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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hello, I'm a 18 year old boy and just like everyone I like to have a treat once in a while, so yesterday I had chips with meat and fat sauce. My normal diet is quite low in fat and I might have exaggerated a bit last night with the french fries and sauce, I had the normal amount of carbs with...

Hello, I have a question about fibers when counting carbs, I live in France and on the back of the product it says 18g of carbs, of which fibres: 9g (just an example I came up with). Now my question is: should I subtract them and bolus for 9g of carbs? I've read something about Atkins who...

Hello, I recently started running and riding my bike again after a long break and I immediately noticed that my basal needs dropped a lot even when it was 2 days ago I exercised I would still need less basal insulin. Now since of wednesday I went on a vacation untill next Saturday and I'm...

Hi all, I've been wondering which amount of fat is considered 'high' for you and will split your bolus? For those who eat moderate/ high carb I'm having a hard time finding what causes my 3 hours later post meal spikes. I once did a basal test and now I know it isn't my basal. But the weird...

Hello, I was wondering if this is possible? Being on a low carb high fat diet without losing weight? I'm really wanting to reduce my carbs to get better control over my Diabetes but I'm not having the intention to lose some weight? If I were to take 2500 calories a day mainly coming from fat...

I already made a topic on this problem I'm having at Lunch. I'm T1,18 years old and taking 4 shots a day (Novo Rapid and Lantus) I just don't seem to get it right with my Insulin at Lunchtime Let me explain the issue: I'm starting Lunch around 90 mg/dl, I'm having 90g of carbs (brown bread)...

Hello, I'm really struggling lately with finding the right meals that suit both me and my Diabetes. I've been using the freestyle libre since a couple of days and have been scanning all day long to see what happens when I eat this or what happens when I eat that. So I've always been on a...

Hello, I just started using the freestyle libre since today. I finally got my hands on one (it took me some time since it's really hard to get one here....) I just had one question about it. I decided to only use the freestyle librelink app simply cause it would take 15 days to order the reader...

Hello, I'm having problems with my BG after lunchtime Before lunchtime I'm around 90 mg/dl And I eat around 80g carbs (brown bread with low GI) I take around 4 units of insulin and then I'm around 100 1,5 hour after my meal but then my Bg start to rise a lot. If I don't inject a correction I...

Hello, Today I went to a wine producer in France with people from our campsite for a visit and I've veen doing this for the fourth time now on a weekly base to translate and I can't get my blood sugar under control during those tours. I was on 63 after meal so I ate a couple of dextro tablets...

Hi, I'm new to this forum, I'm 18 years old and I'm having type 1 Diabetes since I was 10 years old. I can't say that I've got my blood sugar levels totally 100% under control but I'm doing OK for now, last HbA1c check at 7,0 and I'm fine with that for this moment and the period of my life...