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Hi Michik I understand how you feel about getting your scale and polish done (some dentists will numb you up for it if your gums are over-sensitive). My dentist certainly doesn’t have anything sonic or whatever to do that work, only the cold water spray and metal scaler, which sounds just like...

I’ve been reading this open-mouthed philchap. Your HR guy hasn’t a clue. I was in exactly the same position just two weeks ago and, like you, have been type 1 for 50 years (I'm 63yo now). I was concerned about what lay ahead as I’m now getting much more tired, had also recently been diagnosed...

Hey folks, another Type 1 here from Glasgow. 50 years on insulin so a bit of an oldie now. From what it was like in 1965 to now is amazing - can't keep up sometimes with all the technological stuff the docs use and me too. Got a new meter at teh clinic last week and told to upload results from...

50 years on insulin here and no diabetic complications. The only thing I occasionally get are small gum problems which my dentist always blames on the diabetes. Mind, over the years I've heard that comment so many times from health professionals for simple things like colds that are taking a...

21th November 1965. I was 11yo, miserable and upset in a hospital ward, not understanding why all the other kids had visitors but I didn’t. I had been admitted that day and my folks had been told by the ward sister not to come back until the following day as they would be busy doing many tests...

>But now there is no warning - no signs And all seem rather to real... I wake to find my self more tired - almost as if I have run Had a fight . Failin out of the sky with no way of slowing down... Having to put a gun to someone's head and pull trigger ....covered in sweat... Not hypos .... But...

Hi Wick55uk I got horrendous nightmares sometimes and they usually wake me. I test and find my sugar levels are low. Not sure if it's the same for everyone though but I figure it's natures way to wake me up and fix the problem. Bill

Thanks everyone for your replies. noblehead, that's a great reference which I've printed off and donnellydogs it's the BD Microfine Ultra 4mm I've been given. Bill

Hi Folks Like many, despite rotating sites, I've got way too many bumps and the DSN on Friday suggested I change my injection site from stomach to my thighs and backside. I've always found the stomach area best for me as I am now very skinny and held back to moving to my legs and arms becasue...

Great to catch up with you again Ladybirdy. You've got me smiling again with your mention of drinking from the tap for minutes at a time. Just before I was put on insulin I remember well spending all of the playtime break at school drinking out of the tap in the boys toilet. Just coudn't get...

Many thanks folks regarding my medal. Much appreciated. Ladybird, I remember all that so well. I grew up in a household with a type 1 mother and grandmother. Each had different glass syringes. My grandmother's was a 'record' fitting and I remember the base of the needles to be much narrower to...

Sitting here with a big smile. Today it was my turn to get the 50 year medal and very nice it is too. You know, it has really brought the memories back of all the changes (good and bad) over those many years and how the heck I managed it I'll never know. I should maybe take some time out to...

moray lass, I'm pleased you got the proper Humalog and that the independent pharmacy helped you as much as the one I am now with has helped me. Smidge, been there and have the t-shirt. I won't name them but I bet it's the same national pharmacy that I'd to deal with. One final irony for me was...

This thread is bringing back bad memories which I managed to fix only a few months ago i.e. I found a great small independent pharmacy. I'd used a major nationwide pharmacy for years then things started to go downhill. I never could get my script dispensed in full. Always, a return visit was...

rowan, I can't drink anything with aspartame as it gives me stomach problems. Lazybones has already mentioned Sainsbury's sucralose alternative but M&S also use sucralose as the sweetener in their diet coke and lemonades. I've bought from both, find them OK and better than that, they don't cause...

Hi Spiker. They've now given up trying to persuade me to move to basal/bolus. One doctor whom I'd never met before sat complimenting me for, in his words, my great hb1ac result and tight control, terrific cholesterol level, my fitness and having no complications after 50 years etc etc. In the...

Interestingly iHs I keep a box of Novorapid in the fridge. This was on the recommendation of my GP who said that if I am high, particularly late evening time or perhaps due to an infection, 1 or 2 units max will bring the level down, but of course, to keep checking using my meter. It's become a...

I think we are probably now in the minority June but, for me anyway, long may it continue. You're probably as aware as I am that with mixed it's a much more inflexible routine but that suits me. I tend to be more comfortable with a set regime and my diet never really changes. I have found the...

Hi Alba, Mixed works for some of us. Apart from 12 months on Novorapid and Levemir around 7 years ago (for me that regime wasn't good) I've been 40 years on mixed. For the 10 years prior to that I was on a single insulin (lente). I guess it's what keeps us healthy with good test results, suits...

Worst place it happened for me was in Heathrow Airport years ago. Took my Novorapid, started dinner immediately and I still haven't a clue how the hypo hit me so quickly especially as blood was around 7 when I took it (might have been the time-change as we'd just landed after an 8 hour flight)...