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I have CKD and I’m currently on 3 day a week dialysis , I got scepsis 14 years ago following my first amputation , it took my kidney function down to 1% , I was given emergency dialysis for 2 weeks and my kidney function came back to around 30%. I felt fine but definetly tired at times , I was...

I too came from the “ chemistry set” in the house era to measure urine sugar well it wasn’t measure per se it was either positive orange or negative blue . Seeing as this had no relation to actual blood sugar it was not the best control medium. The CGM has never professed to be as accurate as a...

These days I don’t get actual hypos , you know the ones when you eat the contents of the fridge and any other chocolate cupboard in the house . I have set my low alarm on my Libre to 4.1. I know that it reads about 1 point high . When it goes off I take a mini can of Coke Cola and an energy gel...

I’ve been taking Atorvastatin for as long as I can remember , with no problems with my liver .

I totally agree that you shouldn’t drive if you lose sensation in your feet , but it shouldn’t and doesn’t stop you driving . I have no feet and I have hand controls fitted to my car . It still gives me my independence, which is worth the world , it takes a little bit of getting use to but to...

Yeah I’m really good thank you

Yep all good now I’m now waiting for two new legs getting cast next Thursday .technology has improved vastly things are lighter . Which really helps . It doesn’t stop me doing anything , well I can’t dance too well but I never could anyway lol

I had terrible athletes and migraines right up until I got diabetes . Not a good trade off , dont get any problems with my feet anymore. Lol

They ask me how long I’ve had diabetes when I tell them 46 years they say you know far more about diabetes than us . That includes the DSN s To be honest with you I think they are glad it’s one thing less they don’t have to do . And I’m fine with that

I had my insulin in my go bag and I had a fridge in the room I was in. I kept my insulin with me. The hospital didn’t have anything to do with it . As long as I informed them when I gave myself insulin they were fine with it , to be honest if they weren’t fine with it , it wouldn’t have...

In the last year have been in hospital on about 5 occasions and every time I was asked do I self medicate I sad yes ALWAYS. They all said good, you know what your doing far better than us ( 46 years if I don’t know know I’ll never know) never had an issue. They did a blood sugar check once a...

I’m not sure if Timpsons is a Scottish thing but they do passport photos here in Scotland .I’ve recently renewed my license and for the first time in ages I had to send a new photo

I remember the Balance magazine use to have adverts for Holstein Pils larger , this was before they realised that drinking alcohol can drop your blood sugar , everyday’s a skool day

The problem I found with the glass and metal ones was as the needles got blunt they filled with skin so pushing the plunger became harder until whoosh the needle separated from the syringe and unless u had the scale facing you you didn’t know how much insulin you’d injected plus you stank of...

I still use the portion thing I actually had a list they gave me and how you could swap portions it was all about 10 g of carbs as it is today ,you can polish a t- #d but at the end of the day it’s still a t-#d