Recent Content by draytop

I am sure you all know that Tesco's 'Charity of The Year' for 2013 is Diabetes UK. One of friends works in Tesco HR in Radford,Coventry and is also the Community Champion & she was just wondering if anyone would have any fantastic fund raising ideas to raise much needed support & awareness -...

Ok, thanks for all the advice. I am on Novarapid for meals and Levemir at night. I have had a few hypos, but they've all been due to over-injecting the Novarapid insulin at mealtimes. I am still waiting for my carb-counting course, but am playing it be trial and error as to how much Novarapid...

Hi, I'm a newly diagnosed (December 2012) Type 1 Diabetic. I had my first visit to the Dietician, and one of things she told me I disagree with and wanted people's advice/opinions. She asked me if I do not eat, what happens to my Blood Sugar count? I replied "My evidence shows that it goes...

This was shared on my Facebook page, was wondering what people's opinions were on it: "In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed...

What happens if you are an employee of your own company? I get paid per hour, so any hours I don't work, I don't get paid. Have had to take off three days so far, only diagnosed Type 1 about 6 weeks ago.