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Thanks for the help and taking time out to write, helps me a lot. Just managed to sort out so much, so quickly since finding out and the hospice care is still back ground worry to me.. I will get somewhere, I hope, not sure what other things I should be asking onMonday. One thing for sure...

Thanks, always hoped for hospice care but without diabetic consultant seeing me in 2019 them as I tried saying to him. How can he advise palliative consultant without speaking to me? He didn’t even know how many insulins I am now on (was 4 insulins), routines, ratio’s anything!! I wanted to be...

Thank you. That has relaxed me a little. After some heated email exchanges with my diabetic consultant, he finally agreed to talk to me!! However, he didn’t draft letter to me first before sending it to the palliative consultant! One insulin injection missed off totally and doses for another...

Hi Morbid thoughts perhaps to some, sorry. I have terminal cancer, grade 4B in liver and lungs. Has anybody previously had any experience of care in hospices, as an independent insulin diabetic? I’m still to see the consultant that oversees my hospice (next Monday) but have had to fight to...

Guidelines have gone out that are telling hospital and consultants to do a minimum 25% of their appointments by phone/video. Personally in my CCG care has been poor. I am lucky that the head of the CCG is our GP! He apologised to my husband for all the ups and downs we’ve had for him and his...

Have a look at a book by Dr Robert Kustig called Metabolical. In the U.K. our LDL particles are not tested. It’s the LDL-P that is important and the triglycerides. Very interesting reading..

I’m under a good consultant at hospital, and he basically allows me to state my insulins. So yes, I have fiasp for waking phenomenon/liver dump.! However, I very rarely eat breakfast or lunch. Just one meal a day at tea time. Odd occasions I do have breakfast, then I lump the bolus as fiasp...

Ideally long term you wouldn’t want bloods to go over 7.8 and not to rise more than2.8 after a meal. However, you are in early days. To be honest it’s so long since I was diagnosed I can’t remember the honeymoon period!! To rarely spike above 10 is good when you first settle in with T1. Never...

Novopen echo’s are superb. Give 1/2 units and you can check dosage if you have a lousy memory like me, and the time of injection too. I’ve accidentally been prescribed disposable ones at different times and have tried them but boy, only having full units and as I only take 1 unit or 1/2 unit to...

I take fiasp in the mornings for getting up and novorapid for foods. Did not get on with it for foods at all but for my “feet to floor phenomenon in the mornings it’s brilliant.

Flex pens are cumbersome to store and really not so good as the novopen echo. I would ask for non throwaway pen and cartridges. The echo pe does 1/2 units and is far superior to the flex pens.. it also shows you how much you have doses just incase you forget!! And when you did the jab as well...

Likely to be with “ anti caking agents” and neither hubby or I tolerate this in tablets or capsules.....

So that’s Lantus disposable pens?? I would recommend that you ask for permanent pen with cartridges that go in them. Have you got novorapid in pens that deliver 1/2 units? If not ask for novo echo Pens, needles and cartridges Sometimes 1/2 unit adjustments when eating or correcting can make...

The vitamin d wellness group on FB has huge amount of information on it and recommendations for specific ones as well, timings and to take with K2. Very good clear explanations. Just wish the capsules were easier to take. My hubby chokes on them every time he takes them... There are good...

There’s loads of different varieties and some energise and should be taken in the morning and some help sleep and should be taken at night.

What pens are you using. The disposable pens are pretty useless to be honest.. depends which insulin you are on as to which permanent good pens you can use. You should be given enough pens for your life style.. not be limited to getting home for food and pentime. I use 4 different types of...

If you also take vitaminD it is essential to take magnesium and K2 as well. They all work together. Getting the right magnesium is essential and taking it at the right time. Some magnesium you take to help sleep, some you take to energise- therefore take those in the morning. There is an...

I was with Carmarthenshire hospital back in2010 and got a pump, they were streets ahead of the rest of the U.K.. Can’t offer advice on tubeless as the pumps stopped working in my skin in 2015 so had to go back to injections. Hope you have got something sorted, but this response should bump up...

Worthwhile getting your vitamin D levels checked with hair loss at that can also be a reason for it too

My basals (I take tresiba AND insulatard ) have increased significantly since jabs...