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Hi only you can really answer that. i am self employed and for the last year have held onto my business by my fingertips. i can finally see light at the end of the tunnel and am now getting round to sorting paperwork and other things out. working and running a family as well have as having...

Hi, i haven't checked any forums weeks due to my 4 year old starting the pump. It has been absolutely exhausting made worse by the fact that the run up to christmas with all the extra activities going on does not help, but 2 months later and we are just about there. He started school last Sept...

Hi, i buy sweets on line cola bottles, jelly sweets and chewit type ones. they are sugar free but not carb free so still tend to keep them just before or with meals and have to limit it to max of 3 or 4 in one go as they are full of sweetners which cause the runs. but still for a special treat...

Hello i realise looking at the dates of this your son will have started school for the last week. my son started in this Sept just after his 4th birthday. he was diagnosed last Sept just as he started nursery. I really was just wanting to say don't worry if the levels are a bit all over the...

Hi thanks for that, at the moment i think i may just take pasta off the menu. Ethan's 4 so i don't think he would let us give him more injections yet, he's been fab already with with going from 2 to 4. he also goes to bed quite early 7pm so i have to make sure dinner is on the table on time or...

Hi can any one help i'm getting confused. my son's insulin regime has been changed from twice daily mixed to seperates, no problems with it apart from the pasta. he has eaten pasta twice in the last 3 weeks and both times had a hypo before bed and gone very high, around 20 by midnight. this...

hi, my son has been having incredibly high readings about 9-10 am after starting school. it hopefully now appears that this has been due to having hypo's in his sleep. his DN thinks starting school has changed his reaction to the insulin, it certainly has made him more sensitive to the lisprol...

hi, your DN was on a bit of a power trip. long term T1 or T2 usually with a history of poor control and have moderate/severe neuropathy with/out ischeamia do get typically defined characteristics, such as severe neuropathy can cause numbness, high arches, clawing toes, and may be cold but can...

hi, i was told when my son was diagnosed that the cause of type 1is a virus, like a cold virus. the big difference is, is that most people are immune to it. it can be passed on but the it only attacks the islet cells in the pancreas in some people. once it has began it cannot be stopped and...

Thanks for the comments. We have had our little meeting at school and basically scared them all to death, so now i am feeling marginally calmer. The SENCO is now going to be acting head for the school (and another school as we have to share the head teacher )for the first year, covering...

Hi, i am mum to a highly energetic 3 year old, who will be starting full time time school in september (2 weeks after his 4th birthday). He was diagnosed type 1, 8 months ago and i am already having a panic about him going to school. He has managed to survive nursery, but we did have to cut his...