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Hi Louise, I'm Type 1 (35 years) and had to go onto high blood pressure meds in my early 20's (I'm now 46). I was on the meds for over 20 years and during that period nothing lowered my blood pressure, not even when I lost 4 stone in weight (low cal, low fat diet) and started exercising. In...

I've been a Type 1 for 35 years and have been following the keto way of eating for 6 months. There is absolutely no reason why you can't follow the keto diet but you would have to be very careful with adjusting your insulin doses once you start. I used to only bolus for carbs, but now that I'm...

I suffer from dawn phenomenon every day, unless I've been out drinking the night before! I will wake with normal sugar levels but if I don't take 2-3 units of insulin as soon as I wake, my sugar levels can shoot up into the teens. I don't eat breakfast as I do intermittent fasting from 8pm to...

Ooh I'm liking your thinking with regards to the alcohol! To be honest, I don't think alcohol affects me much either way, it's more the food I eat when I'm out that does it. Interesting what you say about how vodka and wine affects you differently though, might need to experiment a bit. Oh ****...

Makes perfect sense, don't worry :)

My bs seems to fluctuate randomly! Yesterday I woke and they were 15 :wideyed: and my usual insulin ratio needed to be doubled (and then some!) before it would come down. Most mornings I wake between 4-8 though. I don't really have much of a pattern, but I'm now keeping a diary to try and figure...

There are so many different things I need to experiment with to figure it all out, it's mind blowing! I guess it's all just trial and error until I figure it out. I do try to keep my macros in the same range each day, I use the KetoDiet app for monitoring my intake. I do eat out a couple of...

Thanks for the response! I already do IF which works well for me. :) I mainly started doing it because I found I just wasn't hungry at breakfast time (a whole new world to me!) and it has served me well so far.

Thanks both of you for your answers, helpful stuff! I'm going to do a bit of research on PIR to see what I can learn from that. Gotta love this forum for learning new things!! I have also heard that resistance training can help, although I have a torn hamstring at the moment so my gym membership...

I've been following keto strictly now for 4 months and have had huge successes both with my sugar levels and blood pressure. However, over the last few weeks my sugar levels have started misbehaving again and I seem to need much more insulin than I did when I first went into ketosis. After...

I follow the ketogenic diet and unfortunately have had to give up all fruit except for the occasional raspberry, blackberry or strawberry treat. But I'm really not missing it at all, nor am I missing all the carbs I used to eat, the recipes I'm cooking are absolutely delicious. I can't...

You are doing amazingly well @barbie_1957!! It's a huge trial and error thing for me too right now, but it's the best learning curve I've ever been on. So much still to learn, and my sugar levels still need to be ironed out, but from someone who used to hit highs in the late teens and lows down...

Hiya, forgive me for coming into this discussion so late! I'm a T1 diabetic (diagnosed 1982) and have been following the ketogenic diet now for about 6 weeks. I'm gobsmacked as to the difference it has made to my blood sugar levels, which after years of spiking, dropping, spiking, dropping, and...

Thanks @Juicyj, that's really helpful and I appreciate your advice. I'll ask my DSN about Tresiba too, she was talking about changing my background insulin when I saw her last month so I'll see what she says about Tresiba. Thanks!!

Thanks @Juicyj! I've never done basal testing and wasn't even aware of it, so thanks for the info. Doesn't that apply to people who are using a pump though? I have an appointment next Friday with my DSN so I will talk it through with her then. :happy:

Hi all, I've been T1 diabetic since 1982 and was 10 years old when diagnosed. I've always had relatively good control (ish) but am looking at ways to lower my HBA1C. I recently discovered the ketogenic diet and after a huge amount of online research and purchasing of books I started to give...

Hiya, sorry to hear you're suffering from this, it's not pleasant! I suffered from the condition in both hands for about 15 years because the first doctor I saw about it told me I'd just have to live with it and they might operate when I hit my 50's, this was when I was in my early 20's!! After...

Hi Jon, Can I ask what fingers in particular have gone numb? If it's the thumb, forefinger, middle finger, and the inside of the ring finger then it may be carpal tunnel syndrome. I've suffered from this so am fully aware of the symptoms. If it's not those fingers then sorry, I don't have a...

I know what you mean noblehead, I've forgotten what it's like to live without diabetes too! I often wonder what it would be like to be cured and in all honesty I think I'd feel like part of me was missing. Thanks to everyone for your kind welcome!!

Oh that is completely what I go through, my hubby thinks I'm mad sometimes I'm sure. But then so do I after I've come round! :shock: