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I haven’t written for some time but we are having trouble with the Nova Rapid Flex Pens, recently they are not working properly inasmuch as they stick and you are unable to inject the insulin. Once or twice you can accept a faulty pen but it has now happened about 5 or 6 times over the last few...

It’s some time since I contributed to the T1 forum My wife’s blood sugar readings range from 2.7 to 18 sometimes higher. We are supposed to be between 6 and 10, there is is no rhyme or reason why this happens. We have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to control the levels. The forum...

Levels not so bad now. The problem is that the levels are defining when we can go to bed It is now 11pm and the reading is 10.1, so my wife has just had a snack so that the level goes up,then she is happy to go to bed This is nothing new.

Since the last post my wife has had another spine surgery about 4 weeks ago She is now doing very well and her time in range varies from 60% to about 65% so we are very happy with that She has had the odd hypo and worryingly the libre2 alarm did not work at about 3am, she awoke and discovered...

Just tried the fingerprick test now 27.7 Alos minjected 5 units of insulin to see what happens.

My wife has had problems due to masive fluctuations in sugar levels. So we decided this morning to go back to basics and recored everything on paper. What happened! we followed the rules and just now took a reading it was 27! at 9.30pm We are now at our wits end! The keytone reading is 0.1 so...

II don't know how old you are but I would double check that you haven't got Type 1 , my wife was misdiagnosed as type 2 because she was in her late 70's but after about 6 months correctly diagnosed with Type 1.

Thank you I have now completed the form.

Dear Sir We had an email offering the above free keto app, my wife spent about f1/2 hour completing a form and at the end You asked for Money! This is not the way to to encourage people to use the Type 1 Forum.

Dear EllieM The operation seems to be successful, after initial pain immediately after the operation it is now decreasing and my wife can now walk indoors without crutches, which is great. She is still on medication but we are reducing it each day. This of course has played havoc with her blood...

The 4% above should read 8%

My wife had a fall in August and after two X-rays and two MRI scans have finally discovered that she has two prolapse discs in her spine. This explains why she has been in so much severe pain over the last few weeks. Only this week we have some nerve painkillers Pregabalin and this is zonking...

Guess what, we didn’t use the libre last night , no hypos Some time ago one of the nurses said that I was being too scientific, I now realise that she was correct, I have now come to the conclusion that dealing with type one is an art form!! We have dinner anytime between 6pm and 8pm...

Thanks Becca

Yes she certainly knows when a hypo is coming even without the libre

Thank you for your responses. She takes her basal injection every morning not in the evening. What is a basal rate test? Tonight her reading is 17 which she is very happy with since she won’t get a hypo in the night We have taken off the libre2 this afternoon to see if that helps And are just...

Recently my wife has had several hypos (3 last night) during the night for no apparent reason even though the reading before she goes to bed is quite good at about 10. In our house 10 is good even though a bit high. After the hypo she takes the jelly babies or coke then waits 10 minutes to...

I was very concerned when you advised me that the libre readings could be incorrect above a reading of 9. I have just telephoned Abbott Laboratories and intially they said that any reading below 4 or above 10 was "wrong". After a lot of discussion the lady to whom I spoke agreed that they were...

Dear M@ Thank you for your comments. Yes my wife does use a libre, I have to say that I didnt know that it is calibrated to be accurate between about 4 and 9mmol/l. I am very surprised; what you are saying that the 24 reading in the worst case could be between 33 and 15 ie 9 each way. Yes the...

My wife's progress has been erractic over the last few weeks, readings ranging from 3.7 to 24, for no apparent reason and time in target reduced to about 40% Wrote to the Nurses thay said that the pancreas must have stopped working, I thought that it had stopped when my wife was diagnosed with...