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I'm currently living in France. For many years, when I was in the UK, I was on a dose of 26u per day of Lantus. When I came to France and found a specialist to visit, she was horrified and immediately reduced my dose to 13u, and has subsequently reduced it to 11u per day. I have several...

Just been reading an article about someone who has often tested her bs on two different machines, with the same blood, and gets widely differing results. Anyone else had this issue?

I spent 9 hours yesterday in hospital I had a hypo at work, and went unconsious. In France, the pompiers (fireman) come out first (because they know how to resusitate people) - they rarely understand about diabetes. My boyf, who works for the same company, was explaining that I needed glucose -...

Tonight I was woken by a sharp, stabbing pain in my foot, just below the left toe, on the surface of the foot not underneath. It seemed to be in the skin, since walking around had no effect on the pain, but rubbing the area made it tingle slightly, although not go away. It went on for some...

I'm about to book a holiday to Sri Lanka. War aside, does anyone know of any difficulties I might find regarding insulin/diabetes? I will have a room with a fridge, so keeping insulin cool won't be an issue.

I have a curious situation. Well, it is to me, anyway :) I am taking my Lantus about 4 hours later than I should. I did a blood test just to see if or how much Humalog I needed, and my result was 3.3 Yesterday, woke up at 8am as normal, and took my Lantus. Went back to sleep because I was...

So I have a cold. Woke up yesterday, nose streaming, throat sore, all the usual. Same this morning. Haven't done anything much differently from normal. Didn't eat quite so much yesterday, cos I know (or have been told all my life, anyway) that colds can make your BS rise, so kept it to a...