Recent Content by Mungobean

I was diagnosed as T2. I was given metformin, but it made me so sick, that I was started on insulin. Fairly early on, I was given a trial of the Libre, but when I queried it, I was told that I had no hope of getting it on prescription, ad a T2. I don’t know why, but I wasn’t convinced that I was...

I spoke to the manager in my local Boots pharmacy. She advised me to ring them up if there is something I need sooner, rather than later. So for example today I had a script for my painkillers and I needed them today,so I rang and asked if I could collect ‘this morning’ and they said they would...

I developed T1 at 51 having previously been diagnosed with T2. I wasn’t concinced about the diagnosis and got my GO to test for T1, It was only a week or two ago that someone very condescendingly informed me in a forum that ‘just because I was taking insulin it didn’t mean I was T1 and that T1...

Hi, I was initially diagnosed with T2 at 51 and I don’t know why but something just didn’t sit right with me and so I persuaded my GP to do the antibody tests and they confirmed that I was actually T1.

Hi, my team have arranged for me to try the Iport. How do people find it? How do I get supplies once I have had the trial, is it via prescription or do they come directly from medtronic? TIA

I asked my GP about having a kit at home, because sometimes I take quite a long time to come out of a hypo, and I had three shots of glucagon while in hospital recently, and it seemed to do the trick when I was struggling to get my numbers up. Anyway, my GP is lovely, but I may as well have...

Yes, she is on my side.

Hi, I struggle with my sugars because I don’t eat normally. I have Gastroparesis and so if I do eat, the food takes a variable amount of time to hit my system. I am mainly fed by tube into my bowel, and if that’s all I do, then my sugars are ok, but if I do eat anything, things that dissolve...

I must admit that I was a little irked when I was an in patient recently for something else and my consultant asked if I was sure I was T1, as I was a bit old to be diagnosed! I replied that my consultant was certain as was the diabetes consultant sent to see me while I was an in patient! (He...

Hi, I am really keen to try a pump, preferably the Omnipod. My consultant mentioned having to do a course. What arguments or tips have others used, in order to get a pump prescribed. thanks in advance Bean

I have one of the arm bands mentioned but tend not to use it any more. When I apply a sensor, I press around the adhesive edging with a teaspoon, to ensure that it is firmly stuck on and that seems to be working ( I haven’t lost a sensor since going from the Libre to the Libre 2 a couple of...

Crikey! A year seems an awfully long time to wait. I had to fight for the c pep and a gad tests and then my GP didn’t know how to interpret the results, so referred them to the community diabetes team, and I got a telephone Apptmt with the diabetes consultant just before Christmas - around a...

Interesting @Antje77 know I really had to push - and my GP didn’t know how to order the tests, or how to interpret the results, but I just had this funny feeling - and I was right, it did come back as T1. My poor GP didn’t know quite what to say, bless him

Why are they so reluctant to give c peptide and anti gad tests @Fenn ? Are they hugely expensive, or do they not want to diagnose T1?

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