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I'm meant to get quarterly Hba1c done to keep my prescription of Libre. Didn't go in April for obvious reasons but called recently to see what their arrangements are. There's a drive in centre for bloods at the Arena we have, but I don't drive... And I'm not going to pay £30 for a return trip. I...

Yep... during the hot summer my night basal was 22u of Levemir. I'm now on 12u. Same as you, multiple night hypos! I get a Libre soon so hopefully it will become easier to manage.

Hello, I don't post here much but just want to vent a bit. I didn't think I'd live to see the effects of global warming, we talk about coasts going under water but actually this hotter summers even by a few degrees have such a change on me. Hopefully my attachment works, last week it was much...

Thanks for your reply! I was fully conscious during it so I think its different from what you're describing. I spoke to my boyfriend yesterday when he got home from work and asked him how much my head was actually moving when I could see how scared he was in his eyes. Probably because he didn't...

Thank you, I know I've had one before where I've woken up during a hypo and my dream had been about doing a call back for a customer at work and I must have been half lucid because I was extremely worked up that I couldn't do the call back and I kept running the scenario through my head and them...

Hello I've just had a hypo and it was different to others I've experienced. Type 1 for 5 years on apidra and lantus and hypoaware for background. I was sleeping when I woke up, didn't check bloods just knew I needed to get something down me which I'm regretting since it would have been nice...

Like you, I was seen at a diabetic clinic for a initially, they were amazing there. Moved to uni which was then a year and a half after diagnosis and had a GP who specialized in diabetes instead, she was amazing but I think it was a lack of daily routine in university that meant I wasn't fully...

Have you tried keeping a meticulously recorded diary? Recording BG results before each meal, two hours after and before bed. Noting down how many carbs you have eaten, the amount you injected for that meal, whether you adjusted your dose for a high or low premeal reading. Noting down correction...

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Are you aware of sick day rules that need to be taken into account? Here is some information: http://www.mydiabetesmyway.scot.nhs.uk/resources/leaflets/SickDayRulesForType1.asp and here is a flow chart to follow...

Hopefully this link works: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/38/1/29.full.pdf+html Thought this might throw up some interesting discussion if it has not already been shared, we probably all personally knew what the outcome would be on reporting status. For those that don't want to go to...

In September I got my HbA1C result of 9.4%, from my blood test in December I just got my new HbA1C result of 6.8%! Is a drop like that common in three months or could my September reading have been skewed some how? Since May I had been using an app to count calories, weighing all my food so I...

First time I've had it happen which is why I freaked out so much with it, it hasn't happened with any of my other lantus injections since then so I'm doubting it's an allergy. I don't have any pain or lumps in the area now so I'm guessing it was just a one off. I tend to inject at about 2units...

Marty, do you also use Lantus when these occur?

Hello, I posted this in the Ask A Question thread but had no response, thought I could narrow down my target audience helpers here. I'm a type one diabetic of four years, last night after I injected my 24u of Lantus, I noticed a gross looking bump had appeared. I know that insulin pouches can...

Any thoughts? This has me quite worried. The swelling has gone down but I can still feel it.

Have you considered that it may be an anxiety related issue? People who have anxiety often find night time to be the most difficult as it is then where we are lying in bed mulling over everything going on in life. I know that when my anxiety was untreated I could reach heart rates of 110bpm...

I did my Lantus inection about one hour ago, I rub my leg above my joggers and feel a weird hard bump, go to look at my injection site and see this! I've never had it happen before, I used a fresh needle and did a brief massage of the area with my knuckles to disperse it. I know insulin build...

Recently my BG level has decided to be a bit pants and stick to being high. As an example I tested myself, it came up to be 24.0, I did a correction dose of 5units of Apidra which should bring me down by 5 BG levels. An hour and a half later I tested myself again and got a reading of 23.8. This...

I found that really shocking, when I went to the GP because we thought I was diabetic my BG was 27 with no ketones, she sent me straight to the hospital and I had to spend the night - although I was feeling fine myself!! Hope you get into a good routine, good luck!! (: