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Possibly, it's just the first time in weeks I've stayed in the blue Libre bar "in range" for the whole day! It's been such a good blood sugar day. I'm just trying not to correct unless it's meal time or pre-bed at the moment. I can't handle injecting myself so many times a day. I really need...

Thanks Ewelina. I thought of doing 1 unit too, but I'm curious to see what the damage. will do!

Thanks. If this is true for me, I'll be the happiest man in England! Will update you in two hours. Ha.

Hi all Just made some courgetti with pesto. Do I need to inject for it? It was 250g of veg with a spoonful of pesto. I'm 7.7 right now so I'm kind of intrigued to see what happens without a bolus. Thanks P

Thank you for your reply. Oh yes, I feel awful most of the time. Okay, I'll stick to the same C:I ratio with my meals and see what happens with today's increased basal. I think you're right, it's likely too much as it dips downwards. Do you think it's going up while I sleep as I'm going to bed...

Thanks for your help. I sent it back. It was clearly a dud!

Hi all Can anyone have a look at my readings and see where I'm going wrong? I'm waking up high in the morning. Last night I had some cheese before bed and it clearly spiked me up massively. I was too worried to inject as I was in a good place and didn't want to go hypo in bed. I've increased...

I'll try to call them tomorrow from work if I'm free. It's bizarre. Had it happen before. Just to check, I'm meant to put it on the back of my arm aren't I, where it's fattest?

Hi all My graphs are coming up without the lines as in the pic. Should I call Abbott and return the sensor? This is the third sensor now that I've had issues with. The fourth if you count the one I received with OPENED packaging...

Thanks. I'm going to talk to the specialist about Tresiba in a few weeks. See if they'll let me on it. Never thought of counting an egg as four carbs. It seems like a lot, but I guess I'm getting used to the fact that anything that goes in my mouth increases my BG. Apart from sugar free jelly...

@tim2000s I split my dose but it's 33 and 31 (10:30pm and 8am) - it just seems like a lot of insulin to me. Plus I've gone hypo today twice. Ugh. It's such a nightmare. Now I'm thinking that it's too big a dose pre-bed and in the morning. Hard to tell about the pre-bed as I went hypo and then...

Hi @Bluemarine Josephine Thank you for your detailed reply; I appreciate it. I feel like I'm on a lot of insulin for my body weight which is 82kg. I also feel like having so much insulin on board might make it harder to control my BG. I was told that one by a type 1 that this might be the...

I have indeed. The little yellow man mocks me daily. It certainly seems to kick in and start working within the 2nd and 3rd hour. I feel that it might bring my down different amounts at different times of day but I've never been able to work out the amounts it lowers me by per unit.

I'll come too! This time I'll be brave and eat with you guys. Blood sugar spikes be damed!

Yes! Waking rise. It's as if the moment I wake up and get out of bed my BG shoots up. I always thought I had dawn phenomenon, which I do to a degree, but it's the waking rise that does me in. I just find it hard to know what to inject as my BG is great when I get up and then its shot up by 2-3...

I just tried having a low carb meal, a pack of fried cherry tomatoes and two eggs cooked into a kind of eggy scramble and it still spiked me up from 9.9 to 12.9. I worked out that the carbs are only about 10g of carbs but didn't inject to cover it as today I had a bad hypo from injecting to...

Hi Josephine I inject 33 units at 10:30am and 31 units at 8am. Started injecting earlier as DNS said it'll need time to kick in with all my high sugars in the morning. Thanks. P

How do you bolus for protein?

I'm not sure how to work out how to count for the protein, as it were. I'm having enough trouble working out actual carbs least of all a pack of ham. Ha. I'll ask and see what they say. Worth a shot. Pun intended.

Ah okay, I thought that was the case with dawn phenomenon. I sometimes have a correction dose when I wake up but I rarely eat breakfast in the week. Only at the weekends - even then it's occasionally. I'll do a basal test tomorrow providing I wake up with okay blood sugars and see what...