Don't worry too much about dka going forward.
I've been T1 for 31 yrs and have been dka once, at diagnosis, when a junior doctor sent me home, saying I just had "exam stress", missing the most obvious case ever of undiagnosed T1 - he got an absolute kicking from the senior docs!
I've still got vague memories of dreaming about bananas and giraffes before becoming unconscious - no idea what that was about!
DKA normally presents at dx, in cases of T1s in denial who don't inject insulin, and folks using insulin pumps which detach.
It's absolutely not a regular occurrence in day to day T1 life - like I say, once in 30 yrs for me at dx- so don't sweat it, that's behind you, it's unlikely to ever happen again unless you do something stoopid like not taking insulin.
Yes, that's totally understandable - hypos are the bane of our life. Try to remember that the dividing line between a good bg at 5 and a bad bg at below 4 is quite narrow. At 5, there's only about 1 gram of glucose per litre of blood, below 4, it's not much less, but still enough to kick adrenaline responses into action. Most minor hypos don't need several Mars bars or pints of lucozade to sort them - often, 2 or 3 dextrotabs will be enough, and that will be enough to get you out of the hypo and save you from going sky high. But be cautious in these early days - better to go higher a bit till you get used to it.
It's your first, so I'll let you off with this! Attaching the sensor involves a big needle stabbing your body and leaving a foreign thing inside it. The body fights back with repair and defence mechanisms, both of which chew up glucose, so readings can be really sketchy on day one. Longer term users have figured out that we get better results by attaching the sensor a day or so before activating it to give the body responses time to settle down.
Libre is good on its own, but many of us are attaching a transmitter, MiaoMiao, to it. It sends readings every 5 mins to an android phone app, xDrip+, so we get a continuous trace of what our bg has been doing, and can set up alerts to make the phone ring if bg is dropping too low or going too high.
It makes a huge difference in making T1 "steerable", and having that reassurance of knowing my phone will ring if I'm getting too low is priceless.
Here's the links if you want to explore that route:
www.miaomiao.cool
https://jamorham.github.io/
Lol, Lynnz, carbs can be a controversial subject on this forum! T1 and T2 biology are different. Some carbs, like baked potatoes, brown rice and buckwheat can actually stabilise my bg levels a lot as a T1, whereas they would be a nightmare for T2s. Libre will help you figure this stuff out.
Thea Cooper's book, Breakthrough, about the discovery of insulin back in 1922 is well worth a read for getting things into perspective.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breakthrough-Thea-Cooper/dp/0312611749
T1 is a tough gig, but when I read about the horrors which T1s faced in those early days, I really can't complain.
You might also be interested to note that insulin was discovered in Canada, and from my point of view, posting from Scotland, the main players had a Scottish background and, as we Scots do, argued a lot!
