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Ok so I'm only a week into pumping and been loving it. I noticed today after my evening meal that my insulin wasnt that effective. I was due a pump change tonight at 9.30pm. I felt around my omnipod and it felt a little hot. I've switched site early and noticed I have a 2 inch raised circle...

Hey guys, So I received my omnipod last monday. Have a zoom meeting half day session on monday to learn how to use it..spoke to my diabetic nurse on Friday she gave me some initial settings to use. I've been a little naughty and started using it myself. Read the manual and watched a few...

Hi guys, So I seem to have quite high insulin requirements for some reason. I take around 38 units of levirmir per day. It's the fast acting I seem to need a lot of. I've worked out that I roughly need 1 unit per 3 grams of carbs, but in the mornings I need more. So this morning I needed 18...

Hi guys. First thing is I control my blood sugars quite tight. I do occasionally eat sugars but I compensate this by taking high levels of fast acting insulin. On a day by day basis I typically take 50 units of rapidinsulin and 34 units of levirmir. My rapid acting (fiasp) I can take upto 25...

So I'd been low carving for about 18 months and taking moderate protein. My aim was to keep blood sugars between 4 and 7.8, it worked but at times would spike higher due to the protein intake. I've been introducing carbs back into my diet with fiasp insulin. I've been testing it extensively. I...

So my last sensor lasted one day. Before getting a sensor read error. My new sensor shows a huge gap in my readings even though I've scanned about 15 times during the time frame. Theres some clock symbol saying something about gmt 0 to gmt 0. Can anyone please assist?

Ok so I had a message to say freestyle had upgraded the android software for more accurate readings. So I jumped right on it. Only since the update my readings are WAY off. All night my sensor thinks I've been in the red or LO. When I've been above 3.8 on my finger prick. I control my bloods...

So anyway I was offered a libre due to the excessive amount of times I test my glucose levels >20 times a day some days I reluctantly tried a libre, due to the things I've read on the forums, and negative advice from Dr Bernsteins book advising against them. Some people mentioned things like...

I'm a type one diabetic. Last night I gave myself 45 units of levirmir. Slightly reduced from my 55 I was giving. Ok so today on day 2 I woke up this morning with blood glucose of 6.9. I injected 12 units of novorapid. And made a 3 egg cheese omelette for breakfast with 30grams of carb free...

Ok so I haven't had a chance to speak to my doctor yet... Anyways I know you're supposed to change your needle every use. But I don't I sometimes inject up to 10 times a day. I cannot even fathom having to change my pen needle once every time. I probably keep my needle on for 2-3 days. I've...

Ok so i've built myself some savings and was looking at getting some optimax corrective laser eye surgery. I called them today to book a consulation and they outright refused me due to having type 1 insulin diabetes. I have great diabetes control and have no signs of any diabetic retinopathy...

Hi Guys, So I've done a bit of research into the fact that protein can be converted into sugar if eating lower levels of Carbs. But no matter what I eat, If I eat a ample amount of protein (150g+) then I will often wake up with blood sugars 15+. I had 250g of chicken last night at 8pm. Went...

Hi guys, the Contour USB advert on the website really sucked me in and I bought it. Having used the product for 3 days I was happy until now. I'm sitting here and the product is telling me my sugars are 1.8. Being a diabetic if my blood went below 3.0 on my accu-chek I knew about it, i'd be...

Hi guys, Wednesday of last week I started getting serious wind pains, by late thursday the Diarrhea started, I had a very bad headaches and very minute fever. I had the doctor out on saturday, he told me just to drink fluids etc. Did this. had nothing to eat from thursday - sunday. By sunday...

Hi guys, Figured i'd just post this up here for some advice really. Basically I went to the leeds festival 2 weeks ago, had a very heavy weekend, drinking lots, little sleep etc. Came back and noticed the first day back that i was getting a strange feeling in my chest. Basically to cut a long...

Well guys, I followed the advice of someone on the forums to split my levirmir dosage (36 units per day) into two injections of 18 units for even better control. Doing this gave me much higher readings especially in the morning. Over the past few week I had to increase my levirmir both...

Hi guys, I have noticed something very bizarre. I have been on a "lower" carb diet for the past 8 weeks which is going pretty well, I'd say on average I consume around 80-100g of carbs per day (down from 300). For the past 2 weeks my blood sugars have been creeping up for no apparent reason. I...

building. Hi guys, I've been reading through a few threads on this form and I have to say most of the time after meal times my bloood sugars creep above 8, reading through all of the evidence this really does have to change, iImean I woke up this morning with 10.2! :oops: . I work out a lot...

First off hey guys, figured i'd post up here, a few minor queries I have. First off I consider myself to have pretty good control, my HBA1C readings have not been above 7% for the past 4-5 years. My last HBA1C was 6.3% I've tried recently to take things one step further, I want it so my blood...