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Sorry to hear this. I think you should be open to trying any sort of job now, just to explore and see what you'd find really interesting, and enjoy, as maybe you haven't found it yet.

Go very low carb on days when you're not in the mood for the hassle? search out some foods you'd like, take the basal, and as little fast acting as possible. That would reduce the need to watch for the zig zags up and down.

Or to put it more succinctly, if you're feeling fed up set yourself a more easy to achieve target range for a bit on dexcom, 6-12 maybe, that's reduces the risk of hypos, and then you don't have to watch whats going on so much for a few days.

I've never not injected. I went for quite a long time without being diagnosed, and it made me very ill, so I see insulin as preventing being ill like that again. I think, maybe, for people who get diagnosed more quickly, taking insulin every day might, sometimes, feel more of a burden. That's...

Good luck, I'm sure you'll be great.

Morning all, woke with blood sugar around 6. Remember some weird dreams from last night, must have eaten plenty of B6 yesterday. Have a good day, everyone.

So what you've done, really, is take the same dose of Lantus as you'd usually take, but a few hours early. So don't do another dose at 10 pm, that would risk you going too low overnight, but then just do it normally tomorrow. If you only do one dose a day I wouldn't worry too much. It'll throw...

Do you normally take your Lantus at 10 am? or 10 pm? how much would you normally take? If you take it at 10 pm normally, the decision to take it depends on what the normal dose would be.

You're also developing great skills at dealing with unexpected situations, so focus on that rather than being angry with yourself.

This does happen with some hypos, not all I find, but some. It takes ages, sometimes, for my blood sugar to rise, and then it starts rising rapidly, and goes up in an almost straight line. I find with the libre I can anticipate this a bit, because it's not good to spend to long hypo, so if I...

It very much depends on where I am, what I'm doing, and what caused it. When I was younger I would overtreat as well, but now we have libre, and other cgms we have much more information to work with. I find it useful not to use sweets I really like though, otherwise I will eat too many. I used...

Hello @Jed.s sorry to hear you sometimes find the burden of diabetes too much, and it is a pain in the neck, a nuisance, etc, etc. I've had it nearly 43 years, and I know this is the case. However, I have a friend, who I'm very fond of, who's mother, and brother, took their own lives when he...

You're nearly there, and have got this far, with a lot of things causing problems. In most jobs you don't have to struggle with the theories of Aristotle, so it won't be the same, and your ability to carry on despite so many things getting in the way would suggest you would be a very good...

@MeiChanski it sounds as if getting to, and staying at, university, has been a big struggle, and it's extremely impressive that despite all these problems you've stayed the course.........but, if you aren't actually enjoying sociology that's an issue. I don't like political theory, I like...

Morning all, blood sugar ok overnight, wasn't too bad really, as the afternoon had been a bit too zigzaggy, and I thought my blood sugar would carry on the same pattern overnight, and go too high, but it didn't. I did do a small correction, and that worked, so woke on 4.9. Just hiding from...

Morning all, after Friday's perfect blood sugars yesterday was much more erratic, woke in the 6s, and did a correction to stop it going too high, as it was clearly moving upwards. Hope everyone has a good day.

Mine is very small and never has them in stock, and it takes a couple of days to get them, but compared to the previous chemist that is not very long. But it might be worth calling, see what the situation is, especially if it's quite a big shop.

Morning everyone, woke on 4.6, nice and steady overnight, good day yesterday. I'll just do some things and mess it all up now. :) Have a good day, everyone.

Have you got a Boots? heartbreaking to have to use them, but because they are such a large chain of shops they don't have anything like the supply issues smaller chemists have. When I first got Libre my local chemist told me he had to register with Abbotts to get them, and it took him ages, and...

Apparently there are some power failures going on @SueJB that could, maybe, be affecting your internet provider in some way. Just a thought, maybe.........