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I I hope someone has told my diabetes consultant this....when I told him I felt I would benefit from using a CGM he told me that they were only designed for diagnostic purposes...................

I have just completed a 10 year study to see if taking omega 3 & aspirin daily decreases incidences of stroke and heart attack in people with longstanding diabetes (I have had it for 56 years). Anyway I had neither a stroke or heart attack & at the end of 10 years I thought that was the end of...

I had a memory test 3 years ago now when I saw the nurse to have my ears syringed. My hearing had become quite badly impaired and I could hear that she wanted to give me a test but couldn't hear what it was for--I just said yes thinking it was probably (yet another) blood test. Anyway she began...

Oh &, BTW, I have never been prescribed Glyco stop or anything else similar. Also never been approached re a yellow bin for used needles---not once in 56 years of type 1, Saw GP in Jan 17 and she actually asked me if I had a yellow bin. When I said that I had never been asked if I wanted one...

ALSO--if ever I ask GP or consultant questions--I never, ever get an answer--instead they revert into Maybot mode and repeat a phrase again & again (which doesn't answer my question).......

You can report this type of GP response & suggest you do so. I did that when my Mother's GP refused to prescribe something that she needed. The outcome was that a prescription was sent directly to the local chemist and boxes of the medication were delivered to her door!!!!!

Long standing diabetes causes lessened/ non recognised symptoms of hypoglycaemia --usually going back to animal insulin, which induces more pronounced hypo symptoms, sorts problems of this sort, out. However had to fight t/b prescribed animal insulin once more--consultant told me I would have...

Have a GP just like that eg " shouldn't eat anything sweet (even when hypo) because it causes pancreas to produce more insulin so therefore contributory to another hypo" (I HAVE BEEN TYPE 1 FOR 56 YEARS--have no insulin). "Should eat low GI food to stop hypos" (error--tried that--caused more...

It's not that you live longer on statins---that is only what it feels like........!!!!

I have been type 1 for 56 years (no complications). 15 years ago I had my 1st cholesterol test. This was just fine. Doc quoted HDL & LDL numbers & stated that taking low away from high gave reading (mine was 2. something) which was low. This was repeated a year later with same/ good reading. A...

I trained as a dancer & spent 2 years in the Italian Operetta Company touring Italy as a dancer. I then did lots of dance work in the uk with well known celebrities, taught dance then spent 10 years in advertising. Had 2 children then went to university to do a dance studies degree which was...

Yes I know type 2s who make cakes for meals at friend's houses & sit there & eat 2 or 3 portions in one sitting. One of them recently had treatment for retinopathy but can't see the link between eating massive amounts of sugar and the problems with his sight. Neither do they understand the...

She is the only person ever who has behaved in this way (in over 55 years of diabetes)--most people don't even say anything &, if they do, once everything is explained to them they just accept it & never again make remarks--what on earth was this lady up to...?

...oh &...father in law later developed type 2. I tried to be as helpful as poss re food much to the consternation of the mother in law who told me " I know all about food. I used to work in a sausage factory!" LOL!!!!! I didn't bother any more!!!

My mother in law always insisted that I eat her lovingly prepared puddings after dinner-I always refused. One day in front of an elderly aunt & other family members, she became particularly irrate about the fact that I refused to eat her puddings--& I got somewhat fed up. In front of the whole...

Similar--age 63, diagnosed age 8, 55 years ago. Used to exercise all day, every day for training & work--although not anywhere near as much now. My belief is that the exercise contributed greatly to good control-hence no complications and still doing good!!!!

Methinks the same!!!!!!

Clearly there is a lack of joined up thinking here on the part of medics...................55 years ago when I was diagnosed, aged 8, all medics involved sang from the same hymn sheet. I was taught well and after 3 weeks in hospital, for stabilisation & massive attempt to gain weight (I was 2...