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Please try to be positive, I don't think they will take your pump away without giving you a final warning. But also, if go in with a positive attitude: I have joined a diabetic forum, I have asked them for support as I don't feel I'm getting what I need here, I have improved the number of times...

Apologies, it is the yellow card scheme. The website is: https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Yippee!!!!! Well done. Small steps are being taken and you, Sir, are not where you were yesterday! Unfortunately, I have one more thing to ask - please stop trying to be perfect! As Andy12345 said in another thread, it's not how many times you fall over that count- it's how many times you get...

The new treatment is still under review by NICE. http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/14256/65594/65594.pdf Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

I am always here, and so are so many who are much, much more helpful and supportive than me. Start with small steps, just one or two a day will be loads than you are doing at the moment. Once you are on a more steady path and your healthcare professionals can see how much effort you have made...

Did you not get one too, Spilker? I got a ketone meter when I got my pump, and had assumed that everyone did! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

At work, I went to the loo. When I returned, I couldn't find my office. I walked up and down the corridor, asking if anyone had seen someone take my things! A few of my RAF colleagues sat me down and gave me sweet tea and a cake. They wouldn't let me go anywhere. I sat there, crying, saying...

Trying not to be too negative, but the chances of Reece being offered CGM at this point are so slim, I didn't think it was fair to even mention it! :eek:

Way to go Zand! You're a star!

My diabetes team have been keeping a database of results that they have sent to the DVLA for at least the past 17 years. The database does not include any personal info, the data entered is of the kind of licence applied for, BG results sent (for example 70% between 4 and 9mmol, number of...

Apparently more than 1 reading under 3 and more than 4 under 3.6mmol in 3 months is seen as being hypo unaware. I am hypo aware, but tend to get easily distracted. I have since disciplined myself to treat any hypo feeling immediately. I would hate to kill someone because I thought that I was...

Reece, hi, hello. Do you think that you have accepted that you are Diabetic? It probably seems like a strange question, but I find that when my mind is not 100% on board with what I have decided, it can set out to help me fail no matter how good my intentions are. Diabetes is huge, I have had...

I used to work with loads of RAF pilots, and a disastrous visit to the hairdresser's one day left me looking like, well, Dougal from the Magic Roundabout. Unfortunately I have not managed to come up with anything better. :shy:

I never thought that I was threatened by the thought of it before today. I would like to move more. My BG increases even if I stroll into a shop for a few minutes. I don't think that I worry about moving more, and 4 minutes is perhaps too precise to be 100% accurate but shortly after moving...

It is an idea, I don't think I've ever seriously considered it. I don't know anyone who is serious about exercise, no runners, serious walkers, gym attendees . . . I think that is quite unusual . . . have I done this to myself on purpose? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Before you know it, you'll look back and the heaviest you were will be nothing but a distant memory! If I can share something with you, that surprised me the most, as bad as some days or times feel at the time; when you look back you won't even remember them! The big picture tends to blur the...

I am a T1 on a pump. I am preparing to lose 25kg, I am well aware of the LC option that seems to be working so well for so many. My question is this: if I walk for more than 4 minutes, my BG skyrockets! Is this normal? I am so unfit that it really isn't funny, and have tried to start moving on...

Please can I open this post by apologising, I am so sorry that I have only just read this post. Zand, I find you so inspiring! You are on such a fantastic journey, thank you for deciding to share it with all of us on this forum - I will follow your story with great interest! I am part way along...

I tried that excuse when we hired a cottage in Scotland. It worked really well for 2 days until my husband turned round and said, "Here's an idea, why don't you just take your pump off? Then you can cook and reattach it afterwards!" Sent from the Diabetes Forum App