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After finally losing my job and being 'medically re-deployed', I've got 2 weeks in a hotel on a training course which means I'll be able to test my carb counting skills! I've found nutritional value guides for Wetherspoons, Greggs and McDs.( But hoping to avoid them). Does anyone know of other...

Been to docs tonight to get them to prescribe an Echo pen, no problem and agreed to it (didn't seem to have a clue what I was on about anyway). found the pen on her drop down menu, but when I explained I would need the insulin to go in it, she was completely flummoxed, couldn't find it on her...

Just wondering how long people have been following a very low carb diet and how your cholesterol is? I followed a very low carb diet for 30 months before being diagnosed T1, on diagnosis my cholesterol was 9.3. Two months after diagnosis and re- introducing carbs (and refusing the statins) it...

Hi all, I usually have pretty good control of my sugar levels, but a couple of months ago They went high for about 6 days, not sky high but higher than I would have expected them to be. I realised that the increase coincided with getting a new Novorapid Flexpen out of the fridge, so...

Hi, I've read 'Think Like a Pancreas' and 'Your Diabetes Science Experiment'. Both were hugely helpful in sorting out my blood sugar levels. Does anyone have any more recommendations for books about diabetes? :D

Does anyone know of a good forum exclusively for Type 1s?