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    Freestyle at the Airport

    Ill be heading to the states soon, and im wondering if any of you have flown with your freestyle sensor in. is it safe to use the fully body scanners with it? how do you explain to the security staff you have it on your arm and not to nearly pull it off when they pat you down.
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    Afrezza inhaled fast acting insulin

    how far apart did you correct? maybe it was a cumlative effect off all the corrections took you down? i hate being that low before bed
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    Have you always gotten sick easily?

    Type one here, i get sick a lot less than my healthy SO, i havnt even had a cold in a year or 2 now... though saying that now ive typed this ill end up catching one tomorrow
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    FREESTYLE LIBRE ON SALE!!!!

    Ive had mine on for 3 days now, and other than day 1 its never drifted more than about 1 MMOL, intrestingly i tested with my accu check mobile and came in at 7.4 then scanned the libre and came in at 7.2 then used a blood test on the libre and came in at 9.3
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    Diabetic Meet up/coffee/drinks

    If there is anyone else in Northern ireland id be intrested
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    Afrezza inhaled fast acting insulin

    i Admit its never been the injecting thats Borthered me having to inject 4/5 times a day is fine, its the finger pricking that gets me.
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    FREESTYLE LIBRE ON SALE!!!!

    Got Mine Yesterday Been Wearing it for about 24 hours now, so Far im really really impressed, ive only been using my blood meter when im dosing insulin or driving but so far the results are matching up within 1MMOL which i can get that difference by just using a different finger for blood. this...
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    FREESTYLE LIBRE ON SALE!!!!

    How Long Did you guys take to get it dispatched i bought it on monday, im still waiting to get a "dispatched" Email
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    What is considered low doses of insulin?

    Currently MY Day Goes Like This Morning Levmir 8 units Breakfast- 10 units novorapid for about 45G Carbs Lunch 4-6 units depending on how active im going to be 30G Carbs Dinner - 10 units 50 G Carbs Bed Levmir 10 units
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    Metformin & Type 1

    Before i Lost weight they tried to put me on it... but it gave me one of the worst stomic cramps ive ever had so i stopped and just low carbbed instead, i try to take the least amount of meds i have to, in the end low carbing and weight loss reduced my insulin resistance instead of just taking...
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    FREESTYLE LIBRE ON SALE!!!!

    Website Finally Worked. Ordered it now to play the waiting Game
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    FREESTYLE LIBRE ON SALE!!!!

    Wedbsite wont work for me looks like the CSS ISnt Loading... cant place an order with the link they gave me
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    DAFNE Waiting

    Thanks I Will Registered for that one! yea mys work have been really great and basicly agreed to let me go and pay me! without taking holidays which is pretty great, the Hospital know but it doesnt seem to have speed-ed up the process to much. Thanks for that link though that could be helpful!
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    Scared of eating now - cry for help

    I Got in the Same Mess as you i was injecting huge ammounts of insulin was close to 17 Stone, now 2 years later my insulin usage is Tiny from what it was and im 12 stone. Low Carbing did it for me, less than 120carbs per day, slowly reducing insulin till you find the balance with your new...
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    DAFNE Waiting

    Im Wondering how long you guys had to wait for this? ive been diagnosed 13 year now with Type one, i was put on the waiting list for this 2 years ago, at my recent checkup i asked what was going on as it had been so long without hearing anything. they told me im currently around 160 in the que...
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    Accu-Check Mobile problems

    Hi ive been using it for years to, i find that it has a very high failure rates in tests often i get E-3 or not enough blood. i got E-3 10 Tests in a row once when i was having a hypo which was very frustrating, it also seems to always read a little higher than other meters, but that being said...
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    SWEETENERS

    I like the Flavor of Stevia, but have found it can increase my blood sugar.
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    SWEETENERS

    Pretty much any of them, i just use the cheap tablets out of Tesco Sweelex, no effect on my BS
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    Petition to make the Freestyle Libre available through the NHS

    Id Settle for just being able to buy it at this point to be honest
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    Dealing with Hypos - treat first, measure later

    I Tend to get Mild Hypo Symptoms around my mid 4's which provides me plenty of time to test, as sometime the mild hypo symtoms are very similar to hyper or some times i just feel werid and test. if i get strong symtoms Shakes/Sweats then yes i eat first ask questions later
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