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The one that gets me, and I have told many people - when your blood sugar is low you DON'T inject insulin. But if you ever watch a Movie, eg Panic room or Con Air (I am sure there are others) the story is based on someone needing insulin. To my knowledge, if you haven't eaten or drank anything...

Being in an Asian country, I can tell you that the second ingredient to most of their food is Sugar and if it isn't raw sugar its some kind of sauce that already contains loads of sugar. When I ask places to make me food I try to tell them not to add sugar at all, as I do know they heap that...

25 hit by a car, 27 developed type 1 diabetes now 41 And before you ask, you can get type 1 from any trauma to the body.

From my personal experiences, I know where you have been and probably everyone has. Once when I was sleepy, I forgot to inject so in my sleepy mode I injected my then usual 50 units of long acting, only to discover I injected 50 short acting. That was a long night of staying awake and making...

And once expired we should be able to supply it to people at probably 10% of the original cost. Just look what these companies are doing - http://diatribe.org/unpacking-rising-cost-insulin-and-what-it-means-patients And here http://www.mendosa.com/blog/?p=3529

I have been using the Libre for just over a month and I am on my 3rd sensor. Some people have put the sensor on other parts of the body, the main reason its behind the upper arm from what I can tell is - You don't flex behind there often so the sensor stays in and its part of the body that...

What amazes me is that people on here are dead set against the NHS providing this. We should spend more money on cancer/doctors etc. This is not a political forum, we are here to get help. If we want to talk money and statistics, look at the cost of what happens to your life from Diabetes...

I would say the libre is a godsend (if I believed in that). This not not perfect - but its a great step forward. People complain it is expensive, but it's really not that bad. As for accuracy - I would say its a sliding scale of accuracy. Sometimes it will read LOW - and give no number but I...

Got the package today Read the instructions...quite clear but the insertion step wasn't 100% clear. I pushed the sensor into my arm, and felt the prick but didn't feel right, from the next step. Basically I wasn't pushing hard enough for the device to make a click sound. It is now in my arm, I...

I am talking about Insulin - not some virus fighting drug (tamiflu waste of space) - which is enormously complex compared to cloning insulin. Which has been around decades. The only reason it is "reinvented" is to make the patent last longer. Insulin is OLD - it's also found in nature. For some...

Actually it doesn't affect them much at all. Big Pharma make Billions because they overcharge for their pharmaceuticals. All the countries that broke patents for the sake of their own people, still get the same drugs we do, but they pay 10th of the price. Stop thinking that life is a business...

I know everyone wants to cut back on everything, until we are forced into private health care but... If certain medicines cost the government a lot of money, why don't they just make their own? We all know Big Pharma makes Billions a year in profits (yes profits not expenditure) and of course...

Totally agree, always carry a month in stock. As for needles - being a little "lazy" and re-using the same needle I do seem to have a lot of needles spare.

I just got mine today (On my birthday) and I have inserted into the back of my arm and I have 40 minutes to wait before I can test myself. As I was doing it, I was trying to work out the cost of things and there is no reason why the government should not be paying for this. Obviously the...

It's actually nice to see someone on here who actually understands what Insulin does to your body. No insulin = no weight gain, only weight loss. I have done many experiments on myself to know what and how things affect weight loss/gain and my recommendation is a complete vegan diet. Most...

What you mention is interesting. But what is fascinating to me is the blood sugar and meat test. Animal protein spikes the blood a lot more than people realise it does. In fact being a protein it shouldn't spike your blood. Sugar water = blood spike Sugar water and meat = twice the blood...

New research that may shock you about what causes Diabetes and blood sugar spikes. As with all information, please use your own common sense to judge research. Tbs

Just informing the masses, and like always - believe what you will. This is another very interesting study about diets and diabetes Diabetes Food Study

Criticism I can take, but you accused the video of eggs - different post which you brought into this discussion - of being doom, well its not, doesn't say that at all, so you added your opinion to a scientific study on what you believe, not what is actual fact. Everyone as I have stated and...

I am sorry but I cannot agree with what you say catherinecherub. You seem to cherry pick your arguments quite well. Just because you don't believe the evidence doesn't make it true. Aspartame back when I was a Diabetic already had 65 OFFICIAL side effects, which are now over 90 as graj0 points...