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Been in hospital recently with DKA honestly was horrific as you could imagine, finally home and doing well now. On a break from the pump for a bit and going to be using pens for a few weeks.

Does anyone have any issues with where they insert a cannula? Since I’ve had the pump I’ve always used my stomach because the cannulas don’t stay in my leg. I was thinking of trying my back but people say it gets quite uncomfortable.

Hba1c has gone up slightly. 8.3 now was 8.1 last time. But I know with doing more insulin and more tests I can get back into the 7’s[emoji4].

Wearing dexcom starting from today![emoji4]

I keep getting dizzy and feeling like I’m going to pass out. I was walking around in school and I suddenly just went dizzy and kept swaying from side to side. I felt like I was going to pass out for no reason

Got ketones of 3.7 :( but on a positive I’m feeling okay now!

I’m currently 15 years old and still with the children’s paediatrics diabetes team. However I am 16 next year and I know that at the age of 18 I move to the adult clinic when I turn 16 am I still with the children’s or do I move?

Hi, So tonight I had a hypo of 3.2 and I treated with 3 glucotabs and I retested still 3.3. Waited again still 3.3. I finally came back up to 4.2 then after 15 minutes to make sure everything is okay I checked. I had dropped to 2.8 so I had 2 more glucotabs and my bloods are now 5.7 Does this...

So if I’m testing my bloods and I’m hypo. I treat with glucose tabs or sweets etc. I retest and I’m still low[emoji849]. Does anyone else take ages to come back up?

Hi, my bloods have been good lately however I’m experiencing a lot of hypos 2-3 a day sometimes 4. However I don’t feel them until I test when I had dropped into the 1’s I didn’t even know. I also can’t seem to be bringing them back up for about 45 minutes :( any advice? Megan x

After a stressful few weeks/ months with improving my work in lessons and mocks and tears. As well as a stressful time with my diabetes and dka a replacement pump etc... anyway so I’ve been improving with the coke I know it’s still not good but I’m down to one sugary drink a day (bolusing for...

With school stress and things going on at home. It’s all impacting my diabetes really I can’t sleep at night I’m feeling really upset and down too. I’ve made the worse choice and started drinking coke again[emoji24]I really wish I didn’t do it. I’m bolusing for everything I have including the...

I spoke to Roche yesterday about my pump and the cartridge having condensation around it. They said to clean out the cartridge area around the piston rod so I did and this morning it’s came back. My pump is being taken back for investigation because it’s affected my blood sugars and there...

I’ve had the pump for just under 2 months and I have had ketones 4 times since. Wednesday I had to go to hospital at 11:30 at night and Thursday I had my appointment. I have a better hba1c on the pump and don’t get me wrong I love it and the amount of freedom it provides. However the ketones...

I know this may sound stupid but are you allowed to wear the pump (tubing part) in the exam or will they ask you to remove it? I’m just asking because I know they ask you to hand in phones etc

I changed my cannula today and it started bleeding and stinging what does this mean?

Trialling the insight pump for 2 weeks today hopefully i like it and it goes well[emoji5]

I’m in year 10 at school now and my mocks are coming up and I’ve been trying to revise for them I’ve also experienced not wanting to test or do needles anymore because I’m really tired of diabetes[emoji30][emoji52]

I'm trying the pump next month to see if I like it and hopefully I will I have the choice of an accu check pump or the omnipod does anyone have any suggestions of which one?

I don't know if it's something to do with my diabetes or not but my eye starts twitching and blinking on it's own it's my right eye I don't know if it's from diabetes or not does anyone else experience it?