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What were the circumstances of your diagnosis? Were you in dka when diagnosed 6 weeks ago? If so, that could certainly explain feeling exhausted when euglycaemic. DKA is fatal and is a big shock for your body to recover from.

Why have you crossed out testing 2 hours after you eat? That's the way to figure out if you can deal with the food you eat, or not. What mmedication are you actually on?

A blood sugar level of 120mg/dL is equivalent to 6.6mmol/l. Fasting blood sugar of over 6.1mmol/l raises concerns about a likely diabetes diagnosis. In other words, it's too high. If you are feeling weak and confused when waking at 120 that suggests you have been running at much higher levels...

He won't be type 1 diabetic. Type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune disease where the immune system gets bored/over enthusiastic and kills off the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. Surgical removal of the pancreas will cause type 3c diabetes. There's nothing to suggest that his...

If your husband has been in the 20s for a long time as his numbers get lower he could feel unwell as his body is used to being very high and, wrongly, thinks these lower numbers are hypos. Hopefully his health care team is avoiding this by gradually strepping his numbers down. He's not "being...

Does he test his blood sugar when he is acting like he is drunk? There's not a lot of point testing before tea a 7pm and expecting that to tell you anything about what his blood sugars were at 5pm when he finished work. I hope he doesn't drive home after work?

I used hid-in - http://www.hid-in.com

I use an omnipod and I really love it. The lowest insulin denomination it goes to is 0.05 units, whereas other, tubed pumps go lower, allowing bolus and basal to be more accurate. And it delivers insulin in 0.05 amounts on a set timing that can't be speeded up. So if you are doing a decent...

I find avocados difficult to bolus for. My usual I:C ratio doesn't work so well for them. I think that might be because our carbs are all net carbs, with fibre deducted. And sometimes, for some people fibre in some foods can be absorbed and raise blood sugar. I think avocado does this to me...

So at the time of diagnosis had you lost a lot of weight without trying, you know because you were starving to death with undiagnosed type 1 diabetes? Do you think aiming to be at a weight when you were starving to death is healthy thing to be aiming for?

Is this weight gain compared to when you were healthy pre diagnosis, or compared to your weight at diagnosis, when you were, essentially, starving to death due to undiagnosed type 1 diabetes?

What is you MS treatment @TyeD ? Are you being treated with steroids? Steroids can impact on blood sugar control. If that's the case, you should be seeking advice from your endo consultant or your DSN on how to adjust your insulin doses to deal with this. That may include an increase in yout...

Thrush is a symptom of high blood sugar levels. The yeast infection is nourished by sugar in your pee. So, what do your blood sugar levels look like? If you are regularly seeing levels over 11, you will be peeing out sugar and you will have little chance of getting rid of thrush until you can...

Do you actually know what a closed loop system is? It's completely incorrect to say that most pumps run off a closed loop system as there is currently only one, the Medtronic 670, and that is only available in the us. If you are driving without having tested that would be against DVLA...

@porl69 the Medtronic safeguard feature doesn't work with dexcom, it works with medtronics own cgm system, enlites. They did have significant sensor supply issues in 2017, because release of the 670 system in the US meant demand for sensors went up significantly. So for quite a while they...

Well a pump doesn't automatically test your blood sugar. And getting established on a pump takes a lot of work and will require a decent amount of testing. If your problem is not testing often enough have you considered CGM/libre? When do you test? Why do you have trouble checking often? Can...

@Greg1986 have you basal tested? Here's a guide on how to do it - https://mysugr.com/basal-rate-testing/ - units are in mg/dL so divide by 18 to get the mmol/l equivalent. With significant dawn phenomen then a pump woul be a good idea as you can tailor your basal delivery hour by hour to give...

@Jonesy 2 what type of cannulas are you using? How long are they working for? It could well be a faulty batch, have you tried ordering a new batch of cannulas and seeing how things go with them? Have you been checked for lipohypertrophy?

@SueJB you aren't "labelled" type 1 diabetic. You are antibody positive. You have type 1 diabetes. You need to inject insulin to stay alive. If you stop taking your life saving medication, you'll die. It's not rocket science. Before the discovery of insulin, everyone with type 1 diabetes died...

How old is your son? What is his diet like? Ketones are produced when you don't have enough insulin. These are bad ketones that need correcting following the sick day rules. Ketones are also produced when your body is burning fat for fuel, either due to starvation or a low carb diet. These...