@redjobo , many of us get frustrated with T1 because it's so damned unpredictable.
You can spend ages carb counting, calculating doses, accounting for x,y,z, but it'll still throw a blinder, so people sometimes end up saying what's the point.
I've felt like that at times, but one thing which made a big difference for me was getting a Freestyle Libre about a year ago.
Unlike strips, which just give a little snapshot, libre shows the full picture and gives lots of steers on how bg is moving. It just makes it so much easier to see a possible hypo coming and do something about it in advance to stop it happening. Lots of other uses too.
It gives me a much stronger sense of being able to steer and guide my T1 instead of it being in control of me and me having to react to it.
It's the sense of not being in charge that leads to burnout. Being able to see and proactively deal with changing bg with libre gives control back. I'm content with my T1 now.
It's £100 per month privately, but there's some stuff going on at the moment about them being free on the NHS, but no-one knows for sure how that's going to pan out.
Plus, there's a way of tweaking it to send results to a fancy phone app called xDrip+ Give a boy a new toy and there's a fair chance he'll show an interest
