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  1. fairylights

    Nightmare diabetes appointment

    When I did my DAFNE course at the local hospital, we went up to the canteen every day for lunch with the DSN and the dietician, mostly they had packed lunches and never a carb passed the lips of either of them the whole week. They also said we could do the 5:2 diet if we wished and have carb...
  2. fairylights

    Injecting in public?

    I inject in public anywhere except work, they don't know, and I'm not that keen to tell them as I don't trust the management team not to discriminate against me. So at work it's the loo, but it's spotlessly clean. Anywhere else just where ever I am. I don't care what people think. I also...
  3. fairylights

    ???? Dawn phenomenon

    I have this too, I can take my BGL at 2am at 4am and it's on the lowish side but by the time I get up it's in the high teens. My DSN and Consultant have both said that the only way to deal with it is to go on an insulin pump as you can adjust the basal for the times you need to. So I have now...
  4. fairylights

    Dealing with Dawn Phenomenon

    @jack412 My levemir is split 8am and 11pm already - do you mean further split? Last night I was 5.1 to go to bed so I had a yogurt 2CP just in case that was going to mean I would hypo. I did wake up to go to the toilet at 0315 - BGL was 9.7 - I took 5U humalog (most I dared to take) and when I...
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    Unsupportive community group

    How is your relationship with your parents and siblings generally - is it just diabetes they aren't interested in or is it everything you do? Perhaps they are worried that you will think they are trying to interfere too much? Could you try and talk to one of them - pick the one you think will...
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    Dealing with Dawn Phenomenon

    @jack412 I have done DAFNE - only in July - so I can change my dose if required. Tues when I was 6.2 going to bed, I had been swimming and had had a snack and a little insulin a couple of hours earlier - I had been a bit low after swimming so maybe I should have had the snack and no insulin...
  7. fairylights

    Dealing with Dawn Phenomenon

    So 5am didn't happen. I was 2.9 at 2:30 - couldn't face waking up again at 5am. Then 12.4 at 7am. sigh
  8. fairylights

    Dealing with Dawn Phenomenon

    So set the alarm for 4am BGL 4.4, proper alarm 7am - before getting out of bed 12.4. I'm going to try setting the alarm for 5am this morning and see what it is then - going to bed on 6.2 - now. @jack412 - I do take a correction does as soon as I wake up at 7am - I would have taken one at 4am...
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    Dealing with Dawn Phenomenon

    I have been taking my BGL before I lift my head off the pillow in the mornings - the last few days have all been 18.8 - I then take both levemir and humalog before I get up and have a shower etc. Since doing this my lunchtime readings have been 6/7 instead of 4/5. So the only way I can seem to...
  10. fairylights

    Dealing with Dawn Phenomenon

    I should be getting a pump, I've been assessed and I'm on the waiting list but it will probably be another 6 months. In the meantime - I realised today (writing it down must help) that I don't take my BGL until after I've showered etc, so tomorrow I will try and take it and my morning insulin...
  11. fairylights

    Dealing with Dawn Phenomenon

    Thanks folks. Interesting Anthony - not sure I can do without carbs and protein but definitely food for thought. Perhaps I could start by cutting the carbs down, at the moment I eat around 100g a day. Novarapidboi I do split my basal levemir - which I have in the morning when I get up and as...
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    Dealing with Dawn Phenomenon

    Does anyone have any good tips on how to manage this? I have an horrific dawn phenomenon and it's really starting to get me down, just don't know what I can do to help things...
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    Why do I never see people testing their blood or injecting?

    I have an aquaintance who is type 1, a few years ago we were sat next to each other for a Xmas lunch and neither of us noticed the other injecting at the table, even though we both knew we were going to do it.
  14. fairylights

    Jury duty - hypothetical question

    Ha, ha not generally it doesn't! I tried to use diabetes as an excuse to escape jury duty a few weeks ago, just my luck but the clerk of court in the court I was in has type 1 too! He told me I would be fine and I would be able to take my paraphenalia into court and it should be no problem...
  15. fairylights

    Confused about testing frequency

    I test far more since I went on DAFNE. I now test before breakfast, lunch, dinner and bed, before driving and they also told me to test before and after execise even if it is only an hour or so before or after a meal, and I am also testing during the night as often as I can as I am struggling...
  16. fairylights

    £25 for doctors letter to allow Insulin on Plane.

    I have just been on the DAFNE course - the hospital team suggested that some airlines / airports may tighten up and they suggested taking a letter, ID issued by hospital and repeat prescription. They provided ID (laminated) and letter free of charge and said that the letter lasts a year any...
  17. fairylights

    HELP - advice please

    Loved DAFNE, hopefully things will improve for me now as I understand so much better - despite having read every forum and lots of books previously. We went for lunch every day except today as we finished early. They took us to hospital dining room and made us carb count our lunch! Including...
  18. fairylights

    HELP - advice please

    Thank you all. Still waiting for NHS24 to call back :( I have been taking BG every 10 minutes and having 100ml of coke and one or two digestives - so far so good, and I think that as it is now about two hours since I took the insulin, that I should be over the worst. I have had 12 CP's so far...
  19. fairylights

    HELP - advice please

    Looking for some advice. I am in the middle of a DAFNE course just now - and when working out my carbs this evening I stupidly worked it on grams rather than CP's. As soon as I injected and thought to myself I've NEVER injected this much insulin before and realised what I had done. So now I...
  20. fairylights

    Did you have the blood tests at your GP or the hospital

    Like qbix I am also in Scotland and my experience was similar. I went to GP on Weds and got referred straight to DSN at hospital. I was at hospital on Thurs, they did GAD and c-peptide tests and I was told I definitely had LADA about a week later. (Despite being overweight and 50!) Where I am...
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