Recent Content by Ian McG

Thanks for all the replies! Checked with my GP surgery. Apparently newly diagnosed patients are automatically added to a register for the retinal screening and I should get a letter soon. So I will wait and see for now. In the meantime I will also go to local opticians for a regular eye check...

My experience has not been great so far. Was send to A&E by GP as had ketones in my urine and after a night on a drip and been shown how to use the insulin pens was discharged with basic info, they even tried to discharge me without my insulin as it was not ready and told me to pick it up the...

Hi all. Newly diagnosed T1D here, about a month ago, with a HbA1c of 124 on diagnosis. Clearly had been diabetic for months without realising. I have had most of the required health checks done to ensure I did not do any damage with such a high HbA1C for god knows how long. The last think to...

Hi. Recently diagnosed T1D and first post. I have been using a Freestyle Libre to get to grips with how my blood glucose levels change according to different foods eaten, portion sizes and varying insulin doses etc... I find the Libre app readings are pretty far off my actually BG levels (2 over...