Recent Content by duranie

I was sent a text by my GP telling me to stay at home, avoid all contact with anyone from outside the home etc etc fir 12 weeks as they considered me to be ‘at a high risk of becoming extremely unwell’ if I contracted the virus. I do have other medical conditions, however I believe my local CCG...

I would have to point out that I have a medical condition that is covered by the 2010 Equality Act and that if the person is that squeamish it might be best that they either stop looking at you all the time or maybe change where they sit in the office. Your employer cannot demand you leave the...

To be honest, whilst I see your point, if someone is feeling hypo, walking to the ‘mothers room’ to test could be the difference between them treating the hypo properly or passing out, having a seizure or any number of other things, If you need to test, you need to test, not be forced out of the...

It’s the 2010 Equalities Act that covers this.

I know I’m late to the party, I’ve been pumping fr 7 years, my first Medtronic pump, the minimed was fine, no issues at all. The 640g though, first one broke after about a year, second one lasted a year, third one about 6 months and I now have one which was a replacement issued in JUNE this year...

Hi, I hate going to my GP. I have other earth conditions, not least being in remission from cancer. Yet I am alsways made to feel like I am wasting his time or being a nuisance. The surgery has just installed a new online service for prescriptions and appointments etc, and you can see what they...

Insulin can causE swelling in the feet & lower legs...I suffered from this - I had to be changed from Lantus to Levemir & it started after I'd been on Lantus fortuitous a while..

I was given IV dexamethasone with chemotherapy last year...on one occasion I took my BG levels just before infusion 6.8 and after infusion - ie 4 hours later...they were 28.7 & this was with a 100% increase in my basal insulin..thank god for my pump, there's no way I'd have coped without it...

I was put onto Pregabalin 4 years ago...it was hell on earth, I was hallucinating, I became aggressive and completely out of control...I ended up in hospital where my endocrinologist took them off me and put me onto Gabapentin - I have had no issues with side effects on that, I'm on the highest...

Hi, I have type 1 with painful peripheral neuropathy, gastroparesis, postural hypotension, osteoarthritis, and have had rectal cancer this year - I now have an ileostomy so am considered faecally incontinent - I'm understandably also being treated for depression and I have just been turned down...

36, 8 years ago. Misdiagnosed as type 2?due to my age, ended up in DKA in intensive care before being rediagnosed type 1.

You most certainly do not retain a type 2 label...I was originally diagnosed type 2 due to being in my 30s, and put onto insulin immediately...had huge numbers of open-ended up in hospital.in DKA after 3 years, now definitely diagnosed.And known.type 1 diabetes on an insulin pump

Paul, thanks for the encouraging story. I've got 7 fractions of radiotherapy and 5 meats of chemo tablets left a I'm anticipating surgery followed by more chemo - but they can't give me Oxycisplatin which is the standard post surgical drug due to my pre existing neuropathies. As I say though...

I have autonomic neuropathy - it affects my stomach and blood pressure mostly. I also live with chronic pain from peripheral neuropathy. Then in September this year I was diagnosed with colorectal cancer - all the result of mismanaging type 1 diabetes in order to lose weight. I'm fighting every...

I've just successfully appealed against DVLA. NHS direct sent an ambulance out - I had a prolonged hypo which I was treating - days after going onto the pump. My GP then told then he had no idea about what I was doing. Endocrinologist backed me up and I argued that I didn't call the ambulance...