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I've had quite a few glucagon shots in my time, and I reckon my wife knows your fear. Night time is when it always struck, and that feeling of coming round with a concerned missus sitting next to me stuffing sweets in my mouth while asking questions, and thinking "Oh no, not again" is one I know...

There are people who take a lot. There's more concentrated insulins for them (I think up to 500u/ml rather than the normal 100u/ml - https://bjd-abcd.com/index.php/bjd/article/viewFile/119/249) for when the physical volume of the injection starts to become important - though a pump might not...

And today I discover why they're hard to find - they've just been discontinued. GRR. Oh well, off to DIY an equivalent.

Shouldn't the blood sugar level when going to bed be the same as when waking up if you've got the Lantus dose right? Yes, maybe start with a buffer for a bit if you don't have an alarm, so if the dose is high you reduce the risk of hypo, but in not very long after tweaking the dose you should...

The thing is, I do do these calculations, only informally rather than formally. It helps that the meals I'm taking bolus for are pretty steady - it seems my body has a pretty good idea of what the right amount of food is. (eg if I ignore my body and keep eating to empty an accidentally oversize...

And that's with a pump...

I find the little bags of jelly babies quite good - 42g, nine little ones. Small enough to carry around anywhere, not a bad dose for me, and none of the "now I've opened up the big bag, what do I do with the rest?" questions. Not entirely easy to find, but I think cadburys/amazon sell them in...

Wot he said. Ambrosia blucon and Xdrip+. It does high and low alarms (though I've only got the low one turned on to noisy), and a lot more. I'm wearing it taped to my arm on top of the sensor while I sleep - it's a bit more intrusive than the sensor alone, but I'm willing to swap that for the...

Nothing too scary - somewhere in the 50s at the moment. The things I'm looking to work on at the moment are the basal levels to avoid lows during exercise and while I'm sleeping.

"Once your basal is confirmed to be okay, it's worth looking at your Carb ratio and Correction factor and confirming that these are correct. That would make carb counting a lot easier." I don't currently have a Carb ratio and Correction factor. The reason I don't is that I reckon they vary by a...

Suck it (or rather stick it) and see. Don't get too hung up on precise accuracy - there's too low, ok, high, too high, and there's the trend of moving between them (going up or down, and how fast). The trend is very useful, and something fingerpricks can't give you. Back up with fingerpricks to...

As I said in my first post, "I'm on a Libre". When I said what happens with that starting BSL > 14 is that it goes down fairly quickly, not suffering the problems you mention, that was based on the information the Libre is giving me. Are you suggesting that running is a bad thing? Jim Fixx...

Re GI and GL - I gave the examples I did because they were based on identical breakfasts, but dramatically different insulin requirements due to exercise. So no GI/GL change. Re exercising on high BSL - I've not really found that a problem, possibly because if I've got a high BSL in that...

Hi - I'm 46yo, fairly fit, T1 for 20 years. Currently injecting Fiasp + Levemir. Blood sugar moderately well controlled, though I can see peaks of up to 20 occasionally (every few weeks), and will hit 11-13 after meals, though that comes down fairly quickly. I'm on a Libre, so can see the...