Hi Happyholly
Great you've sussed out what works for you. You've been diagnosed 4 years and I'm assuming you're on analogue insulins. These are NOT insulin and for many people are unpredictable and don't act as "real" insulin should; perhaps at fault is the release mechanisms of the long-acting type, Lantus is particularly suspect;and the rapid action of Humalog, Novorapid & Apidra, more likely to cause unexpected and sudden hypos, and not like natural "human" insulin at all.
I find it infuriating that type-1s are diagnosed, put on these medications, told it's insulin, and therefore expect it to act as insulin should. Medical professionals give standard advice, suchas Daphne courses on the presumption that these analogue insulins are working the same for every person. That is not the case. Just like any medication, people will react differently. Medical professionals also seem blind to the associated side-effects of analogue insulins, one of these side-effects is the failure of them to work in a predictable way, no matter how much the patient persists, leading to huge frustration, and often resulting in a diagnosis of insulin resistance :?
Liver dumping ???? Not sure I believe in this phenomenon and await to be proved wrong, but it's certainly something I have never experienced and never heard of in 21 years of being a type-1 until very recently :?: . That's with 15 of those years being on synthetic "human" insulin, and 4 years on Lantus. I suspect it's a term made-up the medics to explain away the failure of anlaogue insulins. You either have insulin working or you don't, and if it's not working, change it.
People need to wake up and smell the sugar-free coffee
Jus