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My last HbA1c was 6%. But to get there I was getting so many hypos where I was mismatching carb content. I was really struggling because due to the nature of my job I often have to stay and eat in hotels. Then I got into the LCHF diet thanks to the help of tim2000s and a few others on these...

I was only pulling your leg. :D You may already know that type 1 and type 2 are two very different conditions. Knowing what I now know about T1D, the symptoms for both are very similar and without the antibodies test I guess It is difficult to diagnose with any certainty. As has been...

I think it has been mentioned in the posts above about fat. High fat evening meals are my real enemy. The fat gets released slowly overnight and the body turns it to glucose causing a high reading in the morning. Happened after I had fish and chips, absolutely yummy. Went to bed normal reading...

Sorry Tim2000s I vote for glucotabs too. Used to find the 25ml lucozade difficult to judge and go sky high. Have you tried all the flavours?

Hi Tylers73. I now have a accu-chek insight. It is so much better than the medtronic veo I have just replaced. If you do go for self funding you have pump £3500 ish every 3 or 4 years, consumables, canulas and infusion sets £10-15 every three days and the insulin. If you meet the NICE...

I must admit I was surprised by the comment that you would rather be a T1. When I was diagnosed I definitely would not prefer to be a type 1. I guess if I could choose I would pick a type 2 diet controlled. Then I would hit the newcastle diet and hope I was one of the ones who could be cured...

I was reading this article on the bbc news website and thought of this thread. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33601171

definitely a line. Can you see that tent pitched at the front of the line.... because thats me in there ;) Imagine a day of not having to remember your kit bag of supplies. Being able to eat a meal without undergoing a dosage calculation. Being able to eat a meal in a restaurant without...

8 is an average so could be much more! Before I started with the libre i used to test a lot more. But just to give you a rough idea of how the 8 could be made from: 4 a day 3 meals plus bed. 1 before driving and 1 every two hours during driving. spoilt / errors. At least two per hypo...

I was prescribed statins a few years ago. It is on my repeat but I dont tick that particular box because I made a conscious descision not to take them. As wurst says there are other ways and using a mixture of these I have managed to keep my cholesterol ratio within range. Normally when I have...

Hi. Ellielou. How much insulin do you take a day and what are your carb ratios? There are some people on the forum that do have low insulin requirements and there are some who need a bit more. On the statin conundrum. I was put on the wonderdrugs called statins due to a high cholesterol years...

Ever since I received my new pump three weeks ago I have reduced my carb intake to try and make the insuin cartridges last longer. As part of that reduction I removed bread, most potatoes, I just had rosti for dinner tonight, and pasta from my diet. My carb total is about 120 a day. I have also...

@Clivethedrive I agree this would be the best solution and I tried to go LCHF but could not handle it. Any suggestions are much appreciated. Here is the related post. I have just gone and read your LCHF post. You have not failed. You just need to set yourself a realistic and achievable...

Hi chloe. I notice that is the second high reading before bed. Is that normal for you? Presuming your bg was normal before your evening meal bolus I would check your carb counting for your evening meal and your evening meal bolus ratio. p.s its good to see it is coming down but if we can stop...

I am not sure I would call the libre sensor non-invasive but taking the readings is certainly non-invasive. For me the main priorities with any bg measurement system are reliability, accuracy and cost. All the cgm type systems have a lag. Will your system also have a lag or will it be as up to...

My main reason for trying is I wanted to know what my blood glucose was doing in between my meter testing. Certainly for adjusting the basal on a pump using the libre or a cgm is soooo much easier than having to wake up very two hours to test! Of course you don't have to wear it use it all the...

Hi. In my mind presuming there are no other indirect 'butterfly effects' on the bg, there are two possible reasons. either your body is producing glucose because you are exercising hard or your are having a bg rebound due to an extreme low. If you can rule out the indirect effects I would...

The quickset infusion sets medtronic sold also used to fall off with sweat as well. I changed to the new roche pump 3 weeks ago and the glue they use on their infusion sets seems to work a treat. I changed the infusion set and the libre sensor this morning. Libre sensor fell off 4 hours later...

Thanks to Tim2000s for the tip I called Abbott this morning to get a replacement for the sensor that lasted only 4 hours after a particularly sweaty bike ride today. I queried the stickiness and was told they are looking at the stickiness issue including changing it. Apparently there are people...

I never used to but I have noticed on the last three that I have red circles marking the previous sites. And they are now sooooo itchy it makes my skin crawl.