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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paigerobbo_x" data-source="post: 1441967" data-attributes="member: 390493">Hi [USER=391791]@Caoimhe123[/USER][emoji173]️I'm Paige and I was recently diagnosed with type 1. I'm only 11 (so that's quite a big age difference) but gradually, my bg levels are starting to become more normal. I'm not going to go into detail of how I was diagnosed, but when I was, my GP didn't really want to do anything. It was only on my mums insistence that my bg was tested. It came out at 32. I was sent straight to hospital and have been on insulin injections since then. My bloods stayed quite high at first (between 24 and 32) and on a few occasions, my bg testing machine just said 'hi' and gave me no results. After a few more weeks, my blood started to come down to between 11 and 17. And now, I'm finally becoming back to normal, having bloods in between 5 and 8 (occasionally higher). As long as you keep taking your insulin and the advice of the nurses from hospital, your blood will come down and will become more 'normal'. And finally, I would just like to say, be careful whilst looking out for hypo symptoms. Every person is different. The hospital will have probably told you that a hypo is when your bg is below 4, but everyone is different. I have hypos when my blood is around 4.6 and lower. Just make sure you know the symptoms and know when to treat it. I'm happy to help and give any advice even though I'm a lot younger haha[emoji175]</blockquote>

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