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Julia, You didn't provide the level of sugars when you were diagnosed. What was the range of sugars leading to your T1 diagnosis? Consistent 7 to 15 mmols will I think lead to T2 diagnosis, whereas consistent bloods of more the 20 (with Ketones) usually leads to T1 diagnosis. My BS was 32...

Hi there, I was on Insulatard for many years and didn't have many problems, however like many others I am now on Levemir and find this to be a very good background insulin. It is very effective with little or no problems I can identify.I think the modern insulins can for many people work more...

Si-hard, welcome to the world of T1! Re the leg pain, I would go to GP in relation to anything I was worried about as T1 can cause all kinds of problems including, and especially, circulatory ones!! Other than that, take time to get used to the new you. I've had this for 30 years and am...

Dear Claridge, I'm so sorry your having a difficult time; but I guess we all do at the outset? Mmol control is what we all seek. I am T1 for 30+ and my wife is in hospital right now having been diagnosed T2 with some complications. Best wishes to you...

For the first few days it was terrible; all tests were 15-20 and I felt sick all the time. The tests are now good, mostly 6-7, but I feel emotionally out of control, in a way I never normally am. Angry then tearful, like flipping a coin - I don't understand it. This has only happened with the...

Hi everyone, Question for T1s. I was put on Novorapid one week ago and I've found that since then my mood has changed quite dramatically. Normally I'm a kind of laid back type, but since the advent of Novo, I'm very short-tempered, and tearful at times. I am never like this. Can anyone advise??

Hi there everyone, As T1s one thing we should all remember is this: The Disability Discrimination Act (1995) defines a disabled person as someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day...

Totsy, Thanks for responding. Could you give me an idea of what your food intake on a typical LC day would be like? What do you have for breakfast, lunch, dinner etc?I currently eat loads of carbs - breakfast, lunch, mid afternoon, dinner, before bed. I need to get back to being a slim(mer)...

Speaking as T1 for 30 years I am very interested in what I read about the LC management programme, noting that some members have lost a lot of weight. I am 50 and need to lose about 3stone!! How does this low carb thingy work - surely taking loads of protein means an Atkins type diet, with loads...

I am shocked, although I suppose I shouldn't be, that almost everyone has had a terrible experience when they were diagnosed. I thought I was alone in this respect. I was diagnosed 30 years ago at the end of the 70s, at age 20! I had been ill on and off throughout my teens and my (criminally...

Hiya Charlotte, I'm so sorry you have been having such a diifcult time coping with what for all of us, at some point or other in our lives, was the worst news we ever heard. Believe me it can get better. I've been T1 since my teens and I'm now 50. I've found that the way to deal successfully...

I'm 30+ years type 1. As such I still have facility to still function with 1.something sugar. You learn your physical and mental symptoms, dont you? My hypo symptoms are very simple: yawning, feeling tired, grey skin (reported by wife), making funny signs with hands, talking rubbish.

Like everyone else who has posted my story id one of becoming very ill (30+ years ago) and eventually being taken, skeletal like and bursting for the loo, to my GP. Thereafter, a very rapid transit to A&E...

Crazybabe, I've been type1 for 30+ years and the key to everything, is SUGAR CONTROL. You MUST take regular injections and try and stick to regular food intake. I know it's not easy, but it cannot be avoided. The health problems - eye, peripheral neuropathy, etc all result from uncontrolled...

My HBA1C tends to be around 6.low something. I'm 30+ years type 1, and I think these results have led to no eye trouble, neuropthy, feet probs etc. I think, keep the HBA1C down is always the answer...

Hi Cowden, You know we all (the elite type1 group) get these feelings. It is difficult living in a world where most people (and I would include type 2 'diabetics') simply cannot understand what it means to be insulin dependent. I am 50 and have had this condition since I was your age. I can...