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Hi phoinex Thank you for your help, i will have a look at them websites, like you said i probably will get used to things in time its just the delivery of the supplies are a bit of a worry especially when they lose your order, maybe they should do some kind of repeat prescription for them like...

hi Debloube No with medtronics you have to ring everytime you you want more and they are delivered by TNT usually 3 working days later the thing is they don't give you a time so you have to sit in all day between 8am and 6pm, which was what i got annoyed about i sat in all day on the wednesday...

Hi Thanks for your advice, thankfully my sugar levels went back down last night, so maybe there was a kink in the cannular cos i straightned it out and it seems ok since then. Yes i am using the quickstart set up but silly me the first time i changed it i put it in the inserter the wrong way...

Hi all Just want to know if there is anyone on a pump medtronic veo who's sugar levels has gone really really high. I changed my cannula this morning as it was the 3rd day my reading before breakfas t was 6.6 so pretty good, then changed cannula about an hour or two after breakfast all went...

Hi My BG level always seem to go higher a week before and it seems harder to bring them back down, then as soon as i come on they seem to go back to normal and easier to control. tracey167

Hi I ent to my G.P surgery a few days back to get a repeat prescription for my glucose test stripes and asked the receptionist "Why have my test stripes been taken off of my repeat prescription?" As i am having to go into my surgery near on every 8 days for another prescription and write out a...

Hi Yes i had my licience revoked in january 2009 because i told them i had had 3 hypos in 12 months. The year before they had reduced my renewal from 3 years to 1 year, they are very hot on it i had to send them 3 months of blood glucose readings and thats when they wrote back to tell me that...

Hi Do you have anything to eat in the evening? I usually have a small bowl of cereal at about 9pm depending on what my BG test was and this tends to see me through the night. You need to lower your long term insulin if it still remains low after eating the night before. Good luck tracey167

Hi Sharon No I haven't got my licience back yet because i was having so many hypos for no apparent reason my levels were just dropping so i thought its not even worth trying. But i got my insulin pump last friday and i have been told once i have got everything under control i have a good chance...

hi I have had 3 pregnancies, the 1st was fine but i had him 5 weeks early by emergency c-section the other 2 were 3 weeks early by c-section, my youngest was born missing her left kidney but no one told me this was because of my diabetes but they are all healthy. Tracey167

Hi I had my driving licience revoked january 2009 due to completing a medical questionaire in my 3 year check and they asked for 3 months of my blood sugar readings because I told them that i had had 3 hypos in 12 months. They wrote back telling me that they have revoked my licience because of...

Hi all I recieved my insulin pump friday medtronic veo which I am slowly getting used to. BUT I was told by the medtronic team friday to phone and order some more Reseviours and Cannola inserts which i did friday afternoon, i was told they would be delivered today (wednesday) I havent recieved...

Hi Don't worry antibiotics take 24 to 48 hours to get completley in your bloodstream that is when you will start to feel better. I had a kidney infection but i ended up in hospital cos i thought it was just a virus and left it a few days so ended up dehydrated and keytones. You are doing the...

Hi all Just wondering if theres someone who can advise me, i got my insulin pump medtronic veo yesterday (friday) and am still getting used to it. i done a sugar test earlier that was quiet high at 13 so i done a correction to bring it back to target, i then done another test about 9.30pm and...

Hi The only time i have felt sick with a hypo was when i was given glucogen injection by a paramedic. Im usually the other way round i feel sick if my sugars are high, but everyone is different no two diabetics are the same so i would'nt worry everyones body reacts different. Tracey167

Hi Pickledpepper Im sure small amounts of peanut butter won't hurt you, Just be carefull i know nuts are high in protein and with butter as well im sure probably high in fat. I love any kind of nut peanut, walnuts brazil etc..... i'm not a great fan of peanut butter but i must admit i have in...

Hi Is it true that going onto a insulin pump can possibly make you lose weight, its not that i need to drastically lose weight but i could do with losing maybe half a stone to a stone. If not could anyone advise me the best way to lose weight once i go onto a pump (which will probably be...

Hi I was also told not to exercise on an empty stomach and also just to reduce my humalog if i am exercising not to miss it completley. Probably where you did'nt do your levemir or humalog your body never had no insulin left and then you exercised which really is not gonna burn much sugar if...

Hi I have been a type 1 for 27 years and everywhere i go or people i talk to they all know someone with diabetes but 9 times out of 10 the people they know have type 2 diabetes which alot of non diabeteics don't know the difference between type 1 and type 2. Tracey167

Hi All Thanks for all your advise i will keep you posted on how it goes. Tracey167