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Mexico looked a bit "funny" at me for insulin & stuff. US, NZ, France, Spain all seem pretty unperturbed by it all. Sometimes you get a youngster on security who'll try and insist on my pump going through x-ray, but their colleagues soon put 'em right.

I found that Lantus gradually stopped lasting it's advertised 24 hours over the years I used it. In the end I took it twice daily and tried 3x for a week or two. (Didn't work). I asked if I could go back onto Ultratard but got "disgusted looks" from my consultant. In the end the pump was the...

Waistcoats - wonderful things as they've got lots of little pockets. One for blood glucose meter, one for lancet/strips, one for Dexcom CGM, one for a pump, and room for an extra cartridge of insulin, memory sticks & a pocket-watch (last 2 not for diabetes) ;-)

I take 35u basal every day. That rises by 50% if I'm sickening with something.

Bear in mind though, that anyone giving away a Libre reader is only likely to be doing so because it's no use to them. Ask them why, and what they'd suggest. There's only one other CGM out there, that's the Dexcom. (OK, yeah, there's the Minimed 530 with the Enlite CGM). Maybe you'll find out...

Tweak away. You'll make mistakes. It's not a precise system (best you can hope for is ~30% accuracy) or a constant system (yep, it changes), but it IS consistent. Once you know it, it's good. Personally, I can tell I'm getting a cold 1/2 a day before the first tickly sneeze - my BG shoots up by...

I've tried Dexcom and Abbott. The Dexcom is very expensive to start (£1300) and more expensive to run, but you CAN get the sensors to last longer (which will bring the running cost down to the same as a Libre) The receiver will give to you alarms, which is handy. The sensor system (which is...

I used the Libre before Christmas. I now use the Dexcom. The Dexcom is calibrated whenever you feel like doing a finger prick test (and HAS to be 2x daily). It's VERY much more expensive kit. If you ignore startup cost, and can get their weekly sensors to last 17 days then they're the same...

Part of me finds it amusing how the cheap Libre's faults point people at the very expensive Dexcom as a replacement. In fact, Dexcom could say that the Libre was the best marketing tool they've had for a while. How many here, after using the Libre have found the benefits of CGM, but can't...

A Libre won't wake you either. A Dexcom will alarm, but, personally, I find I sleep through it. You'll be OK, though, give it a whirl. If you've got glucose, water, blood-tests kit & insulin handy, what can go wrong. (Oh, apart from the terrible mess water & glucose makes of a bed...

Testing blood glucose is an absolute MUST. Try and dream up a way of doing it at work. The fact you can't test is not allowing you to correct. Not correcting us raising your blood glucose. This is damaging your eyes and damaging your perception of blood glucose. It's really quite important this...

Yeah, you'll feel like you're having a hypo if it's been high for a while. Give it a week or two, watch it carefully (that means 7/8 tests a day), correct frequently, and you'll drag your "feeling hypo" down to 4.0.

I started doing it about 10 years before they taught it. Tried explaining my thinking, but it was, "No, the consultant decides the best dose for you." I didn't have much to do with the people after that. We sort of "diverged" for 20 years.

There's a great deal of anxiety put around by doctors and blood tests. There is a distinct case of "the boy who cried 'wolf'." about medical professionals doing this.

Ha! Changing with seasons? Changing by the week, more like!

I've had "mild background retinopathy" for the last 5 years. Since going on a pump and my HBa1cs coming down, in the last year my retinopathy is beginning to reverse. The eyes are healing up. There's hope. It's not the "beginning of the end".

That's embarrassing! Oh yes, there was this time when I was in a rush for blood-tests, didn't finish eating ("Oh I'll grab something at the train station on the way", thinks I having lit the bolus-bobshell fuse. 45 minutes later, walking away from the nice nurses at the phlebotomy depth, "ooh...

(Oh btw, with your high HBA1C, you're an ideal candidate for a pump, don't worry about "1 shot". That 1 shot is gonna last 5 years at the shortest, as that's the lifetime of a pump.

Have a think about what getting a hypo is like. It may be that keeping everything high is a little to do with getting hypos. Some hospital teams are ABSOLUTELY against hypos. Actually, from my experience and chats with other T1s, hypos are a part of life, yup my blood sugar goes below 3.5 a few...

No, nowhere to pull over, bollards everywhere. Thankfully I was only a mile from an urban area I could stop.