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Hi, I am on levemir 18 at 10pm and 12 at 10am. When I goto bed my B/S is around 5 and I awake on 4 or just under which is fine. If I then don't eat anything by lunch my BS will be around 8 or higher, the only way round this seemingly is to take 4 novorapid at brekkie and eat no carb food or...

I am on lantus and finding it really difficult to get right. I seem to be injecting Novorapid several times a day to correct rising fasting blood sugars that the Lantus seems to do nothing with. I can goto bed on 4.x and wake up on 7.x with nothing in between, other days I'll wake up with the...

I am confused by this. Now the fasting B/S is the one first thing in the morning after around 8 hours of no eating? This determines what you need to do to your basal insulin to keep an even line? I inject at 10pm Lantus 14 units. If my bed time BS is lets say 6mmol, should it be 6 or lower...

Hi, I changed my humalog mix insulin late last year to animal hypurin/porcine mix because after reading the IDDT report I felt that a lot of the conditions in there related to me and could potentially be human insulin. Anyway after changing over I realised that animal was taking way too long...

Hi, I saw this advertised in the balance magazine last week and I can't find many reviews or information on the effectiveness of it for night time hypos. I am just changing my insulin again back from animal Hypurin/Porcine to a new regime for me basul/bolus Lantus and Novorapid which in itself...

Hi, I have been googling and trying to find what is the best food to have from an Indian takeaway that is low Carb. There is so much info and so contradictory that I thought I'd post here. I was thinking Tandoori Chicken Half/Whole or Chicken Tikka with Sag Panneer, maybe a couple of...

Hi, I use the One Touch ULTRA 2 meter of which I have 2 of these machines. Does anyone else find discrepancies in blood sugar results? For instance I could test twice in succession and get up to and around 0.8 difference. Its the same on both machines and I find it very much depends on the...

Please could someone tell me how do you determine how many grams of carbs to a unit of insulin? I am sure I saw somewhere an article that referenced this and broke it down to insulin type. I know that it is also dependant on the person but I am looking for a basic guideline. Hypurin Animal...

Hi, New to this forum so hello to everyone. I am quite glad I have found it because I could use some advise please. I have been a diabetic for 33 years, monotard insulin once a day up to around 5 or 6 years ago where my doctor persuaded me to change as my HBA1C was late 7's to 8. I am now on...