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The spike is the result of the carbs in the porridge and honey. If your baseline before breakfast was , say 5 mmol then you might spike to say 8 or 9. All comes down again later in respose to your own insulin? or diabetes meds assisted by the activity

Hi. Glad you have got an appointment sorted. Get the nurse to check your skin for lumpy injection sites.

Look at DAFNE online. Its much much more than just carb counting.

Please get professional advice.

Hi. Stress of surgery on your body will push the BG up. Also being less mobile means you are less insulin sensitive or put another way more insulin resistance. You may still be burning quite a lot of energy as your body uses a lot for healing wounds. Best to eat as well as you can and use extra...

Hi it may be that you need to eat regularly but if you are getting hypos then surely you need less insulin rather than eating more to keep you levels up. Ask your nurse about this. Why cause weight gain and then add another medication in to counteract it. Sounds a bit back to front to me.

Hi. May seem obvious but have you had your injection sites checked. No insulin is going to work predictably if you are injecting into lumpy areas.

Hi. The 20 units split 2 ways often works better so not unusual to need slightly less in total. Also if you have loss weight and are more active your basal needs are lower. If the proportion works for you then its the right dose

Great idea.

Because to realistically begin to get a feel for someone elses life you need to be with them 24/7. So either the dsn moves in with the person with diabetes and follows them to work/care for their children or other dependants..or that person shadows the dsn through their clinics/admin/homelife etc

Would be even harder to find a DSN who is able to take a week out from their other clinical committments to do what would be a really useful exercise. I know someone who is a dsn. Those of you that use this forum are the exception imho. Lots of people find it hard to accept their diagnosis let...

Isn't this a T2 med?

Have you tried a pot of hummus and carrot sticks or olives with feta or Greek yogurt.

The gliclazide will carry on working making his pancreas produce insulin even if he hasn't eaten. Talk to his GP as the dose may need changing.

You may want to get a health care professional to check your injection sites, even if they are not hard, they can still have scar tissue and this will cause wide fluctuations in your sugar levels

Fascinating to hear about your experiences from 40-50 years ago. How things have changed. Perhaps we should grumble less at what the NHS offers us these days even if it isnt always perfect.

You dont say how much insulin you usually have with breakfast. some people find they need to reduce their insulin by 25-50% before exercise, depending how long and how vigorous the exercise. The other option ( if weight gain is not a problem) is to each a carbohydrate snack mid morning. It will...

Hi, There are probably several things going on here and it would be good for you to have an appointment with a specialist to support you in sorting things out. ( have you done a T1 education like dafne??) In the meantime, a few suggestions It can take novorapid up to 2 hours to peak in the...

if lantus makes you feel like this then you could try Levemir, insulatard, humulin I or insuman basal as alternative. However, none of these last the full 24 hrs in the same way as lantus so are often given twice day.

have you tried asking your diabetes specialist nurse, they would probably be able to get yoy a novopen junior fro the novo rep.failing that you may just ahve to buy one via your local chemist.