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Feel for you, not wanting to cook or eat. Lost my appetite and some weight just before they diagnosed me with T1D, was eating slabs of chocolate, chocolate cereal and whatever my long suffering husband could think to try and tempt me with. Appetite returned very quickly once they sorted me out...

Am relatively new to this game, but I seem to remember being told, by someone at some point that long acting insulin dose should roughly be the same as the quick acting doses, over the course of the day… You seem to be taking twice as much fast acting as long acting….. I find adding vegetables...

Am not in the UK, but here in Norway hospitals and consultants are currently under so much pressure regular hospital appointments/check ups are being more spread out. My ‘annual’ check up took 18 months to come through. Eye checks and checks for neuropathy need to be done.. by someone. I was...

Hei Rachel, if you’re new to all this I wonder if you have a CGM? If so or when you get them you can adjust the low alarm point to a setting above which you start to feel ‘symptoms’, so you have plenty of time to do something about it. But in order to do that you need to know at which point you...

Wow Philly.. am impressed by your progress the last few days, way to go. You’re doing good, keep it up! Of course it was a Bank Holiday in the UK today.. hope you have better luck getting through to somebody in the mental health team tomorrow. I wonder why you designate some foods as ‘naughty’...

Hei @philly1991 , came in here to offer a version of what Lakeslover has suggested. To have the same or very similar meals each day, so you don’t have to think about the choice element of the food? Maybe just for a couple of weeks, to get yourself into a new routine? I was only diagnosed 3...

Think it’s all been said. Accept the sedation if you are really tense about the procedure, relaxation is the key to not feeling the pain. Get somebody to accompany you, so there is someone to take you home asap afterwards. I was told not to eat any seeds or brown bread in the week or so before...

Hei Andrea, I was diagnosed as Type 1 3 years ago, at age 68, after undergoing investigations for..let’s call it ‘gippy tummy’. Had a colonoscopy and a pelvic region CT scan, which just showed some inflammation, a month later a blood test revealed a very high blood sugar and I was admitted to...

Can remember being told this by my grandfather, who I very recently found out had Type 1 diabetes. I was about 7 at the time, with no idea what it meant! I assume grandad was diagnosed later in life, since he was born many years before the development/discovery? of insulin… I was diagnosed 3...

Have had similar problems on holiday in warm places… have purchased large plasters for wounds to hold a Libre 2 in place. My DN at home gave me some wonderful see Through sticky patches I used to use when swimming , but have not been able to track them down anywhere. before you apply the new CGM...

I was diagnosed at age 68. Was told in the Emergency room I would be on insulin for the rest of my life……and I just assumed I had developed Type 2 diabetes. Asked pathetically if I could quit the insulin if I lost some more weight, ate better and exercised more…was told … No! Spent 5 days in...

It’s good the consultant understood your travel issues and is trying to fix an overnight and early morning appointment for you. I too live a ferry ride away from the hospital, or a 10 minute air ambulance ride in extremis! Had to have a colonoscopy a few years ago, which is restricted diet for...

Hei Grant, hope things are better for you this morning. Can see you don’t like medics, especially ones brandishing needles at you.. but I think losing blood needs to be investigated ASAP. Have you got a friend or family member can go with you to an A&E or whatever the local emergency care...

Hei, I am using Libre 3+ and generally rely on its readings. Fit the new one about 24 hours before the old one is due to expire. Can feel my blood sugar levels changing, but not always sure if they are going up or down. A couple of weeks ago my sensor was about 10:days in and started showing...

CGM’s are often unreliable for the first 24 hours of being started up, and they can also give a false low if you are sleeping or resting on the side of the body to which they are attached. called compression low. Also not everything is diabetes related. Is there any way you can get a blood...

My understanding is that there are more types of diabetes apart from 1 and 2. Have you come across something called MODY? Think it is an acronym for something like Mature Onset of Diabetes in the young. Can’t remember off the top of my head what the parameters are for it presenting..how young...

I bought one from a little stand in the middle of the shopping centre where my family live in the UK. It is a stainless steel strip on an adjustable rubber bracelet, I have tiny wrists. I gather replacement straps are available on Amazon. Was advised to have my name on it, evidently if you pass...

Was so happy with my novopen echo pluses, but then the health authority switched my CGMs to Libre 3 and then Libre 3 plus and the app for those does not work with the Novo pens! The pens still ‘remember’ when and what dose I took, but I have to enter the data manually in the Libre 3 app. Some...

Wow guys, what an incredible humbling thread. Hats off to all of you. Very grateful to only have been diagnosed 3 years ago, and can recall at the time thinking I was lucky to have been diagnosed so late in life. I decided on diagnosis I would never eat anything labelled diabetic or inject...

Congratulations on your new job. have you discovered the delights of lentils? Was served a dinner of them this week, with some good old English sausages in, but they did wonders for my blood sugar. They maybe need some work with the herbs and spices. I remember they were served when I was in...