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There was a diabetes blog week recently that will link you to many, many blogs. :) If you google "diabetes blog week 2012", you should find the main page explaining what it is and giving you the links to each of the topics for the week. It's been run for the past three years, and there are...

Re: Concerns - Diabetes Technology, pens, pump, meters etc.. Pumps: The main issue here is that pumps do not connect directly to your bloodstream - the cannula is inserted into subcutaneous fat i.e. the same place you inject. It has no information on the glucose level in your blood. Actually...

Were your blood glucose levels running high while you had the infection and were on steroids? Were you taking more insulin to combat this? The reason I'm asking is that both infection and steroids will increase your insulin resistance, and therefore your blood glucose levels. When the...

Hey, I use both Inset II and Inset 30 sets, because I find that the Inset 30s are a bit better for places where there is less fat, and the Inset IIs are better for places like my lower back, because I can do them one-handed! What size cannula are you using? You can get Inset II sets in 6 and 9...

When I had elevated liver tests, my GP ran a battery of blood tests, and had me back in two weeks for repeat liver function tests. When they were still high, I was booked in for an ultrasound and a referral to the liver clinic at the hospital. I had the ultrasound within four weeks of the...

Hi Victoria I currently take prednisolone for autoimmumune hepatitis. I'm on a dose of 12.5 mg per day at the moment (slowly reducing down from 20mg/day). I'm type 1 rather than type 2, but like your mum I noticed a huge increase in my BGs when I started on the steroids. I posted about it on...

I don't know anything about UCLH, but I'm at Addenbrookes and I think their care is fantastic. I'm not sure what their kids clinic is like, but I do know that the team are great, and they have a young adults clinic for people between the ages of 15-21, to give them a better transfer between the...

Yup, my ratios vary throughout the day, and my breakfast one is usually double my evening one. (I say usually because I've just decreased my evening meal ratios because of recent routine changes).

If you're staying fairly stable overnight, it sounds like you just need to go to bed on a better number and you should wake up the same, so maybe it's more your daytime or your insulin:carb ratios that need changing? I have the opposite problem, in that my daytime levels are mostly ok, and I've...

I'm doing this exact thing at the moment. I switched to levemir three weeks ago after a DAFNE course, because my problem with lantus is that it's not flexible enough and it takes too long for a dose change to kick in. The over-riding opinion on the course was the levemir was a more flexible...

Yeah, I remember those things! They were called autolets, and they were like mini torture devices! :shock: There's a picture of one here: http://www.diabetesdaily.com/parker/2009/03/the-way-things-were-bloodletting.php