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Hi, I had my first night time hypo at 4.30am on Mon morning. I was fully asleep and woke up with a 2.2 reading, shaking sweating, no strength in body, etc. Luckily i woke my husband and he jumped to blood monitoring, lucozade and sandwhich duty for me as I was quite out of it. The next night...

I can totally relate to the rollercoaster feeling. I've been up and down the past few weeks, ver very down in fact and still off work. Being 19 weeks pregnant, hormone's all over the place, hypo's ever day or so, etc dont help both mentally and physically either. I'm starting to think...

Hi, I just want to lend my support. You should have a whole diabetic midwife team behind you. The day I got my test results from the hospital on my fasting glucose test I was referred and contact by my diabetic midwife. I met her very quickly, she showed me how to monitor my bloods, etc and I...

Hi everyone, Sorry your feeling let down Leona, to go on with no answers for such a long time is a real trial ontop of everything else. I can totally relate to what your going through, I'm not getting answers from my diabetes team and I'm getting a bit sick of it. I was diagnosed with...

I'm a recently diagnosed type 2 insulin dependent diabetic. I'm 16 weeks pregnant so I'm hoping it's just gestational, but we'll find out in Jan! Since I have been a teenager I've experienced shaky spells every few months where I'm disorientated, so shaky I drop things and the only thing that...

Thanks for clarifying that. I'm only 2 weeks into being diabetic and need to put in a request for more test strips on Mon. Hoping I'll get them on repeat ok.

Hi everyone, it's been an action packed few days since my original post. On tuesday morning at work I suddenly went very very dizzy, got blurred vision and I didnt have a clue what to do. When it all came on I thought I'l take my blood sugar in case it was high or lniked to my dizzyness. it...

Sorry, but I'm new to all of this but I thought you can get strips and lancets free on repeat prescription from the drs?!

The midwife came round last tue and told me to monitor my bloods three times a day and to look after what I eat. My first clinic appointment is on weds. My target is <5.5 before breakfast and then <7 an hour after eating lunch and dinner. The first few days were erratic and very high, now...

No, the midwife said it wasnt gestational diabetes as that normally presents in the third trimester and I was only 6 weeks when the blood tests picked up the raised sugar. She said that I was either diabetic already or in the 'just about to get diabetes' range, but obviously picked it up...

As part of my booking in blood test with the midwife, I had raised blood sugar levels. I did the fasting glucose tolerance test and the reading was high, in the inpaired glucose tolerance level. A diabetic midwife then visited me and showed me how to test myself 3 times a day and record it...