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Hi can some one advice I’m going into hospital on 16 September for knee surgery I’m type 1 diabetic. I have to reduce Tresiba the night before at my pre op assessment they have said nothing to eat after 12 midnight & reduce Tresiba from 70units to 56 units only drink water or black tea/coffee...

Last night I had a mega hypo. 2 hours after my main meal 6pm. My blood sugars dropped 3.4 did the usual hypo routine they kept going up to 5.4 then plummeted again this kept going on I had glucose tablets biscuits lucazade by 9pm I went for weetabix still never went any higher eventually got it...

Blood sugars. I am Type 1 Diabetic always struggled with my weight. 8 weeks ago my GP put me on a weight loss injection after discussing it & advices to reduce insulin which I did. I have had a few side effects but most a settling. My biggest problem is going from high to low I seemed to have...

Hi I wondered if anyone can advise me. I have been type 1 diabetic for over 25 years but recently have hit problems. I’ve always managed well , in September one of my insulin was changed from lantus to the new Tresiba . Started to have high blood sugars after my evening meal I’ve been increasing...

Hi I wonder if anyone can help me. I changed over to Tresiba a few months ago but having a few issues: I seem to be spiking after my evening meal between. 14. & 20+. Between 6 pm and & midnight I am up to 70 units at bed time at time I was advised to take it. Through the day my blood sugars are...

Hi all I would like to mention something that I never seem to see discussed & that is Cellulitis which I had never heard of till I got it . It is a bacterial infection that can appear from the tinniest nick on your skin & attacks your blood stream, I got a attack of it in May this year which...

Hi any advice don’t no what going on bloods this morning 7.2 Lunch 4.8 Dinner 29.2 deck Been good all day had a tassimo coffee about 3.30 Bloods @ 9.30. 20.0 Bloods 11.30 22.0 I’m baffled do I take my 43 u if lantus or more

I have just been changed over to the Accu-Chek Aviva Expert & I must say it is proving to be a excellent machine. Since I started carb counting I have struggled to get carb /insulin right, now all I do is take bloods/enter carbs / then tells you how much insulin to have which so far has been...

I have recently been changed to metformin SR 750 was on ordinary metformin but had problems with it with stomach been on it 10 days my blood sugars are getting raising all the time. I no I have a very heavy cold & cough but I’m really struggling . Sine the turn of the year I have had 3 stomach...

Hi can anyone advice I've been type 1 for over 20 yrs at my checkup dr wants me to carb to insulin but been trying for a week think I'm getting the carbs calculated but the problem is the insulin what it works out at is way under to get my blood sugars down, for the last week I'm running from...

Hi can anyone help with advice, last few days I am experiencing dreadful stomach pains after eating to the point I feel I don't want to eat . I am type 1 diabetic with heart disease I only take insulin nova rapid 3 times daily & split dose levemir I am also getting cramps in calves wen I walk...

Hi does anyone have trouble with injection sites. I was changed to Levimer in October since then I am getting massive lumps & large red blotches & bruses wherever I inject they are quite sore it is so bad I am running out of areas to inject. I dint have this problem with lantus tho it was...

Hi nanaclaire any advice on this question Just received a letter from department of benefits after a medical in sept they have decided I am no longer entitled I have type 1diabetes, angina which I was finished from work on the grounds of I'll health and unable to work again in 2003 I now find...

Hi there can anybody help ,I have recently (2wks) been switched to Levimer from lantus been having mega problems with my diabetes (kidney problems ) taken off 1500 mg of Metformin in August & no other meds replacing it. Splitting dose to 40 units at bedtime & 40 units in morn, 34-38 units of...

Hi nanaclaire I am having big problems with my BM at moment I have got a few health problems recently I have had to come off Metformin, enaparil and atenolol because of kidney problems and now I have been so hi seem to be taking a lot of insulin breakfast, lunch & evening meal is 30 units of...

Hi nanaclaire here was on last sat getting advice for high BG well they are coming down latest reading was 8.7 you may recall I was told I could have kidney problems well was at hospital yest and yes I have my blood readings for my kidneys are only 18 and they should be 90 got to have a ulta...

Hi my name is Claire I have had diabetes for 23 years type 1 at the moment IAm having very high blood reading readings to the point that they are over the what my metre accepts (33.3) recently at GP anid found my kidneys are not working through a blood test and have to go to see a specialist at...