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I usually start keeping diaries but they don't last more than a week before they overwhelm me and start depressing me. I've just gave one up yesterday because it was causing me so much stress and I've only been sleeping a couple hours a night for the past 5 days, mostly due to hypos so I can...

I think if you eat a lot of fats with your carbs it sticks you at a number. I find if I have peanut butter on toast I'll stick at 11 a few hours later despite taking some bolus to try correct it, usually takes over an hour to get it to drop at all. It seems like the fats slow down the insulin...

I think rising 3mmol after eating isn't too bad really, I expect that because it then goes back down if I don't eat anything else, usually. What's your evening routine? Do you have a snack about an hour before bed? I used to always do that (around 15g of crackers if I was reading below 8)...

Thanks for your encouragement! I have sort of tried the night time basal test accidentally because I eat very healthy dinners and then ate nothing for 5 hours and tested my blood and I was low. I also find that if I don't have a snack at about 10 I will wake up low in the night without fail...

I really can't consider a pump because it would only add to my depression. I am very skinny and do a lot of modelling jobs so it's not an option. I think I didn't always run high before my period, it's only been since I have been very PMSy that it's been bothersome. But yes, like you, I drop...

It was my last review that I hit 7.1, previously I think I was 6.5. So it seems to be recently due to hormones and stress probably. I came off anti-depressants a couple years ago, so seems to have been a problem since then. I am currently not taking any medication for depression or anxiety. I...

I find that my BG peaks at around the 3rd hour after insulin/eating, it will usually come back down if I leave it, but not much. I usually try and inject 10 minutes before I eat if I'm between 5-8 and up to an hour before I eat if I'm more around 10/13 mark. I'm taking Lantus and have been for...

Thank you for your support, no one has ever told me how to test my basal apart from telling me hypos in the night mean I'm taking too much. Which I'm currently having every night for the last week but am able to run a bit lower usually in the day. So even if I do this I'll still have to work out...

If I wasn't testing my blood every hour id be going a lot higher sometimes because I'm managing to catch it in time before it goes higher than 12 usually. It's driving me mad, this can't be right. I don't understand why my sugars continue to rise 3 hours after I've eaten sometimes and drop...

Hi, I'm really struggling to keep my sugars within this tight range, (I believe it's around 4.0-7.9?) so I've just been trying to keep them below 10. Turns out that's harder than I thought it would be, actually. I've had diabetes for just over 20 years now, I'm 31 and not in the low enough...