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Hi Maryrachel, Gah. I find this a bit annoying (of the DAPHNE people). I was also told I didn't need to inject for the below and found myself just like you when in double figures after my meal! So, I looked at the actual carb content of the items and as Sue shows, they do add up. I eat that kind...

Hi again, I really think you should try again but *with food*. I am pretty sure that if you excercise on an empty stomach, your liver will compensate from the lack of nutrients it needs for the energy expended by dumping glucouse thereby raising your blood sugar. (Am I right here or am I giving...

Hi there, You don't mention whether you had eaten anything prior to exercising. I have always been told never to excercise on an empty stomach (I am Type 1) as the liver's natural response to this would be to chuck out glucose to cope with the activity. That could be what happened. Also, it...

Hi Adrian, I used to have pretty much the same problem as you but this used to only happen to me at lunchtime. This is when I am at my most insulin resistant, so before I changed my diet and was eating as I used to pre diagnois (sandwiches, pasta, jacket potatoes etc), I required a fair old...

Morning all, I just got refused my fasting cholesterol blood test at 8.30am this morning as I woke up with a reading of 3.7 at 7.30am (very unusual for me; sod's law) so had to have some lucozade to treat it (I had fasted for 12 hours before this). The nurse told me to go back to the clinic at...

Hi Soddy, Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I felt totally rubbish for about 4 weeks after diagnosis of Type 1 (nausea, mostly) and I wondered if that was how I was going to feel all the time, which wasn't a nice thought. But, once my body had settled down and started to get used to the...

Try not to worry, Claridge. When my honeymoon finished, I found I had far fewer hypos and actually started to work out exactly what I could and couldn't do. I think you will find things a bit more predictable now if your honeymoon is over. Also, do you think it might be the weather? I always...

I thought that type 1 diabetics were usually diagnosed in their childhood years to late teens and that it was a rarity to have type 1 diabetes at the 30 to 40 era.... I was diagosed with Type 1 aged 39. It's more common than you might think to get it later in life!

Hello there! Not sure if you are Type 1 or Type 2...I would say that exercising first thing in the morning on an empty stomach would be a bad idea as you are likely to end up with a higher blood sugar reading after swimming than before as your liver will be sending out glucose to give you...

Hi GLF, This happens to me too and I think that Sid is on the right track here...If I have had a protein heavy or fatty meal then I will almost always have a rise of about 2 points at the 3 hours post prandial (which is bedtime for me). You could try keeping a food diary for your evening meals...

I am most definitely a Type 1. If I am not going to be doing my 3.5 mile walk after breakfast, then I need more insulin. If I'm doing my walk after breakfast, then I need half as much as without the walk. It's that simple for me. I was told on a DAFNE -style course that you need to adjust your...

Hi Megan, One word...Exercise! :shock: That does it for me. I need half my usual Novorapid dose with my breakfast if I am going to walk briskly to work. I have never excercised so much in my life since diagnosis and I love it. Similary, when I walk home from work in the evenings, I need less...

Just sheer will power (not quite there yet!) and not having that one drink that tips you over into 'devil my care' mode! If you look up binge drinking and high cholesterol on google, that might give you a bit more info than I can. Have fun, though, whatever you do! :P

Hi Jessie, This is what I am going through at the moment! When I say 'partying', I mean in no uncertain terms 'boozing'. I cut down drastically when first diagnosed as I was terrified of mixing alchohol and insulin. Then gradually, as I got the hang of things a bit better, I learnt I could still...

Ha ha. I read this thread on Friday and thought, 'great idea, i'll take my Lantus pen out of my Novorapid pouch and keep it somewhere else so this doesn't happen to me'. And what did I go and do on Saturday? Yes, you guessed it...Shot up 11 units of Novorapid instead of Lantus. How suggestable...

Fantastic! There's nothing like a good test result to keep the motivation up!

I think we are allowed to give ourselves the odd treat!! :)

Hi there, Frustrating, isn't it? I think we all have the odd week like this. :x It could well be that you are coming down with something which would definitely play havoc with your numbers. I am by no means an expert (only been doing this for just over a year), but if it were me, I'd wait it...

Don't worry! I know. :P Was trying to help Marzeater. I think 3.4 is too low to go to bed on whatever!

Hi again, Have I understood you properly? Did you mean is it ok to go to bed if you are at 3.4 or ok to go to bed after treating the 3.4. Sorry, just wanted to be clear ! :D