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I don't think I will ever get my hypo awareness back completely as I have been diabetic for a long time and have often had low sugars, sometimes through choice and sometimes through poor control. I will often go into the 3's most days (I am very active and often cycle over 20 miles a day) but I...

Hi Sharon Jeez you have got it rough. Just wanted to say Hi from a pom back in the UK after spending many years in the city of sails. Where do you live in NZ? Take care my dear and look after all the sugar dodgers you seem to have☺ it must be very rare to have as many in your family as you do...

Basically what everyone else has said. I haven't dived for a while now and pretty much hung my fins up but I have logged over 120 dives around the world while diabetic. One word of caution however, some companies are very suspicious about diabetics diving as they don't understand or want to risk...

Next time tell them that you are happy to educate them about the condition but would appreciate it if they didn't pass judgement on you when they obviously don't understand what T1 is. That will normally stop people as it is in fact a very polite slap down which tells people they are stupid...

What you've still got it then? There are definitely cures as I've also read about them, come on get with the program!

That is pretty much my story as well. I am a very active person and was sometimes having 10 injections a day trying to micro manage my levels with exercise and food and pretty much failing dismally. Now with a pump I have 8 different rates for different times of the day and feel my control is...

My HBa1c has barely moved since going on to the pump last May, it is in the mid 40's. However the difference now is I no longer get nocturnal hypo's to the degree I was before. These were debilitating and dangerous for me as well as putting a stress on my marriage. I am still fairly hypo...

I'm on a pump now but even after over 30 years of injections I still found it the least troublesome aspect of the condition. Didn't bother me at all. Strange how people think it's the worst thing about the condition. If it was just a case of a few injections a day and then sailing into the...

My very overweight boss who is the same age as me came back from her doctors after having a blood test and seemed very disappointed that it had all been fine. She said "I was hoping to have at least something a bit wrong with me, you know like diabetes or something" Despite her having a sister...

Certainly our bodies can do strange things .Personally I have been on a pump now for 6 months and after the initial ups and downs have found it is working well for me. However in the last few weeks I have been waking with very high levels (11,s to 18's) fairly regularly. I have started...

Ah bless that made me smile:) You are probably in a massive world of confusion at the minute I imagine. This will all start to get a lot clearer for you as the months go on and people here will always do their best to help you. You should ask about carb counting as soon as possible because...

Not something I am a fan of to be honest. I have experienced too much nonsense over the years with people's ignorance and what I have found is rather than ask me about the condition people like to tell me about the condition. The usual "You're not allowed to eat that" etc. I find it too tiring...

Sometimes I think I was lucky, this could describe me in the mid nineties when I was in my twenties. Basically paying only cursory attention to my control and more interested in having fun. I knew about the consequences but they didn't really happen did they? I didn't know any other diabetics so...

Thanks for the advice everyone. I was wondering about whether to go back on to MDI for the trip because I am fairly used to dealing with that over long haul flights and time zone changes but I would like to be able to use the pump in these situations as well rather than having to revert back...

Hi Was hoping I can get some advice with pump basal rates and travelling. I am off to Australia and New Zealand for Christmas in a few weeks and would like some advice on how I manage my pump basal rates for the trip. I have travelled long distance many times before with MDI but this is the...

Your post is fair enough and I don't take offence but you have been diagnosed for 2 months. Come back and let us know how you have got on after 30 or 40 or 50 years as some of us here have been and you will have a huge range of stories to tell and many of them will not be good. I hope you find...

T1 (41-50) 140/80 pretty consistently over the years

Hi Holly, This is not unusual at all. Different personalities will affect how we view and treat our diabetes. I am obviously a lot older than you as you mention school and have been T1 for a very long time. I have had just about every possible incident from paramedic attending hypos due to...

I checked the background to this and it seems he had a bad bang on the head which detached his retinas. So it may be less related to his T1 control than 1st appears

I'll be taking insulin.