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Recent Content by Seacrow

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Official exemption card

A lot of my blood tests are done at the hospital, which sends results to my GP by letter. The letter is then scanned in, but the actual numbers...

Post by: Seacrow, Apr 10, 2021 at 5:32 AM in forum: Diabetes Soapbox - Have Your Say
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Official exemption card

Annnnnd here we go again. I have a phobia of telephones (well documented, due to events as a child), I can rarely use one. Turning up at what...

Post by: Seacrow, Apr 10, 2021 at 4:06 AM in forum: Diabetes Soapbox - Have Your Say
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Type 1 20 year old son stopped taking insulin

It's so difficult to know what to do. I did something a bit similar. I threw all my insulin away. My husband called my GP, and I came around...

Post by: Seacrow, Apr 8, 2021 at 8:46 PM in forum: Ask A Question
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Official exemption card

If you look on the government website it says it is not necessary to have a card stating you are exempt. If you feel the need to carry a card, a...

Post by: Seacrow, Mar 22, 2021 in forum: Diabetes Soapbox - Have Your Say
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Official exemption card

Ahhh. I'm back again. Posting here I figure is better than howling at some poor receptionist. So, my GPs surgery doesn't let you in unless you...

Thread by: Seacrow, Mar 22, 2021, 23 replies, in forum: Diabetes Soapbox - Have Your Say
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“Reversing” prediabetes

Ummm, because they preferred the taste of the food they used to eat? Some people don't have the will-power to eat what's good for them rather...

Post by: Seacrow, Mar 21, 2021 in forum: Ask A Question
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The first thing you Googled after your diagnosis ???

"Leaving hospital against medical advice". Which right there pretty much says everything about me. The next, "injection phobia". A newly...

Post by: Seacrow, Mar 21, 2021 in forum: Diabetes Discussions
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Do you ALWAYS carry your diabetes gear? (insulin and glucose meter)

I have an under-the-clothes belt with a couple of lycra pockets in it. It takes my pump, reader and emergency glucose. I have been known to forget...

Post by: Seacrow, Mar 20, 2021 in forum: Ask A Question
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newly diagnosed ketosis prone type 2 diabetic at 25 years old

Ahhh, having read the references that people have so helpfully dug up, it appears this is part of yet another classification scheme. A(beta)...

Post by: Seacrow, Mar 19, 2021 in forum: Newly Diagnosed
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newly diagnosed ketosis prone type 2 diabetic at 25 years old

I'm fairly sure the NHS doctors will be horrified by the idea of a keto diet. If you really are ketosis prone, which they shouldn't be able to...

Post by: Seacrow, Mar 18, 2021 in forum: Newly Diagnosed
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Diabetes review

I email my consultant. We chat every two to three months. It is slowly dawning on me that this isn't terribly normal for the nhs.

Post by: Seacrow, Mar 15, 2021 in forum: Ask A Question
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Freestyle libre

My blood glucose doesn't do flat and steady, its either heading up like a rocket or falling way fast. So when libre2 came along with alarms I...

Post by: Seacrow, Mar 7, 2021 in forum: Diabetes Soapbox - Have Your Say
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Freestyle libre

So, switching over from libre to libre2. Given the huge number of people about to do this its fairly sure it'll be a well checked and bug free...

Thread by: Seacrow, Mar 7, 2021, 5 replies, in forum: Diabetes Soapbox - Have Your Say