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Hi, I've just been set up with the Dexcom G6 at the hospital this morning and other than getting it stuck on me the nurse didn't show me anything about how the app actually works. Is there a way to force a reading or do I have to just sit and wait for a reading every 10 minutes? If I'm having a...

Yes but its used here as an estimation of your socio-economic situation in a similar way that they use BMI as a health indicator without actually taking into account if you're a very muscular weightlifter or not.

I've received my email from "[email protected]". It seems to have been sent centrally from the NHS shielding programme and not directly from my GP or from the hospital where I see my diabetes specialists. The email says they will be contacting my GP to...

Hmm yes it seems like it could be the postcode lottery, I'm registered in a fairly dodgy postcode in Brixton (not that there's many non-dodgy postcodes in Brixton!).

On the other hand I've also got my vaccine booked in for next weekend 27th Feb, which seems surprisingly early. I knew being Type 1 I'd be in the next band to get the vaccine, but since there's over 7 million people in the 'High risk adults' group I was expecting it to take a while to be...

Hi, I got an email today from the NHS saying I need to shield as they have expanded who needs to shield. I'm a bit surprised to be honest as my only health issue is that I have type 1 diabetes and I don't fall into any other risk categories. I'm female, aged 32, fairly active, BMI of 24, last...

Thanks both! Though you've both talked a bit more about basal than bolus - was the insulin to carb ratio that much lower though, i.e. almost 60%? I guess if it's wrong I will just adjust it. Yes I definitely want to start conservatively as I am pretty active - cycle 10k each way to work, ran it...

Hi, I am starting my first pump next Monday and have gone for the Omnipod. The hospital has set me up with everything from this Monday and I am wearing a real pump filled with saline solution so I can get used to wearing it and changing it etc before going live next week. We have already...

That was the main reason I decided not to reapply mine for my holiday to avoid that tan issue! Almost entirely for vanity haha. Seeing the fairly extreme level of tan-bikini I currently have I am very glad I made that decision - I am a completely new shade of deep brown where before I was pasty...

Thank you, this sounds exactly like what i need! My last one that was coming off after 3/4 days eventually stayed on the whole 2 weeks with repeated reapplication of basic tape from the pharmacy that pretty much almost came off any time i so much as thought about going near a shower. My new...

Hi, sorry if this has been covered extensively before but this thread is so long now I don't know where to look! Just on my 2nd Libre patch, only on day 3 and I can see one side of it has come unstuck. What is the best thing to use to keep it stuck in place if the adhesive on it isn't working...

I don't drink fizzy drinks (hate the bubbles, feels like acid burning my mouth!!!) But I have had similar things happen in Starbucks as they do sugar free syrups, so in the summer I will get a sugar-free vanilla syrup iced latte rather than their frappés. I try to always double check my order...

HI, Thanks for your input but having maybe 2u more at 4:30 really doesn't explain how my blood sugar was dropping so much for the following 7 hours, and usually having 3 large glasses of juice would make your bs skyrocket, not keep falling! My bs is definitely higher today because of illness...

Hi, I had a really odd bout of hypoglycemia yesterday that appears to be totally unexplained and so it was pretty scary - wanted to see if anyone had experienced it before or had ideas of what was going on! So yesterday I had my regular breakfast and lunch - during the working week I have...

Re: Diabetic son will not stop eating high sugar and high ca Hi, can I please encourage you NOT to put a picture of an amputee in he bathroom, I can completely understand how your son is feeling and that is just going to **** him off even more! And that's only going to make him less likely to...

I know it's not what the professionals say to do but the only way I can do excercise is to deliberately raise my blood sugars beforehand. For example the other day I did less insulin with my lunch so it was 14 1hr before excercising, then I had a small bowl of cereal with no insulin so they were...

Sorry, just realised my post was a bit too centred on the Chessington post rather than the general issue, I suppose there are some times that you do need a bit of a hand with things. Would any of you think it's taking the p**s to use the disabled loo to get some privacy for an injection? I do...

Hahaha and to think when I clicked on this link I thought this was going to be about waiting in the queue for the loo at a restaurant if you just wanted to inject in private! In which case I would have said - it is kinda a disability, so use the disabled loo for the 20s it takes to shoot up...

11 years and no, never even passed out or anything... but that could be because my levels ain't often on the low side. I guess it depends on how good hypo awareness you have, I ALWAYS wake up if I hypo at night, and I know if I'm hypo in the day and start seeing orange blobs then I need to do...