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Hi Rickscot I was found to be diabetic some three months ago with a BG of 40.2, after a week in hospital I was put onto Insulin Glargine. I am now upto 50 units administered at bedtime, but the hospital is now wondering if I'm type 1 and I wondered how they establish which type I am. Regards...

Can you please tell me how they find out if you are type 1 or 2? At the moment they seem undecided. Clive

I am the same the only information I had was that my blood glucose was 40.2 which caused a lot of consternation at the hospital. I was kept in the emergency assessment unit for three days having tests. I'm on insulin glargine and now feeling a lot better. Regards Clive

Hi Gavin and all On reflection I thought I had better let you know which other drugs I was on that also produced the same side effects. These were Tamsulosin and Urispas these are used for increasing the urine flow and suppresing bladder spasms. Regards Clive

Hi Gavin Please use this on your blog, I think the more that know about this the better. Yesterday my BG went up to 24.6, hopefully I'll get the hang of it soon! Regards Clive

Hi I'm newly diagnosed with diabetes 2 and having to inject insulin. I also have prostate cancer and am having hormone therapy, the side effects of which can be a dry mouth and possible blurred vision, therefore when I got both of these symptoms I ignored them and put them down to the side...