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Just thought I'd pop in and update about what's going on in my life. Not been on here for a while! I'm currently 29 weeks pregnant :) woooooop! Very excited. We're due in December :D. Can't wait want peanut to be here now. Background information. Was diagnosed in March 2009, where my bloods...

Ooops I've had the same thing :\.. my levimir was 24 and after a lets say a merry night i came home and usually i just have my levimir next to my bed but some reason my novorapid was there too.. it was my b/f who stopped me but by time i'd taken the needle out i'd had the full 24 units.. he...

I'm hopefully going to train as a nurse and when i'm in my final year i want to train to become a diabetic nurse :)

hi ive got the same questions :|.... i've been told off my diabetic midwife that i'll probably have a c/s due to my pelvis being to small and diabetics have a slightly bigger babies.. whenever i ask these questions to my diabetic midwife, she doesnt give me a stright answer. Which is...

This is my story so far living with Diabetes… every day is a challenge. I’m 21 and got diagnosed with Type One Diabetes in March 2009. My symptoms where the following; eating everything and anything but not putting weight on, drinking all the time, and when I mean all the time, when I saw a tap...

Hi =) I’m Heather, 20 and Type One. I was diagnosed in March 2009 and I just want some advice on what I need to do before trying to conceive. I know I need to get my hba1c down to below 6% and my last one was in April/May was about 10.1% I think. That result is miles better from when I first...

I was diagnosed with Type One in March 2009. I never knew about ketones in urine; all I heard about it was it shouldn’t be in your body and I only overheard it when I got diagnosed. It was only when I got admitted into hospital Feb 2010 with DKA (Diabetic Ketoacidosis) and I went into a Diabetic...

Hi Kieran; I felt the same way when I was diagnosed.. 19 just finishing college and though it would go away. I didn’t test, inject and just ate the things I was use to (more like my body was use to with all the high sugars!) Until Feb this year (my birthday of all days!) when I went into A&E...

I am just wondering if anyone has been on the X-Pert Course. I would like to go onto it just to get experience with people who have diabetes and feel a little more ‘normal’ instead of feeling ‘alone’ and ‘frustrated’ when it comes to testing or carb counting etc.. I have just finished (April...

I dont know if i am still able to give blood for the National Blood Service. I was diagnosed with Type One Insulin Dependent Diabetes in March 2009 at the age of 19 and before I was diagnosed I was giving blood often. Help Please?!

What gets to me is all the news about DT2 about how large people are at risk and it is giving diabetes on the whole a bad name. I feel that T2 suffers have brough it on themselves and people like me and my father who have T1 arent getting a bad name, because we get the condition due to a rubbish...

I’ve just had my ‘first’ hypo since being diagnosed and my symptoms where: • Shivering • Shaking • Feeling really hungry • Sweating I knew how to deal with the situation as I’ve seen my father who’s had type one diabetes for 15 years. I had three glucose tablets and ate a mars bar, even...