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My blood sugars do that sometimes, when I go for a long walk. I find that my blood sugar falls faster than I can replenish it, and then later, it goes high. That doesn't always happen, it just sometimes does. Keeping blood sugars in a target zone that resembles normal is hard work, and as you...

Try carb loading, in advance. I tend to go for quite long walk most mornings, and if it's 7 or above I'll wait, and correct before it goes too low, but if it was 5.3, I wouldn't walk far without eating something first. Bananas are very good for this.

One a month? how did you manage that?

Yes, reminds me of that Tolstoy line "All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way". I can imagine you would have seen a lot of drama that way. Has there ever been a divorce lawyer turned novelist? I know quite a few authors have moved from law to writing, but I...

I'm impressed.

53 years is very impressive. In weight terms where are you starting from, and where do you want to get to? I have a few bad habits that I know will push my weight up a bit. I think the advice, generally, is to lose weight by switching to a diet that is sustainable over the longer term.

Interesting.

Morning everyone, well done getting the HbA1c down @Cumberland especially well done, seeing as you recently had a period of too high blood sugars, and it's weighted towards the more recent blood sugars, so the rest of the time must be looking good. Had a 2.2 hypo yesterday evening, and I...

Are you a lawyerish type person Scott? I can imagine that impacting your world view.

Hope it works out @Mel dCP a one in three chance isn't too bad. I would guess that all that time in the St John's Ambulance would be in your favour, but we can only wait and see.

Well done for getting it down to 7.9. Maybe over time your blood sugars will improve, while taking it. Hopefully.

Hello @robbie7 good to see you taking part in the forum, 52 years is an impressively long time to have had type 1 diabetes. I took Prednisolone because of an asthma problem, last November, for only about a week, and it caused absolute havoc with my blood sugar, which lasted for quite a while...

It's quite boring really, just an ongoing saga.

Good morning, Hope the interview goes well @Mel dCP hope those colds and things don't last long @karen8967 Booked a flu vaccine yesterday, for the 13th, a Saturday was all that was on offer. I decided to be good. Blood sugar overnight was quite nice, actually, not too big a drop around...

This is a very complex issue. I read something recently that said that people with T1D most likely to develop insulin resistance, like T2, were likely to have people with T2 in their family, so genetics plays a big part in this. Low carb diets are good at solving a particular problem, but they...

I'm a fruit fan as well, the nutrients are far too good for us not to eat them. I eat mangoes, one nearly every day, they are so yummy.

I have had type 1 diabetes, and not had any problems with my feet yet, which I consider to be lucky. However, despite my lack of experience, I completely believe Dr Bernstein, that symptoms can improve with better control, because I want to believe it. I do think, however, that it's a good...

I'm not sure if pharmacies offer it here. I had a look in the doctors the other day, as they usually have leaflets everywhere about it, I didn't see a thing, so looks like it's off to a slow start. Oh dear oh dear oh dear, I hope it all starts soon, or I'll try and brazen it out again, which...

Flu vaccine, I'm going to have to remember to do that. I forgot last year, because I had a problem with my asthma, and couldn't do it while that was going on, and then by the time it was over I just never got round to it. So I must get it organised this year.

Hello Phyllis, welcome to the forum. Normally too high insulin might cause confusion, if someone has a hypo, and too low blood sugar, but I can't see why reducing the insulin would cause him to be confused. I googled confusion and infection, just to see if it might be that, in the elderly an...