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I agree with mahola on this one, i bet she did not have to fight for her pump or had her NHS trust say they could not afford it. If Mrs May wants to do some thing for our emergency services then pay them what the deserve and stop treating them with contempt. This is yet another PR stunt...

It is fine when i start i cannot stop which does make it hard to read. That is just me

It is hard not just for your mum but all her family and friends too. I got diabetes when i was 3 years old and i grew up with it and like most people on here we all hate it, one of the main problems is that people cannot see that you have diabetes. Some days you wake up and say i have not got...

I do not know if this counts but my role model is my consultant at Newcastle, I have only been under his care for the last 10 years after being under north Durham care for 29 years. When i first saw him he had a a4 sheet of paper off Durham to explain 29 years of diabetes and i told him that i...

I suffer form nerve damage all over my body and it was only after a double transplant that how much damage there was. I take strong medication and have lidocaine infusions every 4-6 weeks, but they make the pain a bit better for around 2 weeks and i no how it can effect daily life. I have never...

The only way you will find out is when you are 16. I have had DLA and PIP but the rules change when they renamed it you could qualify for DLA as a hypo is classed as a fit or seizure, before anyone say you cannot I had a medical with Atos and you needed 15 points to get it. I got no point even...

I used the medtronic pump and after about 2 1 hour lesson i found it easy to use you can get tangled up in bed if you toss and turn all night and the only issue i found was when i went to spain on a night if you sweat the sticky tape can come away from your skin and take the tube out of the...

Thank you for all the info but i have been to the renal clinic today for a check up and he said not to worry as there is away round it. The good news is that my transplant is working well, so that has been great to here. The bad news which i was expecting was that the damage it has done over the...

Thank you but reading between the lines i think this is as good as its going to get. Please do not get me wrong i was happy to have my transplant as i wanted to see my children grow up, just as the consultant said i have been the unlucky one and yes i have but i am here a single parent trying to...

I was 3 when i got diabetes in 1979 them days diabetes was no where near the advances that have happened. My first injection was a glass pen shape with a neddle which was a bout 2 inches long so now seeing insulin pumps is great. The thing is when you grow up being a diabetic you just look like...

The consultant tried me on gabapentain for nerve pain and it did not work for me and while i was taking it i put on weight so they took me off it and got my GP to refer well being clinic and i lost most of the weight, The doctors told me that some medication can act in a different way with other...

I had my transplant at The Freeman hospital in Newcastle and at the current moment my two children live with me full time, so i can get free medication as i get tax credits for the children. I am on ESA but they put me in the wrong group and say that i am fit to work but they will not change it...

I had a pancreas and kidney transplant in April of 2015, the transplant went well but what the diabetes had damaged in side was then found out. I will not bore you with the details as i could be on for a day or two. When i was ready to leave hospital i had all my tablets and a sheet of when to...

When i have a bad hypo i sleep for a long time after it. You have to think that the hypo take all the energy out of you and you are fighting it to get your sugar back up, so i understand the feeling of needing to sleep. the problems with your legs could be caused by medication that you might be...

You are more than welcome as i have been there and you are the same age as my daughter and she stressed with school and she is not a diabetic but i think you are a bright girl who has had the courage to come on here and ask for help and this will help you through life and remember you are not...

Sorry about your sons problems and you having to cope with them as well. What i would recommend and i have done is that you change your sons care to the Royal London as a larger hospital they will be able to cope with the diabetic and mental health under one roof, you can do this b going to your...

I got diabetes aged 3 in 1979 and am now i am 41. When i was growing diabetes was not as common as it is now but because one person cannot deal with you being a diabetic thats there look out. I have had some strange questions over the years like if i kiss you will i catch diabetes, which i...

We do not choose diabetes it chooses us and no matter how much we hate it, we have to make the best of it. When you are ill it makes you feel bad as blood sugars can be all over the place but you have to ride the storm out, make sure you drink plenty and take paracetamols as it will help the...

therower thank you for your insight on the exercise it made me laugh to and i thought about trying them, so i told my kids what i was going to do. They got on their phone to grandad and said grandad i think you need to phone the mental health team and ask the men in white coats to come and get...

I have get PIP and have so since i got diabetes since 1979 when i got diabetes, i was classed as a brittle diabetic which was hard to control. It was 6 years ago i had to go for a medical and i scored 0 points even though i had Diabetes, mental health problem, end stage renal failure and server...