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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azure" data-source="post: 1010147" data-attributes="member: 39639">Welcome <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Let me tag [USER=25759]@daisy1[/USER] for you as she has some helpful info for people who are newly diagnosed <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Yes, diabetes is a massive life change, and it is hard work having to control it all day every day. It takes a while to get your head round the whole thing, so it's still early days for you. It does get easier and you'll find you'll feel more like yourself as time passes.It sounds like you're maybe having 'false hypos' at 5 or 6. They can be frightening and unpleasant, even if you know they're false. If you think about it, before you developed diabetes, you'd have had a blood sugar around 5 all day and you felt fine. It's only the fact that your blood sugar has been so high that's making you feel awful at normal levels.My advice is to test your blood sugar if you feel weak or faint so you can see whether to treat it or not. If it's a genuine hypo a sugary drink is a good choice, but if it's not then it'll just push your levels high again.No one will scream at you. The first few months are hard, and, added to that, some people have a 'honeymoon' where their body still makes a little insulin if it's own on and off, so that can make it harder to keep control or be able to predict what might happen with your sugars.</blockquote>

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