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Personally, I preferred the Dexcom - more accurate, stayed on a lot better, and could get it to last longer, not to mention that they don't seem to suffer from the never ending supply issues with the Libre. But, and it's a big but, the Libre is a lot cheaper over a year. Depends what you want...

@Juicyj a good place to start for research is the work of Dr Ben Goldacre, who has been part of various medical advisory committees on statins, and does a lot of work on systematic reviews, basically looking at the overall picture rather than cherrypicking individual studies. Spoiler alert, he...

Instructions on basal testing can be found here https://mysugr.com/en/blog/basal-rate-testing

Well, I'm 59 kg at just over 5' 10" which gives a BMI of 18.6. I am 23 years old and have had T1D (confirmed by non-existent c peptide and GAD through the roof, although I don't have the exact numbers to hand) for 7 years. Full disclosure, I am actually now taking 21.5 units of tresiba, which I...

Hi @Emma2702 Just to hopefully put your mind at rest a bit, whilst an Hba1c of 84 is on the higher side, it is definitely not THAT high that you might "die in the night" - which is unlikely from high blood sugars, anyway. Take a few deep breaths! It's a scary word to hear, 'diabetes', but...

@Patrick66 Sainsburys also do some low carb things - they do a cauliflower rice, butternut squash lasagne sheets, butternut squash or courgette 'noodles', and more too. Aldi also have a fairly large range. I hate cooking. I hate it, and so I'm lazy. I'm T1, so my situation is a little...

Hi everyone! The mystery is solved. When I was having more injections at 3 am, I realised I could smell the insulin really, really strongly - lo and behold, there was a crack in the humalog cartridge. There was also a crack in the first cartridge, which I changed, assuming it would fix it...

Hi @wiserkurtious so this may be a bit more technical than you want, if so apologies. Basically, endogenous insulin (insulin made by the beta cells in the pancreas) doesn't start out as insulin, it starts out as a molecule called preproinsulin, then proinsulin. A series of cleavage steps...

@Lynmi you've already received some excellent advice, so won't add to that, but just wanted to say we really do all do it! I managed to go home from Scotland to the very south of England over Christmas - and leave all my insulin except what I had in my pens behind. So don't beat yourself up...

Hi everyone, Thanks for your advice - it's kind of reaffirmed what I already thought, but really didn't want to go if it was just going to be wasting their time. If (when) the pattern repeats itself this evening, I will give 111 a call. My injection sites are fine (mega paranoid about rotating...

Hi The last three or four days, in the late afternoon my blood sugar has been shooting up into the mid to high 30s, and refusing to come down again. For example, at 8.30 this evening it was 31.9. 6 hours and 34 units of insulin later ...29.9. I suppose I should be grateful it’s actually gone...

On multiple occasions. Restaurants, too, where they actually provide any info, seem to just make it up. We went to TGI Friday's for my boyfriend's birthday two years ago (no, I don't know what's wrong with him either), and the only thing I felt brave enough to have was a kid's portion of pasta...

Hope it's okay to bring the perspective of a T1 in I was 16 when I was diagnosed, and consequently, immortal, and so I wasn't that worried about complications. Then, early 2018, after 6 years of T1, I got my background retinopathy diagnosis, and now complications seem to loom large like a...

I like to have at least one box of five cartridges in reserve, in case there is a problem with the prescription or the pharmacy. Only on two occasions have I really 'stockpiled', when moving and changing GPs, as getting new prescriptions set up can be a nightmare, particularly if the GP in...

I'm trying to - at the moment I'm only eating fish, and should probably stop that too, mostly for ethical/environmental reasons. Also, living by myself there isn't much point buying meat. It's a very personal decision, though. Can't imagine going vegan - need cheese, and milk for my tea! I do...