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Hi all, Its not often I write on here, I was wondering if anybody else has experience of having severe hypos (where they collapse) during exercise or relating to exercise? I've been running for 7 years and a type 1 diabetic for 17, but I had my first ever outdoor severe hypo while exercising...

Hi all, I was wondering if many type 1's are doing the Great North Run this Sunday? Do you have a specific plan? How will you keep your blood glucose levels stable? I'll be running for the fifth time, aiming for a time of 1hr 50m. Over the years I've tried a number of glucose sources...

Just in need of some advice, I've had quite a traumatic morning. My dad has liver cirrhosis, getting worse each day, and this morning, for the second time he fell over getting out of bed at 4am. This made quite a thud and quite a shock as you can imagine. After seeing to him and making sure...

Hi all, I'm going to book another hospital appointment soon but I thought it might also be good to ask some experienced people on here. Its been really odd, especially this morning. I had a severe hypo early in the morning, around 12am, fitting, squashed down the side of my bed. I can't...

Hi, In the past two years diabetes has been more of a problem for me than in the 12 years I've had it. I've had multiple fitting hypos/seizure hypos and its been difficult to avoid. Right now its been two month since my last fitting hypo and I continually try to avoid these as much as...

Hi, Not often I write on here but I wondered if anybody else had these kind of experiences. Sometimes I go to bed and I end up having a little too much cereal and wake up in the morning with a blood sugar above 10. Thats fine, I know my problem, need to cut down on the shreddies or even go...

Hi I'm new here. I've used the search function but come up with nothing, does anybody know or own an Omnipod System? From what I've looked at I think they're only available in America, but it looks really impressive. Its both an advanced blood glucose monitor (uses Freestyle testing strips)...