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Hi. I am quite new to freestyle libre. I have used one sensor so far and knocked it off at day 11, other than loosing it on day 11, the libre has been fabulous. I applied a new sensor today and it will not activate. I am on my third attempt at starting up this new sensor. It was applied...

Hi All, My friend's father has had a few scary hypos lately due to his type 2 meds and erratic diet. He is 83 years old and it has knocked his confidence to the point he won't go out and has got very upset. I was telling his daughter about the wrist monitors for detecting hypos and sending an...

I had a bad experience at Lloyds pharmacy today. I admit I screwed up a little. For several reasons, including massively changing insulin requirements, I did not get my repeat prescription ordered in time with enough of a safety net to ensure that I do not run out early next week. So I thought...

Hi Folks, Over this last 6 months I have developed really nasty dawn phenomenon (DP); immediately upon waking I am often around 8mmol, an hour later when I sit down to breakfast I have shot up to around 16mmol. I feel like I am been set up to fail before the day even starts, it is very...

My colleague, who suffers with ME has been called for jury duty and he is concerned that fatigue might be a problem if called. This got me thinking about diabetes, particularly when insulin controlled, is it reason for exemption from jury duty. Obviously people should serve if well and capable...

Does any type 1 have experience of insulin plus metformin. After several months of increasing BG levels, more than doubling my insulin requirements, and weight gain (sigh!) my consultant has suggested trying metformin. I have taken metformin before (when I was mis-diagnosed as type 2) and cope...

Hi everyone, I am looking for a bit of advice. I am just coming to the end of the honeymoon period and with the help of my diabetes dietician I have started carb counting. I do ok for the most of the day but thing tend to go wrong later on in the day. Sometime it is my own fault (snacking)...

Hi. I am still quite new to being a type 1. I am coping pretty well with the insulin regime and for the most part have thing reasonably well balanced with only a few mild hypos. Then last night I had a real fright. My BG was 7.8 at bedtime and I took my usual basal insulin dose (lantus) and...

Hi, I am relatively new (probable) type 2. I was diagnosed a year and a half ago at age 37 with a random BG of 29. After starting metaformin and glipizide I got my diabetes and diet under control, lost 4 stone and was almost at the point of stopping all medication. I thought I had it all sorted...