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Yes that's exactly my experience. I just don't consider novorapid my friend, I consider it a necessary evil...

If someone was diagnosed and had ketoacidosis at that point, how long would it be before they were supposed to be feeling not-****** at normal blood glucose numebrs? I was told a couple of weeks. It has been a lot more than a couple of weeks and I still feel like I've been put through a mincing...

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Mathematics time. I have no idea if this is right, any ideas gratefully received... The average human has about five litres of blood. Assuming he or she was at a reasonably high level of 8mmol/l, the blood of an average human therefore has roughly 40 millimoles of glucose which is 0.04 moles...

I have basically given up on exercise. Because of various medical things I have spent most of the last six weeks (since diagnosis) feeling like I have a blood glucose of 1, although it's usually 5.5 when I feel like that. I have tried to run at that level, I've tried to run at 6.8, I've tried...

oh well it's nice to know that they're all like that. possibly I have been asking some morbid questions.

Depends what you mean by help. I got told a lot of things I already knew about fast and slow cabohydrates, glucose metabolism, and how to count carbs. I was a runner, I knew how the human fuel system works, I was already trying to eat properly and not eat too much carbohydrate, so what I...

Guy walks into room. Guy says "Hello Ms. Notsusie, we have the test results back and I'm sorry to say that we can confirm the diagnosis of type one diabetes. The nurse will be along in a few minutes to take some blood." Guy walks out of room.

Col did you just describe type 1 diabetes as mildly irritating? I splutter indignantly!

Thanks everyone. I think they will know I didn't bring it on myself, or at least my dad will. He will know at least as much as I knew, and I would have known that type 1 is not connected to lifestyle/eating/whatever. I think he'll also be upset but he is not good at sharing the way he feels so...

Hi there Yes that all makes sense to me, horrible sense but sense all the same. I could bore you to death with my whining but I guess I just need to deal with it. It is never going to be nice and I am never going to like it and I am going to spend the rest of my life thinking about the first...

Hello At some point in the next few weeks I am going to have to tell my parents that I have type 1 diabetes. There is no good way to do this. There are only horrible ways to do this which will lead to them being angry that I didn't do it better. I have spoken to them and not mentioned it so I...

Being at those levels doesn't make me feel good. Being between 5 and 6 makes me feel pretty rotten.

You might not like all of this but treat it as a confession. I have never known anyone who had diabetes. OK, I knew two people at school who were diabetic. Well, I say I knew them, I knew of them, nobody really knew them. They were weird. They had loads of things they couldn't do and weren't...

I get what you're saying. The problem is that "I know myself better than the doctors" is something that is (also) said by completely crazy people who think they can cure cancer with herbal extracts so from my perspective it seems like I'm ignoring the advice of qualified professionals based on...

Well I'm pleased to meet you but I suspect there are better type 1 diabetics to socialise with than me, I have about as much understanding of this stuff as a carpet tile. Anyone, anyone else, help needed...

For what it's worth (which is nothing) I am not that keen on the whole pump thing, I've seen some very gory photos of what it can be like and personally I would prefer to remain "unmodified" if you see what I mean. People swear by them and that's fine but personally I am not keen. One of the...

Then why don't they tell people that! Sorry not your fault but jeez.

Circus that's basically my experience, any kind of serious exercise just makes you feel awful after a few minutes. It is really annoying to realise that it isn't even diabetes that is causing this, exactly the opposite, it's the TREATMENT for the diabetes which is causing this, not that we have...

I'm checking my levels lots and lots, definitely before I go running and afterward and yes when I start feeling low I am always low although "low" can mean high fours for me. Above 7 I start feeling sort of mainly okay, but obviously/apparently/presumably I shouldn't be above 7 under any...