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You may be like me started of as type 2 but my body did not respond well to metformin several changes in my medication and 1yr later a stay in hospital found me using insulin and end of last year after another stay in hospital and high habc1 readings another insulin added into the mix, it all...

Moderator comment: Hi All, This post, and several following were a discussion that sprang up on another thread started by @EFMax. Since this discussion meant that EF wasn’t getting many responses to his question, I have split the threads so that each topic can get the attention it deserves...

I have been open about mine so friends and colleagues are aware when I am having a hypo at work they allow me 1\2 break till I feel better and family are always saying have you got your testing kit, jelly babies etc with you when we go out and to make strangers aware i wear an SOS necklace

I was diagnosed type 2 in 2016 and over the last four years have progressed to type 1, I was told all patients are diagnosed as type 2 and stay like that unless things start to change in the first year my medication was changed and the amount i took, it seemed every 3months my body changed and...

due to a fall out with the diabetic nurse at my surgery, after a hospital stay due to keotosis I was asked who they wanted to carry on my card the G P or community diabetic nurse. I chose the community nurse, she books me an appointment and asks me to book blood test at surgery 3 weeks before...

Why take it at night i take my slow angular slow release in the morning therefore it helps compensate for the food i eat during day and as I do not eat after 8pm because of sugars becoming high i usually go to bed on a 8 and wake up to a 6/7 occasionally it goes low in night due to heat and...

My hab1c was high in February so my diabetic nurse said she would bring my case up at a GMC meeting with a specialist as I was only on abduglar at the time she promised to get back to me in March never heard anything and had to ring to find outcome she said did I forget to ring you we would like...

yes i n the summer of 2018 my diabetic nurse told me I no longer needed to test and refused to give me any more needles or strips fast forward to November and I knew something wasn,t right with my levels but was unable to test, I had to ring doctors to get prescription which took three days to...

My husband of retirement age and over weight, my daughter working so despite me having type one i have been doing the shopping it took six weeks before we could even get an online shop and once every couple of weeks they inform us they have a space available so needs must all though I am lucky...

work for local council am working from home for foreseeable future not likely to go back to office until xmas , they hope to implement new way of working where at least 75% of staff work from home permanently and only go in office once a week if that, maybe just catch up and meetings enjoying...

Hi I have missed my annual eye test and had my bloods last taken inJanuary but i look at it this way my diabetic nurse is only a phone call away if I need reassurance other than that I feel it's down to me to watch my levels and what I eat and see !myself through these uncertain times, because i...

Hi yes I am the sort of person who has to see the task at hand through to the end but my energy levels will not allow it, doing housework clean bathroom Hoover upstairs and make bed rest Hoover dust downstairs rest start next job, I can no longer do all the housework in one go and only stop for...

Hi when I was originally diagnosed three years ago with no family history not being over weight i asked why me and they said it could be to me having had infectious hepatitis as a child in 1969 I will be 57 next week, I may have been prone to it all my life but because I never had any reason to...

Hi I was diagnosed 3.5 yrs ago and though not initially on Insulin within six months was put on levothyroxine and then went on to insulin 1.5 yrs ago slow releasing and recently six weeks ago had a fast releasing added to the mix and have put this down to my pancreas becoming tired not to my...

Hi I had my last blood test on January and six weeks ago I started a new insulin with guidance from my community diabetic nurse, next week i am going to ring her to arrange more blood test just to see how I am doing on this new insulin other than that I fill confident to go it alone and knowing...

yet to wear a mask been working from home since start three members of household husband retirement age and over weight does not go out daughter who works supermarket and me the type 1 diabetic who has been doing all the shopping once a week in week 10/11 and despite some people not obeying...

Hi if doctor say blood test ok why buy testing meter your just scaring yourself your symptoms could be related to other things. I was told I could have been diabetic for years without knowing and was only diagnosed because I had thrush that would,t clear up diagnosed 3.5 years and was oblivious...

Not sure why you brought meter if blood test shows your ok any symptoms you have could be related to other problems not diabetis unlike me who could ha r been diabetic for years it wasn't until I

Like you diagnosed just over three years ago, was.told to stay at home since middle of march, may go back to work for one morning a week from end of july and only if measures are in place, being working from home since mid April as needed to receive work laptop, mentally i like to go back to...

hi the first two units should squirt to release air and then redial for the amount required and use, it stings on and off for the first few months but eventually your body gets used to you doing it and you no longer feel the sting