Recent Content by smwsmw

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    Medical Id - Bracelet/necklace

    I think you’re in Australia but in UK most definitely professionals would still attempt CPR, whatever you had written on a bracelet, tattooed on your body or whatever! The only thing that would stop them would be a written DNAR order, either in community or in hospital. If this is your wish...
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    Teenage Holiday Type 1

    Re Freestyle Libre - like one of the other commenters, I don’t put mine on my arm during the summer - only reason Abbott say it has to go on arm is that that is where it was sited for clinical trials. If it is somewhere visible, he can cover it with a dressing such as Mepore film & pad which is...
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    Type 1 Parents Don’t Seem To Understand

    My mother, any time I was being a grumpy teenager would ask if I was hypo - used to drive me nuts! However, at the risk of sounding like your mother, if you’re driving and think you’re going low, please stop straight away and sort yourself out - apart from anything else, it shows her what you...
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    Boots told to stop selling Libre Sensors to patients!!

    I did a bit of ringing around today - Sainsbury’s pharmacy said they could order me one and quoted a price of £63!!! I politely declined........
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    Boots told to stop selling Libre Sensors to patients!!

    Can’t believe all this! Bloody ridiculous! I’ve been getting mine from Asda or Superdrug recently but just panic-ordered one from Abbott to keep my account active. My local CCG won’t fund them. We have enough **** to go through already and as everyone says, these things are life-changing...
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    Signed contract but now they want to do another medical before employment.

    I didn’t realise humans could get fructosamine levels done - my cat has diabetes too and his Lantus dosage is guided by fructosamine levels!
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    Have no idea what I'm doing

    I’m shocked at the lack of professional support you are getting! I imagine they are starting you on less insulin than they think you will eventually need, in order to gradually and safely increase it. I am Type 1 and worked nights for ten years and that adds to the challenge - if you have not...
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    Type 1: I'm a horrible diabetic

    Can I just ask - and I've always wondered about this - how does it work re T1DM and insurance in USA? Can you get health insurance and are the premiums affordable? Just interested and very thankful for the NHS!
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    Waterproof bag for kayaking etc

    Has anyone found a waterproof bumbag type thing large enough to carry insulin, blood test kit and glucose?? While on holiday next summer, hope to go on boat trip which includes snorkelling and kayaking so need to be able to carry the essentials with me. Preferably reasonably stylish but...
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    Casualty TV show got it right

    I find it hard to believe though, that even the crappiest new doctor would think hypo is treated with insulin! And don't get me started on the way they portray cardiac arrests - nobody would EVER survive. Plus, why is the department always so tidy and why do all the scrubs look brand new? I...