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    Background insulin

    Hi My Lantus is running out about 2 hrs early which is incredibly annoying! My teamsuggest i inject and eat breakfast then, which is impossible for me. Do i not worry about the mid teen level for 2 hrs each morning or do i change the insulin. My teamdont seem to be that bothered.
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    Background insulin

    Hi Thanks for your reply. Did you ask to be changed or did they suggest Tresiba?
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    Background insulin

    I have been on Lantus for ages and take it before breakfast and before bed. Recently my before breakfast readings have been very high and it seems from talking to my nurse that it is running out about 2 to 3 hrs before I have breakfast (this morning I was 10 at 6.30am and 17 at 8.30 !!!)...
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    Dietitian

    Hi If your diabetic nurse makes an appt for you to see a dietitian, what should they go through with you? Shouldn't they be a specific person to deal with food and not just another diabetic nurse?
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    Continuous glucose monitors

    Hi Can someone help as I am confused. As far as I understand it, the Freestyle Libre is the only cgm sensor you can get on prescription if you fit a number of criteria, which I have been told I don't. But what about the sensor you wear for a few days to see how your control is doing and then...
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    Complications and depression

    Thank you so much for your kind reply!
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    Complications and depression

    Thank you for your reply, it has helped me to realise I musn't beat myself up...I would be very happy to help diabetics who are not being "good£ diabetics and not looking after themselves if there is any thread or forum..I wish someone would have talked to me when I was young and made me realise.
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    Complications and depression

    I have complications...had retinopathy which has ultimately caused scarring and loss of vision due to loads of laser and I have glaucoma. My vision is ok for getting about but poor for reading. The thing is, I know I didn't look after myself when I was younger. I then did a DAFNE course in...
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    Overtreating hypo and resultant high

    Thank you, looking back now it was a completely mad few hours because I panicked totally when I saw that it hadn't moved from 24 in two hours! It just seems that it's a complete guessing game when you go that high as to what the hell is going to work and I was scared of eating anything even...
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    Overtreating hypo and resultant high

    Ok so I woke up in the night having a dreadful hypo, I was away from home in a hotel and had no sugary drink to take. So I ate biscuits and glucose tablets, wrong I know but I was SO out of it that I panicked. The next morning at 7.30 I was 24. I took 10 units of Novorapid. 2 hours later I...
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    Blood sugar during the night...

    Nightmare isn't it? Thanks for that, I will mention Tresiba to my doctor. Good luck!
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    Blood sugar during the night...

    Thank you, I will experiment with the dosage but is 5 at 3am too low? Should I take some carbs or not? As I said I tend to panic when it's the middle of the night that I will go hypo and not wake as I have lost some awareness. What is an acceptable level at 3am?
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    Blood sugar during the night...

    I am finding it difficult to predict what this will do! I take Lantus at bedtime around 11pm and then at breakfast.. Isn't your blood sugar supposed to only drop or rise up to 2 mmol from bed to breakfast? For example, I go to bed on 10, at 3am I was 5. So I thought hmmm that is a bit low...
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