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My employers allow "reasonable" time off for Dr and clinic appointments that can't be dealt with in my lunch hour. They see it as equal opps for people with chronic health problems that require regular assessments by medical staff to enable me to stay fit for work. Sent from the Diabetes...

It might be that your sugars are dropping too much during the night. If you've had diabetes for long then the warning signs that normally wake you with hypos don't work any more. Often, if your sugar does drop without waking you, your liver will produce sugar to keep you going. Ironically it can...

I use the Accu-Chek Mobile and I love it. Accurate readings and no strips to litter the world with. Just a cassette of 50 tests on a continuous tape. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Hi Bagpuss I somehow managed to go a very long time without ever testing my blood (over ten years) but regularly injected the same amounts I had originally been prescribed when I started the Dafne style at age 20. I had relied on my original urine tests until I ran out of the tablets then I...

Hi I've had type I since I was 10, I'm now 48. I'm on the Dafne regime. I use the Accu-chek Mobile which I love as there are no sticks to dispose of. It's a cassette in the BM machine that holds 50 tests at a time. I use a smallish black pencil case to carry my pen and BM machine around in plus...