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Hi Mark Welcome to the site, it's good that you're able to talk on here and to your GP about how you're feeling. There's quite a big overlap between the symptoms of anxiety and the symptoms of a hypo (the racing heart, the shaking and the sweating etc) so I can see how one thing might easily...

If you have friends in the US, you could ask them to post you some A1cNow disposable kits. Walgreen's pharmacy sells the A1cNow kit (includes 2 tests) for $29.99 which works out at about £9 a test. We are not supposed to put commercial sites up here but if you google 'Walgreen's' and then look...

I use Abbott Freestyle Lite. I chose it because if you need to buy your own top-up strips, Abbott offer the best deal at just under £15 a pot in contrast to other manufacturers who charge upwards of £20 a pot. The freestyle has other features that I like - it has an internal light so I can...

Hi edifrmt The test your sister really needs (to rule things out one way or another) is the Glucose Tolerance Test. I had similar fasting test results to your sister but my complaints were dismissed by an endocrinologist and I was told I certainly didn't have diabetes and my symptoms were...

I inject a minimum of 4 times a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime) but also take a few jabs with snacks I eat during the day so it can be up to 8 times a day. I use Novorapid and Levemir in novopens. I don't mind injecting at all - I used to get terrible bruising but for some reason...

Hi Tom I'm early 30s and Type 1 and just found out last week that I have retinopathy in one eye. I'm in shock really as I use to have worse control and no retinopathy and now my control is tight and I get retinopathy!!! I'm curious to know how bad retinopathy has to be before they start...

Hi Just wondering if anybody knows if you can get neuropathy in one whole leg with the other not being affected at all? I had a period of illness about a 6 weeks ago and was immobile for a couple of weeks. I started to get numbness in one foot from about the calf down. Since then I started to...

Hi Rebecca I agree with the others, perhaps ring your clinic and ask for advice on how to adjust the doses. Maybe when you go for your appointment, ask the diabetologist to check your cortisol levels. Low cortisol (addison's) can present as recurrent hypoglycemia and reduced insulin intake in...

There's an article in today's Guardian calling for more lifestyle changes and less drug therapy. Sadly it doesn't mention low-carbing as a solution. You can register and comment on it... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... f-comments

Out of interest, to benefit from this law, do you have to tick the Disability box that comes on job application forms that guarantees you a job interview? I never wanted to tick that box as I feel a bit too proud and also can't quite think of Diabetes as being a proper disability when compared...

Just wondering if anybody can recommend a BG monitor that only requires small amounts of blood? I currently have a Freestyle Lite that only needs 0.3 μL of blood. I like it but I'm on my 3rd as they keep breaking down and sometimes the readings seem unreliable. Before that I had an OneTouch...

Hi This is a great idea. I could really do with a cooler like that. There would be a market for this over and above diabetics as I have other meds I take that need to be refrigerated (Florinef). If you could design one with room for a bottle of pills as well, then I'd buy it. It would be...

Hi Lin When you had the two low readings (1.5) this past week, were you on any kind of medication? Untreated diabetes doesn't usually cause hypos, it's the diabetic medications (insulin or others) that can make you go hypo. If you are having hypos while off medications then it makes me wonder...

Thanks Pheonix - I really appreciate you going to the effort to write all that info down - it is a major help!! :D

Is there any criteria for getting on DAFNE? Like do you have to have bad control to get sent on it (in the same way that only badly-controlled people get to have pumps).

Thanks Ken That's good news. I'm sure my very nice GP will be amenable!! :D

I eat Lindt 99%. It's really dark and probably an acquired taste but the best thing about it is that a 50g bar only has 4g of carb which means that i can happily eat my way through half a bar a day without worrying about my blood sugars too much!! You can buy it in Whittard of Chelsea (the...

Hi I'm just wondering whether you get any of these things on prescription: Ketostix, Hypostop and Glucagon? I had all of this stuff given to me when I first got diagnosed but I never had any on prescription again. I was thinking of asking my GP for some Ketostix but didn't know if they get...

Hi I'm wondering if anybody could explain how to calculate an insulin to carb ratio? It's not for me but for someone else. He takes large amounts of insulin and keeps gaining weight and wants to have a go at low carbing but I don't know how to advise him on adjusting his insulin when he...

Hi everyone Thanks for all your suggestions. It is so confusing as all the doctors are happy that my control is 'good' but I keep getting these high peaks. Sorry to hear that others of you are having the same problem. It makes it hard to know whether to trust your meter or not!! Katharine, I'm...