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It’s my first day starting to split my lantus in half and I’ve already forgotten it and am a few hours late. I’m worried now and getting anxious. Just done my bloods they are 9 but I am defiantly setting an alarm tomorrow for it

This May sound like a daft question but can you ask your gp to be tested for DKA?

how long do you guys wait until after youve injected to eat?

Guys how long do you wait after you've eaten until you eat? I was told 15 mins but sometimes in circumstances out of my control I have to eat straight away

Hi all can some one maybe help pls? I'm having problems with my right foot. I've developed some sort of blood type blister under the skin on the ball of my foot. It's really painful and doesn't feel like a blister at all it feels like a wound or bruise when I stand on it. I've also got extreme...

Random title I know but .... Firstly does anyone find that their sugars go up with cups of tea? I use sweeteners and my diabetic nurse said one cuppa in the morning wouldn't be enough to raise my sugars? But yesterday I was 4.3 when I woke, had a cuppa, sweeteners, and it rose to 9.9. I'm so...

Does anyone else feel like when they are talking about diabetes to someone who doesn't have it just not satisfying enough? I feel the only people who know how I feel are people who have it. This disease gets me down so much it's bloody exhausting managing it at times and sometimes I just wanna...

Does anyone find that during summer that their diabetes goes mental? I'm constantly having night time hypos

Just wondering the signs that everyone gets when they're low?? I get the standard shaking feeling weak dizzy. Hot flushes pounding heart rate. Eyesight and hearing also goes funny.

Bought an e cig for myself and didn't realise that they contained sugar!! Bloods were through the roof! Anybody got any idea where you might be able to buy sugar free ones???

Does anybody else's feet get swollen and really warm after they've eaten a meal??

its pretty random but im dead bored! anyone about to chat? even if its about diabetes!!

Does anybody else feel weird at the fact they have an organ inside of them just not working and sitting there? Weird thing to say I know but it creeps me out!

If anyone has had an op or procedure where they've been put to sleep have you noticed a spike in sugars? Maybe due to the anastetic? I had a procedure yesterday and they haven't come below 10 since

What was everyone's blood sugar when they got diagnosed? And how were you diagnosed? What were your symptoms? My sugars were 32 and I was barely conscious and rushed to hospital

I'm 23 and have been in permanent atrial fibrillation for years now Would be pretty good to talk to someone who has AF and diabetes together???

Is anyone finding the heat is giving them more frequent hypos?

Today I just can't get my sugars down Hasn't come below 12 :-( Have injected plenty of times possibly around 7 / 8. Times. Feel like giving up and going to bed Anyone else get high days like this??

So basically about a month ago a I posted a thread explaining that I was losing memory. This time around I know why My body has bee so exhausted in the last few weeks whenever I have had a conversation with someone I'm so tired I'm not even taking it in or recognising what they are saying...

Is loss of memory anything to do with diabetes ?? This last month I've literally lost all sense of memory and it's starting to scare me Not just little things major things that most people would remember