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See novo have new flextouch pen and it made me wonder what prices are charged to nhs for those and also for flexpen

Are you by any chance on metformin as those symptoms are common with that drug

Tried this recently and was amzed how ill i felt ,legs like jelly breathless and could not get to top of stairs without sitting on step half way up. Now back on basal bolus and feel wonderful. Like you often wondered if it would make any difference. Suppose really it depends on what sort of...

June i was on mixed for three months but morning dose either had me hypo pre lunch or high before evening meal so Dr added small dose novorapid at lunch but have gone back to basal bolus now found mixed too erratic

Having side effects from statins so ordered some plant sterol tablets to trial to at least give my body a rest from statin. Cant just ignore chol level as have heart disease and really could not face another bypass Question is anyone else tried this method and if so was it succesful Walking apx...

Keep mine in butter compartment in fridge door

Back to basal bolus and did not realise that too little insulin makes you feel so ill :doctor:

Spoken to my gp as breathlessness increased and going onto Levemir only. Had levemir in the past and had no effect however i may need to use more.....watch this space

After constantly upping my insulin only to get higher still figures wondered if i am in fact insulin resistant so all day yesterday ate normally but gave no insulin and bgs are much lower 6-8 range but this morning i feel strange around heart and am a bit out of breath so is this my body...

Both the trueyou and the delica are fairly small .Have the trueyou mini meter and lancer and lancets plus strips in the pouch provided and its apx 2" by 2" and is the one i take hiking for the same reasons you have for a small device

Signy am on novomix 30/70 and top this up midday with novrapid No Noblehead did not get Tresiba asked again at my annual review last week but told not yet and there is something new coming which includes metformin and other things mixed in and its at least 18 months away !

Love the basal bolus but not able to find basal that suits so went onto mixed and at first thought great but now unpredictable results

Anyone on mixed insulin find themselves using more and more to achieve the same result ? Only been on mixed for four months and now doubled dose with worse results

Diabetes nurse gave me my results and said my hba1c was 53 and thats very good but when i looked at conversion chart surely thats apx 8 in the old chart Now wonder what i should be looking at numbers wise

Just a thought but are you taking stomach acid medication as that stops iron adsorbtion

Didnt think of that Bluejeans ,this happens to me and i end up frustrated so nice to see a reason for it

Really struggling at the moment trying hard to cope with diabetes and hubby wth memory probs then finding very raised bgs after doing everything right so i punish myself by eating biscuits etc saying to my body if you want raised sugars here you are !! so childish Reading Robins post has helped...

Delicia has suprised me with its gentleness ,untill now either softclix or fastclix both are good but delicia is better

I explain things to my daughter and tell her ive a new meter etc and realised im a bore when she said "well if i get diabetes i will know all about it" whoops will shut up now

Coming back from long weekend away did my usual jab and packed insulin into case instead of hand luggage so ate roll and banana for lunch then got the nibblies (boredom) so had 3 jaffa cakes used spare pricker etc and was 15 so got home after 6hrs travel pricked again and was only 5.6 with no...