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I cannot actually recall any of my doctors or DSNs talking about this apart from explaining diabetic neuropathy (diabetics may lose sensation in their feet, so you have to carefully check your feet), although that might in part be due to me strongly pushing to be discharged as fast as possible...

Well, the Boots pharmacist told me that they can't give me any needles without a prescription, and were not impressed with the "absolutely not true" argument.

Last I checked insulin pen needles are only available on prescription, so you can no more " spend a tenner" than you can go and buy a pack of insulin. If no GPs are open, you might have to go to A&E for an emergency prescription

Try 1863 - William Banting's Letter on corpulence addressed to the public What an amateur - publish a book, and you can claim anything, even obviously nonsensical rubbish, without ever getting sued. As far as the documentary goes, it seems mostly like Noaks repeating the same old rubbish (it's...

Do you really think NHS policy should be based on how many signatures you can collect rather than which drugs are actually effective, because that's what this amounts to unless this petition will make free Libre sensors fall from the sky.

I was able to get spare pens without issue, including the Humapen Luxura (60u) and Humapen Luxura hd (30u, 0.5u increments). I also doubt they'll leave you to die if you dropped and broke your pen.

Yeah, I'm gonna keep sticking with the NICE guidelines instead of your highly rigorous n=1 trial if you don't mind. The simple fact is that trial outcomes will conflict with "common sense" ideas, and when that happens the nurses and doctors have to go with what the science is telling them...

I got a call today to notify me that the sensor had been sent out on Wed (10 days after I reported the problem) and apologizing for the delay.

Time to consider that there may be a bit more too it then "BG up = carbs eaten". Think Like a Pancreas covers most of it

Are you honestly surprised by this? It says not to reuse lancets on the packaging, so *obviously* the pharmacist/doctor isn't going to tell you otherwise. Similarly, it's hardly surprising to find people ignoring rules when it makes their lives easier. To conclude from this that every rule you...

They will not magically disappear in a puff of smoke, but it is not recommended to reuse them. If you want to go on record telling people to ignore medial advice that's your choice

Healthcare in the U.S. can be extremely expensive, and I'd be concerned about being able to find insurance that will cover your diabetes since it's a preexisting condition (a bit like trying to get insurance when your house is already on fire); make absolutely sure that you are covered before...

I am pretty sure that it's not the sugar content - BG is very largely hormonal (e.g. This is why cortisone injections induce hyperglycemia), so if you get ill you will need significantly more insulin regardless of what, if anything, you ingest, making a few grams of sugar contained in a dose of...

They rebel by not testing their blood sugar and skipping their insulin (for example, not taking insulin is a great way to lose weight as long as you don't mind death). Testing for ketones is pretty much completely irrelevant in preventing DKA; essentially, ketone test strips tell you if high BG...

If the email was from Diabetes UK (the charity) them you have to ask them and not Diabetes.co.uk (the message board)

That's because it would be unethical to take away people'd medicine and watch if they die, and then go "Huh, looks like he was diabetic after all" when they're dead

Simply put, you can't (but as I understand it you usually get fast acting insulin alongside premixed for correction doses). You'd work out how much basal insulin you need, and then take an appropriate amount of the mix insulin - as a result, since you're injecting fast acting insulin whenever...

How metformin works: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2995498/

Blood sugar depends heavily on hormones, so it's possible to see substantial increases if stressed or even if exercising depending on intensity (for example, think like a pancreas describes one athlete seeing BG drop during training but go up during ranked matches). Hypos are primarily a result...

Because despite our best efforts 100% of people die, and that means they have to die of something. People who would have died of trivial infections now live long enough to get diabetes or cancer; and whilst scientists are now out looking for a cure it isn't always very easy. When we finally find...