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Currently using Levemir @ 23:00 18 u daily Novorapid for meals, on average around 6 - 9 units each meal depending on what i'm eating. I am carbohydrate counting and using ratios to calculate Novorapid doses - frequently 1u:10g Injecting around 30 mins before meals (most of the time) I am...

@helensaramay That's really helpful thanks. I have certainly learnt a lot more over the last few days from reading this forum. Like the fact your liver drips glucose constantly and thats what the basal insulin is for. Really useful.

I tend to find the alcohol in beer raises my blood sugar the evening when i drink. Not to mention the fact i end up stuffing my face when i'm drunk. But i have to reduce my novo rapid dose the next day as it can cause crashing blood sugars.

@Bigcal I was diagnosed with Type 1 @ 16 in 1995ish. I still had the time of my life in Jungle raves and Happy Hardcore clubs. Very quickly you will understand that modern diabetes does not rule your life. Embrace your condition. Embrace your life. They are some of your best years.

Hello @Jeremy_Wood & @Diakat and thank you for the warm welcome. We do seem similar Jeremy. In my late teens, 20's and early 30's i suffered from pretty bad recurrent anxiety and hypochondria. (i think triggered partly by diabetes diagnosis and by nuture) It is much less a part of my life now...

hello to you both !

Hi there, 40 year old with type 1. Diagnosed at 16 years old (late) mid 90's Close control method for most of that. A young family and increased alcohol intake has made control much more difficult and has got steadily worse in the last 5 years so just trying to wrestle it back, and thought...