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    If you are in a chocolate store to buy a gift, and the cashier offers you a free chocolate,

    Sorry if I have upset anybody and I do realise how difficult it can be to adjust to the problems of Diabetes but all this rubbish I hear from T2 Diabetics about it’s alright for you because you are only T1 does my head in . If you had been diagnosed with the disease in the 50s you would have...
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    If you are in a chocolate store to buy a gift, and the cashier offers you a free chocolate,

    I have been a Type 1Diabetic (since I was 10) for over 61 years on 2 injections a day and I never once refused an offer of a chocolate. What’s wrong with you people don’t you know how to control your Diabetes ? You all seem afraid of your own shadows. If you control your Diabetes properly there...
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    I love my Libre

    After 58 years of wee testing & finger pricking the Libre sensor system has changed my life . For the first month that I used the sensors I double checked the readings by also finger pricking but the difference in the readings was so negible so I gave up the finger prickings and only do it now...
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    Child with type1

    Hi Lisa Sorry to hear about Lucas but I can assure you it does get better . I was diagnosed with Type 1 when I was 10 year old & am now 67 & reasonably fit . The equipment we had to use in those days was like something from the Stone Age compared to today & I remember the first 3 months were...
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    Child with type1

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    Changing Insulin pen Needle

    I have been a Type 1 Diabetic from the age of 10 year old & have seen many changes in the style of syringes I use . I am now on Lantus once a day & Novo Rapid 3 times a day & to be quite honest unless I draw blood I only change the needles twice a week . This may not be the way forward for...