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@Grant_Vicat your signature says you do not have diabetes? Or is this the diagnosis story of someone else?

< I was advised by hospital staff to rotate my injection sites. I use thighs for long term and belly for short term, but try not to go in the exact same place each time. Evidently it can cause scarring and means the insulin will not be absorbed properly. Maybe see if you can get an appointment...

Been using two since February, once the pharmacy and the doctor got the prescription for the correct vials of insulin sorted out! It means I can check when I last took insulin and how much I have taken during the day. it saves those moments when you are maybe distracted pre meal time and can’t...

Hei, I have seen a few type 1 diagnosis stories on You Tube and they seem to be the more ‘dramatic’ ones, involving hospital stays, drips and sometimes ICU. I’m sorry yours was such a negative experience for you. Being diagnosed with any serious/ chronic condition I guess tests our fortitude and...

Not in the pump brigade so can’t offer any experience, I use CGMs and had those fall off during holidays due to showering, being sweaty and swimming! Oh and walking into door frames! Will the sensor be any use without the pump? Just to save you the finger sticks? Local pharmacy to acquire some...

Hei Carol, I’m glad someone with better knowledge than me has responded. There is a lot to take in and learn, take things slowly and come back in here to ask. good luck and all the best.

Hope you can find something to help you feel better. When I found out was wrong with me, at age 68.. I was thankful I didn’t have decades of dealing with needles and medication ahead of me. I get the impression the medics here like newly diagnosed T1 ‘s to ‘serve their time‘ using finger pricks...

If this is breakfast time is this maybe dawn phenomenon effect, not so much the amount of insulin or carbs you have dosed and eaten? I had no idea this was happening to me till a couple of months after diagnosis I was given CGMs and as I walked into work one morning the CGM alarm went off, I...

Be kind to yourself. Figure out your favourite foods/meal and activities and schedule them in. If you are newly diagnosed…T1DM takes a lot of getting your head round. Have you had a chance to do a diabetes management course yet? Apart from the information given you will meet other people with...

Was diagnosed 2 years ago and hospitalised for 5 days, during which time they taught me how to finger stick and inject insulin and gave me 3 very serious talks about the hazards of alcohol consumption, now I was diabetic! I thought the medical staff must have decided I looked like a 68 year old...

Uff, what a difficult situation for you. Wondering why he has to wait 18 months/2 years for a pump??? Would that solve the problems do you think? Is it the sheer mental effort of having to figure all the numbers out all the time? I am at the other end of the age spectrum, 70 and diagnosed just...

Don’t try and change everything all at once. Undertake an exercise routine you can stick to.. a little bit a couple of times a week is still better than no exercise. Just small changes to your diet can have an effect. Find out about carbohydrate values in your favourite foods and maybe adjust to...

Only time I have had an ‘issue’ at airport security was returning through Gatwick earlier this year when one of the personnel checking stuff into the bins saw I had pulled a new CGM out and said.. mm they’re not supposed to go through the X-ray machine are they? This is what I had read.. but...

I ‘acquire’ the individual sachets of sugar from cafes and restaurants as I travel to keep for hypos and buy baby food sachets to keep in the car and carry with me when travelling. Live in Norway and here they sell ‘long life‘baby food, I often buy it from the near its sell by date cheapo bin...

Hei Sandra Peppa, only just found my way back to this thread. My diagnosis was a bit dramatic but came after months of blood tests and seeing different doctors to try and find out what was the matter with me. The medics started investigating me for other autoimmune conditions once they diagnosed...

Hei Melgar, was never diagnosed with type 2 and the hospital just told me I had diabetes, not which sort, so I assumed it was type 2, at my age! But 2 weeks after leaving hospital a senior doctor phoned to tell me that the tests had shown I was type 1. One of the docs in the emergency room had...

I asked about reusable pens at my last check up at the hospital…the doctor had to investigate them for me, but phoned a few weeks later and I have a prescription for one! Ordered it from the pharmacy and took it along to my lovely diabetic nurse who discovered I had been sold the wrong pen for...

Maybe speak to the pharmacist, where you collect your insulin. As I understand it insulin needs to be at room temperature when in use , but stored in the fridge. If you are traveling somewhere hot.. you need to be careful with the insulin and maybe use a cool bag of some kind. If you are flying...

I try and apply my new sensor about 24 hours before the old one is due to expire, so by the time I initiate the new one it has had time to get used to me and my body has had time to get used to it! But I had one fall off after just a week so applied the new one and that gave some low readings...

Was in hospital for 5 days when first diagnosed and the message I got from the nurses was not to dose with the fast acting insulin till my food was actually in front of me. Have generally stuck to that over the last 18 months, though some people find it annoying if they set food down in front of...