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  1. J

    Anyone else get sick the closer you get to 6.0?

    You should feel great at 6, but it depends on whether your sugars are still falling fast, that can sometimes make you feel tense with adrenaline rushing. If your sugars are stable at 6 for hours, you shouldn't experience any probs. You could drop to 4 and still be ok, but below that have a...
  2. J

    Type 1 LO Hypo

    Hi, Lo is a warning for you to eat something quickly to get you back within the normal range. You can read Lo and not feel low and not be in a comatose state, and other times you could be hypoing serverly, it just depends on how much excess insulin you may have taken.
  3. J

    Alaways woken up by very low/high blood sugars

    Wow, we all know how a hypo feels, shaking, sweating, disoriented, and non functioning, but lve always wanted to know how do you feel having a hyper (high sugars)episode? I feel tightness in my head, like pressure, and l feel dryness and heat in my breathing and chest, almost like lve...
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    Diabetes and relationships

    Hi Kmkt, l have had T1 for 42yrs, and 2 marriages, 4 kids, no one can be in your skin and feel what you feel when your having a hypo. Dont worry about those two losers, you ARE NOT your diabetes, you just have it as a condition, and if those two pin heads couldn't see beyond that, they...
  5. J

    Hba1c 6.6

    I forgot to say will done on 6.6 [emoji4] That's beautiful!
  6. J

    Alaways woken up by very low/high blood sugars

    It depends on what you eat the night before vs your insulin intake, l only take long acting insulin b4 bed and l adjust the dose depending on whether lve eaten something sugary the night b4 or not, but sometimes l can overdo it and hypo, or underestimate and get hyper, but l tend to wake up...
  7. J

    Hba1c 6.6

    Haha that's so funny! My 2nd hospital stay they gave me too much insulin and l had a hypo in the middle of the night, l woke up sweating like crazy, l managed to buzz for a nurse who came 10 mins later and told me sorry the kitchen is closed cause it's 3am. But the sweet nurse managed to...
  8. J

    Alaways woken up by very low/high blood sugars

    That's perfect that your hypos wake you up when your sleeping, otherwise yr sugars can keep dropping and you may need help from friends/family/partner or worse still sleep until 3pm and miss work/school
  9. J

    Type 1 Allergic reaction to libre sensor

    Hi everyone, lve been using Libre freestyle for a year now in Australia. I have always used it on my belly and not my arm. It works perfectly on my stomach, it never comes off but l always get a rash, so l change the position on my stomach with each sensor. There's more room on your stomach...
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