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@NewEra_ the title of your thread "type2 to type 1?" Doesn't relate in anyway what so ever to the content of your post. But for the avoidance of doubt: 1) type 2 diabetes doesn't turn into type 1. They are two separate conditions. 2) your experience of speedy blood sugar drops in no way...

Antipsychotics are known to increase the risk of type 2 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16943266 Medication induced diabetes is NOT autoimmune type 1. If you know what caused your diabetes and you know it was medication, then you know it wasn't autoimmune so you can't have type 1. It's...

There is no such thing as medication induced type 1 diabetes. Type 1 is an auto immune disease. No one knows what causes it. If your diabetes was caused by medication, it's not type 1. Type 2 can be medication induced, so steroid induced type 2 diabetes is well recognised.

You might want to do some basal testing as suggested by @donnellysdogs to check that out, it's a good idea to be sure the basal dose is correct before tinkering with bolus ratios to check the bolus isn't having to make up for too much/too little basal. Here's a nice guide on how to basal test -...

I'm still at a loss. Sorry. Are you saying dawn phenomen is a reason not to exercise? Or correction boluses taken to deal with dawn phenomenon would need to be dealt with differently on days when exercising?

You say you crash to around 2 on your dexcom 3 hours after a meal. The lowest a dexcom will read is 2.2, less than that it just says LOW. Dexcom won't be especially accurate at low or high ends of the spectrum, so it is worth checking whether the lows you are seeing in CGM are confirmed by...

Why would dawn phenomenon stop you from exercising in the morning? I'm literally at a loss as to why this would be a reason not to exercise. DP is either when the hormone that wake you up in the morning make you insulin resistant in the morning or when your body decides to wake you up with a bit...

I was rather relieved when I didn't get a ballot place for the London marathon, I've done a couple of halfs though and I'd love to do a full marathon eventually. I don't think I've quite got the distance in my legs yet! There are quite a few diabetic marathon runners. Have a look on strava for...

I understand there can be a I:c ratio change with fiasp. @tim2000s might be able to offer some info on this.

A random blood sugar of over 11.1 suggests diabetes. A random blood sugar of 8 is NORMAL. As has been mentioned before, you are completely unnecessarily and repeatedly subjecting your perfectly healthy infant daughter to stabbing her finger with a needle. This isn't for her health, it is doing...

It seems pretty obvious from what you've written that the pain is sending your blood sugars up and making you insulin resistant. So perhaps you need a different correction dose when you are in pain. But if the pain can turn off, then the correction insulin dose will still be in your system at a...

What exactly are you doing? You are measuring you blood glucose and taking your insulin? Have you done any basal testing to check your basal dosage is correct for you? Are you carb counting and are you confident your insulin to carb ratio is correct for you? I've got no idea. Do you want to...

If your newly diagnosed and normally running high it's normal to get hypo symptoms at normal levels. This is called a false hypo, you body is so used to running high that it wrongly think the normal levels are hypo. You did well to treat it. I know on my first day of using insulin I nearly...

@Bertyboy Keep the proof of any payments on prescriptions and claim it back when you get you exemption certificate issued. I'm pretty sure they will refund it, but I've never actually paid a prescription charge so, check that. Tell your GP to give you a repeat prescription for sufficient strips...

You did eat. You had 15g of carbs in glucojuice to treat a hypo, that wasn't a hypo. A hypo is anything under 4. So treating 4 with a glucojuice might be a might of an over reaction. It a good idea to think about eating if you are at 4, because you want to avoid dropping under and actually...

Those levels are perfectly normal. Nothing diabetic about them.

I lost >12% of my body weight, without trying, over Christmas, in less than 3 months. I was peeing like a racehorse, frequently, waking up in the night to pee, sometimes twice a night. I don't think I had noticed increased thirst, but on reflection I had been drinking more than usual. If I had...

The nurse is thick. That isn't about age of diagnosis. What does she think happens to all the children with type 1? They just magically disappear? Tell her once you have type 1, you continue being type 1 until you die, it's a life long condition and it doesn't turn into type 2 at an age cut off...

Given that you posted the question in the type 1 sub forum I'm assuming you are after people's thoughts on how applicable the "tighter blood glucose control through medication linked to higher death risk" message is to type 1s? The answer is, it isn't. The medication in the studies isn't just...

I think this is a useful article for those worried about seeing spikes on CGM - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28763121 -the risk of complications is calculated by your hba1c, not any individual blood sugar reading and not any individual spike - we just don't know what the impact of a spike...