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It’s taken me a while but I very rarely have a “ full blown “ eat the contents of the fridge (cos that’s where my hypo chocolate is) , for me this is down to the low alam on the Libre . I set mine at 4.1 as soon as it goes off I treat it as a hypo . I use gels that cyclist use as a hypo...

Diagnosed age 17 in 1980, about two weeks after I got knocked unconscious playing 5 a side footy . Back then you were T1 or T2 and that was it. I was told that T1 normally gets diagnosed between the ages of 16-25 , like the treatment things and knowledge have definitely changed since then

Unfortunately these days lucozade isn’t the best to raise blood sugars it doesn’t have much sugar in it to raise them quick normal Coke Cola is best as it’s te only one that hasn’t had it’s sugar reduce de to the” fat “ tax other really quick things are the gels that cyclist use the problem has...

I’ve had gout and my god it can be painful mine was to due to my kidneys uric levels all to **** . if you do get it get to the docs and get some Alipurinol and just get doctor to keep and eye on your urea levels , cos believe me a bad dose of gout is something you dinny want ,

I must admit I don’t notice much difference if any difference , personally as long as I rotate I’m not bothered , the issue if you find a site which you think is quicker it can easily become your go to site which can then led to less rotation which in itself brings issues

Bought one from Amazon has the universal medical symbol on outer and has diabetic on inner it’s not metal but one of the rubber modern type so waterproof too

Pils was advertised in the balance magazine but was removed as it was in the time when they didn’t realise that alcohol dropped your blood sugar like a stone , so you had diabetics drinking Pils and having serious bad hypos hours after they’d drunk it

I know the insulin I was on was insulatard 40 strength was on that til I ended up on the pen I think old age has made my memory in and out , compare to then these days is a doddle bearing in mind 45 years of experience is probably the ace in the hole

I do remember before they brought out U 100 insulin the pork insulin was different strengths which meant when you were drawing it up you had to half it , or I think quarter it on the syringe . Only when the synthetic (or”human” insulin as they sometimes called it) did you draw the unit as per...

My mother use to buy me ” diabetic “ chocolate bless her youre right they we’re just as bad as normal chocolate as a result even now anything labelled as diabetic is something I avoid , and not just food

And they all were rank and worse of all were Hermazetas a sugar replacement Omg I would rather lick a camels butt not that I know what a camels butt tastes like but they were that bad

i Remember apart from diabetic sweets which if you ate them you couldnt go further than 10 feet from the toilet , the only thing available was Orbit chewing gum ,

if you’re using the libre system you can get blood test strips that test ketones

I didn5 have a mobile til the mid to late 90s then all it did was text

I wonder what I would have thought if I’d been told in 1980 that I could take my sugar levels with my phone