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  1. wilky

    COVID vaccination

    Informed consent is essential. There is no way all the dangers of this vaccine will be put to the public by official or mainstream sources, and certainly not by those administering it. Most news sources are informed solely by established medical orgs, drug companies and those with interests in...
  2. wilky

    When to take long-acting insulin? And Meal times?

    I also take my long acting at two points in the day but I don't "split" it, I take an extra dose in the morning - I'll explain how I came to this. This worked for me, we may all respond differently. I found 28 units of insulatard a couple of hours before bed (10/11pm) worked perfectly from day...
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    Forgetting if I took insulin?

    As soon as I saw the Novopen 5 with the last dose time and units feature that a friend was using I was on it and got a prescription even though it was only a year back since I got a couple of Novopen 4s. The chemist gave me 3 blue ones despite having asked for different colours, though nothing a...
  4. wilky

    Exercise and type 1 diabetes

    Huge thanks for that link Howie :) hadn't come across it before. It doesn't sound like he has a perfect solution - he's still essenially aiming high with his bs before surfing - I'm guessing at around 15, which is what currently works for me. The hypo fit sachets are something new to me, and...
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    Exercise and type 1 diabetes

    Interesting stuff. I don't find its a problem when doing small time exercise like cycling or swimming for 30 mins or so. If its full on during that time, then starting in the realms of 6/7/8 I can go hypo (for me that means anything under 4), so I'll tend to aim to be 9/10 ish. After exercise...
  6. wilky

    New here

    Thanks for the reply and offer of help :) Joining the forum here is about me getting it together again, so have just started some serious glucose measuring of immediately before meals, 1 and 2 hours after, and more crucially I think, reducing the overall carbs (out go the 15g of biscuits with...
  7. wilky

    New here

    Hiya people, been looking round and looks like this is a great forum. Me - 49 year old, been type 1 for about 6 years. Came on v quickly, after a virus I think - or was it coz I ate too many biscuits ;) Was great to finally get onto insulin after being scared of the needles thing and so having...