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I use childrens socks from a supermarket - just looked for ones without heels in - they don't hang though I just tuck them in somewhere.

I have had a freestyle optimum since I was diagnosed nearly 4 years ago, have always had strips on repeat, only had pump since August.

My GP prescribes single use pens and insulin, but I got my reuseable pens from my DSN at the hospital - she has a stock which are given to her by the manufacturers - can you try and get a pen from them? Whoever makes the insulin you use?

My GP didn't try and treat me, sent my results straight to the hospital where I was seen the next day. Even though they didn't know what type of diabetes I had I was injecting insulin within 15 minutes of being in hospital (due to BGL of 33 and ketones) and they took bloods and tested for GAD...

it slides, you need to pull the bit behind the top of the clip towards you (a tiny little oblong that sticks out) to unlock it and then it just slides up. Hope this makes sense, I found it difficult at first too but since I don't wear the clip during the day and I do at night mine is on and off...

I'm in the UK, type 1 and I have it so some clinics/consultants give it to type 1's in the UK. I'm on a pump now and still have it.

I'm on both, was put on metformin when diagnosed and never been off it, I'm overweight though.

I think it depends where you are, I had a 3 hour pump start clinic in April but didn't start pump until August.

I keep mine in a sock in the middle of my bra so the tubing is all under my clothes, I hardly notice it.

I use the 640g, the only accessories I use are a smallish make up bag to carry around my spares kit (insulin vial, resevoir, mio, syringes, battery etc), some childrens socks (£3 for two pairs from a supermarket) which are heelless which I use to keep the pump in when it's in my bra (most of the...

If you are on two injections a day now I expect that is why your DSN is reluctant to start you carb counting, once I moved to basal /bolus I was doing many more injections a day 6 to 10 - so maybe she thinks this will be more difficult for you, especially as you say you are just about coping...

I use every week for around 15 minutes, haven't had any issues.

I don't think I like it much - as in ' Oh here comes the diabetic' any more than I like (since I have ginger hair) 'Oh here comes the ginger' and this is from supposed friends why not just say 'Oh here's fairylights!) But depends on the context i suppose and I guess the first one (which has been...

I don't think my MIL is type 1 although she has not been tested. I know quite a few others that have been diagnosed with type 2 that are slim and seem to manage okay on diet alone. I guess I was lucky, I did lose weight at diagnosis but I was still overweight at this time (May 2012) and my GP...

I don't usually eat many carbs at breakfast or lunch so can be less than 10 after 2 hours, often after dinner where I can eat 60/70g carbs I can be in high teens after 2 hours, a couple of times my cannula has detached and then I have been in the 20's for ages, it seems to take ages for me to go...

I'm not sure the weight thing equates, my MIL is very very thin and has type 2 (and severe neuropathy), I on the other hand am overweight and have type 1. I am pretty sure she has type 2 she eats more carefully and has a great HbA1c, I on the other hand am definitely type 1 as proved by the...

I have been on a pump since August and my pump shows that my average is 8.7, 8.6, 8.5 over the last 30, 14, 7, I was at the hospital clinic yesterday and also had an A1c of 7.6% so I was also a little disappointed, I also know that my average was lower in the previous 30 days. I feel that I...

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I haven't had an A1c done since starting on the pump as they had to change my appointment as the one I had was too close to starting. I am going to the clinic next week so I'll find out then, I am really hoping that it will have come down a fair bit, I did another proper basal test last night...

I started on my pump in August and I'm still setting things up - it probably took em about the first four weeks to get my basal set for the period from 2am until noon and now the weather's gone cold it needs a bit of tweaking, going to do lots of testing when I'm off next week. It probably...