Recent Content by Duffman24

Thank you, and yes, I am in the UK. I get more puzzled every day because I'd previously thought that it was 'dash' that utilised a PDM and the 5 that required a new phone. I live and learn (and forget much!). Very kind thank you.

Hello and thanks for your thoughts -it is a minefield isn't it? I thought initially I'd be using a dash but apparently our health authority are choosing the Omnipod 5 and the Libre 2+. I've not seen a '2+' on any of the Abbott/Libre literature online but the admin lady in our diabetes nurses...

Thanks for that Secret Carb, it's been difficult to get any real life answer to my query. It gets lost in phone calls to Abbott/Libre. Dexcom seemed (as far as I could understand) to be cast iron in exactly which phone was suitable. My understanding was that it was more about the capability of a...

Crikey, there's a lot of stuff to read here! I've looked at as many phone queries as I can see, but I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on the following please? WHEN I had my very first Libre (the original one) I found that my new phone wasn't compatible, although this has turned out to be a...

For a long time things seemed to be fairly static, apart from getting test strips (did you have the test tube and tablets? I'm sure I never tested very often). I was on pork insulin for a very long time as I was getting dangerous hypos with the early synthetic stuff. Good now, on FIASP, &...

I should have called myself new old crock or something!

Good morning, just introducing myself! I've been a diabetic since late 1970 when I was 15. Glass syringe stored in a metal screw top tube filled with surgical spirit and needles you wouldn't want to stick in a horse! Testing sugar was a tablet in a test tube with I think 5 drops of urine, 10 of...