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Over the last year I noticed floaters in my vision, which have never gone away since they started. Tests from opticians concluded it may not be diabetes and my eye screening simply resulted in a letter saying I had background retinopathy, which I already had. I mentioned floaters to the woman...

Yesterday I made Spaghetti Bolognese using the recipe from the Jamie Oliver book, Jamie's Ministry of Food. I started a bit late, so I only began to eat it at 8:15pm. On my pump, I gave 80% of the dose straight away and the other 20% for the next two hours. Due to the fact my BG was not going...

I got a Glucology pump belt for my Tandem T-Slim X2 but it wasn't very good. The weight of the pump caused the belt to slide down and, as there was no way of adjusting it, I've stopped using it. I go running quite a lot and currently just clip the pump to my shorts, but that doesn't feel...

Hi everyone, somehow I gave 20 units on my T-Slim X2. I've pressed 'Stop insulin' to prevent any further deliveries. I've just been sipping coke and have had a few high-sugar things to eat. Is this all I can do until it wares off?

I am coming up to the four-week mark for my T-Slim X2, the first pump I've been on in my twenty and a half years with Type 1 diabetes. The first few days were incredible. I couldn't believe how easy everything was and my average glucose was 6.7. But for some reason, it got worse after that...

I assume most people have seen this announcement. It includes the following: Omnipod 5 is now available on the NHS frameworks and Insulet is working with NHS Trusts to make Omnipod 5 available locally as rapidly as possible. You can check with your local diabetes team to see if the device will...

I have a cold and it seems my requirements have increased between 50 and 100%. It's absolute madness. So far today I've given 26 units of Novorapid, 12 units of Levemir, and the lowest it went was 9.8, and that was for about ten minutes. I don't even know what strategy I'm adopting now as it...

I have had several months of pretty good control but now I am struggling to get below the 10/11/12 range throughout the day. Some weird situations are happening. Yesterday, more than once it kept creeping up after initially heading down. I don't even know how many injections I did yesterday...

Recently, I have been having an experience where my levels follow this pattern: I have an evening meal. I give what I estimate to be 60-80% of the required dose. My BG then doesn't move. It might even go a bit lower. Over an hour later I think, maybe I don't need to give any more. But then...

I had a strange experience at the clinic today. The doctor was looking at my recent Libre data showing my average glucose of 7.4 and estimated HbA1C of about 47. She seemed a bit underwhelmed by these results and said I was going low too often. So that was a bit of an anti-climax. Then we got...

My control is the best it's ever been. My HbA1c is around 49/50 and has been for about the last six months. However, in the 19.5 years before that, my HbA1c was 53-57. I used to think it was impossible to do a better job than I was and I now know that was wrong. But I can't undo my substandard...

Recently I have been trying to get my levels in an overall lower state. My HbA1c has never officially been lower than 53 (NHS records) and has never been below 50 according to data from my Libre. I used to think 53 was "really good" but in retrospect I think the NHS does not set ambitious enough...

I've had type 1 nearly twenty years and have become very engaged with things in recent months, more engaged than any time previously. I feel like the general message from my clinic was that an HbA1c of 50-53 was really good, but then when you look it up on here or Diabetes UK it says it should...

Who here has seen Type One Talks? He has about 90k subscribers so is very popular. He mainly focuses on diet and fitness in relation to Type 1. I'm not sure quite what I make of him, though, because his message is the opposite of the message I gleaned after doing my first DAFNE course in 2007...

I have had an awful few days, which is particularly concerning since I am playing a Korfball match on Sunday and it needs to be in good shape going into that. My high glucose alarm went off at about 1am and the reading was 13.7, and I have three units. When I woke up at 6:30 it was 9.9 and I...

This evening, I thought it would be nice to go to my lovely, civilised, cosy local pub and have two pints of Charles Wells Dry Hopped Lager while reading a book. Obviously, for someone without diabetes this would be a very straightforward affair. You just go to the pub, have your two beers, then...

I've just had the email saying I need a booster jab. I've had three jabs in total, the last on 10th December, 2021. I've had Covid-19 twice, to my knowledge. Once in January 2022 and again at the start of this month. The first time was incredibly mild, the second time even milder than that. I...

This weekend I made myself an apple cake from Jamie's Italy with apples from my garden. This should have been nothing but a pleasant experience but has caused nothing but a diabetes disaster. Last night I had my evening meal quite late, which I know is bad, but there we are. I had spaghetti...

I do not have children yet but would like to. I read that the chance of a father passing Type 1 onto children is 9%, which is higher than the chance of the mother with Type 1. I have heard of men with children who, so far, don't have diabetes but if I was in a position to have children I'd be...

I've been giving the same amount of Levemir before bed for about a year now. I've had a Freestyle Libre since May 2016. There have been periods of a week or so when most nights have been in target. When that happens I think I've finally cracked it. Every now and again though, I just go off the...