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Just thought of some more evening snacks. I’m assuming he may like things that were common in his youth such as bread and butter pudding, apple charlotte . . .

Healthy longer lasting snacks in the evening plus dentures? Banana (could be included in a smoothie/shake), porridge, weetabix is fine, and if the morning hypo tends to happen at the same time each day then an early morning snack before it strikes might solve it. If, and from what you’ve said...

Lindt? Chocolate plasters? It’ll be a teapot next. Lint

There are some nifty clear plasters that would cover and protect your Libre while swimming - I use the Elastoplast ones but there are a few to choose from. Just make sure the Lindt part is large enough to cover the Libre so it doesn’t get ripped off later. And spares of EVERYTHING, plus a couple...

I’m not surprised you’re worried @ConcernedRelative. It sounds as though your father’s not had to grasp the complexities of dosing for carbohydrate content if your mother looked after him. I wonder if he’d agree to contact his surgery and ask for an appointment with a DSN, and for you to...

I wonder what would happen if all those whose appointments are excessively delayed gathered to ask for more NHS funding.

I agree, it’s not the frontline staff who are responsible for the fubar. I hope, hope your daughter’s cardio problem is resolved, whether by the hard-working A&E people or an appointment coming through for her. The doc I saw today was great. I praised, of course, thanked and at the end of the...

I’ve now seen the consultant, a big relief! How many others are having to wait ten months for an appointment. Cortisol to be checked as a possible source of low sodium and frequent hypos. Also, my name will be put forward for a pump. It’s only the first step, and I may not be approved for one...

My understanding is that a request for a hospital appointment from a GP is given 6 weeks before the hospital responds and a hospital appointment then has to be given within the following 44 weeks: in all 50 weeks between request and appointment.

I’ve just been given an appointment with a hospital clinic diabetes specialist doctor, and it’s come approximately six weeks before the end of the max wait period. The poor appointments clerk I spoke with told me it was a real change to talk to someone who wasn’t angry. I am angry, but not with...

Hi @amym06 I’ve been using Fiasp for about 5 years and I’ve discovered that a cartridge of it only works well until about the 150 mark on the pen. I suspect it’s very temperature sensitive. I also know that if the Basal, in my case Levemir, is prone to decline before the full cartridge is used...

Can you ask the Court officials for guidance about how to deal with this?

Ah, found it, NHS site. It’s applicable if a woman who’s non-binary, or living as a trans, is pregnant or planning to become pregnant. Seems absolutely reasonable to me; they, and their babies, would be facing the same Type One problems as ‘straight’ women.

Where did you copy those criteria from?

Hi @Kenn027, yes, I’ve experienced the dreadful effect cortisone has on blood sugars. Unlike you, I was told by the doc who administered the cortisone that it would not affect blood sugar control. It was awful, and very very difficult to find a high enough dose to lower the highs. I think the...

Abbott has always been good at replacing faulty sensors, and as it’s a medical advice, it’s something that’s required to be reliable. I, too, am experiencing problems with a sensor. I expect to receive wild results for the first two days, this seems to be a given, but this one’s either at least...

I think that learning how to juggle insulin to provide what your body needs when it needs it is key to avoiding difficulties when a normal routine is broken. I’m not perfect at it but correction doses are really useful as is knowing when basal doses need to be raised (illness, winter) or lowered...

I wear mine on the rear side high up on my upper arm and cover it with a waterproof plaster so I don’t knock it off.

I personally find the kind of carb eaten affects blood sugars as much as the amount does, and correctly calculating the amount of carb in a food source is super-important in keeping blood sugars within a given range. For instance, cheese on toast may well take longer to release carb than...

Oh yes, snorkelling is great too and I’ve done some in Greece after the knee replacement. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of weightless freedom in the other world beneath the sea: we know so little about how it feels to live in that larger part of this blue planet.