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    glucose hi......ketones 3.9

    my daughter has just returned from school after horse riding......stinks of ketones......bloods as above.... eaten plenty today but confessed no insulin for 24 hr.....on novomix 30...26 am/35 pm. have given 10 units of novarapid which has bought ketones down to 3.2...has eaten carb...
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    2years on

    ........since jane has been T1. 2 years of trying to get her to accept it ....test x4 a day and give insulin x2 . shes tried mdi refused a pump....unless i.m monitoring her all the time inc what food is in the house she eats what she wants when she wants i.ve try to take a back seat as the team...
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    help insulin not working

    daughter bm this am 20......given 15 units of novarapid....bm 20 2 hrslater another 15 units given witnessed again from a new vial....1 hour later ....bm 20.. ketones 0.5 and no food taken any suggestions....insulin in date and stored properly xxxx
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    a bit fed up!!!!!

    to be honest im a bit fed up with having a child with T1.....it would be so much easier if it were me......... the arguing about testing. injecting and what have you eaten now to make your bloods so high. nag nag nag is all i seem to do... jane doesn.t want it thankyou but injects x2 day...
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    accuchek expert and novamix 30

    my daughter has been used to heraccuchek expert for over a year. however due to various reasons has been using novamix 30 bd. which she is accepting. is there a way of using the expert using novamix so she knows how many or few carbs she have left after testing at lunch and other times.??? im...
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    hooray !!!!!

    can.t beleive it. no one could inc consultant. jane hba1c is 8.6........never been that low.we all thought the machine was wrong!!!!!!. thats on novamix 30 and watching the carbs. still having bs 20 at lunch at times so plenty of room for improvement... but so so proud. luv her loads xxxxxx
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    novamix30

    need a bit of help with my daughter 12 insulin. she has 40 units novarapid in morning and 30 in evening. what amount should she be having of carbs with eaxh meal please we changed from mdi due to non compliance!!!! but she knows she must stick to certain amount of carbs a day at certain times...
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    merguines

    help. anyone have a receipe for low carb merguines. have tried replacing sugar with sweetner but the taste is awful. please help xxx
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    happy days at last

    my daughter jane had her hba1c today 17 days after going back to novomix30 twice a day and watching the carbs. went from 12.1 to 10.2 insuch a short time and over easter. so si happy. i have a completely different child. no complaints of headaches and feeling sick ie no bs over 13 usually 20/30...
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    ice cream

    hello. anyone have an easy ice cream receipe without using an ice cream machine. not too keen on using eggs either. thanks x
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    so proud

    im so proud of my daughter jane. after an hba1c of 12% last week and seeing another consultant and constant bs of 20+ we may have turned a corner. she has gone back to novomix30 40/20 units bd and sticking to a lower carb diet. well 40/60/60. she is allowed 3 snacks a day only with carbs if...
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    low carb high cholesterol ??????

    i see lots if people being on a low carb diet which i think is a good diet to follow and sucessful in losing weight too. however with all this cheese and meat surely cholestrol levels would be sky high. hope im wrong and if so why?????. im trying to get my daughter to reduce her carbs so any...
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    back to basics

    daughter and i went for diabetic hospital appt today. never pleasant as hba1c always high!!!! 12,1% today. anyway it was decided to go back on x2 novomix 30. 40u am 20u at dinner. so the plan is to try and educate to eat at reasonable times eg x3 day and a snack am and pm. but i have no idea how...
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    cheap app

    until midnight 22/3/12 the carb and cals app is only 50p for android phones. its more updated than the i pod app and brilliant for kids and grown ups xxxxx
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    high bs and exercising

    help! what should my daughter 12 do when her blood sugar is 15+ and she has pe or sport. i heard you should not exercise if sugars are high. should she take insulin and carry on or......??
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    still in denial

    my 12 yr old daughter was diagnosed sept 10. it wasn.t good from the start, getting the diagnosis from being someone eles insulin to promises of counselling for her and me and now my daughter refuses to g as it has been so long promised. tonight she tells me she doesn.t belief she is diabetic...