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I've only been diagnosed for ~2 months and I don't think it's really hit me yet. When did it hit you that "s**t I'm type 1 diabetic and this is pretty serious!"?

Hi! I have only been diagnosed for ~2 months and for the first 2/3 weeks I was having false hypos whenever my BGs were below 6. More recently, I sometimes don't get symptoms until I'm below 3.9 and even below 3. I have to say, I haven't got used to that feeling yet and it makes me feel like...

Thanks all. @therower, yeah I didn't do it in one day, I changed both my basal/bolus on different days over the course of a week. My basal is fine, I have been playing with that since I started and (at the moment) I think it is pretty perfect as I do 8 lantus in the morning and 10 lantus in...

Yes, @asparagusp, I do when I get to work at 0745

Thank you very much!! That is really helpful. New to all this, my insulin in take has increased since Jan, so worried I am coming out of the honeymoon period

So, I was diagnosed with type 1 Dec 2016. Everything has been going fine and I have been very stable until the last week or so. I wake up within range at 0600 (5.X) but by the time I get to work at 0745 I am higher (6.X or 7.X). I usually have 6 unit lantus and 4 units rapid and recently 2...

I hate to say it, but I think it might be a bit too late for you to worry about getting type 1 diabetes....

Shown this information? What are you expecting? A presentation of all the medical research papers published each week? The literature is out there in the public domain. The reason you're not told about this is there is not direct proof that MAP causes type 1, but just there is a possible...

I was diagnosed 2 months a go at 32

Yeah, I get that as well. I wake up dead early for work and test and I'm around 6.X but then by the time I get to work (where I have breakfast) I am 7.X. Diabetes is mental

You have no need to argue with anyone, if you were told it was type 1, she had type 1. No one here can disagree with her diagnosis as they don't have the full facts like the dr's do

I think she may have meant type 1 in the old sense as being insulin dependent

And I writing all this as I am having a hypo... for god sake this diseases is sh*t

Following on from what @TallGiraffe has said. I absolutely hate being T1D, it is awful. Transitioning from being non-diabetic to insulin dependent T1D has been difficult, but has been made so much easier by having spent the last 18 months living with my partner @TallGiraffe and see what she...

Pretty easy to cope with it when I have an awesome girlfriend who looks after me, gives me great advice and helps me as much as she possible can. And also puts up with my mood swings. Thanks @TallGiraffe!

I mean, everyone reacts to things differently. Whether that is insulin, highs or low. I completely understand where you are coming from. I work in a lab and have been since I was 18 years old (in various forms) and, although I have only been diagnosed a couple of months a go, when I start to...

Adrenalin can cause your BG to raise. Maybe, look for trends, if its going up every single time, consider injecting before you start cycling. Henry Slade (Rugby player) injects before a match as his BG rises.

My partner finds she often goes low when she is on her period, but everyone is different

Which SSRIs are you taking?

And these types of studies will always be floored when you ignore any other factors apart from the one you are studying. You can't study in isolation, hence when they temper their conclusions with caveats and have to argue their rationale. I mean it's difficult to argue the case for a...