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LOL Scott, I was along the M8 only yesterday. I mentioned the Palmer Injector Gun earlier which was a scary piece of equipment. Did you know it was made in Glasgow? I once had a great GP whose grandfather was one of the first to be treated by Banting & Best. He was taken down to them in London...

A fascinating article Scott and the hospital Dr Reith, at that time, was working in was Glasgow's Southern General which is where my diabetic clinic is. After major renovations and re-building they re-named it the Queen Elizabeth. It's all state of the art stuff there these days. I read about...

Hey Grant Your picture brought the most memories back than anything else I can remember. It was great to see all our stuff from days gone by. Hypoguard was a terrific company and my first ever blood meter was made by them. Before that, I used to buy disposable needles from them prior to the...

Thanks to smallbrit for starting this thread because the memories have been flooding back for me. I was diagnosed in the winter of 1964 into 1965 and as a wee boy I grew up in a household where both my mother and grandmother were type 1’s. In those days there were two types of glass syringe...

Folks, just a wee heads up. I usually only drink either Sainsburys own brand diet coke or Vimto Zero because they both have sucralose as the sweetener. Anything with aspartame upsets my stomach. In Tesco this morning, I found that their own-brand diet coke now only uses sucralose. The carb...

I had this exact reason given to me regularly by Boots for different diabetic supplies. Once they even told me my insulin wasn't available to them because of a manufacturing fault. Always I'd come home and phone the company who made the item and each and every time they said they had plenty of...

I’m with all of you. Around 10 years ago my teeth, which I’d always been proud of and had checked 6-monthly, started to fracture and needed to come out. My dentist said that suddenly my teeth looked like I was eating 6 Mars Bars a day! He sent me to the dental hospital and a consultant there did...

Steve, I'm more than 50 years on insulin, with very good HbA1c and the diabetic cheiroarthropathy is my first ever diabetic complication. I always fully appreciated that the they could start sometime and with lot of hard work they have stayed away, until now. In many ways I am fortunate though...

I've had diabetic cheiroarthropathy for a few years now and hopefully they will check Rachel for that too. What she has described is how this condition began for me. It affects my arms too and not just the hands. It's also known as Diabetic Prayer and I do that every night hoping that it will go...

philchap, it was November for me too but when I met with the consultant at the diabetic clinic in April that year he picked up that the 50 years anniversary was only seven months away. He told me to start the ball rolling and gave me the web-link. A week later my GP gave me the letter I needed...

Hi Sue, I got the gold one a good few years ago and followed the instructions on the Diabetes UK website. Just checked and they are still there. Here's the link: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/Medals/ Bill

JMK, I think we all just take for granted about the ease of using our hands and fingers. I certainly did but now it's become a real problem for me. The pain can be so severe. I need to remember to adjust the angle of my hands or move my fingers in a certain way to lessen the pain but I forget...

nannoo_bird I could have written your question. There are a couple of things suggested to me about injecting that might help so bear with me. I can't now properly use my pen due to severe hand/finger pain. It is way too painful to hold that pen and try to inject my arms, buttocks or legs. I...

hi nessa I’ve been using Humulin M3 for a good few years now and it certainly works for me. I’ve very stable sugar levels and I’m thin, healthy and fit. BUT, as someone has already mentioned, there is no flexibility with it. I’m OK with that as I’m retired now and after 53 years on insulin I’m...

It happened to me a few times many years ago just after I was moved from animal to Human insulin. Almost from when the change took place I lost many of my normal hypo symptoms and those were replaced with tiredness and feeling sleepy but I was slow to notice that. One afternoon I remember...

Yup, I had the same letter two weeks ago. The health board here has its staff going round all GP surgeries meeting with patients who use meters and moving them to the Glucomen. They are doing the same with needles. They made it very clear it was due to cost and they had to 'watch the budgets'...

Derek I've been on M3 for a long time now and have never had such a quick and dramatic drop that you describe. As you probably know with M3 you do need to keep feeding it and I find it has a tendency to drop at the time of my evening injection and that's when I need to be careful. With me, my...

Around 20 years ago, I went through a period of very bad nightmares. Those that continue after you eventually get back to sleep and usually, at least for me, the very worst and scariest of dreams. It came to a head after I was being chased in a nightmare by this creature. I remember it pushed me...

leeroy I agree with Diabell. I was stick thin and hated wintertime as the cold hit me hard. Met with the hospital dietician who suggested simple things like instead of my usual cold meat or chicken in the lunchtime sandwiches have a cheese filling instead. She also suggested, if possible...

I avoid aspartme as it can give me an upset stomach so stick to Sainsburys diet coke or or their cola zero which are sweetened with sucralose and I've never had a problem with those. There was an earlier thread here about fizzy drinks and I rememner someone mentioning that M&S diet coke and...