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  1. Caerdobi

    Type 1: Prescription fine

    Just info for anyone, I received my "fine" letter almost a year ago now. Told me I had to pay the fine and prescription charge, but they'd waive the fine if I applied for a card within the time limit - but I still had to pay the prescription charge. Applied for and got the card and didn't...
  2. Caerdobi

    Libre sensor.....again!!!

    Also, you guys using the Libre should get these. They're a couple of quid from Boots for a pack. Perfect size to cover the sensor, everything still works and they protect the sensor from being knocked off on doorways ( two casualties for me so far!) plus when you pull off a t-shirt.
  3. Caerdobi

    Libre sensor.....again!!!

    Quick tip for you guys. The sensors often fail for me when I obviously hit a blood vessel and the blood then gums up the sensor, which is why it works for an hour or two and then fails. Always covered in dried blood in removal. Quite often I experience a bit of throbbing pain from the site when...
  4. Caerdobi

    Diabetes & Addison's Disease

    Hey, I have Addison's as well. Feel free to contact me with any question, but it's not anything more than popping 2x hydrocortisone tabs in the morning, 1x at 4pm, and remembering to double the dosage in times of high stress or illness. If you're T1 then it should be a breeze as you're already...
  5. Caerdobi

    Freestyle libre (again)

    Mine absolutely revolutionised my monitoring; I went from a reluctant "few times a week" fingerpricking - if that - to checking my blood 20-30 times a day. Also my retinopathy has now stabilised and my HbA1c has dropped considerably. So I'd consider the extra years I can get to see my children...
  6. Caerdobi

    Freestyle Libre sensor

    Knocked mine off just now against a doorway. Wish there was some way to reapply it, highly annoying when it's 45 quid down the drain.
  7. Caerdobi

    Just passed 15yrs diagnosed, still in Denial

    This is going to sound harsh, and I'm sorry, but you need to grow up and stop pissing about with your body. I was EXACTLY the same as you for years - didn't bother going to clinics, didn't test my blood, ate ****, and what it is based on is arrogance. You think you can wing it and you'll be ok...
  8. Caerdobi

    Legs Pain

    I don't mean to alarm you, but I experienced leg pain over a period of around three or four months last year, which I was terrified would be sclerosis of the arteries in my legs. My DSN drew a bit of a blank as my circulation was good, blood pressure and cholesterol checked out fine. My pain...
  9. Caerdobi

    Diabetic eye test

    Good advice about the letters you receive from the hospital regarding your results. I have maculopathy in one eye and and medium retinopathy in the other (T1 for 25 years) which doesn't have any effect on my sight, I'm borderline for laser surgery and have been for a couple of years. Every time...
  10. Caerdobi

    Work don't understand

    That's very common. I was diagnosed as a young boy when knowledge around diabetes was even worse than it is now, it was referred to even by my GP as "sugar diabetes" and everyone thought I'd "caught" it from eating too many sweets. I don't get bent out of shape about it. If people want to learn...
  11. Caerdobi

    How many of us?

    Wow, didn't realise there were that many. Outstanding.
  12. Caerdobi

    Work don't understand

    You will always have people who don't understand. I just get on with things and ignore them, it's not my job to educate people apart from warn them I'll be injecting in front of them.
  13. Caerdobi

    Worst date ever!

    Better off without her. People like that make my fingernails itch.
  14. Caerdobi

    Worst date ever!

    She ignored you because you were diabetic?! Some friend...
  15. Caerdobi

    Worst date ever!

    I made one bloke faint in an airport once by jabbing in front of him. It was entertaining for me. Less so for him.
  16. Caerdobi

    Airport Security & Medication

    How many of you have ever been pulled up in airport security for your diabetic kit? I used to always declare it at the check-in desk, but to be honest I've never got stopped for it, so I don't even mention it now. I carry my pens on me but even when I've been searched, nobody's ever been...
  17. Caerdobi

    New insulin Lilly Peglispro

    Good idea Batman, you've given me some food for thought. Thanks.
  18. Caerdobi

    I'm so SICK of diabetes

    If you feel like you don't care about your diabetes, look down and examine your toes. And your fingers. Now imagine what your life would be like without some of them. Also, now imagine what it would be like if you couldn't even see to examine them in the first place. That alone should make you...
  19. Caerdobi

    New insulin Lilly Peglispro

    Thanks Matt. My work involves sitting at a desk and writing code as well as managing a team of fellow nerds; it's about as unphysical as you get! :) I do drink a bit of coffee though. I'd got to work in the morning and taken about half my Levemir which I should have taken the night before, as I...
  20. Caerdobi

    Can Type 1 Diabetics eat Chocolate ?!

    If you bolus correctly (is bolus even a verb?) you can eat most things, even sweets. Whether you should or not is a different matter. Before I clamped down hard on my diabetes I would eat a whole packet of jelly babies sometimes and inject accordingly, I dread to think of the sugar spike and...