Recent Content by Adam09

Thanks for the advice! I had yesterday off work so I tried to keep a record of everything and force myself to try and 'get it right'! When I woke up this morning, still had a headache (could be a coincidence) but..5.5 and I'm not panicking because I haven't injected since last night! Now I...

Hi, apologies in advance I imagine this is going to get long and full of self-pity! I've been diabetic for three years now I believe; things started ok and I was sticking between 5-8 for about a year or so and things were going pretty well. Then I got food poisoning, I spent the best part of a...

Hey Alex, I'm at Northumbria too! Anyway like most people probably the 'security' side of things is what I think about most, I carry it all around in my bag to and from uni and always get a bit concerned incase someone steps on my bag or something or it gets knocked and breaks. Also a couple...

Student in Newcastle!

With regards to food while I'm at uni eating is usually something like: Breakfast - 3 pieces of toast with butter between 8-10am depending on lecture times; levels this week have been between 3 and 6 Lunch - A sandwich out of Greggs or something similar between 12-2pm; again levels are 3-6...

I've been diagnosed T1 for 3 weeks now, the two weeks they had me staying at home and I got my levels under control pretty well. However now I'm back at uni I've been taking the same doses (6 Novorapid with breakfast, 10 with lunch and 16-20 with dinner (18 Lantus at 6pm everyday)) but now I'm...

Had my first experience injecting in public today. Just returned to Uni and we all went for the usual Greggs for dinner, stood against the wall near a side street so I wasn't drawing to much attention, all was going well until just as I put the needle in my stomach some guy sees and shouts "Hey...

Hi, I'm 20 and got diagnosed a couple of weeks ago as having T1, I've probably had the "symptoms" for quite a while, excessive thirst, urination, weight-loss and generally being pretty tired, although I attributed them to being linked, drinking lots, going to the toilet and being sleepy because...