Recent Content by Jonlennon

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    Type 1 Is this discrimination or am I over reacting.

    My thoughts exactly.
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    Type 1 Is this discrimination or am I over reacting.

    Yeah, just annoys me, maybe it's me making too much out of it, he did say don't worry your jobs safe, I just thought yeah great thanks.
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    Type 1 Is this discrimination or am I over reacting.

    Hi, I may be over reacting, I've been at my job for six months and found it a little bit strange that they haven't trained me on a forklift as I've spoke to other members of staff who were all trained within the first month. It turns out that the regional trainer has said they will not be...
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    New diet help

    Hi guys I'm type 1, I seem to be eating a lot more throughout the day, just wondered if there was a way for me to trim up but maintain my sugar levels in range.
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    What was your bg reading last night and this morning?

    Lately my levels seem to always be in range, I had some cake the other night and was expecting a high reading and it was 6, can't work it out.
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    As its Christmas...?

    Does anyone find this weird I'm type 1 and the last 3 days I've been eating what I want cake chocolate loads of foods high in carbs, and my sugar levels have been either 5 or 4, yes I am injecting insulin but would expect it to be a lot higher?
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    Is this normal

    I've been type one for 2 months and the first two weeks my sugars were very high, but the last two days I've ate a lot of crab high carbs and even had cake and chocolate I know it's bad, but felt a bit down. However my sugars have been in perfect range, been between 4 and 7. Where as before if I...
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    Sickness bug.

    OK now had a hypo earlier but been fine since then.
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    Sickness bug.

    Thanks for all help and support guys, weird I went to bed at 4.2 had my lantus and woke up at 6.8.
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    Sickness bug.

    Hi, I've only been a type 1 for two months and I woke up this morning feeling sick a x flu like symptoms, I forced myself to eat some cereal this morning and had some insulin before work. Then I got home had a small bowl of pasta with some insulin, but I feel terrible, so want to go to bed, but...
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    Signs and Symptoms of type 1 diabetes in children

    Hi I'm 30 and type1, I'm a little concerned as my 7 year old son has been really thirsty recently, always eating and has wet the bet the last two nights and this unlike him, I was wondering weather to use my kit to test his sugar, it could be nothing but I am a little worried. Any advice would...
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    What was your bg reading last night and this morning?

    5.6 this morning 12.2 tonight [emoji853]
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    Type 1: What are your HbA1c test results?

    I was diagnosed in October and I had a appointment with dr last week mine was 131. They said they aim for 49. Is this because I've only been type 1 for 6 weeks? Dr was a bit rude to be fair, saying how I need to exercise more.
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    blurry vision

    Hi Ian I was diagnosed last Sunday with type 1, my vision has been all over the place. The DB nurse said it's quite normal. She did say it can last up to 6 weeks. Cheers, Jon.
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    Mentally finding it hard to except

    I'm here if you need a chat anytime, I got diagnosed with type one on Sunday finding it hard myself.