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    Type 1 Bloods won’t come down

    What are your ketones doing? it could just be your hungry
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    Avoiding the lantus drop

    almonds are good for overnight stability
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    Is it possible to still be in "honeymoon" 2 years on?! Unexplained hypos.

    You are not a commodity to be budgeted for you are a complex mechanism that was finely balanced and doing fine... They should not change what you do to suit themselves , but do stuff to suit you... they need your permission to do anything ... stick to your guns... go back and tell them to put...
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    Neuropathy? Pains

    @Freema is that a prescription thing or a holland and barrat thing? Obviously willing to try anything at this time!
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    Neuropathy? Pains

    I have painful neuropathy... I started as miss diagnosed type 2 and was praised for the tiny hairs on my toes (I am not hairy at all) as it meant my peripheral circulation was good. But on sept 2 2016 I have DKA and nearly (5 minutes to go) died. Parts of me died or where at least ischemic, like...
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    Can I take an extra metformin

    i wish my readings where 7 all day... metformin does not lower your blood sugars, it stops your liver making glucose to help get things under control, you need to get your carb intake under control, when enough rather than too much is taken in the liver will not need to make glucose and you...
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    Practice Nurse at GP docs advises not to test BS levels

    you would think having all that sugar available would be a good thing... I measured 29.7 on the day my pancreas gave up the ghost and I nearly did too! Take care of your self
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    metformin

    Metformin is used to reduce or prevent the liver from producing glucose, which it does to enable the body to function correctly, if you reduce your glucose intake too much the liver will compensate. So get control of your carbs and you should not need the metformin (or metfartin as we call it...
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    Practice Nurse at GP docs advises not to test BS levels

    If you live life at a sugary 29, then you will feel **** when you are lower (at first) so try to get down easily rather than push to be at 7 instantly. when you have a meter and you feel shaky and/or hungry you will be able to see if it's just the richness of your previous diet or really a time...
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    How to avoid pain while injecting the insulin injection ?

    I see no-one has suggested the safety needles, these hurt less because they suddenly put the needle in and the time to worry about the pain is away before you can really think about it!... that sounds odd I know but it seems to be true. When my 3 year old bestest nurse uses the safety needles I...
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    What Meter to go for?

    @BeccaScott there have been a few mentions of accu check mobile, if this is your machine of choice please contact me and I will send you a limited edition pink faced one, that I got when checking around in a previous thread about type 2s wanting to test, we get these things for free in scotland...
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    Forgetting if I took insulin?

    To answer the question about forgetting to take evening dose of lantus or not sure, you will know in the morning when you have a high reading, so take half your evening dose 1st thing and half again at noon and the normal dose in the evening, you will probably be fine with the little extra in...
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    Forgetting if I took insulin?

    I am a do it your selfer... problem solver to trade... so do not do this unless you are absolutely happy with everything. I am a Novopen 5 user and also need lantus... loving the Novopen 5, I worked out why the Lantus did not fit and amended the system to suit. (1) the lantus cartridge is a...
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    solution no problem (1) remove the label (2) take orange screw end off the Nova rapid (3)get a...

    solution no problem (1) remove the label (2) take orange screw end off the Nova rapid (3)get a coloured band from electric toothbrush head place naked, screw topped cartridge into holder and follow it with coloured ring hey presto a nova 5 pen firing lantus whoo hoo
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    hi, I also use Nova rapid and lantus I have 2 nova 5 pens one silver the other blue great for...

    hi, I also use Nova rapid and lantus I have 2 nova 5 pens one silver the other blue great for differentiating between NR and lantus. The problem is the lantus does not fit the Nova 5 pen (1)cartridge is a little thicker (2) screw end missing (3) cartridge is shorter solution follows...