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What Catapillar and diabell both said is correct in my experience I am type 1 and was prescribed victoza in addition to basal and bolus insulins. I tried the victoza because I have a high insulin resistance particularly at dawn and I am overweight. It did help to loose weight and slightly lower...

lot of good advice. A few people have said this already, but I constantly have issues with my GP's surgery. Whenever I run into problems I contact my DSN at the hospital who sends a strongly worded latter to the GP. My last battle was needles, I need to inject between 6 and 10 times a and a...

Lots of good advice being posted. You do obviously need to change one or more things with your regime. Whatever you try, take it one step at a time. Don't try to do several things at once or you will stay on the rollercoaster. Just change one thing and monitor well for a couple of days to see...

I think this is a case of semantics, terminology and over simplifaction by the medical profession. Yes Azure is right, you go into pregnancy with pre-existing type 1 diabetes. But something happens in pregnancy resulting in a decrease in insulin sensitivity. This is not due to the pre-existing...

I am not sure that I agree Azure. The two conditions have completely different underlying causes however share range of symptoms. Maybe I am being pedantic but it is a bit like saying that you can't catch a cold if you have flu, these also have two separate causes (completely different virus...

I would think that you can get both. My understanding is that gestational diabetes is pregnancy induced type 2/insulin resistence. So I guess you become insulin resistent during pregnancy and have to inject more insulin to control your BG. The dreaded double diabetes!

I tried it last year out of despiration to loose some weight. You will need to be careful. I was having hypos later in the evening and overnight following the low calorie day. I found that I could not keep to such low calorie day without a boost of carb (a slice of toast without fast acting)...

Hi Kimrooney. Have you done the dafne yet (or recently)? It is worth asking because you take a full week out of your busy schedule and concentrate solely on improving and understanding control. The course I was on was split between those who had been type 1 for 25 years or more and newbies. The...

I am in scotland and was given a sensor prior to attending a dafne course so I could get some valuable data in the week running upto the course (I normally self fund, but could not get new sensors in time through the post). Thanks you NHS Scotland! Whilst on the course, we had a newbie who was...

Yep. I'm type 1 and stubbornly insulin resistant, suffer from extreme dawn phenomenon and yes also overweight. I find my insulin resistent is very different at different points during the day. I have just been on a dafne course and the DSNs were great in helping me to work out appropriate ratios...

I understand your frustration, especially if you are a well controlled and responsible driver. However it is law that all drivers have to declare insulin use or any condition/illness that impairs our ability to drive. We as diabetics are not being singled out for unfair treatment (I know some...

My understanding is that the DVLA do not accept the sensor device yet there is insufficient evidence on accuracy. This was also the advice given on the DAFNE course I attended a couple of weeks ago as well. Certainly the first 24 hours after applying the sensor, the readings can be erratic. I...

I use one too. It is not perfect yet and you can't use it for testing before driving. But it is fantastic at identifying trends and dead handy for quickly checking BG. I love mine and it has really help me to improve control. I hope that you get on well with it.

The same happened to me when I started treatment. Fortunately the doctor warned me it might happen becuase it was an extreme shift in my vision which happened overnight and I would have been terrified. One day I had good close up vision, next next I literatally could not read a thing on my works...

Well done to her for having a go. Although we all must all take responsibility for our own health, if you live, cook and eat together as a family, you also have responsibility to try and look after and support each other. You are a team. So hat off to your missus.

I find that the reading are inaccurate for the first 24 h, then they improved and are generally no more than about 0.3mmol out thereafter.

Totally agree. Avoid the 'itol' sugar free sweets. My mother in law bought me a huge box of thorntons diabetic chocolates for the 1st christmas since diagnosis. Very delicious and thoughtful of her. I over indulged one night and ate 4 choccies, just 4! The result was a rumbling, rolling...

Hi Isjoberg I attend the diabetes clinic at the Royal Edinburgh Infirmary. The diabetes team there have put together this advice booklet '10 steps for improving type 1 diabetes control'. I personally have found it very useful and use it as a reference guide for whenever I need to improve my...

Thanks for the reply Kristin. I do a little better in the working week when I am and organised to pack a lunch. I'm gonna try harder.

Hi Brendan, I read your post with interest. I have just been prescribed Victoza. I am type 1 but struggle with weight and insulin resistence. I am not sure exactly what criteria was ticked to allow them to prescribe this drug to me, but I do know that I am unusual ( the only type 1 at the...