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Sorry if this has been asked before but I'm about to order a Freestyle (super excited) but how do I get the VAT amount removed pls?

I've just seen the news about the Freestyle Libre. Despite some of the negative comments here I can't help but think it's too good to be true! Fingers crossed that I will be able to have one. I can't wait to try it out. I know one person who has been using it and she says it's absolutely...

Apologies if this has been asked before. Does anyone have a recommendation for an android app, similar to the excellent RapidCalc? Unfortunately RapidCalc don't have any plans to develop a version for Android. Thanks

Aha! I'm on Humalog. That might explain it then. But she didn't explain it to me! I wish I'd insisted on seeing my usual,consultant.

Yeah. I was a bit ticked off. I'm going to take it up with my GP. I'm betting the consultant that I usually see wouldn't have said this.

I'd be interested too. I was keen to try it but when I asked my diabetes consultant last week if I could try it I just got a straight 'No'. She wasn't the doctor I usually see. Apparently I am too well controlled to change anything! My last HbA1c results have been in the mid 40's. Bit...

Weird. What a difference in attitude from asking you beforehand what you could and couldn't eat. Has he been drinking? Lol!

Had another 'incident' yesterday. 'Oh Sandra will you have a scone? They're gluten free! Gluten free?, but I'm not coeliac. I'm diabetic. Oh silly me. You can have a scone then!' I kid you not, the fruit scones were HUGE with what looked like a layer of jam an inch thick in the middle. Oh, you...

Might be worth trying the new fast acting insulin, Fiasp. I'm going to ask about it at my next consultant's appointment. Other than that I find a brisk one hour walk helps but that might not be practical if you're working.

Lol!

So do I but I'm just letting off steam! Try it sometimes. It's therapeutic!

I take 12.5 units of Lantus at 8.30 in the morning. When I was still experimenting with the dosage I tried splitting it and asked my consultant what he thought. He said that on low doses there isn't really any benefit to splitting it. Seems to work ok for me just once a day. But we're all different.

Can I ask, did you bang in the same number of units as you would have done for your 'old' insulin?' I'm just wondering if the strength varies between makes? I hope that's not a daft question.

Wow. I can see all sorts of uses for this, what with Easter coming and all.

Whaaaaat!

I think it's frightening how little some medical staff, both doctors and nurses, seem to know about diabetes. Given its unfortunate prevalence now you'd think diabetes and its management would form part of their basic training. I had surgery a few years ago which meant a week in hospital. On...

At my local GP surgery they offer an annual diabetes check. It's two appointments, the first just to take bloods, urine, check feet and check BP. A non specialist appointment. Then they send me the results and I go for a second appointment with the diabetes specialist nurse to chat about the...

'Why don't you take those crumpets and put them somewhere the sun don't shine? Sideways?' Sometimes it would be just blissful to be, well, rude!

Maybe it's like saying you don't drink? I guess not eating sweet stuff or not drinking is outside most people's 'comfort zone' and they don't know how to deal with it. Like you, I'd always prefer a starter to a pudding anyway but I always get the look of puzzlement 'Oh, aren't you having a...

Give it to the dicky birds!