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It is nearly 4 years since my double transplant which is working fine, anyone who has read some of my posts will know that it has not been easy with the damage the diabetes had already done. A brief recap after the transplant we found out that all my nerves were damaged, issues with bladder and...

I am just in my 40's and found my most difficult time of being a diabetic was through these years. At 14 your body is changing, school exams, people who do not know about diabetes can leave you feeling isolated and peer pressure, this goes on as your life changes i.e getting a job, uni, alcohol...

I have been on this forum and am angry with the way that people who get type 1 seem to be getting very little help from hospitals and GP's. I have read that people are in hospital for 24 hours given their insulin dose and sent home with a leaflet. then they are waiting weeks to see different...

I have had a very strange week, yesterday the 17th of April it was my sons 13th birthday but also it was 3 years since my kidney and pancreas transplant. On the surface i have to act happy with it being his birthday and i missed his 10th but it takes me back to the 16/04/15 when at 6:40 am my...

I was watching a program on how the government fine hospitals if they have to readmit a person within 30 days of last been in hospital( i may be wrong on the time frame). We see on a daily basis that the NHS is at breaking point and fining them seems to to me rather stupid,, in the last budget...

Well here we are 2018 i thought i would have a look back on 2017 and see what has happened, in 2016 i had 62 appointments with some kind of medical team and i am pleased to say that in 2017 i have had 67 so well done me beating my own record i think Mrs May may have me killed to ease the health...

I think Mr Hunt is a robot because you only see him once a month if your lucky and he is the only person outside the tory party who thinks the NHS is running fine. He must not read the newspapers or watch TV as it is in them daily and he must have skin like leather, I think he would be great on...

I am 41 years old and a single father with 2 children and was hoping to see if it is harder to get out on a few dates. The thing is that i was a diabetic for 36 years until 2015 when i had a Spk transplant and i have had eye ops, ops on my hands and elbow and the transplant. I now suffer pain...

When i was last in Spain i found it so hot that i was sweating that much that the sticky bit that keeps the infusion in your leg would come away, so i was disconnected from my pump. This happened the first 2 nights i was there so i had to find some medical tape and before bed i would wipe around...

Is it just me or is this government trying to bury the NHS, after the budget no pay increase for our NHS which will lead to staff leaving there jobs as they cannot afford to put food on the table. Hospitals are full and understaffed is this how these people should be treated, some people cannot...

This is one of my biggest problems with people who do not understand diabetes, When you tell tell them you are a diabetic and they say so you can't have sugar then, at times i have to walk away before i say some thing. Would these people say to someone in the army who had lost a leg, so you only...

Over the many years of being a diabetic i have had a few strange questions about my diabetes such as can i catch diabetes if i kiss you, on having bloods taken are you scared of needles or one of my favorite is when my father comes with me as he is in a wheelchair, come in Mr Wilson your son can...

I had a pancreas and kidney transplant in April of 2015, the transplant went well but what the diabetes had damaged in side was then found out. I will not bore you with the details as i could be on for a day or two. When i was ready to leave hospital i had all my tablets and a sheet of when to...

I was sent to the hospital by my GP to the admissions ward and when I got there was no beds so was sent to A and E(blood hi, keytones 2.9 and vomiting). I was seen by triage nurse who asked what was a matter told her and was sent out and told that I would see a doctor in about an hour. In time...

I had to go into hospital on Tuesday. I went to my GP with BM off the scale and keytones 2.9. I was also vomiting and new that I was in trouble. My GP phoned the University of North Durham(this is my closest hospital) and they said that as my diabetic care was at Newcastle that I had to go...