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I used to pre-bolus and massively increase morning insulin (novorapid) in order to bring down the breakfast peak. For a whilst thought it was dawn phenomina, but in the end seem to have pinned it down to being on the wrong basal insulin, which wasn't covering me properly for the start of the...

Hi all, I currently take insuman as my basal insulin and although it's quite old I haven't seen the need to switch as my control has always been good. Anyway, time moves on and the time to change has now come and I'm weighing up Levemir vs Tresiba. My basal injected quantity has always been...

Thanks for all the responses. Have got some gluco tabs but have also purchased an extra wide steel cielo pill holder which fits four of them in. Idea is that this will just sit on my key ring from now on and always be around. Looks decent too! Is waterproof so hopefully no problems on concreting....

Thanks for the tip, will get some of those as should work fine.

Hi all, silly question here so sorry in advance! I’ve always used dextro as my backup in case of hypo but the packaging goes nasty sat in my pocket so end up replacing all the time as well as looking like I’m always carrying round a load of dodgy old sweets! I’m looking at getting a metal key...

Hi, I’m type 1, don’t have a pump and self fund a freestyle libre. I inject both basal and bolus insulin. I’m entered in a few races of up to 100 miles in 2018 and these will be my first races above marathon distance. My previous marathon plan has been to reduce basal by about a third the...

Goring on Thames. I️t’s certainly worth a go but I️ didn’t get the impression I️ was likely to see funding anytime soon.

Hi Scott. Looks really good! II’ve got the blucon but my use of an apple phone and garmin watch will probably mean that this won’t work for now. Will have a look tho and thanks loads for the info.

Thanks Scott, not sure how I missed that!

No luck in south Oxfordshire. My cost benefit analysis was received as ‘interesting, but we’ve reviewed and decided we are not currently funding this for anyone’.

Was wondering if anyone been successful at getting with libre on the NHS yet? I went to the diabetic nurse last week with cost benefit analysis but was told that as a practice they’ve reviewed and decided not to fund this currently. I’m in south Oxfordshire.

Feedback on first few days with the ambrosiasys nightrider. The readings are quite different from the meter, I always get a spike in the morning and this is underestimated significantly by the nightrider, I've been blood testing a bit more than usual and it definitely seems to be the nightrider...

Feedback from ambrosia on what I posted previously about being able to see blood sugars on smart watch. Ambrosia SAY they are working on this and expect to be ready 4-6 weeks.

Try www.freestylesticker.de, I've bought a nightrider holder from them to keep it on the arm and it seems to work really well.

Hi Scott. I've only had it on for two hours and already it seems to be less 'sensitive' than the reader, so closer to my actual bloods. The notifications are a deal breaker for me though, even though I knew low notifications wasn't enabled I was hoping that you could set it up so that every 5...