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Jaylee, I think I mentioned before on here that I still have the original diet sheet given to my dad which was to be used for me as soon as I got home from hospital. I know I was only young but it it was pretty sparse! Butter shows as 1.5 ounce a day and I remember my mother having a hard time...

JMK1954 in some ways I was lucky about MDI. I'd no idea what I was heading into that day at the clinic and I sat with the consultant who spent a lonnnng time praising me for everything, average sugar levels, no complications etc despite being on insulin so long. Then, he said he was changing my...

That's the one Jaylee. I didn't know Hypoguard sold the unit separately as the one I had came inside the blue plastic carrying box they made for insulin bottles, needles etc. Bill

I'm with you 100% JMK1954. I was also told I no longer needed to count carbs I am sure around the same time but I never stopped and still do to this day. It was the same when the the multiple injections started and they tried their best to move me over saying 'you can eat anything you like -...

Insulin pens are handy, easy to use etc but occasionally I hate the one I have here. When I used syringes, I always pulled the plunger back a few units to check if any blood came in. If it did, the needle came out and I re-injected after repeating the process. That was one of the first rules...

Thank you for all the pics, porl69 and the memories that come with them. I started on insulin 55 years ago and I was the third in our house. My mother and grandmother were also type 1's. Every night the pot went onto the gas ring and three sets of syringes and needles were boiled up for 5 mins...

Jaylee The now long-gone company called Hypoguard used to make a small blue plastic flat box to hold needles, antiseptic pads and insulin bottles etc. Inside it was the syringe holder you describe which was sky blue and if I remember correctly, it had a spring inside, at the bottom on which the...

With me it's slight distortion with my eyesight then impatience which develops into the temper from hell. I'm retired now but when working, folks sitting close to me would pick up on me banging desk drawers or arguing loudly with someone on the phone and would bring me something sweet to drink...

Thanks Ushthetaff. I learnt the lesson about sorbitol right at the very beginning when a kindly aunt gave me diabetic custard creams. Dear god! Can you believe I have the original diet sheet handed to my dad all those years ago? In it it does indeed mention potatoes must be no larger than a...

Ushthetaff, I enjoyed reading your memories. 55 years on insulin here and the changes have been amazing. Do you remember the small diabetic fruit cakes that came in a sealed tin? It was always my Christmas treat from my folks and when they gave me it the can-opener was there too. My syringe and...

Adam, I recognise what you describe especially when you mention ‘repeated fall’. In my post above, you’ll read I mention that was how the nightmares affected me too. I hated that feeling of dropping down and down and down, not knowing what was at the bottom. Never, ever did nightmares feel so...

I keep my insulin on the shelf inside door of the fridge. It has a thermometer beside it and the temperature there averages around 5 degrees, although it can be a little more or a littte less. Never had a problem with any deterioration over the eight weeks or so it is stored there. I remember...

Without doubt see a medical professional but I feel sure the UK equivalent of your father's insulin is Humulin M3. I've been on it for years and it is a 70/30 mix (70% Isophane/30% Soluble).

It was indeed Soluble, Tony. So many memories too of times, sitting in train station or restaurant toilets with a glass syringe, two bottles of insulin and 2 needles (daft, but you'll remember we were always told, one needle into the bottles replaced by one needle into you!). Once shaken and...

I agree with all you say kitedoc. In so many ways (and as a happy user of M3) its performance is good for me but, as I've said, I feel sure it is because of my more sedentary lifestyle now and my diet. I grew up with a mother and grandmother who were also type 1's and in our household all those...

Yes, I made the change almost exactly as described by you. I’d been on many insulins over 50 years since diagnosis and when the one I was using was taken off the market the clinic put me onto Novorapid before meals and Levemir, once a day. That regime didn’t work for me although I know for the...

I've been type 1 for almost most of my life. My mother, grandmother and great-grandmother were also all type 1's. In years gone by when my gran lived with us there were three pots on the hob boiling the needles and glass syringes most evenings. I still smile thinking that they could all have...

Hi Butch293. I'd the same problem as I've been stick thin all my life and been on insulin for most of it. I never bothered too much about it until I retired and began to feel much colder in the winter months. My doc explained I'd hardly any natural layers of fat to keep me warm and referred me...

Please don't let it terrify you lucylocket61. I agree 100% with what Mel has said in her reply to you. Yours has been diagnosed early and there are now excellent treatments out there to help. Bill

DCUKMod, yes I had all you mention. Prior to the actual diagnosis (a new GP at the surgery) my 'old GP' told me to go see my 1) optician and 2) my dentist. Did both and nothing was found, although the latter re-filled two upper-right teeth. He said they looked OK but as the pain in the area was...