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Dear All Can someone advise. I have had good to reasonable control until last autumn, partly due to lifestyle. I have recently been rushed off my feet tryiong to do 2 jobs and did not use insulin for over a week. This is clearly my fault but in thr uk you would not believe the ammount of...

Hi Been diagnosed since last April and haven't been on for a while. Due to various things including risk of redundancy (Which proved the straw that broke the camels back) I lost all interest in being poked and prodded and advised by various med people. Not that it isn't good that they do this...

Just had one removed this morning, went ok despite dreading it, done under a hospital under a local but am short of test strips. How does this procedure affect blood glucose, some say it goes up, does it and for how long and do I need to do anything. Also will it heal slower.Diagnosed as type 1...

My sugars are high in the mornings between 4.9 and 7.2 but this week have been consistently 7 to7.6 mm/ol Lunchtime I am usually 5.5 to 6.5 but again have been 7.2. After a very stresful event at work they shot to 8 over 2 hours after eating, they did go back down but only to 7.2. Pre evening...

I have just done an interesting experiment re capillary testing and raise the qustion as to how this method can be trusted. Did a BM today and followed it up with a number of others 5 hours after eating carb on 6 shots of lantus in day and sedentary activity, largely apart from a one plus half...

Dear All Firstly thank you for all the helpful things when I was newly diagnosed and running sugard of 16 plus after leaving hospital. Back at work. Vision is better, first eye photo was fine (Quite fascinating to look at), weigh is stable at 14 stone 3 which beats the 16 or 17 stone I was...

Dear All What is the score with blurred vision? I was diagnoseed mid April, Better vision now but still blurry on, very, close work. My sugars are , I believe, very normal average 6.6 over 30 days and 5.6 as 7 days, were 27 and counting at 22nd April.Close vision now very good but still blurs...

Dear All 2 weeks ago I was admitted to hospital with a BM of between 27 and 50 and ketones, probably days from keeling over.After 3 days in hospital I was diagnosed as insulin dependent diabetes. I need help to try and make some sewnse of things. After discharge my sugar levels were high...