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No I'm on a sliding scale but it doesn't seem to be doing anything. They won't let me eat until sugars are below 15 either which I don't think is doing any good :(

Feel pretty awful to be honest - ketones aren't coming down and bg is back up to 26

Feeling a bit better but had to go in this morning as was still at 30. Have come down to 19.2 just feel shattered

I know - they put a full block on my medication at the start of April! I have 6 units left in a pen I've just found so not a full dose (I was on 24 split)

Thanks, exactly what I needed! I'm using pens to bolus at the moment and manually adding the data to my pump handset so everything is logged. Unfortunately I can't do my basal through pen because I don't have any lantus - seems my doctors surgery didn't take note of the letter from hospital to...

Donna, the one I use for checking ketones is the freestyle optium neo. It checks bg and ketones. (Different strips for each) but I use it purely for ketone checking.

Thanks - have changed everything, primed and moved sides with my site. Just re-checked; bg 32.1 ketones 4 so have taken another correction dose

I know and I usually would go but can't get hold of anyone to take little one so think I'll give it a few hours and if it hasn't come down at all then I'll have to go. I have insulin pens so will try that. - didn't actually consider possibly needing to change tubing as I only did it this...

Pump and not particularly ill, just the usual horrible feeling of being high and a bit of abdo pain

I have 3 or 4 ketone meters

Is that +20% basal or just bolus? I'm assuming I would need to increase both? I've done a bolus based on what bg meter told me to do, but I know from having dka in past that it's not usually enough. Need to try and get it down cos I have no one to have my little man if I had to go to a&e and I...

Not at all. We all have one side slightly smaller so I put it that side sort of diagonally. If my bra isn't padded then I use either a pad out of another bra or maternity breast pads to get rid of the squareness. It's just getting used to it. I tried everywhere else with it and everywhere was...

Can anyone help me out on the percentage of extra insulin you're supposed to take when you have ketones? NHS direct are pretty useless and I've ( completely unexplained) shot up to bg of 33.7 so checked for ketones and showing 4.3 :( feeling pretty lousy atm and really don't fancy another...

I hide mine in my bra - no one knows I'm wearing it other than the few people that need to know in case anything happens :) and to be honest, even I forget I'm wearing it!

Ahhh if only my reason for being vegetarian was a moral one! I've been vegetarian since I was 9 so 15 years now because I can't actually eat meat or fish without being sick (as stupid as it sounds, it's true!). I've tried several times through the years all resulting in me being violently ill...

I did mention that I was considering trying it and was met with a look of horror and comments about how unhealthy it is and how apparently dangerous it is as you're *supposed* to have 50% of your food as carbs and blah blah blah! Also told me that I don't need to lose weight.

I though it was ridiculous too to be honest but have been trying it since I went onto my pump and my levels have been amazing (bar when I'm at work when I hypo like mad). I haven't tried it with beans yet though and don't think I'm going to as I don't eat them often anyway, only when I'm trying...

I was told that by my nurse, consultant and dietician :/ cos for ages I've been carb counting all veg and quorn etc so they said that's why I've been having such bad hypos -_- they said that for beans you're only supposed to count the sauce which is the "of which sugars" and to use the same...

Hi, Just wondering what you actually are supposed to count if you're low carbing to lose weight? For my insulin, I've been told that baked beans for example, only count where it says "of which sugars" and not to count any vegetables other than potato and sweet potato. I've also been told not...

I thought this would be a problem at first (I've only been on my pump for just over a week). I had a massive ditzy moment of desperately trying things pouches etc etc to hide mine (I'm on the accu-check spirit combo so it's quite big) and found that I couldn't walk without it being...