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    DAFNE info from graduates

    Hey all. Phoned up some people today to see if there's a DAFNE course going on this year, and it seems uncertain whether there will be one, and if there is it will be near the end of the year. In the meantime my sugars are, while improved dramatically, still a little unpredictable. So are...
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    Deliberately raising sugars before exercise

    I recently started aikido, and it absolutely annihilates my blood sugars. Short of keeping a tube of dextrose sweets in my gi (training suit) and topping up every 20 30 minutes to keep my sugars going, which I'd rather not do because it's an intense class and I feel it's sabotaging my training...
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    Some questions

    Hi all. As mentioned elsewhere, I'm a type 1 diabetic, treatment by insulin (humalog and lantus.) My questions: I can never remember the ideal before and after readings I should aim for. Is 6 -7 a good target to generally aim for at any time? What's the ideal hb1ac reading? My last test I...
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    Taking a Bao

    Gday everyone. My wife introduced me to this site earlier today, bless her, she's always looking out for things like this for me :) I'm a type 1 diabetic, diagnosed when I was 12 through convenient symptoms like dying. A bit dramatic but I always did like attention lol. Since I was 13 or 14 my...