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Leicester, UK. I've lived here six, almost 7 years. the first two t1s i met were fellow students at UoL i met the first in 2011 and the second in 2015, considering i've probably met thousands of students in the five years I was studying this doesnt even border on statistically unlikely that two...

hmm.. one of my patients at the hospital is also a t1 and coeliac.. however I can't find any actual evidence of this correlation, the website you shared didnt have any references from scientific literature which is strange considering the author claimed to be a doctor and would therefore have...

I completely understood the scapegoat thing but not got a clue what 'gaslighting' is I do feel that whilst concious he is completely responsible for his own illness but when hes unconcious that does fall on me or whomevers with him at the time. I also feel that if he did ever move in with me...

Sorry but i noticed your also a coeliac? diabetes and coeliac disease arent usually things that pair up and its considerably unfortunate if they do, coincidently my boyfriend is also both a t1 diabetic and a coeliac, gluten free food is expensive, my monthly food bill has increased by almost...

'merica ¬_¬ that is absolutely disgusting that you are paying for insurance that doesnt cover your basic health needs.. didnt obama care fix that? Or has trump abolished it? Even my basic health needs are covered under a free prescription without me paying for insurance and I only have bipolar...

Ahh its very different in the UK, you can walk into any pharmacy and get a pack of 1ml needles for free (but you have to have a prescription for the needles used for his novorapid pen because logic ¬.¬), this was introduced to combat the high hepititus/hiv rates in heroin addicts, you are also...

How do I convince him to take his insulin before meals instead of after? I dont want to be all like "i'm so concerned for you that i joined a diabetics forum and talked about you behind your back and this is the advice i've received" But if that's what it takes I'll have to do the whole...

Just checked the fridge and the orange one he takes after meals is called novorapid, never heard the term bolus though i googled it and it said it was a ball of partially chewed food or a large pill used in veterinary medicine? I guess this is why i tend to go to the library over using google...

Are you in the UK? I wasnt given a timeframe on when this incident happened perhaps the DSN thing was introduced afterwards? GPs are open 9-5 and he works 7-5 so its not really an option for him to have to repeatedly go to the gp everytime he runs out of something, I feel like once you have the...

Whats a dafne course and how do i sign up?

I have another t1 friend who checks his sugars before and after every meal and always eats 3 meals a day at the exact same time every day. To the other extreme my mums colleges son was found in critical condition (keytones over 30) and died in hospital hours later within 2 weeks of moving out of...

He does it every morning before breakfast and has started doing it a few times a day since his last hospital admission but i swear most of his insulin doses are just guess work which i find concerning even though hes never been wrong appart from that one hypo, but one hypo is enough for you to...

As I said insulin is already free so it wouldnt cost the nhs any more money, I did toy with the idea of charging people £1 for the card to cover the cost it would take to print some words on a piece of plastic. He stopped going for his medical exams two years ago because he found them...

He takes his basal insulin at night, currently 48 units, but adjusts this himself depending on his sugar levels in the morning. he also has fast acting insulin which he injects whenever his sugars are high. why do peaks cause lows? I remember the night before he had his hypo his sugars were in...

He claims to only be admitted to hospital about once a year, since he was diagnosed at the age of 6 and is now almost 21. In order to qualify for a cgm you need 2 or more hypo hospital admissions in a year. I wasnt in the same city as him when he had his hypo as he works about 40 miles from...