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Thanks for the replies. Will check out these Facebook groups and see if I can get anywhere!

Good afternoon, I am a Type 1 Diabetic who follows the Bernstein diet and I have recently asked to add Actrapid (lower peak, regular) as well as my Novorapid (higher peak, rapid) and Levemir (basal) insulins. The diabetic specialist I deal with has advised they don’t want to prescribe three...

Probably the most frustrating thing regarding all this is my Libre says I am in target 98% of the time and the Hba1c reflects the estimated one from the libre and they say it’s too low. So which is it? I’m in target 98% of the time or I’m too low? Can’t be both?

I must say that I have excellent hypo awareness. I also have my meter to alarm at 4.1. I lost my hypo awareness a while ago when prescribed Propranolol for anxiety. Then I went high for ages eating carbs trying to avoid hypos as my hypo awareness disappeared. Then as my results started tonrun...

What sort of diet/plan do you follow?

Hi all, thanks for responding! Appreciate all the advice. When checking the “etimated A1c” on my Libre it says 40. So the 98% and 40 tie in together. it’s really a case of them putting what they see in others on to me without being aware of what an average is. if you test your blood five...

Morning, I am just wondering if anyone can advise me on the safe Hba1c levels as I got mine done and it was 39 or 5.7%. The doctors are going ape and contacting the Diabetic nurse because they advise it is too low. I do a restricted bad carb diet. It's not really low carb as such but more...

Hello, I follow a low carb diet and have had great results however I was on Novorapid and Levemir and the profile of Novorapid doesn’t match the protein conversion to glucose which takes approx. 4-5 hours. I asked the Diabetic specialist in the hospital in Inverness if it would be possible to...

Hey everyone, This is my first post. Type 1 Diabetic since I was 5 and I’ll be 33 on Monday. Basically I follow a combination of the Bernstein/Keto/Low Carb diets. i find my blood sugars are stable and easily controllable apart from when I wake up in the morning. My blood will sit around 5...