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You can be overweight and type 1 - or more often LADA - at my clinic and in a recent Balance magazine - LADA is a late onset type 1 but also with insulin resistance - so often a late developer and overweight type 1. It is also possible and common to be a thin type 2. The way to find out is to...

Before I started pumping I was using levemir in the morning, humalog for bolus and humulin I for night time 'basal' - this is a cloudy insulin which has a bit if a peak and I was using it to try and combat the horrific dawn phenomenon that I have. It was slightly better that levemir but not much.

Got diabetes at 50 and got a pump at 52.

Tim, yes you're probably correct - she didn't say why she had them and my DSN did say when I got my pump that they were trying to get more folk on to pumps as think Scotland lags way behind the rest of the UK.

Well I was at the hosp. clinic today and came out with a libre, Apparently in Scotland they will be available to type 1's. They are only funding one sensor per person and then you would have to buy them yourself, but I guess they will get a wealth of knowledge even from those two weeks and even...

I have a 640g - so I carry my contour next monitor and sometimes a ketone monitor and spare monitor (probably because it's still in my bag from last time I stayed overnight somewhere). My real spares kit is in a make up bag - it has my current bottle of humalog plus a spare filled reservoir...

my DSN told me those white bits are because the tube is actually made of two layers and that's when the layers stick together - if it's an air bubble it will move down the tube but these marks won't move.

I also have dawn phenomenon and I was waking at 3am to give a bolus to try and fix it and my consultant told me that I couldn't keep doing that, as the lack of sleep made it unsustainable in the long run!! She told me to go on a pump which I got one year ago aged 54. Whilst I was waiting I...

I have just come back from holiday and was a bit worried about airport security. Going out of Edinburgh I just walked through the metal detector and did not set it off and I was not picked for a random check (my daughter is picked every time though). Coming back from Prague, they do the...

That sounds horrid, but if you were getting on well wit your nurse I would keep seeing her, I find that although most of the consultants are lovely sometimes they are a bit dismissive - whereas the DSN always seems to have time to chat through any issues and can also get you much quicker access...

My DAFNE course didn't teach me to eat more carbs but it did teach me lots of good stuff. We all know that when your blood sugar is running high that you lose weight - perhaps the OP's wife has now lowered BGL and no longer has this problem. I was also told to expect a few lb's weight gain...

On a scout camp with my leader/friend who is a clued up NHS worker and two other leaders, one who is an anaesthetist, and one just a first aider, I was bemoaning the fact that I had a hypo during the night. first aider says casually so do you just give yourself some insulin when that happens...

I use mios with the middle sized tubing (sorry not sure how long it is and can't find on pack) - this is long enough for it to sit in a sock in the centre of my bra and I can pull it out from the neck of my top. I just leave it there when playing badminton and at the gym and it is fine it feels...

I have a pack of disposable syringes for normal emergencys and only take pens if going away overnight - I asked my GP to lower from 5 pens to 2 on my prescription as 5 was too many. Your DSN will show you how to use a syringe if you want to take these instead.

I use it when swimming so the sharp end doesn't catch on my swimming costume.

Hmm, my daughter has just come home (only for a few weeks) after finishing her fourth year at uni and I am also finding it hard to keep control of my blood sugars, Oddly when me, husband and daughter 2 went away for the weekend there they were just fine!!!

My hospital clinic is starting a special type 1 day one day a week where they will only see patients with T1D - the Dr told me they are hoping to have some drop in education sessions during this clinic. I will see what its like when I go next month.

I was diagnosed four years ago. Went to my GP one day was seeing a DSN in the hospital the next day. She put me on mixed insulin to start, I didn't have any time off work but she phoned me every day and I saw her every few days for the first few weeks. This worked fine for the first months...

You can still get one at 50. I didn't get diabetes until I was 50 - and I got my pump at 54.

I am overweight, but had high ketones when diagnosed. They initially said they didn't know but did tests straight away and high antibody count led to a T1 diagnosis. But on my DAFNE course there was an overweight person who had initially been diagnosed T2 and then rediagnosed T1 after having DKA.