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I come at this from the outside as a type 1, but one example of the benefits of BG testing for type 2 sticks in my mind. I met a lady whose husband's control had deteriorated drastically since their GP had refused to prescribe BG strips for him. He used to be well controlled and since he hadn't...

Quick PS: DAFNE recommend that you give a response to a night time, long acting caused incident, two or three chances to see if it is regular before changing the long acting insulin. I think I need to do some revising... (trots off to look up her notes and learn it all again... )

I would say that the results you are getting are not worryingly bad. It is very hard to control someone else's diabetes when you cannot predict whether she is going to be flying round the playground at lunchtime or in the library reading, for instance. Either way she is going to need different...

Ok, consider yourself bonked and thoroughly shaken! :wink: I understand how you feel, when things get to be more than we can manage, simply not acknowledging the problem is all we are left with, but there's a thing... it'll kill you. Sit and look in the mirror and ask yourself if you really...

I gave up on glucose tablets about three years (or less) after I was diagnosed 35 years ago. They are difficult to eat when your mouth goes dry with the hypo, almost impossible to open the packet with wobbly fingers that won't co-operate, and there is not enough sugar in a whole packet to do the...

I've had type one for over thirty years and I still get caught out occasionally. It is easy to 'nip out for a minute' and forget to grab something to take with you. The worst one was when I was when I was walking a convalescing horse round the block every day for a while, leading her that is...

It just goes to prove how much more education the not-diabetic public need about the condition. It is so common and so often mis-represented in the media - dangerously so - that education about its emergency treatment (sweet stuff) should be a compulsory school subject. It would take about five...

I can't begin to guess at the cause of the spike to 20+, but the early hours hypos are most likely to be caused by still too much lantus.Weight loss combined with exercise will have made an enormous difference to his insulin and food needs. Don't be afraid to cut the Lantus down even more than...

The DAFNE people say to use fruit juice. You can buy packs of 200ml cartons that are easy to keep all over the place: in the car, school bag, bedroom, kitchen and anywhere your lad frequents. It's worth keeping some somewhere in the school sports section. Lucozade is awful to use because it is...

I just found this thread: http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=12551 Maybe thrust your husband's nose into that. Sorry, getting annoyed with him now, and I want to... I'd better not tell you what I'd like to do, it might get censored. :x

My husband discovered the honey trick many years ago. He uses honey rather than syrup because it is easier to control and doesn't end up all over the sheets like syrup does. When I was on the older insulins I used to get bad night time hypos just like the ones you describe: I didn't wake up and...

Hi folks, having spent the last few years frequenting forums in other subjects, I finally came upon this one. Why is it that the longest standing condition/interest I have was the last one to lead me to a forum? I have had type 1 diabetes for thirty-five years and am finally in better control of...