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I have an insulin pump because I asked for one with reason. I will be honest I lied, I told them a load of bull****. As I knew the effects on the long-run and short term would be positive. I know my lifestyle is a bit erratic, so 30% of the time I cannot do injections and they didn't seem to...

I was hypoglycemic and all I had was a 23g carb brunch bar in my bag, I bopened the packet then..Teacher:. "I hope those sweeties are for me"... I looked at him and was about eat it and then was just about to explain to him and then he over-run me saying "I don't want to hear it", then went up...

I got my insulin pump 2 days ago, it is awesome. No more injections (unless ketones>0.6)(or broken insulin pump)!!!! I have had blood sugars better than I have ever had. My blood sugars have been between 4-7, so not one hyper, only 2-3 hypos but this is still the beginning. I only have 2 basal...

Im 15 diabetic. 5 injections a day and regular bg testing and calculating. I have recently found out im getting an insulin pump and next week..im happy about it but since this i have rebelled against injecting and bg testing. For some reason after months of desperation for a pump i now dont want...

I think the government should increase spending significantly to finding a cure for all types of diabetes, it makes sense, the cost in the future is even more troubling and despite the country being deep in debt dealing with the problem now will decrease cost in future, any1 agree?

Last year when I received the flu vaccine I felt dizzy and almost hypoglycaemic, I wasn't scared or anxious about getting an injection but my ICR went from AVG of 1.6 to 1.3 on the days subsequent to the injection, it happened the year before except the ratio drop was slightly less. Has this...

I have been thinking about ways to monitor blood glucose levels but with directly removing blood from the finger, I have thought that a device could be made by scanning skin cells, scanning the eye?, sweat?, salivia? Are there lower or higher concentrations of chemicals in sweat or salivia...