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My dad is a type 2 diabetic and he hasn't been given a meter, test strips or any medication. He eats very healthily and is always on the move and the result is that his blood sugar is always in range. Given this, perhaps some DN experience a dilemma as to whether the above gadgets are needed for...

Hi Noblehead, I have sought advise from my Diabetes Nurse in relation to adjusting my insulin to carbohydrate ratio. She advised reducing my bolus for evening meals and supper by 50% which is advice that I've followed. After following this advice I don't experience hypo's every night but I...

It could be that your meter provided you with an erroneous result of 1.7. Meters can usually do this if you don't fill the strip completely with blood or if the strip gets contaminated in some way. Additionally, when you wake in a morning, you may feel quite groggy and it may take a while to...

I carry a little credit card sized card in my wallet which states that I have type 1 diabetes and it provides an emergency telephone number to ring if I were to be found unconscious. I've had type 1 since 2004 and have never lost consciousness and have never worried about the possibility of this...

Recently I've been experiencing a lot of anxiety, panic attacks and upset during the late evening and just before going to bed as for most days of the week at night it has been taking me 1 to 3 hours to go to sleep due to the sudden onset of hypoglycaemia after resting for a matter of minutes...

Hi Alex, I'm sorry to hear about how you are feeling or were feeling. I too have a history of anxiety that was instigated by bullying at my school. It was 2003 and I was viciously assaulted on my head with a knuckle-duster merely for being present and minding my own business. I responded by...

I was diagnosed with stress induced type 1 Diabetes because of bullying and physical assaults during school which also lead to a high-degree of anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder in later situations involving people who resembled the perpertrators. As a result of the taunting and...

I think hyperglycemia can cause a slowing in healing process so it may be that your son has caused some damage in his nose somehow and the problem-area is slower than usual at healing. That's the only way, in my experience, in how you could relate diabetes to a nose bleed.

One reason I switched to using a pump was due to night time hyperglycemia which often caused problems with wakefulness in the morning due to feeling dizzy and fatigued. When I switched to using a pump, I've never had the high b/s levels in a morning. I'd highly suggest that Reece apply for a...

I have a Medtronic Insulin pump. I spoke with my Diabeteologist about the possiblity of using a pump because from day 1 I've had needle phobias and the amount of slow-acting insulin I was administering was such that my skin would stretch and bulge out. The insulin that is used in a pump is fast...

I recently came across a variation of typical type 1 Diabetes named 'Brittle type 1 Diabetes' which is a diagnosis given to people who have issues controlling their blood sugar levels due to insulin absorption problems, hormonal malfunctions, delayed stomach emptying (gastroperesis) or drug...

Hi, Thanks for the reply. Well, I currently take 1 unit of insulin per 10 grams of carbohydrate consumed. Like I said earlier, this insulin/CH ratio seems to work for me as it doesn't cause hypos or hyperglycemia implying that the ratio is balanced well. I do indeed eat more of a variety of...

Hello, I have had stress-induced type 1 diabetes since summer 2004 and only in the last year or two I've developed a new symptom that I attribute to the disorder instinctively. The new symptom is extreme lethargy and tiredness after eating meals. Within 4-5 minutes of eating a dinner consisting...