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My son knew it was diabetes day... As that's the first thing is said to me this morning when he got home 'did I know' I think what happens, is that a week hardly goes by without some mention of diabetes in the media, so when it comes to Diabetes Day, it's falls on deaf ears!

Your meter data is permissible in court, but seems though you were at the gym any witness that can say, you were acting out of character? Surprised though, cold callers don't normally report people to the police when they get a load of verbal abuse chucked at them, they just cut the call! Same...

Re: 6monthly HBA1c unnecessary for well controlled diabetics It is and a very unfair one... If it was implemented it wouldn't be the first time a single piece of research hasn't done the T2 any favours... The stopping of test strips started why before NHS cut backs, is started after a small...

Re: 6monthly HBA1c unnecessary for well controlled diabetics Lucy Problem is that a even for T2's it's not always a progressive disease that slowly changes, but can change very quickly indeed. A house move, a unusual event in the family, a job change the loss of somebody close there are many...

Have you had your thyroid function tested? As an under active thyroid can give some of the symptoms you described, and it's not uncommon for t1's to have it an under active thyroid has it's an autoimmune disease so closely linked. By any chance are you using Lantus as your background insulin?

Hi Toni Welcome to the forum.. I've been pumping not far off 5 years now and I would land myself in front of a judge if anybody tried to take my pump of me! The manufacturers blurb makes the pump sound as if it's a plug and go to perfect control, but as Leah says it does require a...

With children I personally would like to see them go straight onto a pump at diagnoses... There is several advantages firstly you only got to put your child through an cannula insertion one in every 2-3 days, unless there's a problem, so less stressful both for the child and the parent.. You...

Re: 6monthly HBA1c unnecessary for well controlled diabetics I am not sure what to make of this one at all... HbA1c's aren't the greatest indicator to how well controlled an individual really is on a day to day bases, it provide a overview and in the main gives a indicator to what level of...

The little white marks that appear on the tubing are quite natural nothing to worry about.. The tubing for all the different pumps are all constructed the same way... Basically a tube within a tube, by doing this it prevents the tubing producing sharp kinks that could stop the flow of insulin...

It can be genetic but there again it can't.. If a parent is T1 then their is a slightly higher risk of children becoming diabetic, having a diabetic father pre-disposals you to a slightly higher risk than having a diabetic mother. In twins if one's got it then the other has a something like...

Only part of your medical condition do I understand, Yes hormones will impact on your control, any fluctuation will effect, Stress, pain etc all causes a hormone response that we react do... Menstrual hormones changes through the menstrual cycle will effect control, in your case how your...

Yes Apridra is faster burning out the system than other insulins, It starts kicking in about 10-15 minutes after it's injected, the peaks slightly earlier than humalog/novorapid then burns itself out by about the 3 hour mark.. Sorry, I have not used it so limited to advise for change over, but...

Lilla What are you having for super or are you missing it! Two things you could try if you think it's a liver dump.. Dependent on what's your preference on carb intake. If you are having a supper, look at what you'll having if it's carb based already then perhaps adding more protein to it...

No I've never experience this with my tubing.. I would though give Roche a phone, as this may be a manufacturing hick up, it may only effect one batch but Roche do need to know, so that they determine if it's a problem and needs further investigation

Snodger I've been on the DAFNE course and that isn't what we were told, The information we were given, is when working out your ratio's then you needed to test at 2 hours, once this was achieved then you didn't need to test until your next meal or snack!

There are some smallish meter about, but the smaller the meter the smaller the BG read out, which can render the meter completely useless, if you can see the reading! What do men do about their get, give it to the wife/girlfriend/partner to stick in their handbag! If none available, yep the...

Liver dump and Dawn Pham is two totally different things.. A Liver Dump, is where the liver dumps it's glucose into the blood stream, triggered in response to a low blood glucose, it can happen at any time of the day or night, most common when you've been sleeping, because you sleep through...

Did you do the actual DAFNE course or one which was similar! As DAFNE doesn't promote testing 4 hours after eating it's 2 hours! When you are eating closer together, then you need to add another calculation to avoid Stacking your insulin, this is where you still have active insulin in your...

Grace What have I done right, A lot is surrounding educating myself and in not 'follow' the leader fashion.. You need to educate yourself so you can find out what works for you as a individual in your lifestyle. But never lose the sight that diabetes is dynamic, so what works today may...

over 24 years on I can still remember my diagnoses as though it was yesterday... The phone call, arriving at the hospital not knowing whether I was staying over night or what! Turned out I was there for 3 weeks.. Diabetes was pretty unusual back then, I knew nothing about it really was aware...