Recent Content by jeanpaul

Is there any way to use an OmniPod without sound? I keep reading stories about them beeping, and people being unable to turn them off, having to resort to breaking them open and taking the batteries out. This sounds like it would be horrible if it happened in public or in a sensitive situation...

Re: I don't have great control, what does the future hold? ( I don't mean to be ungrateful for your advice, but I'm looking for statistics and general patterns of how diabetes progresses rather than lifestyle suggestions.

Re: I don't have great control, what does the future hold? ( For a precise answer, yes, but there must be general patterns here. I'd like to know what those patterns are. To put it in perspective, if someone wanted to know when they might die then no-one could give them a precise answer. But...

Re: I don't have great control, what does the future hold? ( I like your sense of humour :-) I do know this is pretty much how it goes. But I'd like to get a sense of when things might happen. I'm 35 now (diabetic since 14). Would blindness to be likely to happen soon, in the next year or...

I've been a T1 diabetic for about 20 years. For the first fifteen of those my control was really poor, frequent low and high (20+) blood sugar, no monitoring, just taking insulin before meals and going on gut feel for what to inject. (There's a sad story behind this, but that's not what I'm...

I'm finding it difficult to get what I need from my hospital diabetes team. Without going into detail about the specific issues, I'd like to know if they're accountable to anyone. Are there standards of care I should be able to expect, and is there anything I can do if those standards aren't met?

Hi, I have been an insulin dependent diabetic for about 20 years and am struggling to look after my condition. I have had an awful time with it so far, I would appreciate sharing and perhaps hearing your thoughts or suggestions. I was diagnosed when I was 9 years old and admitted to hospital...