Recent Content by Prosperity89

I'm living with four pets at the minute, technically I have six pets, but my parents adopted my cat Molly as he doesn't play well with others. He was mistakenly identified as a girl after we took him in and then about a year later, he was correctly identified as a castrated male! He doesn't...

This might be a little late, hopefully you've sorted out your problem. It's all about adjustment with diabetes. I've had it for nearly 16 years (I'm 24) and I'm still tweaking now. It might feel as though Diabetes is taking over your life where you need to constantly check what you're eating and...

7 is fine for pre prandial, but anything lower than 6 pre prandial can be dangerous for me, especially considering my lifestyle. I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable going to work or driving if my levels are below 6.5. I work in four hour shifts, so I don't have a break and I don't really have...

I was made to inject my teddy bear when I was diagnosed at aged 8, haha. Then I did it to myself and it was fine, but it went into my finger as I was replacing the cap :| . I also had a thing after injecting myself for about 4 years where I got really scared of injecting for some reason and it...

My mum got DLA for me when I was younger, and I get it now but it wouldn't surprise me if they took it away. I agree, I don't really know why they give some people it, but it helps when I need to take time off work and they don't pay me for taking the time off. There's also petrol, parking, the...

Thanks for making people aware of that fact. Diabetes IS different for everyone, and I'm sick of telling my Doctor that. He believes that my diabetes would be better controlled if I were to have readings between 4 - 7 mmol. Maybe technically this is the ideal target range, maybe it works for...