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My levels always drop overnight but I find that my sensor alarm frequently wakes me with levels of 3.4 or similar. When I get up I don’t feel at all hypo and often my levels then go up even though I haven’t eaten anything. If I had those readings during the day I would definitely be feeling hypo.

I have been using Freestyle Libre for about 2 yrs and wouldn’t go back to fingerpicking, mostly because it damaged my fingers so much. As a type 2, I was fortunate to get Freestyle on prescription. I do find I get occasional strange readings and when this happens I double check by...

I found that the Libre reads at least two units lower than the Accuchek monitor which I was using. I now find that if I keep my bedtime reading to 10 (as I have been doing because my levels drop considerably by morning) I keep getting early morning alarms because they have dropped to around 3...

Thanks for the advice. I do have a sharps bin but it seems the local council are no longer replacing them when one is collected. Is it just the used sensor which you put in the sharps bin? The applicator would practically fill it!

The reason I was put forward by the hospital diabetic nurses was because my thin fingers were reacting to the constant pricking and becoming painful. As someone else has just said, it seems the hospital have to make the case so I recomntnd you try that route.

I can understand your worry. I have just been prescribed the Libre2 which has been a tremendous help and so took get alarms in the early hours telling me I am low. I hope I don’t have your problem but I do wonder if getting it direct from the chemist is a new general idea. Can I ask you how you...

Do keep trying. I am type 2 and have been prescribed the Freestyle Libre device after telling my diabetic clinic of concerns that my small fingers were not readily producing blood from a finger pricker following several years using that method. The clinic readily made a case to my GP who...

I don’t use a reader but my phone works well as a reader. Sometimes it does say there was an error so try again and this is usually if the garments I am wearing are crumpled over where the sensor is situated, so check that and it usually works. I am amazed how it reads the sensor over several...

That’s brilliant - I was fooled right to the end!

I must admit this us something which worries me slightly. As I understand it, this vaccine uses a small dose of the actual virus. As diabetes type 2 is deemed to be due to low immune response, is there a danger that the immune system might not respond sufficiently and therefore the recipient...

Tesco used to do an ice cream called Diabetic Ice Cream but they were told not to call it that. It’s now called Dialicious but is not always easy to find.

Hi, like you I have fairly recently been put on to the basal/bolus routine. My diabetes nurse was very helpful and encouraged me to carry on, when I was all ready to give up and go back to my previous routine. However once Covid -19 set in I’ve been carrying on unaided. I was delighted when a...

I was so interested to see mentions of Lantus and Novorapid because a few months ago I was changed from Novomix 30, with a top up of Novorapid if required, to Novorapid with each meal and Lantus at night. It’s taken a while but my overall levels are so much better now. However, it’s been...

I too am appalled at the lack of knowledge re diabetics when in hospital. I have had two recent experiences of this lately. The first was when I was kept in overnight for observation on my heart. Despite knowing I was on insulin no one asked if or when I needed my meds so I took my insulin...

I have always considered my Diabetes was steroid induced because I diagnosed it myself after being on a long term dose of steroids for asthma. The diagnoses was confirmed by my doctor. My mother had developed diabetes at a similar age (mid fifties), we had both been on a long term steroid...

I was put on to the hospital diabetic clinic as soon as it was decided I should go on to insulin. I’m still called for regular 6 monthly checks by my GP and these used to fit in with alternate 6 month checks at the hospital. However it got out of phase so sometimes the two are close together...

Correction - Should read ‘earlier’ not ‘Eastport’!

I am appalled every time I go to the Diabetic section at my hospital for regular checks. They are still offering the help booklet with exactly the same advice as quoted on the photocopies posted Eastport. When will they learn by the many great results of a low carb diet and publish something...