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Hi, Wondering if anyone can help me with some advice. I'm doing the great north run in 3 weeks time and have been really struggling with my training because I keep either waking up hypo so I end up not going out, or I go out starting at about 8 and the crash and hypo about 1.5/2 miles in. I...

Some people may be aware that I've had a really bad experience with my pump over the last couple of weeks. I ended up with really bad cellulitis from one of my sites, got DKA and had to have surgery to remove the infection from my leg over the weekend as a result I really don't feel comfortable...

Hi So I am on an insulin pump and have been for 3 years. I have always had problems when using the tenderlink cannula's (teflon based) which unfortunately are the only ones I can use in my stomach. Needing to give my legs a rest I used a tenderlink in my stomach twice last week, managing 12...

So I'm slightly annoyed recently to find that carbohydrate content is made almost impossible to work out on some packaging. They give us calories, fat, protein and sugar per portion, why so much hate for the carbs?!!!! I asked tesco this question in email (see below). I don't have high hopes for...

How often do people do a basal test? And how do you go about making changes? When I was on pen injections, I was told that I had to give it at least 48 hours after making a change to make another change and just wondering if this is the same for pumps? I have been testing my basal a few times...

Hi, I've been T1 for 5 years, and went on an insulin pump in May. Since then my weight has yo-yoed between 69kg - 75kg (this time last year I was 60kg). I desperately need to lose weight as none of my clothes fit me and I start college in a month! I've tried low carb high fat, and I did lose...

I have blood in my cannula tubing...is this normal?!! Panicking slightly!

I was using the tenderlink infusion sets but think that I am allergic to the Teflon as I kept getting infections. DN gave me some of the rapid d's to try on Tuesday and I love them, but due to having put it in so that the tubing was going down and not up, I changed the set first thing Wednesday...

Hi, Can anyone tell me what a site infection would look like please? I've been having problems over the weekend with hypos and now with highs. This morning was bleeding from cannula site so took it out and changed it to the other side of my stomach. During the day it's got more sore/red around...

Ok sooooo tonight at work I've pretty much been hypo ALL night. I've eaten the most carby and sugar filled things I can get my hands on (full pack of dextrose, full pack fruit pastilles, 4 yum yums, a chocolate mousse sundae thingy, a caramel chocolate bar, a pack of crispsand a bottle of normal...

Hi, I started running a few weeks a ago and have now started interval training with my little boy in his pushchair. Today we did 12 miles. Before we set of, my sugars were 5.7 but while out went up to 16. I have been told by consultant to do a temp basal reduction of 30% but luckily I forgot...

May has not been a good month at all. Started on a pump on 13th and all was great...for a grand total of 3 days! Then I started hypo-ing really bad, terrible weekend at work, but managed to get back to normal throughout the week. Back to the weekend and hypos again, even with an 80% reduction in...

Can anyone help me out on the percentage of extra insulin you're supposed to take when you have ketones? NHS direct are pretty useless and I've ( completely unexplained) shot up to bg of 33.7 so checked for ketones and showing 4.3 :( feeling pretty lousy atm and really don't fancy another...

Hi, Just wondering what you actually are supposed to count if you're low carbing to lose weight? For my insulin, I've been told that baked beans for example, only count where it says "of which sugars" and not to count any vegetables other than potato and sweet potato. I've also been told not...

Hi, I went onto a pump on Tuesday. I work weekends and was told to do a temporary basal last night for today, reduced by 30%. I woke up with bg levels at 11.8 at 8am, did the reduction and a correction along wth my normal carb ratio. I did this until lunch time, when I was at 3.7 (12:25) but...

Hi, Sorry if somebody has already posted this somewhere else, but with a pump are you supposed to change the insulin every few days as it is kept warmer than in pens? I'm due an infusion set change, and only have 1ml of insulin left in the cartridge so wondering if I should change both at same...

Hi So I started on the accu check combo pump yesterday afternoon and my sugars have been pretty amazing compared to usual. (See mysugr photo above!) However, I have been up several times in the night to test bg levels and have had to bolus a very small amount of insulin (0.7u split as 0.4 at...

Anybody else struggle with night hypos? I've had them every night for about 3 weeks now. Nurses advice is to lower my basal insulin - I do this and all that happens is I end up high! I go to bed with my sugars between 7.8 and 9 at around 23:30 and I wake up around 3am with levels usually between...