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Hi all. My 40-year-old partner was diagnosed T1 2 months ago. He’s had a fair few hypos but yesterday morning had a bad one at 2.1. He felt unwell for most of the day but he’s eyes went blurred during the hypo and also seemed to take a while to recover. His pupils were really small and it took...

Hi all. My OH was recently diagnosed T1 (LADA) and has been using Dexcom for about a month. The first sensor lasted the full 10 days but since then they’ve only been lasting 4-5 days. Dexcom has been good and sent a couple of replacements but it’s really worrying when it happens if you’re out...

Hi all. My OH (39 yr old male) was recently diagnosed T1. Started insulin on 25/8. Advised 10 units of lantus with 2-4 units of novorapid with meals. Levels still high teens and twenties so clinic advised to go to 15 lantus and up to 7 novorapid. Levels still high teens. Is this normal to still...

Amazing, great advice, thank you. Will start following this.

Thanks everyone. Really appreciate the warm welcome and advice. My OH is 39 with a BMI of 27 and takes regular exercise so this all came as a shock and big wake up call. He took his sugars at 10pm tonight. We didn’t really have dinner as had a big lunch of salad, meats, hummus. He just nibbled...

My OH was diagnosed with T2 two weeks ago. On 2x metaformin daily. Doing low carb diet and trying to be under 50g carbs per day. How quickly can we expect blood sugars to be normal? Was 33.2 on day of diagnosis. Tonight was 12.7.