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Do you take statins as I had bad muscle aches on simvastatin? My stomach is wrecked through years of injecting have to use sides now!

Still lucozade sport or fruit juice or maybe sugary tea?

Don't get too hung up on bg readings this early into diagnosis you seem to be doing really well! Once you do the DAFNE course you will have a firm understanding to build upon. Readings 2 hours post meal are of limited use as you will experience a rise in your levels after eating before they...

If you get an accuchek aviva expert meter it calculates insulin requirement for you which is useful if you are on different ratios for different times of day like me. The only math you need to do is adding up carbs for your food.

Yes, reluctant to wake to treat hypo if it is a good dream! ;-) lol

Gp's advice nearly killed me, you need to see a specialist - only reason I am here today is because of a specialist intervention at a&e! Insist politely to be referred after all you still need gp to prescribe your meds! lol

Lantus does not act for 24 hours so it can be quite critical when u take it - just whatever suits you best. A lot of people seem to be moving over to levemir and having two doses per 24 hours but I am fine with lantus at the moment which I take at 11pm.

I find exactly the same if I don't eat breakfast when I get up, if I don't really feel like eating I just grab a breakfast bar which keeps my bg right.

Used to get fed up but not really bothered now after 29 years! I am waiting for a pump though which seems to be taking an eternity despite being approved in Feb!

Take mine around 11pm ish - 32 units.

Tried many over the years, only one I use is carbs & cals as a guide to carb content. The meter I use accuchek aviva expert works out insulin required as I have different ratios for diff times of day and also prevents insulin stacking so does everything really.

So long as you are healthy would take notice to put weight on. I was on DAFNE with a guy with hardly any body fat and he had to be careful where he injected but they did not say he needed to gain weight!

For wine depends on how much you are drinking whether you will get much of a drop in bg later on. I personally would not take extra insulin for wine as not a great deal of carbs in it. If you look on carbs & cals app which I use for reference a large glass of red wine has 1g of carb! So long as...

It is hard, be strong and stay the course. Do not stoop to their level although you probably feel like giving them a slap. It takes time to show them why Fred is not there any more! I am sure they will come around if not they will probably go to join Fred! Lol chin up all the best!

Once you start carb counting and get some confidence doing it you can literally look at a plate of food and total up the carbs. A friend of mine works as a server in a busy restaurant and went on to a pump as it was so inconvenient going to fetch her insulin/meter every time she needed to...

"So you cannot eat sugar, cakes and sweet things then?" Then tell me off when I am having a cake, chocolate bar, etc... I explain I have had insulin to cover this treat but they just raise their eyebrows as if I am a naughty boy!

Told the paramedic lady I loved her when I came around to find her shaving my chest to put a monitor on! Lol! The wife was there but think she was so traumatised/glad I had regained consciousness that I got away with it!!! Kids next day were annoyed as I had kicked their wooden table to pieces...

Been there wanting to give up so sympathise with you totally. You will come through this talk to people who know what it is like - you are already as you posting on here! Keep going keep talking try to focus on any positives past or present or future. I had to go on meds for about 8 months to...

They say go to bed on 7 so I guess between 5 and 8 acceptable morning bg's???

I did go through a stage of feeding my insulin and put on a couple of stone within a year. Was told by specialist it was nearly impossible to lose weight - great! Once I got my ratios correct after DAFNE course lost 3 stone within 12 months so proved him wrong and control was much better also.