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Not a lot of use as alarms then, are they? Also today the words 'alarm' only appeared the first time it went, after that the screen cleared. Seems daft, you only know it's alarmed when you press a button to do something else, by which time you could be in DKA!

Yes, the only consistent thing is the inconsistency! I had a really bad one in the 70s, we thought I was having a stroke. Got so low it made me vomit, the doctors said I "should" be unconscious, but sadly didn't tell me the actual reading. It was years before electronic meters, so wouldn't...

Hi Dragonflye DD's advicesounds right - tho obviously I'm no expert having only practised with 2 Silhouettes! Definitely doesn't sound right that the tubing isn't clear and rather a coincidence that your sugars have gone weird at the same time.

Dragonflye, do you send your bg readings to your pump wirelessly? I think this uses a lot of power. If the alarm/alert goes off in the night does it wake you? If I can't adjust the volume, I'll have to use vibrate when out and about and at work. The beeps may be ok at home.

Hi Kelp I think DAFNE will help you a lot. I used to be told not to correct high readings ("you can't change what's already happened") and only to change the dose if a pattern of highs persisted for 3 days. In my case there was never a pattern anyway, very frustrating. Conversley, DAFNE...

Its common to start feeling better within 12-24 hours of starting antibiotics. Infections/viruses often affect blood sugar well before you start feeling ill, so maybe the antibiotics are having an effect on the infection and your blood sugar before you start feeling better?

Hi Laura I'm just a little ahead of you - starting on my a Veo pump next Tuesday (yay :D ) and currently have one on loan to get to know how to use it. Glad to help if I can.

I've been trying out the alarm on the Veo I have on loan to check that I'd hear it. They seem so quiet, I worry I'd miss any alarm I wasn't expecting - eg something important like a blocked tube, running low on insulin or a dying battery. Big, unexpected things happened on the day I set the...

That's interesting, I didn't know that. When hubby and I cuddled (if you know what I mean :wink: ), that cat would try to get between us then too - maybe she thought he was giving me the kiss of life :lol: My present moggies are great at purring and cuddling, but unfortunately I don't think...

I couldn't believe it either and stopped using them. Was already pee'd off with their errors because they could never find my repeat slip. I'd give them a written list but still had stuff I'd ordered not being included on the prescription, my basal insulin ordered instead of bolus insulin, test...

My ex-hubby used to treat my nocturnal sleep-through hypos by putting set honey in my mouth. He knew I was coming out of it when I pulled a face because I hated the taste. The cat we had then could tell when I was hypo. Hubby slept very little and would often be in the next room at the...

Thanks everyone. iHs kindly PM'd me some links to order samples of Niltac and Liftplus, which I've done - thanks. It wasn't that the adhesive was hard to get off, more the vague nauseous/queasy feeling combined with the thought of what I was doing. Last year I had to lie down when someone...

Didn't feel right yesterday, 2 days after starting saline. Blood sugars OK at lunch and of course my insulin is still injected, so not overly concerned. But by 7pm up to 17 :shock: Cannula site still comfortable and looked healthy. I blamed the spike on a very stressful day at work even...

It doesn't seem quick, but feels real now. I'll keep you posted, don't worry!

I think it would probably be OK, but better safe than sorry. Just don't ask for advice at the pharmacy I used to use... they dispensed my insulin and left it under the counter, in the summer, in a shop so overheated they kept front and back doors open all year. When I tried to collect it they...

Congratulations Ebony. I'd be chuffed with that too.

When I went on a Diabetes UK kids camp in the 80s, they said something similar happened to them one year. All of them sitting in their 'tour bus' (old coach painted with a patches of whatever left-over paint they could get) in a car park, injecting before their take-away dinner on a day out...

Just once in 38 years... though I didn't see the paramedic because I didn't wake up til I was in A&E. Must've come to slightly in the ambulance though, I remember noticing cute little windows at the bottom of the doors, which I'd never seen before. That said, also one ambulance ride strapped...

Put my pump in one of these over night and at work today, and it's really soft and comfy. Although I've only just started wearing a loan pump, with this I didn't know I was wearing it - much less bouncing around with brisk walking. Showed it to a colleague who pumps and she'd never seen one...

Glad my cats aren't the only chewers! The DSN told me not to suspend for a shower disconnect. On saline its only giving 0.025 u/hr so for a 10-minute disconnect it didn't even drip.