaurants as I travel to keep for hypos and buy baby food sachets to keep in the car and carry with me when travelling. Live in Norway and here they sell ‘long life‘baby food, I often buy it from the near its sell by date cheapo bin...

Hei Sandra Peppa, only just found my way back to this thread. My diagnosis was a bit dramatic but came after months of blood tests and seeing different doctors to try and find out what was the matter with me. The medics started investigating me for other autoimmune conditions once they diagnosed...

Hei Melgar, was never diagnosed with type 2 and the hospital just told me I had diabetes, not which sort, so I assumed it was type 2, at my age! But 2 weeks after leaving hospital a senior doctor phoned to tell me that the tests had shown I was type 1. One of the docs in the emergency room had...

I asked about reusable pens at my last check up at the hospital…the doctor had to investigate them for me, but phoned a few weeks later and I have a prescription for one! Ordered it from the pharmacy and took it along to my lovely diabetic nurse who discovered I had been sold the wrong pen for...

Maybe speak to the pharmacist, where you collect your insulin. As I understand it insulin needs to be at room temperature when in use , but stored in the fridge. If you are traveling somewhere hot.. you need to be careful with the insulin and maybe use a cool bag of some kind. If you are flying...

I try and apply my new sensor about 24 hours before the old one is due to expire, so by the time I initiate the new one it has had time to get used to me and my body has had time to get used to it! But I had one fall off after just a week so applied the new one and that gave some low readings...

Was in hospital for 5 days when first diagnosed and the message I got from the nurses was not to dose with the fast acting insulin till my food was actually in front of me. Have generally stuck to that over the last 18 months, though some people find it annoying if they set food down in front of...

When I was first diagnosed they gave me, sorry they sent me to the hospital pharmacy and I had to buy, an accuchek testing kit. but I assumed, wrongly, that the pricking gadget automatically shifted to the next number to show how many needles were left in the lancette cartridge. Didn’t realise I...

Am no medic, but have your docs considered a thyroid issue? I was being investigated for a thyroid problem when I was diagnosed with type 1.. LADA…I still have high cholesterol, despite dutifully swallowing the statins. Still being investigated for a thyroid issue and had full liver exploration...

Just wanted to give you a well done! and you said it yourself.. after just 3 weeks of your new regime.. you can see big improvements. keep going and see how things are after say 6 months. have you been having annual diabetes check ups? went to my first one last week and wondered why the doc was...

Hei Sandra, I was diagnosed with type 1 18 months ago now, at the grand old age of 68! Had been going to see my GP’s for months to try and get to the bottom of ‘tummy troubles’, OK acute and urgent diarrhoea. Somebody noticed my thyroid levels were a little bit out of range, was back and forth...

If you are in the UK is there an NHS number you can call for advice? I think everyone has a different insulin to carb ratio and it can change…have no idea how they figure it out, mine has gone from 25 to 40… was a bit horrified to see what dose you had given yourself! For me that would be… not...

Second this. Filled in the forms years ago for a daughter who had epilepsy and you just had to paint the worst possible scenario. It’s really difficult as those really bad days are the ones we try and forget about, but that’s what you need to put on the form. Sounds like the form hasn’t changed...

Being diagnosed with T1DM is a lot, so is losing a parent. I think partners of T1’s need to be very understanding, they need to understand the condition and what it can do to their partner’s state of mind. Was diagnosed last year after being married for 20 years, husband did not take it well...