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Due to behaviour my daughter has ended up going to bed with no dinner tonight. She had her normal amount of Levemir at 6:30pm which is normally done beween 5:30-6:30pm. Is this likely to cause any problems?

My daughter had a clinic check up yesterday and all the tests, calculations, researching, lack of sleep, help and support from everyone on here has lowered her Hba1c from 8.8 to 7.9 in just 6 weeks :shock: :D I also got answers to my million questions and some help and advice :) I have...

Does chewing sugar free chewing gum have the ability to cause drops in blood glucose levels? It might just be co-incidence but took the kids out again for the day yesterday, same thing happened as last time with my daughter, unexpected hypos. I was doing more tests and monitoring more closely...

After changing to bigger needles nearly 2 weeks ago, we had 2 good days with normal levels :D Then went back to pretty much up and down so monday i increased her evening dinner ratio of novorapid then increased the levemir doses wednesday but i am unsure what to change this week or by how...

Hello, need some more advice or opinions please :) Decided to brave a day out with the kids yesterday as my daughters levels seemed to be stabilising during the week, went to a zoo via 3 trains to save the tiring long drive so she was excited but i don't know how much that affected her levels...

Hello, would like some more advice please! My daughter had a check up at hospital clinic on Thursday I had the dr check her injection sites as her legs are reacting to the Levemir The 1st 2 weeks she had big red lumps appear after injecting which on her left thigh turned into 1 massive lump the...

Had to ring my daughters nurse again to find out what to change as she is still all over the place with her readings and i couldn't work out which insulin to change and how to change it. As an example, her readings in a day are as low as 3.8 and as high as 15.9 and i said i felt that was too...

Not sure if this should go in here or in the food forum or in the ask a question forum :?: My daughter has now recovered from last weeks infection, thought to be food poisoning. So, this week we have now started MDI properly. I have been struggling with it a bit, mainly from her doses being...

Hi, just wondering if anyone has any experience in sudden drop in doses? My daughter was diagnosed as Type 1 in May 2009 at age 9. We took to it fairly well and i have always felt fairly in control and able to predict. She is on twice daily injections of Humulin M3. She used to have about 18...