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My latest medtronic delivery was despatched on the 5th; arrived 8 days later. According to tracking it seemed to sit for six days in limbo between Eindhoven and Castle Donnington. All previous deliveries have arrived the day after dispatch.

I think that you may need to try to bring with you several months worth of consumables. I moved back to the UK from France a couple of years ago. I'm British but even so there was some paperwork moving back to the NHS. I had about 10 months supply of consumables (some I had just accumulated...

As above, I agree, its the meter that deternines the output. Its only a few years ago that meters could be switched from mmg/dl to mml/l ( they stopped the capability when people made errors after switching inadvertently) As long as the meter and strips are available in each country (not all...

Classic symptoms, weight loss, was happy about that, massive thirst etc but ignored it as too complicated as moving countries at time (weren't people with diabetes told to lose weight, eat healthily and exercise? I did that) For the next two years aware of thirst at times, recurrent thrush and...

My lipids had gone up, I lacked motivation and had gained some weight To screen I had TSH and free T4 tests.This was repeated together with TPO antibodies .(they were positive) I then had a thyroid scan which showed my thyroid was very thin and 'degraded', which they suggested meant that the...

"That's why I am surprised by some people who eat a lot of carbohydrates but with physical efforts they control the level of blood sugar" That is because on every muscle and skeletal cell are specific glucose transporters (GLUT 4 ) that admit glucose into the cell for use as energy. These...

Fasting glucose 385 mg/dl .Cholesterol was high with 'opalescent' plasma which is appararently indicative of ketosis (and I wasn't eating low carb).I had ketones for the first couple of days in hospital but they went with insulin. I was very shocked to be diagnosed with T1 but they did test for...

I think that exercise certainly helped me to achieve very low HbA1cs in the first years after diagnosis ( lowest 4.9%, always in the '5s' ) I probably probably had LADA but I used insulin from diagnosis (diagnosed 13 years ago at 53 with T1..." or we might call it 1.5" said the consultant)...

Type 3 or Type 111 refers to other types of diabetes (other than T1,T2 and gestational) It includes diabetes caused by different genetic conditions, diseases, damage to the pancreas, infections, drug induced. There are a lot of different known causes, some extremely rare. A World Health...

Instructions for c peptide requested by UK consultant. I've been using insulin (now a pump) for 13 years and originally diagnosed in hospital as LADA: T1. Its to see how much, if any insulin still produced... ( and whatever the result new pump ordered as it 'obviously gives you good...

If you are not going to be 'insured' by the National Health service, there are private doctors and clinics that can organise access to pumps and supplies.Otherwise if you have a pres ription already then contact your pump company before travelling.eg https://londondiabetes.com If like me you are...

According to specialists, Gck MODY doesn't normally benefit from treatment. The fault is that the mechanism that detects higher glucose and initiates the release of insulin is set a bit higher than normal.Your body will try to maintain that level which is 'normal' for it. It is very unusual for...

The reports of a 'cure' are overenthusiastic since it showed a large reduction in Hba1c, whilst continuing insulin therapy. Denise Faustman is not a quack though (that was an unhelpful comment) Her research has been going on, stage by stage for many years .(there are several posts on here about...

I agree that that HLA-DR3-DQ2 or HLA-DR4-DQ8 confer a susceptibility to T1 (.The SNP rs7454108 has been used as a marker for DQ8 in several studies, this is one of the alleles tested in the chip used by 23 and me. ) This has been known for many years and there are countless papers referring...

It took another 40 years for mine to be killed off but I agree about feeling I have a strong immune system. I rarely get the colds and sore throats that others seem to get. The only supplement I have taken was vit D in the winter months prescribed by my doctor in France. Its given fairly...

Brief interjection. You may like to investigate Banting's diet .It still included a fair amount of dry toast (he considered butter contained 'saccherine matter' )some fruit and a 'rusk or two' together with what today would be considered an immoderate amount of alcohol.If you work out his...

I agree that keeping the battery in is sensible for a few days. Just a question from interest, does removing the battery for a few days actually reset this pump? I ask because when I took my paradigm pump out of 'cold storage' where it had been for three years without a battery,it...

A meter from England is in mml/l So as already said 7mml/l is 126mg/dl (7x18) BUT Though they use a mg/dl meter the French read the results in g/l not mg/dl so you need to put in a decimal point before the last 2 figures. 1,26 g/l is the same as 7mml/l. 1g/l as used in France is the same as...

Hi Susie, How about a contract. You get yourself sorted, so will I. Ive been putting off registering with a GP for about 6 weeks and yes I am panicking at the thought of actually doing it . I officially left France at the end of November. I have six months supplies of pump consumables, 4...

I agree, DD if you have worries then please report. I'm sitting here feeling very guilty because I did have concerns as what I read didn't seem to correspond to my own understanding of diabetes . I did some googling using his name and was unhappy with what I found (basically what others have...