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Ok, so we shelled out for a Bayer USB meter, since both the optium exceeds and freestyle lites died around the same time. Over the last two weeks, my daughter has been getting alarming readings, namely 0.6, 2.1 etc. When she retests immediately, she gets a completely different reading like...

Its only diabetes. My daughter and I got told this last week by a member of a uniformed group staff because her niece has lots of medical complications. I really cannot be bothered to explain the ins and outs of it all. I did point out however that where her niece has had her complications...

Hi everyone, I am a parent of a T1 girl. She was diagnosed 5 days after her 10th birthday in March 2008. She was severely DKA at diagnosis and was lucky to make it through the night. Quite frankly one of the worst nights and best nights of my life, because I nearly lost my girlie but she...

I have a T1 11year old girl. She had a visit from our nurse the other day, and she laughed when the nurse was talking to her about how serious it was that her diabetes was spiralling out of control. The problem is, I know its how she copes - she is nervous and she just wants to laugh to relieve...