Recent Content by LPP

Hi all, As a teenager I was an extremely badly controlled diabetic, but I am now a reformed character and happy on the pump. I have had a bit of a struggle with retinopathy but that's all settled down now. In the past year we've moved to a farm and I do a lot more lifting/work with my hands...

Hi - Please don't be frightened! I found myself in a similar situation to you for similar reasons, except I waited for vision changes and a trip to eye casualty! I've had a ridiculous amount of laser, over 30 lucentis injections in total and a vitrectomy (complication from laser where a vessel...

Thanks for your response, I appreciate it. I guess my mind is just in overdrive trying to work out what's going on!

Hi all, I'm a bit of a lurker but just wondering if anyone has any experience of this. I really struggled to keep my sugars under control as a teenager/early 20s, I lead an extremely active lifestyle and the regime just wasn't working for me. I was assigned a consultant whose interests were...

I'm a type one diabetic and my mum's a dentist... You'd be surprised at the amount of people she tells to get tested for diabetes because they can't get on top of gum inflammation, and the amount of times she's right about!

Hello all, Just looking for a bit of support and experience if anyone can provide it :) I was an awful type 1, HbA in the teens for all of my teenage years, then in Sept 2012 aged 21 I went onto the pump, HbA drops to 8 and retinopathy began. In Dec 2013 I was diagnosed with bilateral...

Hi sorry I don't post often... but I am a "bad" diabetic so mostly need the help and guidance rather than pass it out and be hypocritical! I am 18 years old and since the age of 15 my HBA1Cs (or whatever they're called :? ) have ranged between 11-17... they've not gone up gradually but sort of...

:( I'm an 17 year old who has been diabetic since I was 9... I really can't control my diabetes to save my life... I never miss a lantus injection but find it really difficult to remember to inject my novorapid and to test, and then it spirals and I get really scared of testing :( I havea...