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A diagnosis of diabetes is a fasting result of 7mmol or above Prediabetes is a fasting reading of 5.5-6.9mmol I highly doubt if you were a type 2 diabetic you would be experiencing normal levels the rest of the time What is a day of food generally like for you? xx

To be honest at levels that high I wouldn't have eaten that amount of carbs xx

oh no that's not so good, your free to PM if you want a more private chat I'm not too bad but I have a cold so feeling pretty stuffed up lol we all have our down times, some more than others (I include myself in the some as I've had a very rough ride since I was diagnosed) but try to stay...

Hi and welcome :) I was awake but I tend not to log onto the laptop or phone as that generally makes it worse Hope you managed to get some sleep eventually :) xx

I've just noticed your from Stoney, nae far fae me! I am type 1 but I eat relatively low carb so evening meals I'll have a 3 egg omelette with corned beef and mushrooms with green beans and a treat of a 25g bar of Aldi's Moser Roth 85% chocolate, chicken breast with roasted veg I tend to go...

that's where your problems lie, as diabetes progresses you may find you cant tolerate what you used to be able to at the beginning so you need to review and make further adjustments xx

I see you mention in your signature you cut out high sugar content foods but no mention of reducing the carbs so possibly try that if you haven't already xx

it really does help, I lost hypo awareness a year after I was diagnosed, I was sleeping through hypo's and everything, it led to a large reduction in basal also but I ran higher for a short while and could feel low around 4.2 so it can work xx

it's more of an agreement and everyone that attended education sessions were required to sign one and I'm fine with that

BG I use the Accu Chek Aviva Expert, got a silicone cover for it too :) I get the Libre sensors on prescription so use the Libre for testing ketones (when I was first diagnosed I got the Freestyle Optium Neo when I left the hospital so always had the ketone strips on prescription) xx

i too signed a "contract" at my education session which also contained the criteria for continuation of FGM and criteria for cessation of monitoring xx

sorry but people have been made to test a minimum of 8 times a day to get it on prescription no matter what lifestyle they lead, presuming you have 3 meals a day and before bed there is 4 tests straight away, folk have had to jump through hoops to get it but you seem to think you are entitled?

my good eye is really good, I cant comment on the left eye tbf as I went through school being told my eyesight was perfect to then go to the opticians after I left to be told it was damaged due to a lazy eye that they hadn't picked up on at school (that's why I wear glasses) I was having 3...

i think it may just be scarring I had lasering for proliferative retinopathy for both eyes in November last year and there is scarring where it was done I also have had numerous eyelea injections for diabetic macular oedema which I was unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with less than a month...

So what are you eating exactly? Have you reduced your carbs? Have you tried switching the time you have your larger meal? Some find that as the day goes on they become less insulin resistant xx

Personally your lucky that you've been given an option Many of us (including myself) haven't had that, I was taken into hospital one night and put on a sliding scale and not allowed home until I showed I could inject myself Most of us Type 1's still produce small amounts of insulin at the...

What is your hba1c at the moment? and how long have you been diagnosed type 1 and on insulin? Getting levels down is a marathon not a sprint and it's far healthier to get them down gradually as quickly can do more damage than good that I unfortunately went through myself xx

I don't think there actually is a peak in Tresiba if I'm honest, I think as it's not as flexible as other basals it's just a knock on effect from doing a few things extra day to day xx

if you google specifically what your looking for you may be better off, I don't think a CGM uses needles I think like the Libre it is only a filament you are actually left with and the Libre filament sits 5mm under the skin xx

Hi :) with a hba1c of 50 it would be more likely for you to be type 2 I would think and caught relatively quickly what kind of fruits are you eating? a lot can be packed full of carbs which is what you'll have to watch out for now so better to stick with the likes of raspberries, blackberries...