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I'd hesitate calling 6.0 a spike, especially up from 5.6. That seems normal to me

At least I didn't overcompensate this time. If I go to 9 I don't care, but I won't. That'll level out out in the mid sixes or low sevens. I doubt I'll sleep though. Edit I reckon these are all Lantus lows! The timing is too consistent for them to be novorapid, I think

Yes the alarm worked but it went off at 3.9. It's currently set at 5.5 (edit: which coincidentally I'm sitting at right now). Edit, no I'm not. 5.2

Tomatoes are essentially water. Barely any carbs (from memory a whole tomato has 5 g carbs. Edit, just looked it up. 3.9 g carbs). I'm not saying that they didn't spike the OP but it seems unlikely

levelled out at least. And I can feel it. Shaky

glucose tube + toast with honeyast with honey

3.1 on glucometer. Hypo treatment now!

well this can't be good

I remember it a different way. I rememeber it as agon meaning that glucose is gone (gon, gone, get it?), so glucagon is something that's produced when glucose is gone (gon). Whatever works I guess :) (-ag- is the important part and means, roughly, to produce, so gluc -ag- on means to produce...

You were typing this as I was typing my comment :) My doctors tell me that my pancreas doesn't produce much insulin at all anymore which is not surprising because most of it's gone. I don't know where glucagon comes from but my liver doesn't respond to it anyway it seems, maybe because of...

That's a very good idea My diabetic nurse said the same thing which is why she has reduced my lantus to keep me higher, in the short term at least, so I can maybe become hypo aware. She thinks that, on balance, it's better for me to "high" for a while for exactly the reason you state. I honestly...

Did you check those red readings with a glucometer (not the official tests I mean, the ones from your libre)? Edit: also, are you on medication or diet only?

Surprisingly the libre is working really well as far as readings go. The readings pretty much match finger prick tests. It's just that the alarms don't go off. I don't know why. So by the time I realise I'm low (when the alarm goes off) I'm really low and pretty much can't think. Looking at the...

I thought I could not have noodles which was starting to annoy me because I was eating mashed potato (which I don't really like) just to cover insulin. I was on fixed doses of insulin though. The doctors have since changed that but apparently vermicelli noodles are a good option for me. Also...

Today I've been eating normally. Insulin injections (edit: bolus) calculated and done by myself not nurses, although they're checking the calculations. No pain, BSL in the sixes all day. Blood tests came back and I do not have pancreatitis (lipase normal). The abdo pain, which I thought felt...

I did exactly what @Antje77 suggested and got a pair of cheap reading glasses to tide me over. Went to optometrist again after 2 months and no visual problems at all

6.6

They were going to put me in ICU about 3 hours ago. BSL went really low (can't remember how low it went) and pain was very high. The nurses are amazing though and TWO doctors saw me within 20 or so minutes, at the same time, they came together. They did what they had to do and I'm not in ICU

I was 1.1 by the time the ambulance arrived. I think 1.7 must have been the start?

I'm ok now. No pain. BSL 6.5.. Going to sneak out for a smoke so I must be feeling better