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Your sudden highs are probably caused by fluctuating hormones, rather than by problems calculating carbs or insulin, so don't blame yourself for something you have no control over. What are your diabetes team suggesting ?

Basically you need to keep your BS levels slightly raised, so that your body gets used to not being hypo for a while. Then your brain sees it as a real emergency if they drop below normal, so that you get your warning symptoms back. At one point I suffered, and I do mean suffered, so many hypos...

I would suggest you take it easy, particularly for the next week or so. Don't push things in terms of exercise until your body has adjusted to the massive change in sugar levels. Doctors and DSNs tend to assume you will be fine as soon as your BS level is fairly normal. They forget the shock to...

It worked for me. As I said I was told I would probably only need it for a couple of years or so and that turned out to be correct. However, I gather we don't all have the same experience with regard to wildly fluctuating sugar levels. It's definitely worth asking about at your hospital clinic...

My local council also provide and collect Sharps' bins when full. You need to ring them to find out what you need to do to get on their list. Where I live my GP had to ring them to set up this service for me. There might be a form for your doctor to fill in and return instead. I think the...

Just fetched a tin of Heinz ' (50% less sugar) Beanz' from the cupboard. I don't eat baked beans at all but my husband likes them. Info on the label as follows:- Carbohydarate 9.9 per 100 g, 20.5 per half tin. With no insulin ? Rubbish. (I am type 1 diagnosed 1964.)

Not being able to test your BS during in an exam puts you at a big disadvantage and is potentially dangerous. I agree with Coopsman. You should have raised this with your school/university authorities in advance and suggested that one of the exam supervisors take charge of it until either you...

Just to clarify, I was told that they won't use radio-active iodine in a female patient who may want to have children.

I always did blood texts at my desk too. When I started a new job, they asked me if I wanted to use the medical room. As this turned out to be several minutes' walk away, I pointed out that if my sugar level was below normal, the last thing I should be doing was traipse off to a room where...

I had an over-active thyroid diagosed in 1972. Before treatment it did affect my control quite severely. At first, I was put on a drug to suppress the thyroid, but this make me put on around 28 lbs very rapidly, so they dropped the dose which made it become over-active again. In the end I was...

My attitude is the same as your consultant's. The hospital checks my weight and does blood tests, a podiatrist looks at my feet at a separate appt. I arranged that because one previous nurse insisted I had loss of sensation. I didn't believe her and switched to a professional who deals with...

Seriously, in my experience it's just wasting an appointment which could be used for somebody else if they make you see the nurse at the GP surgery as well as attending a hospital clinic. My last practice was a bit of a nuisance over this issue. The nurse kept sending letters and ringing me and...

I also suffered from side effects of statins. I was prepared to put up with muscle pain which set in within months of starting to take them, but then my appetite completely disappeared. I felt empty but not hungry. I complained about this for about two years to my GP, other doctors at the same...

I had a partial thyroidectomy in 1976 to deal with an over-active thyroid. Over time, the remaining part of the thyroid becomes unable to produce sufficient of the thyroid hormones for your body. Mine became under-active about 8 years later (?). I now take levothyroxine to bring me up to a...

Totally agree with you, Steve.

That's definitely a step in the right direction ! Even people without diabetes can suffer from the shrinking gum problem. You might have developed that anyway.

You need to see a dentist urgently. Diabetics are more likely to develop infections than other people, including those affecting the gums. I hope you mean you clean your teeth twice a day. Shrinking gums can be caused by a build-up of plaque, caused by lack of thorough cleaning.

I occasionally have nausea with a hypo if my BS level has fallen when I've been asleep at night,but the only time I was actually vomiting as well was when I was pregnant. It's down as being a less common/rare hypo symptom, on the NHS Choices site. It's also a real nuisance as potentially...

I'm horrified by this menu - but not surprised. As far as I'm concerned, if it has no indication of carbohydrate value, it's not suitable for anyone.

I was told some real nonsense by a nurse at a previous GP's surgery - that as a type 1 diabetic over 50 I only needed to test once a week (!) and that I would probably not need short-acting insulin in the future, as in old age, type 1 diabetes becomes like type 2. (!) After a short argument I...