Hi Sam, thanks. Yes at the moment I've started the diary writing again, but really there isn't a pattern with regards to what I'm eating. For example I could work at 8grams per unit of insulin which is my tea time ratio and one day I could eat fish and chips (like the other day) and my sugar levels rise to 19.9mmol although another day I take exactly the same amount of insulin for the same food and I'll have a hypo three hours later, despite the fact I haven't really done anything differently. My diabetes nurse has told me I'm doing everything I can and she can't understand why my blood sugars are so erratic. Also with the new insulin analogues they are supposed to minimise night time hypos but mine doesn't. I have been told to take 20 units of night insulin, which sometimes works i.e. this morning my fasting sugar was 8.9mmol from about 11mmol last night, however I could take 20 units tonight and my sugars could be 11mmol but I will have a hypo at 11 at night or 3 in the morning - I have not done any extra exercise however this is how it is sometimes. Also I might take 16 mmol of night insulin if my sugars are 5.4mmol at night as I don't want them to go any lower but often they will, some other times my fasting sugars will be higher though than when I went to bed i.e. around 12mmol. I also often find I will have to snack at night despite the fact I'm tired and full from tea and I detest that with a passion, having to force feed myself a sandwich at 11 at night because I may or may not have a hypo is not how I want to live the rest of my life. I can't explain this and neither can my DSN which is why they want to stick the monitor on me. However my monitor was faulty so I had to dismantle it Friday and I couldn't come back into work as I already had time off for the diabetic clinic and physio that morning so at the moment I am writing a diary but without the monitor and hopefully they can decipher something from that.