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    Steroid injection for trigger finger?

    I have a frozen shoulder. The physio said I would usually be offered a steroid injection, and she would still be happy to do that if I got permission from my diabetes consultant. Diabetes doc said no problem, you're capable of adjusting your insulin. Not sure if I'm going to ask for it, as I'm...
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    Type 2 b/s 19 loss of consciousness

    When I was on basal pen insulin my main error was forgetting I had already injected, and giving a second dose. It becomes apparent what you've done one to two hours later as your blood glucose goes into a permanent downwards slide. My main interfering comorbidities are gastroparesis and...
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    Type 2 b/s 19 loss of consciousness

    @EllieM This particular group was teenage boys, who got to see a doctor once a year and one group meeting. Add to that the testing to see what your glucose levels were was to go pee on a tablet, and you got an inaccurate result that told you what your results were a few hours ago. They were...
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    Type 2 b/s 19 loss of consciousness

    My step grandfather was inducted into his diabetes procedures with a group of lads in the 1950s. (Yes, they separated males and females, possibly because the age group was from eight to eighteen). They used to meet up again once a year. By the tenth year 5 out of 11 of them had died from insulin...
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    Type 2 b/s 19 loss of consciousness

    And sometimes it's simply not possible to come off insulin at all. Making a mistake with a basal can be more dangerous than with a bolus. To a certain extent, if you overdose a bolus you eat an extra amount of carbs, and hope that fixed it. If you overdose on basal you then have up to 24+ hrs...
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    Type 2 b/s 19 loss of consciousness

    The reason many of us are scared of going hypo and unconscious is that the effects are potentially so severe. If the brain is not getting enough glucose it shuts down the body, this is becoming unconscious. If the liver does not kick in and dump a load of glycogen (which can happen due to...
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    Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HOT)

    My mother had HOT on the NHS as part of an experimental therapy for Multiple Sclerosis. It did absolutely nothing for her, nor for any of the twentyish fellow MS sufferers. Why a hospital in Sheffield (landlocked) had a large device most commonly used to treat divers, I don't know.
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    Lipo lumps

    I did have. Huge solid regions on my belly. I was the example trotted out to show new doctors starting their diabetes courses what lipo looked and felt like. Went onto the pump, and five years later it's all gone. It's not just the number of injections, there's also how much you inject, so if...
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    Insulin / silly MP

    I wrote an irate email saying I didn't realise there was a 100% death rate for women who didn't receive HRT. This is the answer I got back " Thank you for your email regarding recent media activity on the current HRT shortages. I note your concerns with the comparison made to insulin for...
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    Automated repeat prescription

    I've set my calender to bug me every 30 days, then I go online and order the repeat prescription, wait - should be 48 hrs but our pharmacy is slow, then pick-up from the pharmacy. They would deliver if the GP agrees I would struggle to get to the pharmacy. I can leave notes for the surgery, the...
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    PIP & Diabetes

    Done and done. Tribunal is week on Friday. The letter from my consultant gave other possibilities, including injecting every two hours, day and night, and trying anti allergy treatment for insulin. So my choice was being permanently awake or being under watch in hospital for a month or using a...
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    PIP & Diabetes

    It's the principle though. My diabetes consultant has decided a pump is medically necessary to treat my diabetes, but the assessor decided it was an optional choice I made for convenience. The assessor was a mental health nurse, and her opinion was taken over that of a specialist consultant. WRONG
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    PIP & Diabetes

    No, it's meant to be how you are affected, not what conditions have you got. One of the questions you score points on in the PIP questionnaire is needing aids or devices to manage medication. I'm allergic to all basal insulins I have tried, so can only receive basal insulin through a pump. The...
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    PIP & Diabetes

    Extremely bad luck. Currently waiting for my second tribunal. Amongst other things, the DWP don't accept an insulin pump as a necessary device for managing medicine, according to my assessor it's a choice not a necessity.
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    4.4 morning reading

    296 is only marginally high, most doctors would not diagnose diabetes on the strength of one slightly high test, particularly if you have abnormal haemoglobin, which is known to move test values. Did they adjust for albumin? That's a lovely insulin response. For comparison, my sugar level would...
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    HBA1c over 100 what criteria do I need for a pump

    Please keep talking to us. If we can help we will. Have you been shown how to get your basal insulin levels right? This should have been your first step when being taught about the basal/bolus regime. To have sugar levels always above 20 suggests your background/basal insulin needs adjusting...
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    HBA1c over 100 what criteria do I need for a pump

    If you can't get your sugars headed the right way on mdi, then giving you a pump may make your condition worse, and may increase your risk of severe hypos and hypers. Your diabetes team will need convincing a pump will help and not endanger you. You know that with bg above 20 you are suffering...
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    Medical exemptions for prescriptions

    I don't care if they have to be seen dancing in pink leotards and tutus. If the GP surgery doesn't put your welfare first and continues to prescribe unnecessary drugs, then they can rely on me to put my health above their politics and refuse to take them. It would make so much more sense if the...
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    Medical exemptions for prescriptions

    I assumed that the medical exemption from payment applied to the patients who needed a specific medication either to stay alive, or to prevent guaranteed deterioration of their health. So type ones need insulin to live, medical exempted type twos need drugs to stop damage from high bg. Could be...
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    Shipping insulin to the UK? Insane script costs for visitors

    Wow. Not only do they not have the insulin that I use, but the prices are gob-smackingly expensive. I'm spoilt I know because my insulin is 'free', but those prices would be a significant proportion of my income. I would guess the contribution to the UK nhs would be a standard prescription...