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I was diagnosed with Type 1 aged 12. The impression I got at the time was this was the most common age for the condition to come on. I was also told people can get Type 1 up to about age forty but it's very rare. In the last few years, almost every new type 1 diabetic I meet is an adult who...

In recent weeks, my control has been very good. My 30-day average was 90% until a few days ago. Over this past weekend, I had some meals out and they all resulted in three to four hours of high blood sugar. For this reason, I dread every single meal out. I cannot decide whether it's worth...

I have had the T:Slim for the best part of two years. So far, I have swapped sides every three days when I change my set. I alternate between one side of the tummy area and the other. This is annoying at bed time, though, because if the pump is on the opposite side to my Dexcom it loses...

Over the last few days I have noticed a hot feeling in my left calf. I thought it could be a muscular problem (and it still could) but I also had the horrifying realisation that it could be diabetes-related. I'm on the closed-loop system and I try very hard with it. My time in range is 80-85%...

We're now back in the season of pubs and cafes serving mulled wine. I'm considering giving one a try. Has anyone else done this with successful diabetes management? I would guess it would be at least 20g of carbohydrate.

I have just had my work Christmas lunch and I really tried to get things right. I did not succeed. Now I'm on a reading of 14.0 mmol/l, and I've been out of range for an hour and a half. I assume I'll be high for at least three hours now. This was a standard Christmas dinner: turkey, one pig...

I have been on the Tandem T-Slim X2 for over a year. I have been on the closed loop system with the Dexcom G7 since June. Sometimes I've had great periods of results. I've occasionally had days 100% in range. Recently, however, a terrible thing has been happening where I have unexplained highs...

Over the last year I noticed floaters in my vision, which have never gone away since they started. Tests from opticians concluded it may not be diabetes and my eye screening simply resulted in a letter saying I had background retinopathy, which I already had. I mentioned floaters to the woman...

Yesterday I made Spaghetti Bolognese using the recipe from the Jamie Oliver book, Jamie's Ministry of Food. I started a bit late, so I only began to eat it at 8:15pm. On my pump, I gave 80% of the dose straight away and the other 20% for the next two hours. Due to the fact my BG was not going...

I got a Glucology pump belt for my Tandem T-Slim X2 but it wasn't very good. The weight of the pump caused the belt to slide down and, as there was no way of adjusting it, I've stopped using it. I go running quite a lot and currently just clip the pump to my shorts, but that doesn't feel...

Hi everyone, somehow I gave 20 units on my T-Slim X2. I've pressed 'Stop insulin' to prevent any further deliveries. I've just been sipping coke and have had a few high-sugar things to eat. Is this all I can do until it wares off?

I am coming up to the four-week mark for my T-Slim X2, the first pump I've been on in my twenty and a half years with Type 1 diabetes. The first few days were incredible. I couldn't believe how easy everything was and my average glucose was 6.7. But for some reason, it got worse after that...

I assume most people have seen this announcement. It includes the following: Omnipod 5 is now available on the NHS frameworks and Insulet is working with NHS Trusts to make Omnipod 5 available locally as rapidly as possible. You can check with your local diabetes team to see if the device will...

I have a cold and it seems my requirements have increased between 50 and 100%. It's absolute madness. So far today I've given 26 units of Novorapid, 12 units of Levemir, and the lowest it went was 9.8, and that was for about ten minutes. I don't even know what strategy I'm adopting now as it...

I have had several months of pretty good control but now I am struggling to get below the 10/11/12 range throughout the day. Some weird situations are happening. Yesterday, more than once it kept creeping up after initially heading down. I don't even know how many injections I did yesterday...

Recently, I have been having an experience where my levels follow this pattern: I have an evening meal. I give what I estimate to be 60-80% of the required dose. My BG then doesn't move. It might even go a bit lower. Over an hour later I think, maybe I don't need to give any more. But then...

I had a strange experience at the clinic today. The doctor was looking at my recent Libre data showing my average glucose of 7.4 and estimated HbA1C of about 47. She seemed a bit underwhelmed by these results and said I was going low too often. So that was a bit of an anti-climax. Then we got...

My control is the best it's ever been. My HbA1c is around 49/50 and has been for about the last six months. However, in the 19.5 years before that, my HbA1c was 53-57. I used to think it was impossible to do a better job than I was and I now know that was wrong. But I can't undo my substandard...

Recently I have been trying to get my levels in an overall lower state. My HbA1c has never officially been lower than 53 (NHS records) and has never been below 50 according to data from my Libre. I used to think 53 was "really good" but in retrospect I think the NHS does not set ambitious enough...

I've had type 1 nearly twenty years and have become very engaged with things in recent months, more engaged than any time previously. I feel like the general message from my clinic was that an HbA1c of 50-53 was really good, but then when you look it up on here or Diabetes UK it says it should...