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It sounds like a good idea but would it work accurately? Also, I wouldn't fancy having a chip embeded under my skin and I don't suppose many people would. The idea about something that changed colour with the heat of the body does work as I have a couple of watches that start off with a...

Glad to hear that you don't appear to have diabetes but your symptoms certainly sounded like you had it. I just have to say that I have had diabetes since 1995 and didn't really have any obvious symptoms except for about three or four days and the main one was extreme thirst. My father had...

I live in Gloucestershire and have had the same thing happen to me, the excuse being that the test strips are much cheaper. I have been given the Glucolab monitor and so has my friend but my sister who also lives in Gloucestershire has been given a different monitor. My friend and I couldn't...

Hi Your "high" sugar levels are what were normal to me!! I probably can't be of much help to you as my blood sugars have gone DOWN in the heat. I have been having frequent hypos both during the night and in the day and have had to resort to stopping my insulin injections for the last three...

I am 67 and have had diabetes since 1995. When I was first diagnosed the hospital wanted me to go on to insulin straight away but I wasn't keen so they tried me on various tablets like Gliclazide and Metformin. I settled on Metformin although when I first started on the three tablets a day I...

Hi I'm struggling to work out what you say is a high sugar level because the highest number you mention is 10 and that's not what I'd call high! If you can eat all the stuff you mention and have a post meal reading of 4.7 then that sounds very good to me. I stuffed some crisps, a bit of...

I live in Gloucester and my friend and myself have both been taken off our meters and changed to Glucolab meters because the strips are cheaper. Both of us had trouble with our meters, whether it was the meter or more than likely the strips but we kept getting error messages, mainly the one...

I'm one of those annoying (to you) people who doesn't have any trouble with blood sample taking, in fact, my veins are so good I have sometimes had blood taken without a cuff! I am surprised that blood is being taken from the back of a hand as mine has always been taken from the inside of my...

Hi I've had a look at the website you mentioned and while the thing looks slick and neat, I just wonder if something like that is what many people would want to carry. It's rather bulky and would take up a lot of room in a handbag for instance. Would you also want to have your glucose meter...

Thank you for the latest replies. I have had a look on the mhra website and think I will go down that road anyway, even if I speak to my diabetic nurse which I haven't done yet. Actually, I hadn't even heard of mhra and had to look it up but I shall tell my friend who has been having the same...

Thank you AMBrennan and anna29. Regarding whether I had looked at the manual when I was given the pen, that, as I said, was at least five or more years ago. I have found it again and it does state that Novo Nordisk will replace a Novopen if it is returned to "your supplier" within three years...

Thank you all for your replies. I was told by a diabetic nurse that meters should be changed every three years and was promptly given another one which I was so impressed with I bought a small version which took the same testing strips to keep in my handbag (Accu-Chek Aviva and Accu-Chek Nano)...

Hi I am new here and hope someone can give me some advice. I have had diabetes for 17 years and have been on insulin for around 12 of those years. I have had two or three pens for the quick acting insulin and the present pen I use must be five or more years old at least. I was told that...