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Congratulations! When I had my daughter 15yrs ago I was lucky enough to be on an insulin pump but was still blood testing, when I was first pregnant my hba1 was the best it had ever been but I was what I called ' bouncing off hypos ' seemed to spend my life treating hypos and I can also say it...

Alarms!!!! Isn't it amazing the fuss people made about the government alarm on Sunday, all I can say is people should live with dexcom then they would find out what a loud alarm really is, my husband and daughter both remark ' large vehicle reversing ' when mine goes off!! I was also changing my...

My phone has done an upgrade and now I can't get my dexcom 6 readings on the lock screen, not the end of the world just something I had got used too! Does anyone know how/if I can get it back? I am wondering if it will come back when I start my next sensor!

Hi Juicy Im not a Facebook user, this is as ' social media ' as I go! I wont fret about the time in range just wanted to use it to show it is having an impact on my usual control. I guess I'm just trying to work out if this is a pump issue or a problem as suggested to me with the cartridges. In...

Has anyone else had issues with the O rings coming out of the cartridges when changing them? I've been getting a lot of occlusions ( 4 in the last week ) and a couple of changes back I was struggling to get the new cartridge flush and on inspection the O ring and washer from the old cartridge...

Hi Rosie I have exactly the same, I call it ' black week ' and have a separate basal set on my pump to deal with it! Im not sure if you are on a pump? Its not straight forward, the time of day I become resistant can but not always vary from month to month! Im always most resistant from midnight...

Hi Mark I started using the Tandem pump mid December and lucky enough to also get the dexcom 6 funded, so new to the system after 16 yrs on Roche pumps. I was on libre with my last pump. I have no regrets whatsoever moving onto this combination, I absolutely love it. Filling the cartridge is...

Thank you. I've just done it despite being lucky enough to have got funded before Christmas. The proposed criteria is so wrong and I've told them so. Nobody can complain about it if they don't speak up for themselves!

Yes, nearly always! I call it " black week " and I can actually use it to know my monthly will start as it's usually 7 days before. During the first week I usually have " golden week " when I'm my most insulin sensitive. None of this i picked up before I had my libre, bloody hormones!!!

It can be a sign of preeclampsia, speak to your doctor tomorrow and get your blood pressure checked out just to be safe!

I get where you are coming from re overdosing but there is no way that would have happened as reading through his notes the one and only time he was given a correction dose was when I asked them too when I first arrived and told he couldn't go out as sugars were 33, only happened then as I asked...

They managed to break his pen first night he was in so Mum let them have his spares or that is exactly what we would have done! He has messaged me this morning to say he is down to 11 again now so have told him low carb breakfast again and to tell them he must have more insulin at lunchtime or...

Shame as Cumbria Healthcare Trust seemed to have some decent contacts re diabetes.

The nurses told me when I questioned that he was given treacle pudding at all that tye NHS no longer have a diabetic menu and that all patients are given a ' healthy menu' and they believe a diabetic patient would just say 'no thank you' to things like treacle pudding, hence the comment from the...

He chose to eat the pudding himself!!! I know, not a wise move!! Trouble is on his usual 40 units he may have got away with it but not on 10units and sugar levels of 23 before lunch, I doubt v much the nurses even told him it was 23 and with a type 2 nurse on duty makes it even more shocking...

Wow!! Just read it, oh so similar! Heart breaking story, will show nurses later!! Was allowed to take him out this pm, today they didnt insist on blood test before he left, he tested an hr after we left and it was 22, couldn't correct as they have all his pens so told them on return, the 3...

Thank you, will have a look and def be a letter of complaint, not sure where best to send it and probably just be sent a pack of lies in response!! I have taken photos of his notes as evidence!

This was the advice from his dsn!!!!!!! They were advised to give him just 4 units to correct the 30 reading despite him.being so resistant, needless to say within 2 hrs in rose to 33!!!! He just wants/needs to choose his own doses but dont know how to get them to let hin, he usually adjusts his...

We are in uk, im in Surrey and my father Cumbria. They have halved his eve humalin I at night and kept his am the same!

To cut a very long story short my father who is type 2 on insulin is in hospital with late stage 'Copd' having had a chest infection, on steroids and because 10 days ago after being addmitted he had a couple of hypos he was unaware off his humalog 40 units at mealtimes was stopped and he was...