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I'm sorry you're offended by it but that's your prerogative. It's simply based on 29 years of being a T1 diabetic and not being anywhere near to being admitted to hospital with DKA. To address your two points: Try having serial pump failure - I'm not on a pump but by this I imagine you mean...

Agree with this. I may be being a bit harsh here but anyone on insulin who ends up in A&E with DKA is either deliberately not taking their insulin and/or sabotaging their bg through what they're eating or completely incompetent at managing it. Personally, before diagnosis and when I was then...

It's both. MDI (multiple daily injections) along with carb counting means you adjust your short acting (bolus) insulin dose to suit whatever carbs are in your meals. Normally means 3 short acting injections (for 3 meals) and 1 or 2 long acting (basal) injections a day. It does however give...

I would be absolutely starving on that. I was on twice daily Humulin Isophane for a year after diagnosis in 1986 before switching to the then new MDI and although it was a long time ago the level of control between the two regimens doesn't compare. I'm sure you would get much better control on...

This is interesting. I hadn't had any ketone testing strips for years not since I was first diagnosed (1986) and had the urine testing ones. I didn't think anymore about it and if for whatever reason my bg had been high I just took correction doses and drank water. Which is what I presume...

I'm easy, so anything sweet for me - but it may as well be something you like so I usually go for chocolate, Years ago I used to have dextrosol tablets, absolutely awful. I used to find half eaten packets in my coat pockets with the tablets stuck together. I also get dextrose gel from the...

For those who have lost their hypo awareness it won't work, will it? If, as it states, it measures body temperature and humidity i.e. cold sweats and you no longer get these as a warning of an impending hypo then surely the band won't work. I don't get cold sweats anymore for hypos :( .

Glucostix (or an equivalent brand) urine stick for me at the docs in 1986. Didn't have any issues producing a sample for the GP whilst there as I couldn't stop weeing - and drinking. I was then taken from the surgery to hospital by ambulance and put on insulin and saline drips in severe DKA...

Yes, Team Novo Nordisk (formerly Team Type 1) is a UCI professional continental team - all team members and a lot of the staff have type 1. If you're based in the UK they're competing in the Tour of Britain starting this Sunday (6th) which runs for a week. I'm in some of the same strava groups...

The hospital induced mine as well when diagnosed although I think it was unintentional. I was 18 and on insulin and saline drips. Shortly after the food was delivered I was sat there shaking, sweating, completely out of it - I didn't have a clue what was going on and no one said anything about...

I know the NICE statement says something along the lines of the benefits of using CGM's are not proven. However, it's the apparent prohibitive cost of CGM's which makes it unlikely at the moment and the foreseeable future for the NHS to prescribe to all T1's. I know someone on here produced a...

Yes, they look good even if the price doesn't. Being a bit of a cheapskate I tend to go for the erm, lower priced options at Home Bargains and the like. They have one for 69p (26g of protein and 30g carbs per bottle). Although a few months ago they did have some of the Team Sky protein...

After various threads on here from people being prescribed cheaper needles. It's down in black and white now. 1.8.4 After taking clinical factors into account, choose needles with the lowest acquisition cost to use with pre‑filled and reusable insulin pen injectors. [new 2015]

Agree, reusing needles is not a problem. I too have never had an infection or any other issue from reuse and quite often it's been one needle for the life of a pen. Usually only change when the pen is in use if needle bends, hits a blood vessel or starts hurting. I do however treat lancets...

From the title I think he meant he put his NovoRapid in his leg rather than his abdomen but the dosage was correct. I'm assuming he normally puts NovoRapid in abdomen and Insulatard in his leg. At least that's what I think he meant. Maybe quicker absorption from your leg if you're more active...

I'm not on it myself but there has been a discussion about it on the Type 1 forum. http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/type-1-lifer-being-put-on-metformin.78581/

I loved my Mobile and wasn't allowed to use it long enough to not like it before the surgery switched me onto a cheap machine. It's now gathering dust in a drawer. :( Like you say, I can imagine if the cassette plays up you can lose up to 50 tests in one go - which won't happen with normal...

As above really with all the classics - extreme thirst - drinking gallons and gallons with no effect, weeing all the time, tired and lost weight even though I've always been skinny and I felt like sh*t. Tried to carry on with my A-Level work but the symptoms had come on rapidly and I was just...

I too started off on exchanges. It's the same as carb counting. Foods were broken down into 10g of carbs (exchanges), e.g. 1 or 2 slices of bread etc. I got them from the clinic listed on a photocopied booklet. (It was pot luck if you wanted to try something more exotic than the standard...

Yes, the system for eye screening is a lot slicker these days with the leaflets and screening letters and all done at the local optician. The first time I had it done (at the hospital) around 25 years ago I wasn't told a thing, no leaflet or warning - only "we're just going to photograph your...