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Hi, I was wondering if you could contact your son’s diabetes specialist and ask him if he would prescribe it. When I had issues with my pump ( I had a reaction to the adhesives of Medtronic) my specialist prescribed me a special spray to put on before inserting the set and also something to...

Hi sleepster, had to write as I’m from Newcastle originally, so welcome from a fellow northerner. I‘m new too and I was a lurker for a while. I think the forum is amazing. I found out about it quite by accidenti. I think it would be great if all diabetes specialists, doctors and diabetes...

Thankyou for being so considerate... I spoke to my eye specialist today and we decided to do everything the first week of September. Maybe if it had been my good eye it would have been different, but as it stands it’s the one that took my driving license away 12 years ago. It took tennis and...

Hi, my only difficulty has been in taking it off ... only once has it come off without me realizing .. and that was at a crazy party with some crazy hugs .. otherwise I have to take it off in the shower even then it’s not that easy. But it does leave my skin pretty irritated and inflamed. But...

Hi, I’ll be back 1st September. I could get a flight back but the only doctor I completely trust my eye health with will be on holiday in August. I only trust her with laser and she organizes my injections with a very human doctor as I am not the best patient to have injections in my eyes. It...

Yes, you’re right about that, my annual eye check is due on 1st October. But I’m going to get everything done privately on 3rd sept ... better to do it as early as possible. Well things have got back to normal in that I’m back to having high spikes and lows instead of just constantly...

Brilliant I’ll be heading off to Boots as soon as I’m back in UK. I was really worried about swimming with Libre, but various people including you have given me the confidence and the info to go back to it! Thankyou!!

Hi everyone, well after seven hours in eye emergency, I have my diagnosis[emoji322][emoji323] I have inflammation in my right eye ... and everything that can be inflamed is inflamed which is why it hurts to move my eye especially to the right or left - don’t know why these directions hurt much...

Sweetheart, I so feel for you I really do and I send you a big, big sisterly hug. My own hba1c was 8.2 when I found out I was pregnant so not that far from your own and I was terrified as you must be especially after what the consultant said. Can I ask if he was a diabetic consultant or had...

Just to say that you once you download all the apps you can only begin using them when you start a new sensor. To be able to use both the smart phone app and the libre meter together my doctor said you must first attach the new sensor then scan new sensor first with the meter and then with the...

Once you’ve downloaded the Libre app for your phone you can also download LibreLink Up too and form there up to twenty people including family members and consultant can see your graph, logbook and trends in real time. My consultant keeps a discreet check on all of us patients. You chose...

I have tried taking photos to send you of what it’s interface and graphs etc look like but I’m unable to post them here ..

I’m not sure as I never bother to do that maybe my specialist does knows when she gets back from holiday I’ll ask.

Thankyou very much. Fingers crossed!! As for the NHS, it is deliberately hugely underfunded. Nevertheless it is an amazing institution and you can get extremely good care. What I realise everytime I’m in hospital here is the lack of respect they have for the patient. Most don’t even say hello...

I agree with EllieM take him your blood results form self monitoring and your last few hba1c results so he can see he pattern withr a print out of what LADA means and insist on seeing a specialist. If your doctor still refuses then you can chose your first option which was to present in A & E...

Hi, Unfortunately I’m not based in the Uk anymore[emoji24] it’s completely different here. I wish I still lived lived in England ... for many reasons including the NHS!

Hi everyone, thank you all for trying to help me with your advice I really appreciate it. First of all, I tried the GP, no answer to calls or text messages... so will have to just try again tomorrow. Then I went to the A &E but they didn’t have an eye specialist to see me.... everyone’s...

Thank you for your swift reply. My GP should be in his practice this afternoon. I’ll ask if he will see me. I’m not convinced it’s an infection as it’s not swollen or red, it just feels like I have been hit with a hammer. I can’t tell if my vision has been affected as I see with my other eye...

Hi all, I was wondering if any of you had ever suffered from a pain in your eyes that feels as if you have been hit numerous times in the eye with a hammer? After numerous days of very high blood sugar that no amount of insulin would get down I then had a really bad hypo at about two in the...

Sorry, when I read your reply to how to post a photo I thought you were the person who posted about going through a metal detector. I didn’t check. Sorry about that ... I will have to stop writing when bg over 18[emoji33]