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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by SarahQ</i> <br />The meter wont/cant tell you if your mum has ketones. It's asking your mum if she has any IE test and see. <hr height="1" noshade...

Thank you all so much for your comments and suggestions. It's just so good to know that there are people out there who know stuff -- first hand -- that I don't. Sarah, I know that for a diagnosis I need the doctor and/or the diabetes nurse, but both are impossible to get hold of at this time...

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by SarahQ</i> <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"> If your mothers blood sugars are high then yes it's her...

Hi Ebenezer, Thanks for your reply -- and for that lovely vision of you nodding off in the middle of sermons! So, the sleepiness could be a diabetes thing, not an insulin thing? (I notice you're on Metformin.)

That is a very true. On the odd occasions I've managed to get her to test her blood sugar when she's complained of sleepiness, it's been high. And that makes sense, doesn't it? If she takes <b>less</b> insulin her blood sugar should be even higher, shouldn't it? I think that we'll have to...

Ever since my mum's insulin was changed to Mixtard 30 she's been complaining about falling asleep all the time. <b>She</b> thinks it's the larger doses of the new insulin - <b>I'm</b> not convinced. But what do I know? I'm just the daughter. :) This is what's happening: My mum had her...