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Hi I came down with what I think is the flu on Friday- have had severe cold shaking spells, a really painful headache and am aching all over although particularly in my stomach/back. i was pretty high all day on saturday but have upped my insulin and am following hte sick day rules and have been...

Thanks! I usually have about 60grams- sometimes a little higher if I have hypos and have to eat jelly babies!

I have lost 5kilos so far on a lower carb/low calories diet- been doing it about 2 months. I have been having a lot of hypos since I started though and found my insulin doses have reduced a lot.

Hi I am a regular gym goer and runner but have recently increased the distance I am running. i used to go for about 20min runs but have started running for about 45-60mins. On the shorter runs, I used to have a jelly baby or two before and found my levels stayed fairly constant during and...

I experienced this before I officially started low carbing too- i tended to eat less carbs during the working week and then have more on the weekend and found that while on weekdays my basal was ok, on weekends even if I went to bed fine/ lower and didn't have a high carb dinner, my levels...

Hi - i was just wondering if you had managed to stop the hypos at all?! I have been low carbing for a couple of weeks and keep having overnight hypos- am steadily dropping my overnight levemir dose but the hypos just keep coming! I know the answer is to drop it some more but I don't want to...

Thanks very much for the advice. I have been doing it for 2 weeks now and seem to have settled into a pattern of hypos so am sure my basal needs reducing but am also exercising more, which is no doubt adding to the hypos. I will keep testing lots- it's good to hear that others have experienced...

Hi.I am a type one and have recently started a reduced carb diet (about 60g a day) but am having a lot of hypos. I posted about this in another thread and it was suggested that when doing lower carb, your basal needs reduce. I just wondered if there are any rules/ suggestions of how much your...

Thanks for all the replies. I dont think it is the branflakes causing the hypos as I still get them in the evening etc (at alonst every meal) which makes me think it is the basal. The low carb is working really well for me in terms of energy levels and weight loss but am now at least a hypo a...

Hi I have started low carbing recently to try and lose some weight and am eating around 60g of carbs a day. I am using the DAFNE ratios decided on by my diabetes team when eating the carbs but have started having a lot of hypos. Is there any reason why i would need to reduce my background as...

I have been having a lot of hypos/ lower levels over the last 2 weeks despite carb counting/ using the same levels of background insulin and not doing anything out of the ordinary in terms of exercise or eating. Before xmas I had a 2 week period where I was higher than usual and needed more...

Thanks for the replies. i'm pretty sure it isnt because of going low at night as I usually wake up whenever that happens and I have tested a few times when i have woken up in the night anyway- last week i went to bed 5, was 7.5 at around 4am and went up to 12 by 9am. I will check again a few...

Hi I did the Dafne course at the end of last month and as a result my night time levemir injection was moved from doing it before bed to doing it at 7.30pm, as we noticed I was running higher after tea despite carb counting and matching to novorapid correctly. since then my evening readings...

No - I'm not on other medications just the insulin. I did have a stomach upset last night after the hypo so wasn't sure if that could have been or a cause of my sugar levels being strange or if that was caused by the stress of several hypos and lack of sleep!

Re: Strange symptons of hypo Thanks for the replies. I did inject before eating but on hindsight i should have held off. I appear to be having an odd week where although I am eating/exercising the same as usual, my sugar levels are running a lot lower than normal- havent been above 6 all week...

Hi I am a Type 1 diabetic. I have good hypo awareness and tend to experience the usual symptons. However today I had a low sugar level quite soon after lunch (Was 4.3 before I ate and it went down to 3.3 after) and instead of feeling the usual shakiness etc, I felt very dizzy and like i was...

Re: 2.00am hypo I keep having Night time hypos at the moment- I think my levemir is too high as my level drops by about 8 during the night so unless I go to bed high I wake up low in the night. The hospital advised me to cut down on my short acting insulin for tea as they think it is due to me...

Thanks for the reply. I usually take the morning levemir at 8am and the evening at 10.30-11pm. I hadn't really been advised on timing just to take in first thing in the morning and last thing at night- do you know what the recommended wait between doses is? Thanks!

Hi Apologies for the long post but am looking for some help! I have had type 1 for 18 years and in recent years I have struggled a bit with my control. I go to the gym a few times a week and run and often have hypos in the middle of a night after exercise, which then results in me eating too...