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Hi, just wondering if there are any type 1 pregnant ladies who have been working from home throughout lockdown and now being asked to return to the office? I was feeling ok about it when first mentioned, but now cases seem to be really ramping up and it’s only two weeks off I’m starting to worry...

My retinopathy progressed to proliferative at around the same stage of my second pregnancy - 6 weeks - or at least that's when it was picked up on my annual screening. I think tightening up my control for pregnancy is what caused it to progress. I was rushed straight in to the specialist eye...

How did you go about getting it Becca?

Thank you Helen, that’s really helpful. I hadn’t heard of the Medtrum so will look into it. I’d be happy to have either I’m just not keen on any wires due to young children who constantly climb on me!

Hi, can anyone please tell me are there any hospitals in the north-west who supply the Omnipod? I believe my hospital (Arrowe Park) doesn’t offer any kind of pump so I’d need to get referred elsewhere, but ideally I’d like the Omnipod so I’d like to get referred somewhere that can offer the...

I highly recommend it. It changed everything for me. It gives you the knowledge to eat whatever you want and adjust your insulin accordingly. They don't discuss diet but they give you the choice to eat how you want, but encourage common sense. I am now equipped to follow any diet I want and I...

It's awesome. It changed my whole outlook and life! The app is really good too. Good luck! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

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That doesn't sound like avert constructive attitude from your doctor. What's done is done now, you can't go back and change past sugar levels, all you can do is concentrate on your current and future ones and you have very good motivation! Congratulations on your pregnancy btw! Hellbunny are...

Hi Rachael - I know you're meant to aim for below 7 but I don't think 7.5 is too bad, it could be a lot worse. I'm 33, my last HBa1c was 7.3 but I'm hoping my next one next week will be in the sixes so that I get the ok to start TTC. Everyone is different and HBa1c is not everything. At 7.5...

Hi! Just wondering if you've looked into a carb counting course like DAFNE? Your story sounds very familiar to me, except I wasn't diagnosed until 14, but all the teenage feelings, denial resentment and lack of blood testing was me too. My HBa1c was around 10 back then. I started caring and...

Hi All Just wondering, I use the average sugar level to HbA1c calculator a lot to help whilst trying to lower my HbA1c results, but the calculator results seem to recently have changed. Previously I was aiming for below average of 9.4mmol BS and the calculator indicated that this would equal a...

So pleased for you, what a relief! I have certainly been a lot more careful since reading your post so thank you for sharing your experience.

I really feel for you about this. I was diagnosed type 1 a few weeks before my 15th Birthday and throughout the rest of my teenage years, in fact until I was about 23, behaved exactly as your daughter is doing. Looking back now I really regret the way I behaved, luckily I never did myself any...

I am a DAFNE graduate and what you have been told sounds right to me. Your background insulin should be at the correct dosage so that if you didn't eat anything all day it keeps your BS at a constant level, although this is often easier said than done with things like hormones, illness, exercise...

I know exactly how you feel. I work a full time and stressful job, as well as a busy social life and often put other people's needs before my own. It has begun to dawn on me lately that I may be getting away with only giving my diabetes about 75% effort on a short term basis, but I will be the...

If you do work out the answer to this one you're doing better than me! I've been going the gym a few nights a week for the last couple of years. I will always have a banana or something about an hour beforehand, but the effects of exercising on my sugar levels seems to be totally random - even...

I loved DAFNE, I went on it 3 years ago and it honestly changed my life. It was fantastic to be able to eat what I wanted when I wanted, but also to learn a lot about the condition and treatment and spend a week in the company of people in the same situtation who really understand. I can't...

Thanks everyone for your views, it seems that it's totally open to debate and personal opinion / feelings. In the end I ticked 'no' on the form as I just couldn't bring myself to class myself as disabled as I have never thought of myself in this way and try very hard not to let my diabetes stop...

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, I've just had a quick scan through and not seen anything... But I'm a Type 1 Diabetic luckily without any serious complications so far (touch wood), so am I classed as disabled? I am just applying for a job and not sure whether to tick yes or no on the...