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The tagline is "Why prick when you can scan"...

I dunno, but I doubt that the scientists working on it are just gluing random parts together. You face the exact sme problem with a regular pump.

Yeah,and maybe also try if you could keep the same hba1c with less insulin? Obviously good hba1c means that you don't really need the meds. [That was sarcasm btw]

That is understandable, but at this time there is sadly no realistic cure for type 1 diabetes. Sorry.

If any of these claims are true - yes, they explicitly claim that their fad diet will cure type 1 - then these doctors could go to any journal, and collect their Nobel price within a month... So why do they prefer to sell treatments to desperate patients who have no way of verifying these claims...

Exercise increases the effectiveness of insulin both in the short term I.e. while you exercise and in the long term (e.g. You'd expect to need less medication if you changed jobs from office worker to builder). Spikes in blood sugar are due to you not having enough insulin to cover the increase...

Dunno, I thought the artificial pancreas trials were going rather well - and they are ultimately just a CGM (which BG readings that lag 15min behind), a pump and a bit of software.

Isn't that a contradiction?

The advantage would be that the device is cheaper and sensors are smaller and last longer; that is to say, I think it's great that the technology is improving but I don't think this will be the game changer I think it's made out to be.

4) Tangentially related - if you can get a lancet with a drum I'd go for that one because handling exposed needles on a bus, etc, isn't fun.

If the problem is calculating the correct dose, as you suggested, then you could either try have more consistent portion sizes (eliminating the need to do calculations because you know that you'll have the same amount each meal) or use a tool (many BG meters now come with a insulin dose wizard...

That poll question is beyond stupid unless you are suggesting that EVERY patient-GP interaction EVER amounts to malpractice and that every doctor ever has to be put on trial. Whether doctors should face harsher consequences would be a better question, but asking hundreds of people who have been...

... You just said that cardio is pointless unless I do at least 45min of sustained exercise...

Then you'll find that the diet picked by the most health-conscious lot will do best because the health-conscious lot will do best regardless of the merits of the diet. There's a reason we bother with randomized controlled trials, you know

There are basically two kinds of "GF" foods - naturally gluten free foods (e.g. cheese, or rice flour), and food that could be produced without gluten (e.g. bread). Those foods will still contain substantial amounts of carbs, so I doubt that they'll make a difference. Basically, I doubt that...

Not at this time in the UK, I'm afraid.

Insulin can burn if you inject straight from the fridge, so you should try take a new pen out of the fridge in advance (insulin pens you are using don't have to be kept in the fridge)

My point was that I think a background in operational research would be more useful for getting your paper published than learning about human anatomy.

You know, instead of not telling people how to correct and scaring them with tales of how dangerous correcting high BG is they could just teach us how to do it safely instead...

Drinkaware.co.uk says that you shouldn't regularly exceed 3-4 units per day (2-3 units for women), and the "6-7 pints" you planning to have every Friday (or equivalent) have 16+ units, so I'd go with their recommendation to avoid binge drinking like that.