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Hi guys, I’m a bit concerned as the last few days I’ve woken up with high blood sugar out of nowhere. I woke up today and it was relatively normal though but in the last hour it’s risen from 6.4 to 15 and i haven’t even eaten! I have naturally been giving correction doses but they’re doing...

Hi guys, I am quite baffled by what I have experienced today. I have been using the Libre Sensor 2 for a while now and whilst i’ve had a couple of issues, it’s mostly non problematic. Today, I applied a new sensor and I was quite shocked after about an hour and a half it fell off! Now I...

Hi my diabetic fam, I’ve not checked in for a couple of years but glad to see there’s still some people here. I’m doing much better than I was back then and hope y’all are well too. My only issue is that when I have hypos (which i’m having more frequently atm) I treat them with full fat Coke...

Hi guys. I have posted here multiple times before, hoping everyone is staying safe! I’m very concerned, I had a letter today that told me I now have Pre-Proliferative Retinopathy. I looked on the leaflet and it says it’s an advanced stage of retinopathy which has concerned me greatly. I...

Hi guys, I haven’t posted here in a long time so quick update! After a history of high glucose I’m now keeping it as controlled as possible and I’m working hard to make sure I’m not having any highs! (Although the odd one is inevitable) I’ve previously said I have retinopathy and what I feel is...

hello all! yesterday I had 22 teeth pulled, yes it’s as painful as it sounds.. unfortunately bad genetics and bad controlled blood sugar as a teenager forced me to get dentures fitted. I was put under general anaesthetic for the surgery and since then I have only been able to drink a strawberry...

I know this is not the place to be asking something diabetes unrelated so I apologise if this is not appropriate but I need help! I have a lip piercing and in the morning I have a surgery to get multiple tooth extractions under general anaesthetic. The piercer must have screwed the ball on too...

hi all, I hope everyone is well. recently, for the past month or so I’ve been having intense hypo’s after I eat my evening meal, usually around 6pm. I don’t eat anything exciting or particularly healthy for my evening meal, usually something like chicken, sausages, sometimes toast etc or...

Hi all, it's been some time since I last posted and since then it's been pretty quiet on the diabetes front. I was however recently diagnosed with high blood pressure (at 19 Y/O?!) and am now on medication for that. I went for an eye screening recently and despite my constant attempts to keep...

hello everyone, I hope you've been enjoying the start of summer (the UK has seen α pleasant range of high temperatures recently!) I am 19 and have been suffering with what I think is nerve damage for α while now, the pain was in my feet but is now mainly in my calves when walking. My diabetic...

Hi all, nothing too urgent here but just a bit confused! I went to sleep last night at midnight with bloods of 9.0 (I prefer to keep them a bit higher before sleep because I worry I’ll have a hypo overnight) and woke up 5 hours later with a reading of 12.4? I know this isn’t a huge spike but...

hi guys, I’m sorry for sounding like a broken record, however the pain and ridiculousness of my situation are increasing simultaneously.. the pain in my feet is beyond unbearable now, it’s all I think about day and night, I am becoming very depressed and my gradual inactivity has led to a huge...

hi all, I’m still having foot pain unfortunately. the blood doesn’t seem to be getting to my feet the way it should be, my arms tire very easily now told as well as the constant cramps in my legs & thighs, as a teenager this is really frustrating because I can’t walk far without getting tired...

hi guys, I’m not entirely sure what to do! I usually do my Lantus at about 11pm, it’s the middle of the night and my blood sugars are normal .. but I don’t really have any recollection of doing my Lantus, but I’m also not entirely sure I haven’t done it either! I’m so used to doing it, I have...

hi everyone I haven’t posted in a while, in general my bloods have been very good in the past few months and I haven’t had hardly any high blood sugars! (Can’t avoid the odd one of course) but in the past couple of weeks, I keep getting really raised veins in my feet and bottom of my legs, if I...

hello all, I have the strangest problem at the moment, due to my bizarre sleeping pattern I’m starting to take naps in the evening. so I sleep from about 7pm - 10pm, my blood sugars (for example) were about 5.0 before I went to sleep tonight and I woke up to bloods of 22! Whenever I sleep, my...

so as I’ve said before, I have had poor control over my blood glucose throughout adolescence and I have nobody to blame but myself for this, in the past 8 months I have gotten my blood glucose much more under control, and although I still have spikes in my sugar they are nowhere near as common...

hi all, I hope everyone has had a wonderful christmas (if you celebrate it) and have a fantastic Boxing Day. Christmas is the day of the year where I’m less focused on my bloods and more focused on my family and gifts etc, well yesterday I had wonderful bloods all day! Despite eating like a...

Hi all, I’ll try to make this as short as I can. I’m very worried, the past week or so, my blood sugars have been all over the place.. I’ve had fairly decent control these past few weeks, but now I’m going from hypo to high in no time! It seems every time I go to sleep, whether just for an...

hi all, I hope everyone is well. I’ve posted in here before, but I really need someone’s advice/reassurance. since I stopped drinking crazy sugar drinks, wine, smoking etc which were really damaging my health (I was very ignorant towards my diabetes as a teen and now dearly regret it), my...