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The system at your surgery does sound inefficient. Do check your see if they have an active Patient Participation Group. All surgeries are obliged to have one but some are more active than others. It’s amazing how few patients know about these Groups. Do tell them what you have said here...

It’s not unusual to have 4 injections per day. The regime I am on is a Lantus injection before bed then injections of Trurapi before meals at least for times a day, dosage depending on my BS readings. My failing though is I don’t always inject early enough before meals so I’m doing correction...

Does your surgery have an active Patient Participation Group? All surgeries should have one but some are more active than others. The system at your surgery does sound inefficient. Do look into the PPG and tell them what you’ve just said here. It’s the sort of situation that the PPG should...

My aunt used to ‘see’ people in the room even to the extent of offering them a cup of tea! In one occasion, because I didn’t want her to be worried about strangers in the room, I went round sitting on every chair saying ‘see, there’s no-one here’. I eventually realised that it wasn’t...

My levels always drop overnight but I find that my sensor alarm frequently wakes me with levels of 3.4 or similar. When I get up I don’t feel at all hypo and often my levels then go up even though I haven’t eaten anything. If I had those readings during the day I would definitely be feeling hypo.

I have been using Freestyle Libre for about 2 yrs and wouldn’t go back to fingerpicking, mostly because it damaged my fingers so much. As a type 2, I was fortunate to get Freestyle on prescription. I do find I get occasional strange readings and when this happens I double check by...

I found that the Libre reads at least two units lower than the Accuchek monitor which I was using. I now find that if I keep my bedtime reading to 10 (as I have been doing because my levels drop considerably by morning) I keep getting early morning alarms because they have dropped to around 3...

Thanks for the advice. I do have a sharps bin but it seems the local council are no longer replacing them when one is collected. Is it just the used sensor which you put in the sharps bin? The applicator would practically fill it!

The reason I was put forward by the hospital diabetic nurses was because my thin fingers were reacting to the constant pricking and becoming painful. As someone else has just said, it seems the hospital have to make the case so I recomntnd you try that route.

I can understand your worry. I have just been prescribed the Libre2 which has been a tremendous help and so took get alarms in the early hours telling me I am low. I hope I don’t have your problem but I do wonder if getting it direct from the chemist is a new general idea. Can I ask you how you...

Do keep trying. I am type 2 and have been prescribed the Freestyle Libre device after telling my diabetic clinic of concerns that my small fingers were not readily producing blood from a finger pricker following several years using that method. The clinic readily made a case to my GP who...

I don’t use a reader but my phone works well as a reader. Sometimes it does say there was an error so try again and this is usually if the garments I am wearing are crumpled over where the sensor is situated, so check that and it usually works. I am amazed how it reads the sensor over several...

That’s brilliant - I was fooled right to the end!

I must admit this us something which worries me slightly. As I understand it, this vaccine uses a small dose of the actual virus. As diabetes type 2 is deemed to be due to low immune response, is there a danger that the immune system might not respond sufficiently and therefore the recipient...

Tesco used to do an ice cream called Diabetic Ice Cream but they were told not to call it that. It’s now called Dialicious but is not always easy to find.

Hi, like you I have fairly recently been put on to the basal/bolus routine. My diabetes nurse was very helpful and encouraged me to carry on, when I was all ready to give up and go back to my previous routine. However once Covid -19 set in I’ve been carrying on unaided. I was delighted when a...

I was so interested to see mentions of Lantus and Novorapid because a few months ago I was changed from Novomix 30, with a top up of Novorapid if required, to Novorapid with each meal and Lantus at night. It’s taken a while but my overall levels are so much better now. However, it’s been...

I too am appalled at the lack of knowledge re diabetics when in hospital. I have had two recent experiences of this lately. The first was when I was kept in overnight for observation on my heart. Despite knowing I was on insulin no one asked if or when I needed my meds so I took my insulin...