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Have you/your husband considered doing the DESMOND or New EXPERT course. I understand that there is a new type 2 managenemt course so ask your diabetes nurse about any of the courses. I'm type 1 and did the DAFNE course in 2013 and learnt so much more than what the care team was telling me...

Do you carb count or use a fixed amounts of quick acting insulin. Proper carb counting will give you better BSs control by matching your carb intake against the correct amount of insulin...providing the carb ratio is correct, and this takes a few tries to arive at the best raios to use for each...

I'm type 1 and use metformin SR tablets 6 per day as well as Apidra, Humulin I. I used to use novorapid by my meal ratio went up to almost 1:1 gram of carbs(10:1CP) so after e-mailing my DAFNE nurse I changed to Apidra. I now use a meal ratio of 1:5 grams of carbs (2:1CP) and am trying 4...

As your other post here, please get yourself on a DAFNE Course ASAP. I did the course in Sept 2013 and only follow what I learnt on the course and I now only use a DAFNE nurse who ran my course if I need help....by e-mail. I've also changed insulins twice since I did the course as my novorapid...

I'm type 1 and nothing wrong with those BSs especially the 5.9 on waking up. Your 7.9mmols is only 2mmols higher than when you woke up and that's after a meal and walking etc.

I thought you were testing out your basal insulin amounts which is usually done by having a nil carb meal then checking the BSs approx 4 hours later. If I don't eat I'll hypo first.

Please consider doing the DAFNE course run by the DAFNE trained nures. It usually a 5 day course which covers many of the WHYS and HOWS and how to better manage your diabetes. You mention that you usually eat high carb meals....and a cut in your daily carb amount would reduce your insulin...

I was 60 years old on diagnosis and GP said that I MUST BE type because of my age. I was NOT overweight and was passed to DSN in surgery who just put me on 1 x 500mg tablet and told to come back in 2 weeks for blood test. However, within that time I ended up in A&E with high sugars and...

I was diagnosed at the age of 60, never been over weight, so GP said I must be type 2 and given 1 metformin 500mg tablet, don't need meter etc. Two week later in hospital and put immediately onto insulin. Within 2 months C-peptide tests send to Cambridge lab twice and I then found out that the...

I don't understand how you'd get a BSs of 5.5mmols and have ketones of 4.0. I thought ketones occurred in the system when your BSs were over 14mmols and higher. My meter also bleeps if I'm over 14mmols to check for ketones.

I only test 4 hours after a meal as my Apidra is still doing it's thing during that time..I don't worry about peaks during that time so long as it's OK after 4 hours. Insulin reacts differently in people as the absorption rate is different in each of us. Trying to get a good reading 1-2 hours...

I'm a type 1 and have always found that eggs push up my BSs especially if fried. Soft boiled eggs seem OK but I now allow 5 grams when I do my carb calculations.

Yes, I'd be very worried as you could loose your driving licence...it's to do with hypo awareness/lack of. Reduce your night insulin by 10% until you do night hypo or reduce it by 2 units and have a piece of toast with out injecting any quick acting insulin and see what happens.

Sometimes it pays to have a piece of toast without injecting any quick acting insulin when you inject your night insulin especially if it a 'cloudy type' insulin. Just keep reducing you night insulin by 10% until you don't hypo in the night.

My surgery tried me on statins a few years ago BUT LUCKILY I was very sick after 2 tablet and had a terrible headache.. GP stopped the sinvaststin and gave me another and that was worst. It made me extremely sick and needed powerful migrane type pain killers. NO MORE STATINS FOR ME.

Go to the GP and have a full blood test. You could be type 1 or 2 ..I was 60 years old when diagnosed and am type 1.

Hi Padders, All your posts suggest that the levemir might be the cause of your mid morning hypos. However, you haven't said what you eat for breakfast, how many carbs in the meal and how much novorapid you inject for your meals. Are you on fixed amounts of novorapid ... regardless of how much...

There is a fair chance that liver dump may have occurred with your 20 minute walk, even though you ate the choc digestive.

My best point about being type 1 was doing the DAFNE course and I e-mail one of the nurses when I have a query. She also helped with changing my insulins. My daughter is also type 1 and on a pump...we try to beat each other when we get our HBA1Cs and we did DAFNE together.

I agree with this comment. There are so many restrictions using mixed insulins...long lasting and quick acting insulins give you better BSs control and of course please do DAFNE.