Recent Content by Grant_Vicat

Hi @peterb999 I'm sorry to read your news. Whilst I cannot guarantee that your experience will match mine, I feel I should tell you of exactly these fears back in 1979, after 20 years of Type1. I had blurred vision on many occasions before 1979, always caused by high glucose levels (unmeasurable...

Just a suggestion @debs248 regarding difficulty obtaining blood. You might find it helps to make sure your hands are warm and that you have had water to drink beforehand. I found that if I stood up and applied pressure as in the picture it helped. Also using the side of the tip rather than the...

Thank you for the links @Eric8080 , they are particularly interesting to me. Twenty-sixyears ago I was put on Pravastatin and put up with muscle ache for years. I was put on Simvastatin in 2011. All was well at first. On the morning of Good Friday I finished playing for a church service and...

It makes a change to read balanced views regarding statins. Do you have a link to these views so that other members can access the information for themselves?

The irony is that in my close-knit family locally, which is 5 people, only my granddaughter and I have not had Covid. The other 3 have had it at least 3 times! An immunologist likened my immune system to the front two rows of a Rugby scrum. "Your first row has been knocked out and your second...

I went to the Farne Islands last in 2018. I was pleased to be able to get this on an ordinary camera:

Yes I did, and realised that it wasn't worth the digestive assault or the sickly taste. A Type1 who is a friend of mine had a father who would demolish 2 bars of Wander chocolate in one session with no ill effects!

I guess Coca-Cola bought them out?

Does that look familiar?!!

They were rock hard metallic Tasting "shaped "fruit gums". I think they were called Skels? I had forgotten Orbit!

1 Cal and TaB both appeared in 1963. Thank God Schweppe's Slimline Tonic appeared in1965. I felt really big, aged seven, drinking tonic water with a slice of lemon in a half-pint glass:hilarious:. I still drink it now. I think most people would inject theselves, even with "road drills" if they...

Hi @Rleady1357 Just to give you some positivity. I first started passing protein in urine in 1973. I have no idea what the gfr result would have been - I was 15 and nobody mentioned the term. In those days tight control was very difficult since blood testing kits and even more progressive...

It is a sobering thought! I have seen enormous changes since the days when I would boil a glass syringe in a Victorian lidded saucepan and then still exist to write this now. I have had many amusing conversations in the transplant clinic including "Do you realise that between us we have 4...

You're a good man - thank you!

Thank you for the tag @Jaylee . @Polska_Gurom Jaylee is spot on. I was Type one from July 1959 (11 months old) until 13th August 2013. My kidneys were failing and I wasa put on the transplant list in 2012. A few months later I was offered a pancreas transplant to be done at the same time. They...