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If your having a hypo you need to get back to a decent BSL quickly, so take a proper slug of it, not a couple of sip's especially if your on your own. If you start acting up you'll get little support from the general public, they will steer clear thinking your either on drugs or drunk! Once up...

Hi Jodie... 4.4 with that much dose of Levemir is way too low, you should get your BS up to around the 8.0 mark as your courting trouble with it low, my Levemir is split, I have 22 at night and the same in the morning. When do you last eat? Perhaps you should also take some BS's after 4 hours...

Sheese, that's one hell of a price tag, suppose it's not something you can have on prescription then? I have a labour intensive job being a panel beater/sprayer with my own small bodyshop, I work around 80 - 90 hrs per week and have been a Type I since I was 2, am now 55... I think I will...

Ali. The GP was to blame, instead of passing me on to the Diabetic Nurse to deal with it, he should have referred me straight to the community podiatrist, instead of having to put up with a number of surgery nurse's that were not qualified to treat diabetic foot ulcers. It was very nearly 4...

My toe was removed on the 19th November 2014 If the NHS had Post-Op used a combination of antibiotics and the PICO VAC from the start, I think I would have been able to return to my business just after the New Year festivities. Take into consideration what one IODOFLEX dressing costs, £27.00...

This first image shows the progression of the slough again after the second operation to remove the infected metatarsal, you can visibly see how it covered the wound face. Why it wasn't surgically removed when they had the chance is beyond me as this was classed as it was before, as light...

Hi Ali I tried my utmost to see if I could have that, to no avail, the Inadine, Iodoflex juggling was also a waste of time, the only way I could get a change of dressing was to show them a montage of images I had taken showing how the slough had basically crept over the open wound and stopped...

Ali... You should ask about using a VAC, either the KCI ACTIVAC unit which costs £140 for three days rental or the PICO VAC, that goes for £120 and works for 7 days...

Ali... Haven't been on Metronizadole, but flucloxacillin and I are close friends! I would have thought a drip would get to your Dads infections quicker that oral antibiotics, but what do I know. I tried to get the Vascular team to use "Granulox" but to no avail, basically was told that they...

Hi Ali. Funnily enough, it was staring her right in the face, I had my 5th right toe of the right foot removed on the 19th November 2014 and was having my dressing changed daily in the week at another surgery as I had to move from my home to my sisters as I wasn't allowed to drive and had to...

Ali. Yes, you are lucky to have both a GP and Practice Nurse's that know what their doing, I've had some that can't put a VAC dressing on, without wrapping 300 foot of drape on your foot, trying to stop a air leak and still failing, or cleaning a diabetic chronic wound with tap water, and then...

Hi... You'll have to wait for what's happened to me, but I can relate to your fathers problems well. Inadine seems to be one of the NHS's cure all, I've had it many a time and it's something that made little difference to my problem, ever. That's not saying it's not worth trying it, but...

Thanks for the replies, and no, it's not a good story, but I think it should be brought out to show how things have gone since it started in late December 2012. I've had Type 1 diabetes since I was 2, so that's coming up to 53 years now. I had fright when my right foot went cold in the summer...

That's good you do, one thing I think was very helpful was going on the DAFNE course ( http://www.dafne.uk.com/ ) in 2013...

Thanks for the replies, I'm busy typing up what's been happening, hopefully it might give people yet to have this come about, some insight as to how I've been treated and what they feel they would do if it happens to them. Stu.

How was the post-op treatment you had in the hospital/community, what dressings were used, did you have NPWT, or Granulox, did you have a quick recovery with little or no hic-up's or did it turn into a long haul... I've a story to tell, one that appears to be the same as many I have spoken with...

Thinking about this, surely the GP signing my prescriptions is at fault as much as I supposedly am, if I'm given to believe that ignorance of the law is no excuse, so would it not be prudent for the BSA to give the GP practice a penalty charge as they've compounded the problem by issuing a...

Hi Andy... Yep, exactly the same, its a pretty poor show to be sent a letter saying there's no evidence of my having had one, and which, due to incompetence and inefficiency on the NHS's BSA part, which after half a century later they decide its really all my fault for not asking for a...

Hi Catherine... Yes I will, thank you...:)

The best thing that has been beneficial to my diabetes was going on the DAFNE Course 2 years ago now, the most annoying was the fact that I wasn't told about it until I was told about it by a Diabetic Specialist Nurse, at the hospital after having had a small ulcer for four months on my right...