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I wasn't going to respond to this thread, not because I don't care, but because I actually don't know what to say. Shocked is probably a good word and I don't blame you for lapsing into panic mode and finding courage and acceptance hard. You are another person that I've read hundreds or...

Be easy on yourself as well. You're allowed a treat now and then... that's not off the wagon. Believe it or not I've probably read thousands of your messages and you and all the other posters on this forum have helped me heaps. Even when you're feeling down and maybe not so great because perhaps...

I just got 25 pens of lantus, but I'm in Australia. Where are you located?

I'm sorry to hear about your pancreatitis. I've been in ICU 3 times with it. First time 6 weeks, second time 4 weeks and 3rd time I think 4 weeks as well (but it might have been three, and I was put into induced coma every time). Many times in hospital without being in ICU though. Very painful...

Today's mood: ecstatic. I just saw my new dietician and she's wonderful! She's ok with my lowish-carb diet (I'm not deliberately eating low-carb I just don't really like carb foods except for chips). For our next appointment she's even organised for my diabetic nurse to be present at the same...

Yes, for over an hour the orange juice did nothing but, from memory, about 1.5-2 hours later (when in hospital) they skyrocketed. You remember correctly :) I didn't have creon with the OJ but that doesn't mean there was none in my system as I'd have had it with dinner. Maybe takes a while to...

My carbs are basically the same for breakfast and lunch. Dinner is more difficult. Dinner is my problem

I'm on fixed doses. But considering I was so "low" I had to make a decision. To bolus or not to bolus. In retrospect, considering my starting BSL and the subsequent measurements, I made the right decision I think but I really need to talk to my diabetic nurse about this. I count carbs for every...

I've been naughty and skipped my NovoRapid dose with dinner. This is probably against medical advice, but they did withhold it in hospital this morning. I have to ask my DN about this. The reason I skipped my NovoRapid with dinner is because I was 4.1. To stress, I'm not advising other people do...

You are not a fraud! And your thread has helped me. I'm new and feel like a failure most of the time. Just reading this kind of stuff makes me feel better

Thank you. I had necrotising pancreatitis but for the last 4 years have been fine. In October last year (2022) my blood sugars went crazy so I'm now on lantus and novorapid. They're concentrating on my lantus dose at the moment because my libre graphs are running too low (in the low 4s most of...

This is a genuine question, I'm not being critical at all but I really want to know about this split dose approach. The reason I'm asking is because I just ate dinner but skipped my dose of NovoRapid completely because I was, pre-dinner, 4.1... too low for my comfort (I'm 4.6 now 30 minutes...

2.9 (libre, 2.1 contour) at about 1AM, 5.8 at 7:30AM but I was in hospital.

This is exactly what happened! I got BSL back under control 4 times (5th I could not) and within an hour I was hypo again with the libre alarms waking up the neighborhood. Looking at my graph the hypos are essentially exaclty 1 hour apart. I'd been having orange juice followed up by bread with...

I'm not qualified to speak, I can't even keep myself from going hypo at the moment. But when I was "pre-diabetes" I stuck to a relatively low carb diet (still do, I don't like carbs in general except for maybe chips). I log every meal I eat except on Saturdays. On Saturdays I don't log and I...

To summarise. I had 5 hypo events yesterday. Most of my messages were written when I was in the twos so I apologise if they sound irrational... most of them sound irrational to me reading back. One hypo event I completely overcompensated and went up to 22. Three others I went into the high 8's...

The hospital has given me 2 tubes of Glutose 15 gel to tide me over until the tubes I ordered online arrive. I suspected that I should have been having creon with my orange juice because my pancreas doesn't produce much amylase (confirmed by blood tests) which breaks down the fructose into...

Glargine. Lantus I think the brand name is but that's not on my pen, just "insulin glargine (rbe)". I'm not sure what the rbe stands for

Yeah, that's right. Sorry if my message was unclear. I don't feel any different at all when I go low although reading my writing I can see it's different when I'm low... I'm just not aware of it at the time (Edit: although I must say that reading back on my comments after the fact it seems as if...

I'm actually crying now. But we can do this. Right?