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AAAAAAhhhhhh!!, last night I felt like going to the fridge getting all my insulin and dumping it in the bin, then sitting down and eating the last of my daughters chocolate birthday cake!!!!! This is so frustrating. I changed my bakcground insulin to Hypurin porcrine nearly two weeks ago after...

Hi I'm like you the more I read about Lantus the more concerned I get, my health wasn't too great to start with but really deterioated when I started Lantus. I had about nine months of good control on it then things changed rapidly with very varying bg results. My Hba1c has been alright, 6.8...

Hi Kewgirl, Thanks, that clears up a few points, I was wondering what dosage are you on and at what times do you take it, did you have to reduce your dosage compared to when you where on analogues? Avril

Hi Went to see my consultant this morning with a view to get her to change my insulin. Was expecting some resistance from her at least. However, she couldn't have been any better and wrote me a prescription for porcine insuling, long acting one. I am to try it alongside novo rapid and see how I...

Hi Thanks both, its all a bit "pants" as my thirteen year old daughter would say. My health at the moment is quite bad, but I also got told today I might have to accept the fact that I'm unique, couldn't believe that one! The local GP was the initial person who did suggest that the problem...

Hi After a couple of months fighting for apointments with the DN, and a round trip of 120 miles to see her for a CGM for three days to try and see what was going on with my fluctuating BG, which didn't work as they gave me a faulty machine, I think I may have convinced her it is my Lantus that...

Hi I initially split the Lantus dose after doing the Dafne course, I hadn't been on it that long before then only about a month or two. It worked for 9 months with really good control then the problems began, I persevered for a few more months and then went back to the one night time dose to...

Hi Well I went to see my GP yesterday, I felt no-one was helping having only seen my own consultant in March last year and a locum in January, problem with a backlog of patients apparently. I'm even more confused now he reckons I have a problem with my BI Lantus which might be causing all these...

Hi Went across to see the Dr this morning as I have been having varying needs in my insulin, reckon its hormonal and high readings in the morning. This has been going on for some time now and seems to be progressing, some mornings I can get up and my readings are around five sometimes fifteen...

Hi Yes, my carb ratios vary at different times of the day to, breakfast at the mo is one and a half to one, lunch is two to one and tea three to one, however at different times of the month these change as does my BI back down to 14 units from 16 and the carb ratios are 1:1 breakfast, 11/2 to 1...

Hi Yes I did mean menstrual cycle, its a right royal pain in the backside, it took me a long time to work it out with lots of testing through the night and day and looking back over my diary to try and work out some sort of pattern. I get told that if my Hbac1 is ok then not too worry too much...

Hi Been having a few problems recently, was waking up with high readings, and after reading a few posts started testing through the night and realised I was having hypos and the dawn effect at times as well. I started to excersise and have a bedtime snack which sometimes cures the problem but...

ahhhh! I think I'm getting it now, thanks everyone, I got my low GI book out again today, and was thinking of cutting back the carbs with each meal for now to see how I get on. I do like my bread though thats the only thing, but I think I'll manage. Avril

Hi Fergus Pardon my ignorance, but if you excersise without carbs won't you have a hypo, how does it work then? Avril

Hi I'm new to the forum, and looking around I see a lot of people on Low Carb diets, I have done the low GI one and know how that works and follow the Dafne regime. I was wondering if you are on low carbs what do you do about excersise, don't you need the carbs for that? I walk a lot and...

Hi Katherine I live in Scotland as well, isn't our weather delightful? I will certainly have a look on Utube, all sounds very interesting. My thyroid has been both slightly under and over active as well but within "normal" range, I also have a thyroid cyst which I am told does me no harm. Avi

Thanks for the welcome, Sorry about the confusion over my type Ken, but I am a bit confused myself. My initial diagnosis was type two, but I didn't think I fitted the profile and asked if I could be type 1.5, my consultant took a strop though and said there was no such type,only type three...

Hi I was diagnosed with type 1 about three years ago, after living with ME for about nearly ten, a shock being nearly 40 at the time and with no history of diabetes in my family. Its been getting me down recently, I have thyroid problems as well, aparently not bad enough for any treatment, and...