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Very true!

I like to think so!

I read today a comment on line that said that Type 1 Diabetics generally live to about the age 80. I do not know what the source for this information is or whether such a comment can be authenticated? Anyone have any more insight into this? If it's true, I ain't got much longer to go!?

Yes, me too! If I just go out for a coffee, I usually have an Americano, and ask for hot, frothy milk. That is kind of a good alternative to a wonderful latte.... Depending on what my glucose is prior to the coffee, I may or may not take insulin. If my blood glucose is around 4.9 - 5.6 or...

Nature and Nurture probably. If a person is already genetically predisposed to be vulnerable to developing TYPE 1, then other factors can trigger it, and stress is one of those factors I believe. Other aspects of the environment we are now living in might have an impact on our immune...

Please see private message. Keep posting for suggestions here too, and for support xxx

I had a similar experience. I was initially diagnosed as Type 2, (refused metformin), for 2 years I tried to get blood glucose levels down via food and exercise, then, suddenly blood glucose flew up to 120. Particularly in the mornings I started dragging my feet in an odd way.............. I...

Yes, I, too, had an illness just prior to my diagnosis. I had a serious bout of bronchitis when I actually felt so poorly I thought I was on my way out! And also, as I mentioned elsewhere, I was struggling with a great deal of stress. I do think the two things together can add up to the...

Yes, I think often stress can play a massive part in the development of Type 1.

Apparently, people can still get Type 1 in their early 70s. I am now 73, and I was diagnosed in 2019 when I was 67, just before Covid seems to have started: (Autumn 2019). I think you are correct about more older adults getting it. Being rare 'with this and that' is something of...

What is your diet?

Thank you Antj77!!

Hi there, Does anyone know whether, when these insulin pens show END on their caps which apparently indicates the pen will no longer be able to indicate how much I last injected because the battery has run out, - whether this affects the selected amount of insulin so it doesn not work properly...

Thanks Cheeseseeker! I will try that!

Thank you Juicyj. I do take Vitamin D3 and K2, and try to get walks in most days. Today I did 10 minutes on my indoor exerciser bike, but it made no difference to my BG at all!! There seems to be a strong resistance to injected insulin and exercise to bring down the BG. All very unusual for me!

Thank you for responding Melgar. I had a C-Peptide test a year or so ago however, which showed that I had no natural insulin being issued from my Pancreas...

Thank you Juicy! Yes that seems to be the case - as I can find no explanation for this, and it has been so very sudden. As you say, it can be exhausting. I have also been very depressed in general in recent weeks, and maybe that too can contribute; I don't know? Oh well, all one can...

I am rather confused! My A1C has always been around 40. For a number of weeks now, I have experience a steep rise in BG levels in the mornings which I know is generally explained and described as the Dawn Phenomenon. But the rate of the rise has, for me, been quite shocking! The other day...

Oh NO! I don't have hairy toes!!!

Thank you Jasmine2000. I think these are very interesting and will follow them up. I think these risk calculators could be very useful if sufficient data is allowed for, and put in. At the present state of affairs regarding the QRisk3 however, in my opinion it is really very misleading...