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Hi im on statins but my cholesterol has alway been low. My diabetes was nit very well cintrolled fir years and the doc put me on them as a preventative measure. I know alot if people dont agree with them but i have spoken ti my consultsnt today and he has said agaun its ti orevent problens in...

If ur sugars are over 10 then in my opinion i wouldnt suggest u have lucozade. Think u deffinitely need to contact ur diabetic team. What about emailing them if u cant speak. if anyrhing u may feel tired because ur levels are running too high. next time u feel like it test at that time then u...

Oh its such a difficult age to deal wirh things without tje whole diabetes thing. At her age you dont think about the damage ur doing to ur bidy. Believe me ive been there. I was diagnised at 11 im 33 now. I became anorexic at 13 and spent all of my teen years in and out if hospital. I suffered...

Hi i use it for foods like chinese etc which seem to take longer to raise my blood sugar. If i give the whole amount at once i hypo within an hoir then go high around 3 or so hours later. I normally give 50% wirh meal then set the pump to give the rest over the next few hours. Keeps sugars much...

No one on either side had diabetes i wad the first and still am the only T1 in our family. I was diagnosed 23 years ago. My mum and dad have niw been duagnised T2 but uve been told theres no connection with bith types. In fact my dsn once said its a shame they are called the same as although...

Hi elaine, thats strange as i was told one of the criteria for the pump was a high hba1c. Think it just goes to show that hcps seem to have different views as ti pcts regardless if what the NICE guidelunes may say. Best wishes

Hi I think criteria differs from pct to pct. There was talk of me getting a pump over 7 yrs ago and i only got mine this august. The main reason was i still had poorish control after attendung a similar course. I think the fact i developed severe retinopathy whuch resulted in a detatched retina...

Hi does ur husband count carbs and have ratios fir each meal? Ive been diabetic for 23 years and only been.on a pump since august. I found that things have changed so much since diagnosis that when i attended the DAFNE course in february i learnt so much even though i went into it thinking "...

Hi everyone Hope ur all well. Just a quick update. Went back to hispitsl yesrerday for my 6 week post op appointment. Doc said its doing as well as can be expected whuch i see as a goid thing. My vusion fluctuates hugely but i guess thats something i need to get used to. Mt 'good' eye has...

Please excuse typos in previous podt my sight REALLYis pretty bad rught now :-/

Hi bethan Yep so im told. I asked my dsn my consultant and my gp and they all say my kidney function us nirmal. I was actually at my gp kast week and was talking to him about it as ive had severe retinopathy since march whuch has resulted in a vitrectomy so im paranoid about other complucations...

I was put on irbesartan about 7 years ago because my kidney function had decreased. I was 26 at the time. I still take the medicatuon daily but my kidney function has returned to normal niw and had been fir about 5 years or so. If its only the early stages it can be reversed. I kniw its scary...

Hate to say it dawnmc bu i dont think ur a cynic. My gp actually said this to me the other week which surprised me hugely. He said the pharamceutical companies are bigger than most goverments and his words were "theres no profit in cure" I must say i came out of there stunned. He did add he had...

That wad ecactly my problem being T1. I would give correction doses when it wasnt actually needed and ended up hypo!! Deffinitely dangerous for T1s :-/

Hi again The pump is funded by the primary care trust. Different areas have different rules i think as to who they will fund. I am on a 3 month trial and had to sign a contract when i started to agree thst uf i didnt meet the criteria then i would go back to injections. The thing i am aiming for...

Congratulations!!!! What a beautiful bundle of joy

Hi I use the freestyle insulinx. Im type 1 on a pymp and have to test up to 12 or more times a day at the moment. A few weeks aho my gp cganged me from the freesryly ti an omnitest code free meter. It gave me very unpredicatable readings all at the sme time. I tested 3 times al at once and got...

So true, i think thetes so many factors that alter our blood sugars, i.e. Stress, exercise, hirmones, types of food, illnedd, that it impossible to get it right all of the time. I can do exactly the same thing for 2 days eat exactly the same foods and still have comoletely different rezults. It...

Hi again Ive been there too many times with rhe rausing sugar in the moening and fir no reason i could see. It never seemef to follow any pattern but after goinf on rhe DAFNE course it really helped get my head around things. Thungs cganged so much sincw i wss duagnised 22 tears ago and id never...

So glad ur feeling a bit better about things this morning. I would get an sppointment just to put your mind at rest like the doc said to me better safe than sirry. Let us know what they say. Best wishes Leb x