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Mostly it was reading through the stickied Pump Basics thread. The amount of stuff that seems needed, supplies and calculations etc, it just....got to me i guess

So I had a meeting today with my diabetic team and the option of a pump came up. I've been interested in one for a fair few years now and we talked about it and what I'd need to do in order to get in front of the panel to try and get one. In my case show a concentrated effort in my blood test...

Thanks for the advice and support everyone. I'm feeling better now, blood is down to 8 and I'm feeling steadier emotionally. :)

Thanks everyone. I'm carb counting with a ratio of 10g equals 1 unit and correction of 1 unit brings me down 2. Originally my basal was 26 but that seemed to be dropping me and making me jump up so me and my DN lowered it to 24. My DN is very good and supportive. Had a week of a CGM that I just...

Hey everyone, I just need to get this this out. I'm so tired of it all, the constant vigilance of my bloods, the constant worry of what's happening to them when I sleep, knowing without a shadow of a doubt that when I wake up I'm going to be in the teens once again and really struggle to get...

Same here, I used the Libre for 6 weeks and was very happy to dosage using the results from it, blood tests went way down which made me very happy

Ended up not doing a BBQ on Saturday due to the weather, instead we went to a place called World Cuisine, basically an all you can eat buffet of all sorts of foods. Ended up doing about 5 injections, total of 38 units. Was 12. something at the start and when I got home I had only dropped by 1 so...

Down to 9.4 today, very happy about this! :D

I could use some advice, going to a BBQ on Saturday and it's really the first one I'll have been to since I started to try and get serious again with my diabetes. I carb count and also doing a week with a CGMS so I need to write down all the stuff I eat, carbs, units etc. The thing I'm unsure...

I suffered with this sort of thing over the weekend, felt like I was high all day but my libre scans and tests showed me staying pretty steady at around 11, not the ideal I was aiming for but getting that well. Until I discovered the libre I didn't have that good control so I guessed it was...

Well this has made me really happy, yes I know there'll be some hoops to jump through but they're hoops I'm happy to jump through. Coming to the end of my free trial and I feel so much more optimistic about my diabetes because of it. Thanks to the Libre I actually feel more motivated to look...

My HBA1C yesterday was 10.6, same as it was about 3 months ago, which was a bit disheartening as I'd really been trying to done some blood tests.

Went to my hospital today, they do a trial with the Libre and give people one sensor and a meter. The DSN and the guy from the company mentioned that they hope to have the Libre on prescription by the end of the year or just after it, apparently they've been trying since last June but the...

Thanks everybody for your kind words. I'm hoping to try out the freestyle libre for 2 weeks to see that makes a difference. I'd love to try a pump but, because I'm inconsistent with me doing my injections, I don't think I qualify.

So I've already done an introductory thread but I need to get the following off my chest. I was diagnosed with type 1 when I was around 8 or 9 and I'm 26, nearly 27, now. At that point everything was very strict and I was a 'good' diabetic, my sugars were usally under control from what I can...

Hi, oooh yes please, that might help. :)

Hi there, I used to have an account on here a fair few years ago, sadly the email, password and username are lost to the depths of time so I've had to make myself a new account. Anyway, I'm Jimmy, 26 and have been a Type 1 diabetic since I was about 8 or 9 (it's a bit hazy due to a traffic...