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Can anyone point me towards some information on long term effects of different levels? Or just share your own thoughts on this. I know that any high sugars are bad, but don't really have an idea of the effects of sustained mild highs vs brief severe highs. If I were to run the whole day around...

Weight training with heavy compound exercises (especially squats), and get plenty of protein (as well as just increasing total calories). I can't think of a more efficient way to gain healthy weight, and not just extra fat.

Thanks @loafhead, that's very good to know.

Thanks @loafhead - I've actually tried out Glimp, and quite like it. I was a bit put off scanning the sensor with it though since seeing @tim2000s post here, and I thought I remembered hearing someone else saying that after using it the libre reader stopped reading that sensor - can't find it...

Hi Vedika, Have you heard of dawn phenomenon? These morning rises as the result of hormone release are very common (and I know how frustrating it can be). If you search this forum for this you will see lots of discussions and approaches to dealing with this problem...

Do any of you use more than one type of bolus insulin? I'm on MDI (Lantus+Humalog), and have been making a big push to improve my control over the last couple of months, greatly helped by having the Libre. It has definitely improved significantly, but I still want it tighter. Influenced by this...

If you are worried and don't want to wait for results to come back, how about going to the pharmacy and picking up a cheap blood glucose monitor? You can often get one for under £15 without a prescription, and typically they come with 10 strips and a finger pricker. That way you could find out...

I also get numb tongue and lips if I go really low, and an altered sense of taste - a weird kind of soapy feeling. Sometimes it persists for a little while after coming back up, but I don't remember it ever lasting more than an hour for me. As @azure says, perhaps it is possible you did actually...

Hi all, Congratulations on all your successes above. I'm very happy to say that I'm currently on my longest streak of staying perfectly in range in a very long time, possibly ever since my honeymoon period ended about 15 years ago! and certainly by far the best since I've been able to actually...

Firstly - good to hear that you are feeling well! I also noticed my last blood results a few days ago showed elevated levels of creatinine, and did a bit of reading about it. I'm no expert, but this is what I gathered: Apparently, while raised creatinine can be an indicator of impaired kidney...

Lots of really interesting information there, thanks for posting this @tim2000s His approach to bolus calculation accounting for fat/protein/fibre (http://www.nakedathlete.co.uk/naked-me/naked-me-type-1-diabetes-management/type-1-diabetes-counting-war-cho-vs-fpu-vs-fii-***/) seems appealing...

So it happened to me too - I brushed my sensor off on the doorway last night :( I'd heard of all the other people doing this and was being careful most of the time, but it was late and I was sleepy... At least it only had a couple of days left on it though, so could have been worse.

Hi @cezli84, Sorry to hear that. It does get better. Just one note of caution on this - I went through a phase where I kept increasing my basal because I was always waking up higher than I went to sleep, but later found that most nights I had actually been dipping to hypo or borderline hypo in...

I'm on my way now, looking forward to meet all of you. Also - if anyone wants them, I'll have with me 1 full container of BG star and one of Accu-chek compact. (My prescription was delayed a while ago, and when buying more I got confused about exactly which meters I had! I'd already opened the...

It seems a bit shady of Abbott to say these things off the record in phone support, but gloss over them in the promotional materials and even the manual. My point is that it does not seem to be simply a case of lag. If that were the case I could take it into account, in combination with knowing...

The manual says readings may be inaccurate when sugars are rising or falling rapidly (which has been frustratingly often just recently :grumpy: ). I've also seen several mentions on here of a delay of somewhere between 5 and 15 minutes compared to blood tests. However, it seems to me that it is...

Are you on insulin? The sweating and headaches could be sign of going low in the night, and the high readings in the morning could be your sugars bouncing back up in response to this low (the Somogyi effect).

I was just browsing HackerNews and came across another link to the same study and a story about it on the BBC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10972359 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35193414

That cookies/banana plot is crazy. I knew that foods affected different people differently, but hadn't realized it was to that extent. Really interesting study, thanks for the link. It's a nice use of machine learning too (the full text of the paper is here).

I've long found carb-counting and/or GI totally inadequate as a way of calculating my insulin doses - when reduced to one or two numbers, important information about how the glucose will be released over time is lost. Instead I tend to picture the curve for different foods, and try to match the...