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  1. devexity

    Urgent: insulin dose advice needed after full pancreatectomy

    Hi all: I'm posted here before as a T1 diabetic; my father joined the ranks on the 1st of December after a Whipples procedure with a full pancreatectomy. He was discharged from hospital - where he was on a Novorapid drip, BG stable between 4 and 6 - a week ago. Since then his waking readings...
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    Stress, teaching and crazy highs

    Hey all: Looking for some advice on managing bg control in the classroom. I'm in the middle of my first year of full-time teaching, and from the very start, my bg levels started to rise dramatically as soon as the first set of students piled in. By three months in, I started getting muddled...
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    It might be MODY? Gah! Will it make any difference?

    8 years after a post-partum T1 diagnosis in the US, I finally saw a UK specialist today. He declined to look at any of my careful charts and instead said, "Has anyone ever suggested before that you might not be a Type 1 diabetic?" Well yes - me: after the test results in America showed up...
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    Utterly confused about what my BG is doing. Help!

    My GP is useless to me, so have stumbled here for help. Please help! I developed T1 during pregnancy 8 years ago. My HBA1Cs have ranged from 6.2 to 8.5 since then, and generally my control has always been easy. Takeable for granted. The last one was 9.5, so I went low-carb. Low-carbed for 6...