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Thank you so much for your responses. We spoke to his team at the hospital today and he is being given a Libre on Friday. He is being given it face to face and my mum and I will both be there. So we will speak to the nurse about the another add ins and always potentially tweaking his insulin.

No it definitely isn’t! Is hard because I’m not there all the time obviously. But his mood is certainly very up and down and he can get quite depressed at times. Would he need to put pressure on the diabetic nurse to get one of those blood sugar machines? Surely they will see his ambulance record?

It seemed to sort its self out for a while but this year it’s all gone to **** again. But he’s also seeming very much older nowadays and frail.

Hello, I am hoping for some advice about my father. He is 71 and seems to have totally lost control of his type 1 diabetes and is having REGULAR severe hypos. Many requiring ambulance call out. I’m talking 2/3 severe hypos a week and maybe an ambulance call 1/2 a month. At 71, I am concerned...

Hi, I would just like some advice if possible. My father, now in his late 60s has been a type 1 diabetic for the last 40 years and my whole life. He'd have occasional hypos during my childhood and adolescence and we got used to spotting the signs and trying to help. Sometimes they'd be bad ones...