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I have had 5 hypos today and I have treated all of them appropriately and followed up with long lasting carbs, I had quite an intense training session yesterday and then ran 7k this morning so I don’t know if it’s to do with that but I don’t understand why I’m still having hypos if I’ve even had...

Hi everyone, I've had the flu since Wednesday so it's been a while now, my bloods have been super high but they're still high and I'm just at the end of it now, how long does it normally take for them to get back to normal?

Is it dangerous to be on a low carb diet as a type 1 diabetic? I have ketones of 1.3 today but my bg is only 6?

Sometimes I find it so hard to carry on. This is so difficult, the moment I feel ok something goes wrong and I feel depressed all over again. I feel sad most of the time.

I've recently experienced moving out of the honeymoon phase, it's very depressing for me as I now feel like I have no idea what I'm doing and now I'm guessing all of my doses because my insulin to carb ratio is all wrong. Anyone else find this depressing?

If my ketones are 2.8 but my bg level is only 6.7 do I need to be worried?

I have several very uncomfortable mosquito bites on my legs, would they be a reason for my elevated blood sugar levels?

Hi everyone, quick question, I'm on holiday in Italy and I was told by my nurse that my blood sugars would go down in the heat, I've found the opposite though and my blood sugars have been a lot higher than normal and I'm injecting more units to compensate, Anyone else had this experience...

Hi, I'm learning to carb count at the moment and I'm very sensitive to my insulin i.e. 1/2 a unit to 10g carb. If I'm having a salad for lunch and it doesn't have hardly any carb in is it ok to just not have any insulin for that meal? Or do I have to have enough carb every time to make sure...

Hi everyone, before I was diagnosed with type 1 I was waking up every morning from the most horrific cramp in my calf muscle that took a while to go away and often left me with a sore leg for the rest of the day! Since I started my insulin it had sorted itself out but recently It has come back...

Hi everyone, I am recently diagnosed with type 1 and since I started taking insulin I've put on a stone in weight, I'm desperate to try and lose some weight but I don't know the safest way to do this now I'm injecting, any ideas or experiences that could help?

Hi there, I have only recently been diagnosed with type 1 and I've started following a low carb diet, My regular blood glucose levels are usually 4's, is that too low for my normal level? I test before meals and once before bed and that's usually what it is, do I need to reduce my insulin intake?