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gets you thinking about those who live in deprived areas where one cannot access health services are as good as dead if they suddenly come down with diabetes, or if you were in times where people were dying from an unknown illness until it was officially recognised or as long as sugar was invented

I've always believed that I belong in the cluster 1/2 groups in that my pancreas is still working and not completely dead where its pumping out all these alpha and beta cells, except my immune system is just attacking the beta cells which might be why I can't go below 2.0mmol/l and the glucagon...

Reading from eligibility criteria i probably won't pass their criteria because i've never tested more than 4 times a day in my life, never would i want to, and don't test most days, it will probably be a waste of resources in their point of view. I just see it as not needing to test my sugars...

I also take novomix 30, and also it helps to know most sugars if not all have the suffix '-ose', examples like: lactose(milk), glucose, sucrose, fructose(fruit), as far as basic food needs go, potatoes and bread are carb rich as well as their more processed counterparts like cakes, biscuits...

Although i usually have more than 200g of carbs a day on average, i occasionally splash out on a bag of haribo, whole packet of biscuits or chocolate bar alongside a soft drink full of sugar or a milkshake. You could say this is not controlling my diabetes but I can eat whatever i want, and the...

At first I had a bad rash or lump in my throat, thought it was lactose intolerance because of all the milkshakes and yogurts I ate so cut out all dairy products except butter which has minimal amounts, a few weeks later i get stomach pains still stuck to the lactose-free regime, so i'm thinking...

used to inject twice a day, but lack of income resulted in eating habits changing so i'm not certain what I have to eat but always inject the same amount which is 26 units of the mixed insulin so that it doesn't go high by itself, maybe it will be good for my blood glucose in a more controlled way

used to be 12% for the past few years, gone down to 11%, but think temporary spikes might be throwing it off since I don't hypo too often and if its below 7 i feel like death probably because it amplifies my anxiety and more chance of having panic attacks, so might have a fear of hypo's

good thing that i can get my insulin for free since im unemployed and not eligible for welfare benefits because i've been chronicly unemployed for 3+ years but purposefully run my sugars higher than normal to avoid hypo's because i cant afford to buy something to counteract them, borderline...

I have no interest in them because last time i tested was like months ago and gotten into the habit of not testing, however other solutions have become available such as the sensor that is implanted under the skin which has been approved under the NHS but unsure when the full rollout will be -...

i find various ASMR techniques to be therapeutic, there are so many on youtube lasting from 3 mins to 4 hours. although meditation is intended to be carried out in complete silence, i don't have the luxury of being in a quiet place so a 'mind massage' is the closest i can get

i literally asked my GP last year for the form that you need to renew the certificate and he said I don't need it, type 1 is a lifelong incurable disease. but with the mindset i have now, i now think they're counting on me getting caught without one so they can get their money because its all...

my insulin allows me to inject before i go out for dinner or somewhere i think ill be longer than 3 hours so i don't have to deal with these situations. nonetheless i prefer a private space to inject because i treat it like going to the toilet, i don't want people watching me going to the toilet...

this is the opposite of what I want, and the reason i choose novomix over rapid and lantus, convenience and no side effects

i used to be able to type 10x faster, skim-read a book and commit it to long term memory, hallucinate my worst fears but now i just get the worst headache in the world that feels like an alien is burrowing its way out, in this case my head instead of the stomach. and a form of existential...

not heard of an ACEI until today, but have been given atorvastatin for high cholesterol even if i don't have it that high, they still give it to me and insist its safer to take it than not to, but last time i took my statins was probs a week ago, only started again because of the weather

I go well over the 200g carb and 70g fat guideline daily amount but tend to eat for comfort because most of the time i'm depressed and don't care if i'm damaging my body than eating to function properly

I find a 70p 300g bag of haribo to be quite effective for both cost and effectiveness for hypo, but is challenging to not overdo it as they taste so good, compared to a glucotab tub which usually costs £3 a tub or £1 for a small tube of 10 tablets which is way overpriced, alright if you have a...

The thing with glucotabs is comparing the price between them and liquid. I know as far as solid glucose you can get jelly babies which usually cost £1 per bag in the supermarket (not saying they're the only fast acting glucose sweets). I think it's companies like Gluco and their glucogel or...

I use KA grape, karibbean kola, fruit punch flavours, in their bottled variety, and sometimes drink it casually but it has higher sugar content than coca-cola or red bull. 89p per bottle or 39p per can pretty good value for the amount of sugar in it