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This always makes me laugh: A man was driving around London when he saw a sign in front of a house, 'Talking Dog for Sale.' He rang the bell and the owner told him the dog was in the garden. The man went into the garden and saw a Labrador sitting there.. 'Is it true you can talk?' he asked...

I don't get that! Why is the furniture piled up in the corner? Have I missed the obvious?

Hahaha! What my granddaughter called the 'olden days when everything was black and white'! If things progress to the same extent in the next 25-30 years then diabetes might be eradicated. Fingers crossed. I wouldn't miss it. Bet you wouldn't either?

Back in the day when I was diagnosed I was put on one daily injection of insulatard. I was 30 and classed as a 'juvenile onset'! No wonder I struggled with it all. And back then it was eating to suit the insulin not the other way round. One of the things I hated the most was having to set when I...

Thank you. I'd been on a single bedtime dose of Lantus ever since it was prescribed, a long time ago. Until I started recently looking at this forum I just thought it had to be taken at night. Splitting the dose has made all the difference. Thinking about it now it seems so obvious! Thanks...

Many thanks for your help. After a bit of trial and error the last week or so I've settled on 8 units of Lantus at breakfast and 12 units before dinner at 6.30. So far so very good. No nighttime hypos and no more dawn rises. Yay! I'm feeling quite smug and pleased with myself. Bg's are around 5...

Oh dear. I have to admit I laughed when I read your post. Unbloodybelievable. Grrrrrr indeed.

Hi Rachette If you're finding carb counting a pain, I can recommend the app 'My Fitness Pal'. It's a calorie and exercise tracking app. It has an incredibly extensive food database and you can key in your own recipes. It gives you all the nutritional data including calories and carbohydrates per...

Hi Rachette Sorry to hear that. It must seem very confusing. If I had more information I could perhaps hazard a guess. Eg what was your BG before the meal at 6.00pm and how much fast acting insulin did you inject? How much cho did you eat? I allow one unit of Humalog for 10g of cho, but you may...

Yes, I'm with you on this one. I aim for around 7 and I think that's quite a realistic level. Much lower than that and I end up going hypo all the time. Once that happens I tend to overcompensate and then go too high blah blah blah. I think you have to live with it but not let it make your life...

Thanks for your comments, Cyberdyme. I shall run all this past my GP tomorrow.

Interesting, thanks. If you split the Lantus dose, do you split it equally, ie take the same morning and evening? Yes, it's a huge relief to be free of the dreaded nighttime hypo.

I recently changed by injection of Lantus from bedtime to before breakfast. Mainly because I was FED UP with nighttime hypos. Now my BG tests during the day are much better, but the night time coverage isn't. I'm getting too high readings in the night and a horribly high result before the next...

That is unbloodybelievable. If that was me I'd see a different GP in the practice. I'd also be tempted to write a letter of complaint to the Practice Manager. My mother developed type 2 in her eighties and she tested her BG. No problem getting strips. Grrrrrrrr indeed!

We are just sooooo selfish. Lol!

Are you new to the absolute joys of being diabetic? My honeymoon phase is long gone I'm afraid. 35 years.

Btw, I hope it's not a stupid question, but how do you manage to stay low carb all day? Are you on a lchf diet?

Sounds like a good plan.

Yes, I changed over four days ago. The first couple of nights I got up two or three times (bathroom breaks anyway!) to check how things were. For two nights I needed a bit of fast stuff, but last night was a lot better. This morning I took 14 units of Lantus, which I calculate is the right...

Well done you!