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If you have hypo awareness and know the sytmptoms (checkout the info on here or hypo awareness programme), you can manage hypos the majority of the time yourself with glucotabs or full sugar drinks etc. If its a severe hypo whereby you have gone unconscious they would have to call 999, you can...

It is very common to have varying insulin sensitivity, one reason could be due to dehydration overnight. I drink several glasses of water on the morning to rehydrate my body, also blood circulation will be much slower coming from a resting state.

Well firstly I'd like to say, I got type 1 diabetes with no family history, of even type 2 diabetes. So when it comes to defects and risks, that can happen to anyone. Now we can always look in hindsight at what we could have done differently, and how doing something may change the outcome we...

Yes it is a lot of guesswork when eating out. I generally try and add up the carbs that are clear, so if I have a burger, I'd say the bun is ~40g carbs (depending on size), any chips (generally around 70g carbs) etc. Most of the time its the burger fillings (or breadcrumb coated stuff) or...

That's why as inaccurate as the libre can be, its often rang alarm bells for me in these situations. When tested using a glucose meter and its 13 etc, but it only showing ~7 on libre. Wash hands and re-verify.

Ah I missed that tbh, it is in Type 1. I looked at profile for information which wasn't available.

As Juicyj mentioned. I find the majority of the time it is from an over active mind and not generally associated with diabetes. Could be work/home stress. Some changes in personal life or environment etc. Although high/low blood glucose can obviously cause restless nights.

Hi, Are you type 1 or type 2? How long have you been diabetic? As a type 1 there's many things which can increase my glucose levels. Being a male I can't obviously relate to the issue you may have. But I find illness/stress etc. causes my glucose levels to raise and stay high. I have to...

Welcome to the club, the club nobody really wants to join! You will probably need to wait till all results come back and they can determine what caourse of action is best, you probably are still in honeymoon period, this can be prolonged by keeping tight control and low carb. However eventually...

Quick google search: http://www.diamontech.de/ http://www.gluco-wise.com/

Don't know names off the top of my head, but sure I read that there was development of glucose monitoring from changes in eye's which would be non invasive.

Heavy carb meals can raise levels to that extent or even slightly higher in non-diabetics. But you have to ask yourself the question, if its raising to those levels, it is obviously stressing the pancreas more than it needs to, and common sense says to me that's not a good thing in the long...

Should just put a ban on humans existing, imagine the problems that would resolve. :banghead:

Ah I kind of get what you are alluding to. Its not that lower insulin doesn't have smaller relative error. Its that for such low amounts, the current administering solutions are not satisfactory.

The rise could be for a number of reasons. Firstly I'm not sure why you were recommended to keep your glucose levels at 10 mmol/L before bed, that's too high as it is, and then if it is going to rise its only up from there. You really need to carry out a fasting basal test to see if the lantus...

I get that, but as above the principal still holds. Lower doses - lower margin of error. The report didn't mention anything about specifically using injections.

I get that, but the principal still holds. That just depends on what your conditions for lower doses are. Using a pump of 0.05 units compared to 0.5 units from a pen, is still lower doses = lower margins of relative error.

You start by saying not necessarily, but then contradict that with what you say. The fact pump's wok better than MDI's for some people is because they administer small doses, which comes back to the original point of smaller doses have smaller error. Don't really get what your point is here.

I agree with your points, but at the moment we have no method of reversal, in the future who knows, but that's the case for any illness really. I think what the OP is referring to is people (who know little about diabetes and the differences) saying type 1 can be reversed with type 2 methods...

I tend to sleep a lot longer (and better) when my glucose levels go high. Makes you feel more lethargic etc, But cataches up with me once I wake up if so.