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You're not an idiot at all. If you're pre diabetic you've got a chance to turn things around but first you need to see exactly what those cakes are doing to your blood sugar before you can begin to understand what you need to do. I believe you can get a free trial libre 2 so this would be good...

4mm is recommended and safe for everyone. I think there's a risk of hitting a muscle with the longer needles so that's probably why they changed her. The smaller needles are much more comfortable to use.

Whereabouts in your chest do you put it? I really want to try other places than the back of my arm but I'm a bit wary of trying. Also my bones feel very close to my skin on my chest so a bit worried about trying it there?

If you do need to take it, for most people it's OK, and the slow release version is much more gentle than the standard release. I did take metformin before my diagnosis changed, felt very nauseous on standard, switched to slow release and no further problems. I would just see how you get on if...

Covid was the final nail in my insulin producing coffin. I caught it last year, was on hols in Holland at the time, and I felt OK with it apart from the cough but my blood sugars went super high and stayed there, couldn't wait to get home which was a shame as I love Holland. Funnily enough my...

That's pretty poor on the hospitals part, I hope they've arranged you some follow up ASAP to help you. I assume you're Type 1, so you should have been prescribed a long acting (basal) insulin which you take once a day, as well as your Novorapid, which you take to deal with the food you eat. If...

I generally make sure I wear skirt/top or jeans/top combo, then inject under the table by just lifting my top a bit and pushing my waistband down a bit. I inject once the food arrives

That should say *fast acting.

I'm on that one, take 10 units every morning, keeps me stable as anything overnight, potters along quite beautifully at around 5. My flat acting is Novorapid, but have found it to be Novoslow at lunchtime, so I do get a few spikes with that one.

I was the same, I did keto for around 3-4 months after being diagnosed T2. I didn't need weight loss, and my HbA1c was still in the 60s so went on meds. I now know the reason why though, as was diagnosed LADA last year. And a keto diet was never going to be enough on its own to get my bloods...

It doesn't happen to me but I have a friend with Type 1 who has a LOT of hypos and highs, and it really does affect her mood, which has affected her relationship with her partner. She gets very irritable and angry.

Interesting. I find it difficult to sleep earlier than midnight, but if I do get my head down a couple of hours earlier I shall watch for an early morning rise!

I did the exact same the other night, gave too much insulin for what I ate. Ended up at 2.9 and I get that panic when the libre arrow is still going straight down, it's hard not to react. I ate 6 fruit pastilles and just waited out the 15 minutes. Had the shakes and extreme hunger but didn't...

Usually go to sleep about midnight, wake up around 7ish, but the rise doesn't start till 9ish. If I'm at home I will just have some breakfast and inject, if at work and first break isn't till 11, I will correct. Bodies are such strange things, seems like our all do things differently

For me, the rise doesn't happen until I've been up and about for an hour or two, then it will start climbing and will go way up to 11 or 12 before I either inject and eat or do a small correction if I'm not hungry. No rise during the night, in fact my Libre line is almost flat

It's so variable isn't it. At our surgery we have one diabetes nurse who is pretty good. Then we have one who is the exact opposite and is bad, very bad, in that she doesn't seem to have any knowledge at all. I've now been told by the good nurse, that if I have any problems with my insulin or...

It's odd advice. Even on the libre training they tell you you still need to check if there's a difference between how you feel and what the libre is telling you. My surgery is pretty good overall, I've been given a GlucoFix and new strips now as well as the Libre, had glucorx before but now I...

You would have thought so and the paper I read recommended testing for all thin T2 at diagnosis but I didn't get tested then. With hindsight I probably needed testing/start insulin around 4 years ago but it took 3 years of failing every med then getting sick before I was. I should have guessed...

Do you think it's possible that the 10% of lean Type 2 at diagnosis actually end up being LADA? I read some work the other day that said that that subset of people (and I'm in that subset, low normal bodyweight, no insulin resistance, quick progression to insulin compared to a T2)? It's...

I'm in Kent and my GP is a diabetes dpecialist which is great for me! But he is also keen to see all his T2s on MDI on Libre, particularly if he thinks they are keen to really manage their diabetes. This same GP even offered me Ozempic prior to my LADA diagnosis when all the oral meds had...