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30g of carbs roughly in the breakfast.

Not a work day just a chilled Saturday and no exercise! Breakfast was porridge and coffee!! I'd reduced my fast acting insulin because I didn't think it was enough carbs?!

Thank you. Although the DN said that really I should try to avoid hypos in these first few months when coming to terms with everything!! [emoji85] So I was on a set fast acting of 8 units because I had a go at the 1:10 ratio which I know may not be right for me and so far my breakfast I only...

My blood sugar this morning was at 8.5 (Newly diagnosed) I had breakfast and took a smaller amount of insulin because it wasn't a very carb loaded breakfast but then 2 hours later I had a hypo? What did I do wrong? Any advice?

Thank you!! The book "think like a pancreas" came through our post Box yesterday so hopefully we will crack on with reading that!! We have the carbs and cals book also but at the moment we aren't sure what we are doing!!! If a meal is 80g of carbs that's 8 units of insulin?? As 10g = 1 unit -...

Thank you all so much; it's very reassuring to hear!! He was only diagnosed two weeks ago so he's just adjusting and trying to get on with it. After a short spell in hospital he's managed to get his levels down and consistent which is great. He isn't carb counting yet though so that's the next...

My husband has just found out he has type 1 diabetes i just wanted to talk to people who are living with it and ask can he lead a long normal life? The diabetes nurse has been great but then we met with our GP who told us my husband (fit healthy 30 year old) would need to take statins and would...