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I just got an email from the manufacturers to say that my glucose meter - the LX2 - and its test strips are being discontinued. Which is a shame, I like it, but they're sending me an Aero 2k and I imagine that will be fine. But does that mean I need to book a GP appointment to change my strips...

I have vitiligo, which is also an autoimmune disease. I've seen some stuff saying it's more common if you have type 1 diabetes, although I don't know how solid the evidence is. There's a history of thyroid problems in my family too, so I should probably keep an eye out for that.

When I was first given my kit by the diabetic nurse, the needles included were Pic Insupen. I got on fine with these, I had the occasional slightly painful injection but the majority were completely painless. But now that I've got a prescription from the GPs, the needles I've been given are...

Ah, that's all reassuring, thanks! I thought that could be the case, but I was just worried that somehow things had been lost/forgotten amidst all the confusion (oh yeah, apparently the hospital hadn't bothered to send any information back to the GPs either, it all seems a bit messy). I'll take...

Hi all. I was diagnosed type 1 just over two weeks ago. It was all a bit chaotic at the time (I've seen three different GPs, been sent to hospital and seen several people there too), so it's taken a while to get everything in order, like prescriptions. But one thing I still don't know what's...

After a whirlwind few days involving a lot of waiting around at the GP and at hospital, and being sent to about 10 different people, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I guessed from the symptoms that it was diabetes, but I was pretty shocked when I was first told type 1 (although I...