Search Results

I'm type 1 and I can take anywhere between 6 and 12 injections on an average day. I'm quite happy to inject for 1/2 a unit if I think I need it.

We can try and give you advice but it's best you contact your health team for this. I'm sure this'll turn out fine. All the best

My own experience is that Glucotabs are slower acting than Dextro Energy. I find Dextro raise my sugars within 5-10 mins whereas glucotabs are similar to table sugar and often take a good 15 minutes to raise sugar levels. Remember with hypos that you have the down action of insulin vs the up...

I personally think it was the right thing to not take the glibenclamide as your sugar levels have been good-to-low and all glibenclamide would have done was to force your pancreas to release more insulin and lowered your sugar levels further, Not good if you're getting hypos of course. One...

What is MGM here? I can't shake the thought of the roaring lion out of my head.

I'm type 1, 34 yrs old, diagnosed at the end of 1992 and have been on a low carb diet since the beginning of 2010. My low carb diet has varied between 30g/day through to around 110g/day at different points. My HbA1c came down from above 9.0% (75 mmol/mol) to 6.0% (42 mmol/mol) within about 2...

Some people may be more insulin resistant than others. If someone is genuinely a type 1 and taking much more than 24 units of basal (say they're taking 40 or more units), it could suggest that a certain amount of insulin resistance may have developed.

Do you take 30 units of Lantus in one shot? Or split over two shots? DAFNE also advised me that it's best not to inject much more than 10 units in a single shot as it tends not to be as effective. So a single shot of 12 units would probably be fine. Because I have no problem at all with doing...

Type 1s developing insulin resistance and needing to take metformin is becoming more and more common. Metformin will help but the best thing he can do is to ensure his diet is not reliant on processed foods. He should (as should all of us) eat largely home prepared meals with a good vegetable...

They can modestly increase blood sugar levels which can be enough to tip people from having borderline diabetes levels up to having diabetes diagnosis levels.

I think I took about 7 years ago. I noticed no major change in blood sugar. Be prepared to monitor your blood sugars more closely but I wouldn't worry too much. I do think oxytetracycline has affected my skin as I started to get peeling skin between my eyes and nose during winter months on a...

It is on the high side. It may be possible to reduce the amount of insulin you need to take through dietary improvement and exercise. A problem with high insulin doses is that it exacerbates the problem of insulin resistance. Ideally, one should lower the amount of insulin circulating in the...

As a type 1 of some 23 years (starting to lose count), I can totally understand a wanting not to do much over Christmas -particularly in wanting to avoid Christmas eating. My experience of Christmas eating is that even when trying to eat in moderation, I get a week of higher than usual sugar...

Cholesterol results look good to my eyes. Strong HDL and your LDL and total cholesterol are close to the targets. HDL:Total ratio is good. What the doctors don't tell us is that low cholesterol is harmful and possibly more so than much higher cholesterol than you have. Cholesterol under 3...

I've been on a low carb diet for the last 6 years. My cholesterol went up to about 9 mmol/l at one point but came down on tests over a period of years -notably in the last 2 years. At my last test, the total cholesterol was 5.6 mmol/l I think. I've personally not been concerned as my HDL/Total...

I'm thinking along the same lines as donnellysdogs, splitting the dose of 30 into two separate injections (into separate sites) might help with reducing the lumps. Note that the way two doses of 15 are absorbed may be slightly different than to a single dose of 30. So test regularly if you do...

Can I ask what size doses do you tend to take? What basal dose(s) do you give? What range of bolus doses do you take?

Getting down to 1.5 mmol/l is very low. You will need to work on this by: a) Trying to prevent the hypos happening in the first place b) Trying to spot the hypos earlier b) will be more difficult if you struggle to spot hypo signs but many of us can train ourselves to be at least a bit more...

It is a type 2 drug although some doctors may be using it somewhat off-label(?). In the UK, at least, Forxiga is only recommended for use in type 2 diabetes. Are you living in the UK or elsewhere DUDO?

I did DAFNE as a low carber. Thankfully my DAFNE team were generally happy to let me keep my own system and augment it with DAFNE advice where I found it helpful. Having an excellent HbA1c and few hypos (backed up with a recent set of CGM trial results) certainly helpd with convincing them that...