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My name is Ken and I have been diagnosed as being Type 2 Diabetic for just over 2 years, although I am pretty sure I have been living with it a whole lot longer.

I am a insulin user (once a day injection) and struggling to diet without hypo's. It's getting me down greatly.

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Hi Ken, welcome to the forum 🙂 What insulin are you using? Do you take a fixed dose, and have you considered changing if you are having hypos? Needs can change for a variety of reasons, so it's not unusual to have to adjust from time to time 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum, Bear / Ken.

Has the person who prescibed your insulin explained about adjusting doses depending on things like activity, infection, weather, stress, food intake (food not so relevant with once a day insulin) etc?

Forum will be a bit quieter than usual today, due to planned IT maintenance, by the way.
 
Hi Ken welcome, you will find lots of friendly and helpful people on here. I would definately speak to whichever dr is seeing you or the nurse at your diabetic clinic is always there to help and advise you as well. Look forward to chatting with you TinTin
 
Sorry for the delay and thank you for the welcome.
I take Lantus, today I dropped the dose to 50. In the past 10 days I have dropped it from 100 - 90, 90 - 70, 70 - 60 and now at 50.

I booked in with the nurse who looks after me and apparently I am not having hypo's but all of the symptoms. At any reading below 5.0 I get the sweaty shakes and feel awful.
She told me that "normal" blood sugar is 4 - 7mmol/L, so when I had a reading of 3.8mmol/L last night and I felt sweaty shakes and awfulness it was a hypo.
My latest HbA1c is 8.2% which over the past two years has come down from 10.3%
 
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Hi Ken you are doing so well, I hope you get used to new and improved blood sugars soon, the hypo feeling is not so nice. I feel hypo at 4 and so far have kept mine at about 7 but I am trying to go lower as well. I hope you feel better soon !🙂
 
That's quite a reduction in lantus over such a short space of time! As the nurse explained to you, readings above 4.0 mmol/l are not true hypos, but they can nevertheless give you all the symptoms. If you have had high levels for some time then your brain sends out panic signals when your levels start dropping lower. As you become more accustomed to the lower levels you should not get the symptoms until you have readings below 4.0.
 
Welcome to the forum Ken 🙂
 
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