Recent Content by hilbre

Has anyone any experience of fine wavy black lines moving about whole eye a week after a VEGf injection to stabilise weak blood vessel growth (after a vitreous haemorrhage from an artery at the back of the eye)? At my last diabetic eye screening (50 years with diabetes) I was told I had no...

Ha! I'm on Levemir and this is the first I've heard about the withdrawal of Levemir. I switched from Lantus years ago to improve rate of night time hypos. I had an appointment with a diabetes clinician at my local hospital in December 25 and there was no mention of it, just try increasing the...

I need to catch up! For years I used refillable pens with cartridges but had so many pen failures that I moved onto disposable ones so I always had and alternative and because you don't use them for so long I find they're more reliable. But I hate the idea of putting them in landfill. At least...

Thanks for the comments - it's just a bit of a leap buying a new phone as I'm happy with my old one. But I find it annoying that with the reader you can only tick a couple of boxes for notes, not actually write anything.

I've been using Libre 2 for a couple of months now with the reader as my phone (Motorola G8 Power) won't support the app. I've had no problems at all with alarms (lots!) or the sensors so I've been really pleased to virtually give up pricking my fingers after nearly 50 years with diabetes...

I have just started using Libre 2 sensor with the reader as my current Motorola doesn't have NFC so is not compatible with the app. The diabetes specialist nurse at the hospital clinic told me to switch off the high glucose (probably thought it would be going off all the time . . Hmm! ) and...