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<My son who is now 10 was diagnosed when he was 8. It was a huge shock and I compleely fell to pieces, wishing it was me instead of him. The thought of him having to inject and carb count for the rest of his life tore me apart but with the fantastic support of the specialist diabetic nurses and...

I am mum to Luke aged 9 who was diagnosed with type 1 fourteen months ago. he is using daily multiple injections but has chosen to go on the animas pump. Please can anyone tell me if a continunous blood monitor can be used with the animas pump and can I get the cgm on the NHS.

Re: Would you prefer to be on insulin injections or on a pum Can anyone tell me if you can use a continuous glucose monitoring device with an animas pump and if so, is the cgm free or do you have to fund it yourself. from Mum to Luke aged 9 diagnosed type 1 fourteen months ago.

Re: Would you prefer to be on insulin injections or on a pum Hi I am mum to Luke aged 9 who was diagnosed with type 1 14 months ago. He uses daily multiple injections but has decided to go on a pump in August. We are waiting until the summer holidays as we have been told it takes a few weeks...

Hi My 9 year old son was diagnosed with diabetes 14 months ago and has decided to go on the pump, mainly due to frequent hypos. How many hypos is normal for a type 1 diabetic? Will the pump reduce his hypos? Jacqui (Mum to Luke )

I, my son who is 9 was diagnosed with type 1 14 months ago and is using multiple daily injections. He really wants to go on the pump mainly because he has loads of hypos and we have been told that the pump should give him greater control and so result in less hypos. I haven't read your blog yet...

You could ask your diabetic team for a continuous blood glucose monitor so at least you can see what you blood sugars are doing through the night. They will let you have one temporarily, perhaps for about 3 weeks.

My 9 year old son who was diagnosed as type 1 14 months ago has been on multiple daily injections, using novarapid and lantus. His last HB was 6.4 so he has fairly good control. However, he would very much like to try the pump as he is very sporty and apparently he would have less hypos if he...

Can anybody tell me if a non invasive blood glucose monitor is available? I have a 9 year old son who has type 1 diabetes. He was diagnosed 14 months ago.

Hi Thank you so much. I have contacted Abbot Diabetes Care and they have told me the continuous monitoring system it is not available on the NHS but it is available to buy at £980.00 and then a monthly cost of approximately £240.00 per month. It makes me really cross that in France you can get...

Hello My son who is 9 has type 1 diabetes. He was diagnosed 13 months ago. A friend of mine who lives in France has told me today that her husband has been fitted with the abbot freestyle navigator system. She says it has changed both his and her lives dramatically. It monitors his blood glucose...