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Hi, not sure I understand what you mean... But neuropathy develops after years of high blood sugars. Once established the symptoms shouldn't really come and go with different blood sugars...

Hi, this is my husband's account - I believe he has autonomic neuropathy which causes him to have bowel issues, dizziness on standing sometimes and I also wonder if some of the inconsistency that he has about the same meal causing differing blood sugar rises may be down to gastroparesis. The...

Have never known anything else, having got T1 when I was 2, 56 years ago. So I cant compare. Yesterday's visit to the dietician was one of the worst moments when she told me I needed to drastically reduce coffee drinking to reduce a rising potassium level. Coffee! The pump I am used to, insulin...

Hi sorry to hear about your problems. I went through a similar experience about 12 years ago, when I had had Type 1 a similar time to you. Going on to a pump helped, but I read that this is something you maybe don't want to do? Would recommend it. I think sometimes it gets too much after a long...

I had bleeding and spots/lines in front of my eyes back in the mid 1990s, and have had a lot of lazer since then, with sometimes more complicated interventions but my eyes are fine. Loss of peripheral vision means I havent been able to drive for a while but I can still do all the reading, cinema...

Hi I agree about the sensor. Fantastic piece of kit! I have been Type 1 for 54 years and the technology has certainly improved no end in all those years. But this one takes the biscuit! No more furtive testing, needle pricks or complicated juggling with the pump in awkward situations whilst the...