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Hello, I mean yes, more people have diabetes nowadays, obesitas is one of the world's biggest health problem, etc... I asked myself this question when I came accros this image (see image) You can see that in 1900 nephropathie was a common cause of death and in 2010 it's a less common cause of...

Hello, To everyone out there that cycles regularly (or similar cardio exercise) , how do you manage this with your insulin pump? I've been pumping for a month now and the main reason that I wanted one was to avoid frequent hypo's when cycling. I thought I could put on a temporary basal and I...

Oké, and how much did you increase it because with my BG of 17 I think I have to more than double my basal during the night? I don't know if that are normal adjustments to make?

Hello, I was wondering, how does cold weather affect your bloodsugar? I live in France and until about 2 days ago, it was 30°C outside and the nights were around 15-20°C. Now since monday the temperature has dropped to like 15 and 5 for the nights and ever since my bloodsugars started to creep...

Yes, then it definitely is your basal insulin. I just wanted to share my story with you since I have been struggling for a long time with the same and I thought it was my basal so I kept increasing which led to hypo's and eventually I lost track of all my basal ratio's and I:C ratios so had to...

Hi, I've been struggling with exactly the same issue, I always went higher in the late hours of my Lantus shot (after dinner). However, after doing some basal tests I actually found out it wasn't the Lantus at all! I was having a prolonged spike from dinner which always contains more fat than my...

Now I don't really know it works for Type 2 Diabetics but I'm a type 1 Diabetic and, if I wouldn't take extra insulin, I would rise early in the morning. Are you sure you spike in the night? could be early in the morning. I do believe the pain could have something to do with it, see what your BG...

Wow, that's really high! I saw you were 18 years old, me too. you think it's because of the time you go through that is so high? like stress at school or something. I had some hard times when in puberty, still though my hba1c stood quite low at 7,9% but spending low half the day and the other...

What exactly is a hba1c of 131 mmol/l ? You mean your estimated BG based on you hba1c level? Just wondering, my hba1c is always shown in %

As long as you don't have too much hypo's this is a great hba1c! Since you're still in the honeymoon period and by looking at your insulin to carb ratio you can see that your body is still producing most of the insulin and therefore your hba1c is almost "non diabetic" Yes, unfortunately both...

Hello, I have been a type 1 diabetic for 8 years now, currently almost 19 years old and I have to say that apart of little adjustments, I didn't much change my diet with Diabetes. Now, after a hard period of diabetes management and some denial (I don't think I'm the only one out here that had a...

Target is 72 - 158 mg/dl You sure about that? Sometime when I'm at 68 but stable it won't alert me for a hypo?

I am fortunate enough to have a freestyle Libre which gives me so much better insight of my BG levels and learned me a lot! I now and then plug my reader in my computer to look at my levels with the Freestyle Libre and today I looked at the amount of hypo's over the last 2 weeks : 24! Now I...

Hi, As I previously stated in another thread, I'm looking to start a low carb diet but before that I would like to be prepared at the best. So I've been looking around on the forum and reading experiences from other people and I read all kind of positif stuff around teh LCHF diet but I was...

Thankyou! I will definitely watch them all before starting with it. Is a daily intake of 2500 calories (65% fat, 20% protein and 15% carbs) reasonable to start with? I do not want to cut out completely on carbs to start because I think that will be very hard in the beginning, I think it's...

Hi everyone, I wanted to ask some advice regarding the LCHF diet. I'm Type 1 diabetic and 18 years of age and right now I'm on a moderate/high carb diet with low fat and although I'm doing okay, I would like to try out the LCHF to get a better hold of my sugars. I think that the high amount of...

Another thing you should try is fasting in the morning, there's something called the dawn phenomenon which causes BG to rise in the early morning. I will rise about 100 points (5 mmol) if I don't have breakfast in the morning, so I need a standard 2 units extra for breakfast to cover that. And...

Hello, I started eating porridge about half a year ago, I eat about 60g of oats, 200ml soja milk and a teaspoon of sugarfree peanut butter. I also cycle about 15 mins every morning just after breakfast. The first weeks were very hard and I also had some nasty spikes (15+) and I had no clue...

Hello, I hope you all had wonderful Holidays! I certainly did, I had lots of treats (chocolate, fatty meals etc and I still managed to keep my glucose in range for 75% of the time according to my Libre! Now that we have to get back to our diets (at least I do) and to our normal lives I wanted...

Thank you for all the help, I now got back to normal levels with the usual units of insulin I take. I guess it was just one of those moments you can't really do anything about it... I have no clue on what the reason might have been. I have had more of these moments lately (about once a month)...