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Came accross my old expert meter while clearing out a drawer and also had a pot of strips for it so after using it for a day or so I wonder whyever they stopped this its just so good everything in one place ie no separate app needed to record bgs and the insulin needed all just tip top oh I...

I feel for you as having all of the same problems and having to self fund just makes it worse .Changed to libre 2 to warn me of nightime hypos but have had to turn alarm off as it keeps waking me in the night and at first just had jelly babies then after a few of these false hypo alarms tested...

Anyone tried hyonotherapy to help with diabetes Really considering this as often sabotage my efforts with something sweet etc and would appreciate hearing your experiences

The tupperware bacon rashers box has now been reappropriated to become my nice tidy indoor kit box

At the moment my pens needles lancer and cartridges are in an inadequate soft box and in a total jumble so when I lift it out of a drawer things fall out so has anyone got a better solution ? this is for indoor storage and not the case to be taken out and about so thinking maybe tupperware box...

Anyone got this meter and if so how are you finding it plus is it backlit please

When I started insulin it was like someone had given me a brake in a runaway car .Just could not control glucose and was desperate to sort it .Insulin feels natural unlike drugs ie metformin and various jabs ,so go for it it works

It seems odd how wherever we place it some folk get accurate readings where others are a bit out always ,just hoping there is at least one place most popular and can try to see if it helps

Libre 2 is reading 2 below actual finger prick for blood and this is constant sadly I have to pay for my own and so finger pricking for bolusing feels like money wasted

All you naughty libre users who use alternative sites ,which do you find most accurate please

Just cancell any alarm which you dont want.I had to cancel lost signal alarm because if i didnt carry reader around the house with me it went off a lot

Hi please dont worry about injecting in front of others ,I have been doing this for years and not one person has even noticed .The thing is not to act a if its something out of the ordinary just quietly do it after all its just a normal part of being diabetic so just look after yourself x

My previous gp always gave me a spare pen but this one is really reluctant to do that so have now got disposable pens but not really happy with the plastic however I will recycle them when empty .In hindsight your advice re swapping to my basal pen would have been good if I had thought of it as...

Went to chemist and they said dr only ordered one pen so cant dispense as it must be a box so home to more calls to surgery and eventually a very kind pharmacy assistant brought them to my house going out of her way to do so after a long day at work and it was she who called surgery late this...

Update . You couldnt make it up !!! messaged on Saturday and rang at eight this morning surgery receptionist said dr not in yet I will putitfoward asap ,lunchtime and no progress rang again and was told drs are in surgery so marking it as urgent ,two hours later and chemist has cartridges not...

Have requested pens from gp online today so if it doesent happen will contact dns

Did that and its not half way to top so have been getting much less insulin than I believed so this explains why in last couple of weeks my bgs have been so much higher especially in the evening

Keeping so busy today to use up thst glucose and my garden is geting the benifit LOL

While injecting last jab of the day noticed the shot went down about eigth of an inch instead of usual amount so checked echo pen end and it said my dose had been given etc but before bed glucose soaring so omg pen faulty and my gp does not give spares so having to use loads extra basal while I...

I used it for apx four weeks and it works well but my kidney function dropped to 32% so stopped