Recent Content by lilyfleur

Not going to comment on the terrorist sympathiser stuff because there's no point - if you don't want to research it yourself you're not going to trust someone online that you don't even know... But I can't get my head around diabetics voting Conservative? They are open about their plans to...

Following on from the last post, the insulin pump is not "cumbersome and irritating" to everyone, and it IS worn through the night- I would never go back to injections personally. That said, if your daughter was to not change the infusion set when it runs out of insulin, she'd go into DKA very...

So glad to see a dedicated section of the forum for this! I just want to say I'm so sorry about how many people are suffering with this, and to add to the number of people who are fighting it alongside you. I was diagnosed type one aged 12, and am now 27. Suffered with diabulimia from pretty...

Hi, I've posted before (ages ago) but I still am no better than I was the last time I reached out and I figure it can't hurt to try again. After struggling with my diabetes for years (what other people describe as burnout is basically my life for the last 15 years) I first found stories I...

Hi, just wanted to say that I've just read your blog and thoroughly enjoyed it. Very well written and positive but not smug :) Thanks!

@indiaemily I know you're probably overwhelmed by the number of people offering to chat with you, and I just wanted to do the same, but as someone who is currently going through the exact same thing (also diagnosed at 11, now 26 years old). I often find myself reading replies on sites like...

Hey :) I recently used CGM for 6 days (loan from the hospital to get a general idea of what's going on because I have loads of unexpected highs and lows) and it was FANTASTIC. First time I ever felt in control of the diabetes, and the estimate of my HbA1c based on those 6 days was...

Not a bad idea! x Type One Diabetes since 2001, Coeliac Disease since 2003 ish, IBS, and on and off depression and diabulimia. Current HbA1c 11.7% :(

Hey all, First of all, the GlucoMen A1c test kit is a send off one- it's one test and you send it off and get results in around 3 days apparently. The relaunch of the A1c Now + machine as mentioned on the chek diagnostics page, has links to international sellers (I don't know if...

Chicken cooked in the oven with orange, chilli and oil, with cauliflower cheese and peas :) delicious and even though my portion looked pretty decent, it was less than 15g carbs!

Hey, how are you finding the hypo symptoms now? Are you still getting them when not low? I've just been told to run my own sugars a little higher to get my awareness of hypos back, but I feel low when I'm 8 sometimes, and don't feel low when I'm 3.0 other times, and sometimes I'm okay and DO...

Hey everyone, Anybody have any ideas whether it's normal for basal rates to vary depending on whether you eat or fast with an insulin pump? What I mean by that is that I was always told the advantage to the pump is that if you skip a meal for any reason, it's not a...

I wish they did have a set rule for this! My company allows 5 DAYS (not 5 periods of illness) in total in a year before you get sacked (and even if you have proof of serious illness for every single one of them, that doesn't make a difference) so it's like one bad case of flu with diabetes...

If the hypo symptoms continue, try setting your target ranges a little higher (so if your current target is 5-8, try 6-9) and then once you're consistently in that range, you can drop it to where you want to be. Often the hypo symptoms are just a result of dropping your levels too sharply, so a...

Something I didn't know until after it was fitted and I had to ask for advice on here (I only have mine for 6 days)- it won't be very accurate for the first 24 hours or so, but that's normal apparently. When you calibrate it doesn't change the numbers straight away, but it will get more and more...