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Mark after only a few months with a result like that I'd be very pleased, even if it was an awful result you have to learn not to let it get you down just learn from it. None of us have an absolutely perfect result every time our whole lives!! Your doing the right things, and if you're worried...

I just forget it's there unless I want a reading!! Also not bad to apply and I have a needle phobia!!! Also going into the pump in June as I'm determined to turn things around :)

I check every sensor I put in and to be fair the furthest out any of them have been in the last 6 months is 0.3

I have used the libre since Nov 2015 and it is absolutely fantastic, within a month my a1c had already started to drop it can tell you in which direction the levels are going not just what it is there and then like a finger pricking test, to me it's invaluable and I will literally never go...

its a toughie, with life circumstances I haven't any choice but to work nights and the only sleep time I have is while the kids are at school!!! I physically find it impossible to eat before going in and the shifts are 12 hours long so there is a need to eat especially with it being quite a...

hi i've recently started a new job which means working 3 or 4 12 hour night shifts a week, however ive been finding my sugars difficult to control does anyone have any advice on a trick or two?! x

ive discovered I'm low on levels of vitamin b12 which has been causing my foot pain and most likely the itching, now on a course of injections for that too, I hope it works!!!

The problem with the DAFNE advice is they expect you to be following a low carb diet snacks and all, if this was the case you could Park it and bolus with your meal but with heavy carbs and high sugar ones you will end up with complications if you don't bolus as you eat, stacking of insulin is...

I'm due to go onto a pump in the near future and I do find I get itchy skin especially on arms and legs so I hope I gain better control and reduce the itching as you have found x

Depends on your sensitivity. Type of insulin and what you eat really... I'm using novorapid and I inject just after I eat as I have a strange appetite and sometimes don't eat as much as I'm going to, does matter too much since novorapid works so quickly but with a low gi meal I will leave it up...

Well frankly they are lucky not to have to do these things to survive, so balls to them do what you gotta do its no one else's business!! Offer to take a pic next time anyone stares that normally makes them think twice or literally ask them in the most polite voice what their problem is, we...

I think its pretty obvious things do need reviewing not just with diabetes care but everything....... the basis which the nhs runs on is very outdated in our current time. if I were to focus just on diabetes then I would implore that we as the patients self medicate all the time and we need to...

I find if im struggling with migraines its often down to a. a lack of sleep (of course this can be catch 22 if suffering regular headaches/migraines) b. getting dehydrated or c. a lack of salt often find I start suffering horrendous cramps mostly in the legs and feet if it goes on too long...

im type 1 but I wish my levels got anywhere near the hypo stage!! major frustration!!! still plodding on with one suggestion or another from the specialists!!!

I have been type 1 for 26 yrs since I was 4 yrs old, I was the same as a kid, you did as you were told and life wasn't that bad, but as you get older and have to learn it all for yourself it gets harder and you feel like you don't fit in or are weird by other peoples standards. the truth is we...

i've been doing injections for 26 yrs, its never been an easy ride and my averages have never been that great!! now I have knackered my injection sites almost completely from constantly topping up to attempt to combat the levels of blood sugars!! it has taken a year of me arguing my point to...

ive been type 1 for 26 yrs and im still very needlephobic however speak to her gp and if you ask for an insulin pen which is compatible with a pen mate I bet she will be fine.. if I can do it so can she!!! the pen mate put the needle in so all you have to do is push the insulin in at the end...

really on your own????? there are thousands of us out here!!!! ;) I used to be the same as you are at the moment ive now been type 1 for 26 years, its hard but then again its a lifestyle you cant escape unless your planning on dying, which will literally happen if you keep going this way...

hey just wondering what insulin you moved on to as I use levemire at the min but it doesn't seem to do anything especially overnight for me anymore!!

type 1 for 26 yrs now I find its a constant cycle of dealing with it, hitting rebellion, just making through that day etc etc, diabetes in itself can be quite depressing and that's without any extra complications!! mine has been in a rut since my son turned 6 months old... he is 4 in a few...