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Here are the WHO diagnostic criteria for diabetes - https://www.diabetes.org.uk/professionals/position-statements-reports/diagnosis-ongoing-management-monitoring/new_diagnostic_criteria_for_diabetes

@Jlewis12351996 a type 1 cannot stop insulin, they would die. A type 2 who is still making insulin could cease insulin under medical supervision. Have you reported your hypos to your DSN? If you're waking up at 2.3 that suggests you are spending significant portions of the night hypo and...

Diabetes caused by medication is NOT type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is autoimmune attack on the insulin producing beta cells and no one knows what causes it. A risk of many anti-psychotic medications is type 2 diabetes.

That's very unusual. Type 1 isn't treated with oral medication, it's treated with insulin. Gliclizide isn't recommended for a type 1 who wishes to extend their honeymoon period because it forces your pancreas to make more insulin and will more quickly see off the beta cells. On what basis have...

Type 2 diabetes in a 19 year old who isn't morbidly obese would be very unusual. It's also fairly uncommon for type 2 diabetes to be symptomatic with your symptoms of excess thirst and excess urination. Type 2 diabetes is silent with the diabetes being picked up when a blood test for some other...

You don't need to hear the alerts. The predictive low suspend stops insulin deliver before you go low based on what the sensor says, with no further action required from you.

You appear to be quoting from a forum to prove something. As the thing you are trying to prove is that something I said on a forum is wrong, it wouldn't take a genius to conclude that something said on the forum referenced can be just as wrong. Both lantus and Abasaglar have the same active...

4.7 is not hypo. A hypo is anything under 4. But if she has been used to being high (pre diagnosis she was probably over 20 for a few weeks) then her body might be giving her hypo symptoms at normal numbers because it wrongly panics at these normal numbers and thinks they are too low. It...

You calculate it by doing basal testing. Here's a guide on how to basal test - https://mysugr.com/basal-rate-testing/ There's not a lot of point in worrying about what is an average basal dose because you are not average. To find the average TDD (so all of your insulin, basal and bolus) get...

Your small doses of lantus - 5 and 7? - won't be lasting much more than 12 hrs

55 down to 48 isn't much of a drop so should be perfectly achievable. The first thing to get righ with diabetic management is your basal dose. Have you basal tested to see how your lantus is working for you? Here's a guide on how to basal test - https://mysugr.com/basal-rate-testing/ - it's...

Abasaglar and lantus are the same thing. One is the generic version. One is the brand name version.

Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are two entirely different conditions. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease where the immune system gets bored/over enthusiastic and kills off the insulin producing beta cells. Type 2 is a condition of insulin resistance where the cells don't react properly to the available...

@Amberleigh7 ladies with diabetes trying to conceive are advised to have a hba1c under 6.5%. What is your current hba1c? There are also very tight blood sugar targets during pregnancy (fasting under 5.3, 1hr after eating under 7.8, 2hrs after eating under 6.4) because high blood sugar creates a...

@mrsmusic have you actually been prescribed insulin for your diabetes? Do you have the contact details for a hospital DSN to help you with sarting off on insulin? The book "think like a pancreas" sets out the basics of what you need to know to manage type 1 so it's worth getting hold of a copy...

Have you had a liver function test and full blood panel to check for any other abnormal results that could be caused by your high iron count. High iron content damages the pancreas and the liver. So it could be that your diabetes is secondary to your high ferritin.

Insulin pumps aren't prescribed tp type 2 diabetics unless there is some other clinical need for them. As your dad is perfectly capable of doing injections there isn't. With a pump you would still need to bolus for every meal, the pump doesn't do it automatically. When using a pump to bolus you...

How is your diabetes treated? If you haven't been prescribed test strips I have to assume it's not treated with medication that a can cause hypos. Therefore you are probably having a false hypo where your body is so used to being very high that it wrongly thinks lower numbers are something to...

Your avatar says you have type 2 diabetes, but your post says you have type 1. Which is it? How often do you inject into your arm? It's too fiddly and takes coordination I don't have to manage it. I've seen people siting their pump cannula and CGMs over tattoo, so I don't think there's any...

Id follow your DSNs advice and keep taking your insulin until you see her for some clarity on your treatment path. So long as your insulin dose isn't causing lots of hypos it won't be doing you any harm. It's not correct to say insulin makes you gain weight. It doesn't. Without insulin it's not...