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Hi. I have had Type 1 for about 18 years now. Here for about the past week, my sugars have been within the "normal range" without next to any insulin at all! I have been taking my usual night shot of Lantus, which is 13 units before bed. I eat like I normally do so I don't understand why...

Hey guys...I have been trying so hard for the past few days to not eat too much of my Halloween candy(i will never be too old for trick or treating!!! everrr!!) because I know it makes my BGs high..but like anyone else theres always that temptation...I try to look up the carbs in my best friend, when...

Hey All, My name is Adam and I work for diaTribe (www.diatribe.us), an online newsletter for people with diabetes. I just wanted to let all of you know that we've just released a new report, Targeting a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes: How Long Will We Have to Wait ? It's available as a free download...

I've never really had a boyfriend or a girlfriend, and I was just wondering if anyone had any advice. Should I give a guy who asks me out the whole long description of what diabetes is before a first date? Is that too much? Should I just warn him that I might go low or high and tell him about the...

Hello, Everyone, I'm a two-month old Type 1 (diagnosed mid-January), and am on a ferocious learning curve, trying to soak up as much as I can. Last night I was reading on the web about the problems with meter accuracy. I realize they advertise they may be as much as 20% off, but that's a heckuva...

Hey guys! I was wondering if 1. Any of you DON'T wake up to your pump alarm at night? 2. How do you wake up or what do you do to wake up to it? Thanks! My mom said I can't get the basement bedroom unless i can mabye wake up to my alarm and treat it. We'll see!\ Thanks again!!!!!!! Olivia

My mom wakes up every night to check my blood sugar around 2 or 3 am. It wakes me up and most of the time my blood sugar is fine and nothing really has to be done. I've gone really low twice in the middle of the night and both of those times I have woken up, it hasn't been her who has checked...

i just found out that drinking lots of water helps to reduce blood sugars, and now i know how it does that yahoo.

I've posted World Diabetes Day pix and links to my Facebook and MySpace pages. I also uploaded WDD, JDRF, CureDiabetes and WHO Diabetes photos on each of these site as well as my SparkPeople pages. I also e-mailed family and friends telling them of World Diabetes Day. I also sent a Facebook Friend...

Hey, guys. I'm new to juvenation, new to diabetes (3 weeks). I could really use some advice. My problem is the finger-pricks. It used to be easy for me, just CLICK and the blood would come. But lately, it seems I'm either feeling nothing and getting no blood or getting blood but paying the price...

Hi, my name is Caitlin and I am new to this site. I wanted somewhere where I could talk to other diabetics since I dont have any friends that have it...I was diagnosed on March 20th after being in the hospital for a week due to my super high blood sugar of 680. So far I havent had many problems I'm...

This evening I was thinking and that made me think (seriously); I wondered how much of my time is spent worrying about Nikki's blood sugars and then worrying about whether or not I'm doing all the things necessary to help her become a healthy, successful and independent young lady - That's...

I've literally been low all day. Woke up at 86, which was alright - especially since I fell asleep at 3AM at 75. Then I ate breakfast, bolused, went grocery shopping, and when I tested in the grocery store (after staring at the crackers, convinced I was just missing the graham crackers and if I kept...

Been way way way too busy to casually surf the internet, so I haven't been here on Juvenation much lately. And obviously haven't posted anything here lately. But here I am, and here's my day: Sugar's a little high this a.m. Light breakfast and off I go. Rode my bike in to the office today...

It happens to me every time i go on a crazy ride at the fair or carnival.

So I have this problem where my blood sugar to sky rocket, and it takes me FOREVER to get them back down. It's not always enough to just check and give a correction of insulin. And it's also frusturting because my doctor doesn't really know whats going on with it at the moment. He has me...

For much of my life I've been a skinny guy. At one time, for a long time, I was too skinny. People would talk about my needing to put some meat on my bones. Then about ten years ago I mention to my doc how I was draggin' my butt, had no energy, etc. He decides to test my thryoid and - bingo....

I don't know what's going on with my sugar levels the past few days. Looking at my meter, my overall average is 138 in the past 7 days, and 141 for the past 14 days. This is pretty good. It's of course, not the full picture, but it's a nice view. It's not surprising because I don't...