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It's a pleasure @Catalystchris . The gang were all in my class! Although the Aircast looks as though it doesn't hug the foot, because it puts comfortable pressure all around the foot, it's pretty effective. In late 2014 I had to stand in fine casting sand and they took exact imprints of my feet...

Hi @Catalystchris I was diagnosed with Charcot Foot in October 2013. I had both legs put in plaster and given Aircast boots and crutches. The thing with Aircast Boots is that they absorb some of the shock caused by body weight if used as advised. My feet were inspected each time the plaster was...

That might be the additional dumping of glucose into the blood by the liver. A kind of leaveover from primeval times. You wake up in a cave and are immediately supplied with extra "fuel" preparing you for any outcome including predators.

It would be interesting to know what your blood glucose readings are when this happens. This used to happen to me when my readings rose rapidly for whatever reason.

As I understand it @Sadsac@21 nobody can make you take medication. I had an instance nearly twenty years ago where I attended a diabetes clinic barely ten minutes after someone crashed into my car. My blood pressure was taken on entry and a doctor handed me an additional prescription for another...

Thanks for the tag @EllieM . I agree that taking insulin when prediabetic seems unlikely. Welcome to the forums @sam5 . It would be interesting to know whether you are taking any medication which might cause prediabetes. I have not so far heard of kidney transplants causing diabetes, but my...

I waited just over a year and asked DVLA for a covering letter to present to the police if stopped. Changing a tyre in a very dangerous situation caused a local officer to stop and ask to see my licence. They were not convinced DVLA's letter had any authority @Jaylee

I know Tesco's usually have a photo-booth in their main stores if that;s any help?

Yes, I used to use a mirror, but it felt like trying to cut your own hair. I got used to it, so that I could give my fingers a rest!

As a pianist and organist I found that using the fleshy side of the finger tip caused fewer problems. Also ear lobes!

I think your assumption is spot on @LittleGreyCat but the last thing I would want to do is scaremonger. The other problem is that not all Type1s are diagnosed quickly enough. The immunologists told me that one of the reasons that I am not considered cured is that it is possible for diabetic...

Interesting @sgm14 ! I have classed myself as cured for the last 12 years in that I ended 54 years of injecting insulin by having a pancreas (and kidney) transplant. I understand the reasons that the Diabetes and Trrsansplant Departments do not class me as cured, but it certainly has felt like...

This brings back vivid memories of one of my aunts every Easter. She would hand Easter eggs to my brother and sister and then turn to me and say "You can't have these dear because of your diabetous". I wanted to speak to her in Anglo-Saxon, but "One doesn't do that, do we dear?".Bedside manner...

When I was 13 my parents set up a recital in our house for an American concert pianist. During the interval my father handed me a bottle of Diat Pils, which certainly lived up to this label. I drank it like water and didn't appreciate the second half!!

Did you have one of these @BruceT ? R.D.Lawrence invented the line diet (Lawrence Line Weight Diet) which was printed in this book: Congratulations in achieving 65 years - that's fantastic!