Recent Content by pab99c

Hi thanks for the responses. This time around it’s because I was due to schedule my annual review and I hadn’t responded to their letter within 1 week. So they refused to allow any repeats to go through online until I phoned them for an appointment. It feels like they occasionally withhold...

Grim! Below 4.4 and I’m shaky. Above 10 and I can get a headache. Even higher and I feel utterly pants for a while even if get back to normal levels. Takes me about 30+ mins to get over a hypo if I go too low. But if I do a double bounce it can wipe me out through exhaustion. I.e. too low...

Just a rant to make me feel better. I’m in the uk and I’m a t1 and I order all my repeat prescriptions online, collect them from boots. Nice and easy. I get 5 sticks of novorapid at time which lasts me about a month. Except.. every now and then my GP/doctors surgery cancel and decline my...

Good advice! Thank you. Definitely need to give the best man a bit of a brief! On both nagging me to test regularly and not to shave my eyebrows.

Hi I'm a T1 and its my stag do shortly, we're going abroad. I've been on a few stag dos before and managed to control sugars okay. But this time I'm centre stage. So chances are high that I'm going to be, err, merry quite a lot of the time. Perhaps even, quite sozzled. Any top tips for me as...

It's been 4 years since my initial diagnosis for type 1 following an unexpected 4 night stay in hospital following a GP visit to investigate why I'd lost 2 stone in 6 weeks! It's feels a life time ago, since I was in a hospital ward believing it was the end of my life as I knew it. It wasn't...

Don't forget to get a letter from you dsn or doctor to say you have t1; you might have to produce it at airport security with hand luggage full of needles and insulin. (Having said that I've never been stopped and I've flown through Heathrow/Sydney/Singapore/Hong Kong with lots of needles and...

Hey, I'm newly diagnosed so just getting this set up for the first time. The repeat prescription says the correct thing. My question is specifically relating to setting up the boots online service.

Hi Guys, I'm attempting to set up an online repeat prescription through boots online service. Here's my question.. I use Contour test strips,easy to find on the boots website shop if I wish to buy them myself, but not amazingly obvious when setting up the prescription online. Has anyone...

I'm starting to feel better so I'll hold off phoning the emergency services ;) yeah strange one really, my sugars have been normal for about a week. But the symptoms felt similar to the sensations of a hypo. Wierd. Not on any meds, just insulin. Thanks for your support - will keep you posted if...

Hi guys. I've had normal levels today. Currently at 7. But all day I've had an elevated heart rate and have felt very shaky. My hands are shaking and have been for hours. Very similar to hypo symptoms. Anyone else get this? Can I get symptoms even at normal levels?

thanks for your comments. Went to the opticians and yup my eyesight has improved! Albeit most likely a temporary thing! went from -1.50, -1.50... to -0.25,-0.25. It's been great to wear my sunglasses without contacts! Got some new specs for driving and the optician said they will change the...

Having sniffed around the internet it seems eyesight improvement is a common phenomenon albeit temporary in most cases: http://www.diabetesdaily.com/forum/eyes/41365-eyesight-got-better http://www.diabetesforums.com/forum/diabetes-complications/23960-dramatic-eyesight-improvement-weird.html...

Newly diagnosed t1. Have worn glasses for driving for 15 years. after 1 week on insulin my eyesight has improved so much I can now see without my glasses?! In fact my eyesight has improved so much that wearing my glasses makes my vision blurry?! Has diabetes fixed my eyesight?

Thanks for the advice guys.