Recent Content by TJR56

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    Self isolation for 12 weeks ?????

    I just had THE LETTER today telling me I'm confined to barracks - no, my house - for 12 weeks, not for Type 1 but C.O.P.D., the result of a mis-spent youth...
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    Newbie to forum but not to diabetes

    Welcome, Carl. I've had T1 for 61 years and have had to try all sorts of regimes! The latest seems to be what my local authority can afford, basal Abasaglar twice a day and Novorapid 3(+) times. Because of frequent finger prick blood tests I manage to keep a reasonable average b.g. but it is...
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    Type 1 Scary hypo dream

    I have had scary nightmare hypo episodes when control is knocked off course and my BS is less predictable. Though I now have much less basal at night because of too many low readings before, it has taken a bit of experimentation under the guidance of a brilliant DSN. However, I had one a few...
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    Returning to work, do I need OCC health?

    Buy some small 200ml real fruit juice cartons or take 200ml in a sealed container to work. Drink at 4 p.m. or half an hour before you generally go low. Maybe your basal needs slightly lowering or lunch bolus slightly lessened but ask your Diabetic Nurse Specialist before tinkering with your new...
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    Hello folks

    I've been T1 since I was two, 1958 and have just been booked on a DAFNE course, but have two years to wait...
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    Type 1 Work issue

    I've had T1 since I was two and a bit and am now 63 and still working. I've come across this a few times and generally in the early days stood up, went to the back of the room and turned my back while I did my test/injection making people aware of what I was doing. Since the Disability Act has...
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    Food shopping and cooking for one

    I find homemade hearty soups (lentil, pulses, veg and stock), small casseroles, stews, anything cooked in a tomato based sauce (e.g. chilli, bolognaise) freeze well and don't suffer noticeably in taste or texture as long as not left too long, so I cook a two portion meal and just revive after...
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    Type 2 Gravy

    Hi - Cook off the excess water (which also concentrates flavour) by a boiling up without lid after removing meat/veg. you don't want overcooked to a warmed container. Sometimes I use a teaspoon of cornflour mixed with 20ml cold water to add to runny gravy and let it cook briefly, though it has a...
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    (rapid) short-term insulin no longer "short"

    Hi there. I found a cereal combination of no-sugar muesli and no-sugar granola based on oats or just home-made plain porridge - oats, with a little plain natural live yogurt and a few blueberries (but not a large serving) has worked for me, along with a split dose bolus. Keep at it - there will...
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    Please help me first time pump

    I've been T1 for 61 years (since age 2) and the introduction of the pen and basal/bolus system along with personal blood-testing were so wonderful, allowing control to have a chance! Now I am considering, having become pretty good at, trying a pump and monitoring system. Everyone is telling me I...
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    Judge rules doctors should treat teen with type 1 diabetes who wants to die

    I recently was at a hospital fete, 'man'ning a stall with others of our local Diabetes Patients Supporters group, and a young woman in hospital gown with drip on a mobile stand came to talk, with her partner. She was recovering from a DKA and wanted first of all to ask if either of us had...
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    Unsupportive Spouse

    I truly sympathise. My own husband is a very patient person and though he finds my having to spend time on my condition (T1) and the highs and lows and and mood swings and everything else difficult at times he is supportive. That's the type of man he is and I know I am lucky. Your husband does...
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    Unsupportive Spouse

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    Just diagnosed and worrying

    Gosh - it IS scary! (It was my poor mum who had to deal with it all initially in my case as I was diagnosed aged 2 and 9 months, The syringes in those days (1958) were glass and metal and had to be boiled once a week! Now things have moved on so much and believe me it gets easier: I've survived...
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    Permanent Cure

    Could you explain what form these CBD edibles take and how and how often, in what quantities, please?