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Hi all, Firstly thank you for all of your help with the other issue for that friend of mine. Anyway, last night, I had a reading of 5.3 before bed, and didn’t think anything of it, except that I had half expected a hypo over the course of the night, but I didn’t wake up feeling unwell, so...

Jaylee, What info do you need to make things more accurate? He is very open to trying to find a solution to this issue, especially as it has nearly put him inside a coma twice in three days. He is still having trouble coping with the diagnosis, and has admitted to me that he is struggling to...

He said 2 months. Then the insulin, so it’s over a year not exactly a year. That was my fault.

Thanks. Unfortunately both of his kids are under 2. He is going to teach them as quickly as he can. But at that age they are still too young, which I think is understandable.

Around a year.

They’ve seen him and told him that he is basically must be doing this to himself, because they can’t see how else it would be happening. That’s why I’ve reached out here. The HCPs are really unsure as to what is going on. They are also concentrating on the symptom and not really looking at...

Yep, completely sure. I spent literally 72 hours never more than 2’ away from him and he never took anything extra. I also have asked him as I thought the same thing, and he has been on 1 to 1 monitoring. No offence taken at all.

His insulin was changed from 25 novorapid at mealtimes and 30 levernir daily when he was admitted to the doses I mentioned before. He did try tablets (metformin) but was taken off them after two months as they were not working.

I should add, diagnosed at 30, currently 32. I will correct the weight things, apparently he has been losing weight since June, there was a conversation which we had where we were talking about something different, and I misunderstood.

He is taking the glucotabs and gels and even glucagon when he goes down, once he is stabilised he is eating the complex carbs, sorry if I didn’t make that clear. Addison’s isn’t something I had thought of, I had heard of it briefly when I was diagnosed but I dont know much about it, so it...

I agree with all of this, especially the amount of carbs being eaten being way too high, but unfortunately whenever he cuts them down, he goes back to having 3 or 4 hypos a day, down to 1.3/1.2 mmol/l He is skinny, he is 6’ 5” and weighs 14 stone. I agree the hospital is being very unhelpful...

Lost significant amounts of weight (10 to 12 stone) since June 2017, put on around 1 stone since first admission (around 25 days ago) No bowel issues, a little bit of diarrhoea about three days ago. No gastric issues. Edited; weight loss information wasn’t accurate.

Yes they are currently in the hospital under supervision. Although he is being discharged today, from what he has been told it is because his hypos are “better” (only down to 2.6 mmol/l instead of 1.2 mmol/l) and he can manage at home. The issue is, the only reason that is happening is...

No one has even suggested that he might have. But it’s definitely worth considering at this stage.

The carbs amount is my estimation not his. I have sat there and watched him eat almost constantly all day and then have a hypo. He also never seems to go above 18mmol/l and most of the time it doesn’t go above 12mmol/l. I’ve only ever seen it at 18mmol/l once in the past week and he has been...

Hi River, I may have not mentioned this before, he is not taking any of that at the moment. That is his usual regime. He is having 2 or 3 hypos a day and is averaging in excess of 400g of carbs throughout the course of the day, with no insulin he should be going sky high but he is still having...

If I am honest everyone, I first thought he must be taking way too much insulin, but he is barely taking any, and eating the way he has been, his levels should be sky high. Also; 10 units of Levermir once a day.

4 units of novorapid depending on levels before food and I think there is some long term stuff. But he hasn’t been taking anything since this admission to the hospital.

I have become somewhat fast friends with someone who is a type 1 diabetic (I am type 2). He keeps on being hospitalised because of hypos, BM as low as 1.2 mmol/l. This has happened a number of times recently, and even after eating enough food for 8 or 9 people (7 sandwiches, 6 packages of...

Hi everyone, I wonder if you could help me. Since being diagnosed in 2016, I have struggled to keep my levels anywhere near okay without just literally not eating for a few days. Something which has landed me in hospital a few times. I am on Gliclazide (I had an allergic reaction to...