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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...

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.

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...

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...

It is now 14 months since my wife was diagnosed with Type 1 at the age of 78 Sugar levels still range from 3 to 19 Despite this we are in range (4 to 10) between 65% and 70% of the time which is a miracle! We don’t think that this will be bettered There is still a lot of guesswork but...

Why does my wife feel very very tired when she has high readings of 14 to 17

Readings range from 4 to 14 which is an improvement. Target is 8 Doubt if this will ever be achieved So having to accept that this is 4 to 14 is the norm Wife fed up to the back teeth Ratios different for every meal yet nothing seems to work to get an average of 8 before each meal Nursing...

How do you handle blood sugar levels when eating out? We take about 6 units of insulin before the meal and sometimes some units after the meal We try to order sensibly but it is impossible to know what carbs are in restaurant food.

I joined my wife on the first of an online weekly course today. Todays session was on carb counting and I have to say that I admire all you people who’ve been weighing food and calculating your insulin dosage for every meal including snacks etc How do you find time to do anything else? Based on...

The range recently was from 20 in the evening to 1.6 at about 3am in the night. Reason it was high was because we missed the lunch time insulin but no idea why it went down to 1.6

I have just downloaded the app to my iPad but it seems to be for type 2, is there an app for type 1 Also at 1st sight it seems very hard to navigate and you need a magnifying glass to read the words i dread to think what it would be like on an iPhone screen any suggestions

Why are my readings always jumping to high? Current reading i s 25+ I am Type 1 Seriously thinking of giving up all these measurements. No matter what you do nothing seems to make the levels consistant. I was advised that this could happen in the first year (Type 1 diagnosed in May 2021). You...

I am keeping records of everything and last dozen or so readings are high 12 to 18 there’s no correlation between readings, carbs , insulin or food eaten When readings are low just take suga etc and all ok What do you do when bg readings are high? Extra insulin does not seem to make any difference

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