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Sorry to hear about the consultant issue a possible 'I'll take this away if you don't behave - Parent to child attitude' but they just may think this threat will get you to change however as we all now it (life) is not that simple. I think of it this way - my body has changed (thus a change in...

The Libre (1) didn't work for me. Constantly calling them then going through all the test/questions then we will send you one please send that one back. So I took sensor off and applied a new one for 24 hours and activated it so was always missing a day. I did have a long chat with a...

I remember watching a TV programme (may have been on the news) around the early 2000's, about a watch that you just look at and and it tells you your BG reading. At the time I liked the sound and when the CGM's came out I thought we are getting closer to what was suggested many years before...

Understand your issues. Clearly the DN thinks you are not carb counting correctly and sounds like she does not belive the patient is telling the truth which is a hard thing to take when you are telling the truth. I also understand a body can have very different requirements over a course of...

Hi David As Jaylee said is it for 'field vision' test - if so and just to advise I think you may be waiting a while for this to happen through the DVLA. My mum not diabectic needed this but due to no doctor willing to advise she was ok to advise she was ok to drive without a test being done...

Yes not great. I have also switched insulins First change (2019) Humalog to FiAsp - about the same in quickness (i.e. not the rule of inject and you must eat then - DN always in a panic when it is mention but I just show the tests) - I sometimes have to wait over an hour to see a downward...

I understand this isn't answering your techincial question but even if I had the answer I wouldn't understand but. I had a look back through photo's of the arrows and graphs when I also seemed to have a similar quandry/query to yourself and as I mention before spoke to Abbott who dismiss my...

Snap also had this experience. Did chat to Abbott about it but they were a bit dismissive. Sorry I can't assit in your question.

I do hope you come up with a solution. I have had a similar experience. I also was told do not adjust this spike until 5 hours as the insulin could still be working when I brought this up on the DAFNE course and said I spike more than the 2 recommended and then start to drop on the 5 hour 6...

Yes £150 for a medical DVLA is high and not what I would expect. My mother not diabectic has to have a vision test but the DVLA say you have go the company they have the contract with and with Covid they will not make these bookings so she was no longer able to drive when her licanse ended...

Hi cbish8 I think as you are 3 months in this 10 carbs is after you have treated your hypo with 15 quick acting carbs which seems to be the general guidance. However as we all seem to say you need to work out what works for your body which is not always the same each time. Sometimes I only...

Hi I have used the Libre and found it useful to a degree but as someone has suggested you must check with a finger to make sure the readings of the Libre are close to actual. I was constantly more than 2 units more than Libre so reviewing the data with a HCP became complicated to explain as...

Hi SareN I did the Dafne course quite a few years aogo and they went through exercise and suggested you needed to active insulin in your body otherwise you may wise during exercise. I use to have lunch at 12 noon (with injection) and nothing else then go to a class around 6pm check...

Yes hypo symtoms change i have a large range from needing to put my foot down twice because i think i haven't put my foot down. to my thought process just going round and round on one thing until i say stop and test and then i have the ones which i had at the very start over 30+ years ago -...

I sometimes have foot on the floor so i test when I wake and test again when fully up and moving if on the rise and not planning to eat breakdfast then i will give myself a unit or two depending on how quickly I am rising. But everyone is different including yourself as i don't always get foot...

You say you are tresiba - why do you split this - Tresbia is 36 hours lasting so not meant to split as it doesn't have the same release like Lantus for exmaple which may only last 18 hours. Have you just changed to Tresiba? However i can locate a graph of how Lantus works but can't fine one for...

Hi all I've written in general chat as it is not about me and the person isn't diabectic. They need a field vision test to be able to drive - but as the DVLA & SpecSavers have agreed a contract so you can only go to Specsavers to get it done. In comes Covid19 and the DVLA have advised...

Now always at the table or where I am sat to eat, but yes back on teh 80's tolilet was my choice until I dropped my vial and it broke on the floor so then couldn't eat what I had ordered. I once was in Paris early 00's and was near a popular torist attraction and we decided to eat in quiet...

Hi I have also battled with the GP Surgery but never have they refused a prescription - once they did just reduce the quantity ordered and asked me to call. When I got the last YOU MUST have a 'medication review' (sense it is more about lifestyle and funded for the GP surgery) which lasts over...

Hi Shan-Marie I have always struggled with the finger pricker machine and also found when they used to also do a finger prick before the consultation I hurt like hell (Glad they have stoped this pointless test/check). My suggestion is a bit off the wall but I have been doing it for plus 20...