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Hi my friends dad is a t2d and he spikes up to his 20's 2 hours after a meal although he has sugar in his diet, is there any info why he spikes and what his diet should be he isn't on insulin but is on tablets not metforman its other tablets but don't know what. I just wanted to give my friend...

Hi I've just knocked my little toe on the bed and the nail has come clean off its weeping and worried that diabetics need to be careful off their feet! What should I do?

Oh my lord I've had the week from hell!! So I start of with stomach bug and I'm on an insulin pump and ended up getting very poorly very quickly, My meter read high and my ketones were 4.9 so I rang 111 and they said they would send an ambulance so I wait whilst be sick etc this was at 2am and...

I'm type 1 diabetic and haven't been able to eat anything since Saturday tea time I feel week and bloods are fine but ketones are there. Why am I like this? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

I seem to have had a lot of hypos lately and the last 3 hypos I've had I've lost my awareness of them even at 2.5 which is scaring me!! I know they say run high for a while but how do they mean? Eat more chocolate take less insulin? I'm scared to do that because I end up ill with high bloods and...

Hi everyone just got my omnipod today :)) one question is it normal to take ages for insulin to go in?? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Has anyone received a letter from roshe? It says about not giving the right amount of insulin when giving a correction through the handset? What do you make of this and why have they asked us to sign something is this just cover their backs? I've had a lot of bother with my pump and have...

Has any one had this letter?? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Hi everyone I'm a type 1 diabetic pump user I have done a dafne course, I'm slightly over weight and would like to know the best diet I could do that would be easy to work out the carbs if making things from fresh as I guess when I don't know the exact carbs. I've tried slimming world but found...

Hi every one I'm t1 diabetic and have had carpel tunnel surgery a week ago today and the surgeon did warn me of a raise in blood levels and it's been out of this world my sugar is sky high one min then very love the next minute every time I'm high I do the corrections etc I also end up with...

Hi all, right I'm not sure if its down to this but here goes, I've just started taking gabapentin for neuropathy and I've had horrible head aches couldn't sleep last night and not feeling great! Today my kitten chewed my pump cannula so I changed it and primed it and plugged it back to me but...

Hi I'm T1 on the accu check combo pump and I've been having hypos all week I've gone through about ten bottles of lucozade! I've reduced my basal by 0.01 every hour twice this week instructed my my diabetic nurse and I'm still having them I've even started to loose awareness of having them! I'm...