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Where is your daughters pump sited? Could lying down be causing some occlusion or issue with insulin delivery? Are you sure her basal rate is set correctly for the night time? Have you done basal testing to confirm?

Are you diagnosed with diabetes @BAZ-ANDREWS ? If so, what type and how is it treated? It seems like what you need is the opposite of a snack before bed, you need to consider increasing your lantus. Have you done a night time basal test to see if you need more lantus? You really need to be...

It's going to be easier to achieve those targets now rather than when pregnant as you won't have pregnancy hormones playing around with your insulin sensitivity. You are advised to have a hba1c under 6.5% before trying to conceive but there's no reason to keep within the tight targets...

Your bets cells in your pancreas (that produce insulin) don't work. Your alpha cells (that produce glucagon in response to a hypo) do. So, yes if you have decent stocks of glucose in your liver (ie you eat a decent amount of carbs to keep your liver stocked) your body will take care of itself...

You are having false hypos. Your body has been so used to running high it incorrectly thinks normal levels of 5 or 6 are too low and gives you hypo symptoms. Neuropathy symptoms are "activated" at a certain level. You either have neuropathy or you don't and, if you do keeping blood sugar in...

Just ask. You already have a strong case. You may wish to consider the Medtronic 640g (you may not get funding for the cgm) when it is set up with the cgm it has a predictive low suspend feature, so if it thinks you are going to hypo it will turn your insulin off to avoid the hypo.

What's your insulin to carb ratio? What's the issue with doing a bolus for a snack?

5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Anyone faced with diagnosis with an incurable chronic condition for no known reason will naturally feel angry. Youre grieving for your healthy life before diagnosis.

It's called trialnet, the details can be found here - http://www.bristol.ac.uk/translational-health-sciences/research/diabetes/research/trialnet/

No you don't have any entitlement to motability benefits as a result of diabetes. Because diabetes doesn't affect your mobility unless you have a significant diabetic complication like peripheral neuropathy. Nor do you dave any entitlement to personal independence payments or other disability...

If you have one hypo, you are more at risk of more. Especially if your hypo was treated with glucagon. Because this tells the liver to release its glucose stores. Once you start eating again your body prioritises restocking the liver glucose stores. So food you eat won't raise blood sugar, it...

If you haven't tested post prandially, how can you be confident your insulin to carb ratio is correct? How do you know you don't need to consider bolusing for protein on your new lower carb diet?

Basal testing is probably a good start. But doing it by not eating any carbs for a few days probably won't get you very accurate results. Basal testing needs complete fasting - protein can raise blood sugars in the absence of carbs - for defined sections of the day as prolonged fasting can...

No. Back pain is not a sign of diabetes. The signs of diabetes are the four Ts: thirst, toilet, tiredness, thinness. Your avatar says you are type 1, but this thread - https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/came-to-uk-and-recognized-that-i-m-10-in-1.136288/page-2#post-1742553 - confirms you...

You don't have gestational diabetes.

Thank you @Sue192 and @Bluetit1802 and @therower I think I would like to stand. I'm very grateful for the opportunity. I also second @Diakat and think she would be an asset to the moderating team.

https://jdrf.org.uk/information-support/about-type-1-diabetes/what-is-the-difference-between-type-1-and-type-2-diabetes/

Ladies with diabetes trying to conceive are advised to have a hba1c under 6.5%. You should see your doctor for the high dose folic acid that diabetic pregnant ladies should be taking. You'll probably also get an early scan. You should also see your DSN for advice on meeting the tighter blood...

So if you weren't diagnosed with diabetes presumably you didn't have a test kit to confirm this "hypo"? A hba1c of 116 is equivalent to average blood sugars over the previous 3 months of 17.7. A million miles away from hypo.

60% of people diagnosed with type 1 have no family history of it. Type 2 is much more heritable. To bad diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at 15 suggests you must have been a very overweight 15 year old. Have you lost weight since your diagnosis? What is your BMI? What is your diet like? You say...