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Hi all, hope you all had a fantastic Christmas! I was unfortunately admitted to hospital last week with appendicitis. Had my appendectomy with no worries (although my recovery from GA was alarmingly slow and frightening, I was awake but unable to open my eyes or lift my arms/legs. Could hear my...

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Hello you! Just coming up to the end of my first year, scary how the time has flown! Loving every single minute of it, currently on a ward for day surgeries so get to spend a lot of time in theatres and consequently treating them when they are back. Doing procedures that are normally reserved...

As a student nurse, we are told time and time again not to re sheath the needle, be it for insulin or any other injection we need to give. Most of the nurses on my cohort find this easy to adhere to, but after 11 odd years of re sheathing needles (before pump) I struggle :lol: I personally...

Has anyone experienced any malfunctions with their pumps? I've had 2 failures. The first was on my nursing placement. BMs were running high and so I was shoving temp basals and boluses in but nothing happening. Went home and felt tired so whacked another bolus in and went to sleep. Woke up in...

Thank you everyone. I think it just hit a raw nerve last night and I wanted to share my fury with fellow, hopefully empathetic diabetics! :oops: Not quite looking forward to Tuesday though. I have briefly mentioned drinking before with my DSN, but she just recommends vodka and diet coke, and...

Am currently at university studying for a nursing degree. I love the course, and have some great uni mates. I'm currently working towards a first, which I am VERY happy about! However, they all like to go out drinking. I don't want to be stuck on the PS3 at home or reading medical journals so I...

This is going to be a long thread, I warn you now, need to get it all off my chest! I've explained most of it as much as I can! If you need something clearing up let me know. I've been a type one diabetic for 12 years now, since I was a child. It's never been stable. Sugar levels up, down and...

I'm currently doing my nursing training at university. In order to fund my luxury lifestyle of baked beans and Tesco Value notebooks, I work bank for a well known private healthcare company, in a nursing home. The knowledge of the nurses there of diabetes is appalling. There is a lady living...

I have a pump now, but would inject anywhere and everywhere! On the bus, sat in a restaurant, and in the dreaded public toilet :shifty: At the time I was a very self concious teenager, and hid my diabetes. Some of you might have the balls to inject in public, but I knew I certainly didn't! I...

Hi all, venturing back onto here, been a while! For those who can remember me, I started uni in March to do my nursing training, and it's been so busy it's unreal! Anyhoo, had a question and was hoping you lovely people could help me :) I have a UTI, but seems quite poss kidney infection and 3...

Firstly, ouch! I can't seem to grasp the fact that I have a sub-cut cannula in my stomach. The pump I'm using is an Animas 2020 which comes with a belt clip - simple enough, I put the pump in my front jean pocket with the belt clip on the outside, therefore keeping it attached. At uni/work...

Try: http://www.essexinfo.net/enerfly/survey If you knock off the last forward slash, it works for me! :) Will do survey now, OP.

I wouldn't say antibiotics had any adverse effect on diabetes, if you exclude the existing infection. I take Erythromycin TDS for an ongoing illness and I didn't notice any change. Only thing I've found is to double check pills. Quite a few now come with a sugar casing. My ibuprofen was a prime...

If any of you have had peptic ulcers in the past, is there any chance you could tell me if it affected your diabetes, in terms of control or otherwise? I understand complications like perferations will obv affect it, but I mean in an everyday situ. Thanks :D