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I have frio wallets and if there's access to a fridge I use it. I need a lot less insulin when it's hot so keep your hypo treats close by!

I had a lot of issues on Lantus - including frozen shoulder and aching joints - all of which vanished quickly changing to Tresiba. The out of nowhere lows stopped too. It takes a little while to get the right level but if you're not allergic to any other insulin you should be fine with Tresiba

Are you definitely T2? Rapid weight loss is a sign of T1

If you have a CGM then I'd say the risk of you collapsing from an unexpected hypo is pretty low, especially as you still have hypo awareness. My hba1c last year after 2 bouts of covid was 58 and I was told that was fine. I didn't think it was, but just assumed the DSN was being positive...

Can send mine high. I'm a grass pollen sufferer and June is a nightmare. I take a lot of antihistamines

They have put glucose monitors on non diabetics and seen spikes after eating certain foods (the glucose goddess on Instagram has a lot of info). Your figures after eating look in the normal range really.

I'm relieved you've found another surgery and they can get you sorted. I can't understand why your old GP practice would hold back something so critical as insulin - did they ever give you an explanation?

It's shock - perfectly understandable!

Hopefully they've given you the little needles? I tend to not over think it and just quickly shove the needle into the blobby bit at the side of my belly. I wasn't great with needles but you have so much else going on when first diagnosed that it really does become routine.

@Paulaah I liked your post in sympathy rather than liking your health issues, but I found my body needed at least 100g of carbs a day. Any less and I was getting huge BG spikes almost like my body was expecting me to inject a certain amount of insulin irrespective of food intake. The trick for...

I beat myself up even when the diabetic team are telling me it's ok! I can completely understand how easy it is to get obsessed about results.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11848095/Justin-Webbs-son-Sam-speaks-battles-type-1-diabetes.html There's been quite a few posts on here recently which has had me thinking about whether we sometimes try and put our physical health (blood sugar's in range) above our mental health...

I felt horrendous for about 3 months - my hba1c on diagnosis was over 140 so I'd probably been living with undiagnosed T1 for some time. I had a great consultant in those days who said I was basically going cold turkey from a sugar addiction. Obviously not an addiction in the sense that I was...

I was diagnosed 6 years ago in my 40s. I was pretty resigned to the diagnosis to start with - my GP had insisted I must be type 2 and nearly killed me with that - so the correct diagnosis was a relief then. But the monotony and constantly feeling like you're getting it wrong does start to get...

If it's jumping up after eating then there's a couple of things to do. If a meal is a bit more carb heavy then I take my insulin earlier - say 20 mins before eating (providing I'm not too low). I'd also query if she's really taking the right amount of insulin for that particular meal if it's...

Are you in the UK? Go to A&E if you are. They can give you insulin there and should help you

How old is your daughter? Hormones can cause very erratic insulin requirements at certain times of the month.

I'm much the same with Novorapid - it's really annoying. I find I run high during the day at work but drop to hypo levels about 5-6 pm if I've injected for lunch. If I inject more for lunch the hypos are even bigger. It's definitely the Novorapid because I trialled a day without any carbs and...

I take Tresiba and take full dose in the morning. My starting dose when I came off lantus was a bit low so I'd run with a dose for a week and then pop it up a notch if I was waking up too high. I had a load of issues with lantus but Tresiba has always been pretty stable with me overnight

I have the opposite and have to careful with hypos!