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I put a day's worth of pentips in a prominent place, so every time I walk past I can see how far I've got through the day.

Long-distance vision has been brilliant since the operations, but I now need glasses to read my insulin pen....

The consensus seems to be that pre-filled pens are less robust than pens that are refilled with cartridges. Given that the pre-filled pens are surely more expensive over any period of time, what are their advantages? Why do people use them?

Give them time....

The snag is that, because I'm between jobs, I don't have either. And I've no contractual relationship with the sponsor (who just runs the site, and wouldn't be my employer anyway - my prospective employer isn't amused either). I'm not sure how far employment law extends to national security...

Insulin-dependent type 2

I recently renewed my national security clearance with my employer.. it came through about six weeks later, but a few days after that I got a letter saying that restrictions had been placed upon it: that I should not undertake courier duties and should not be employed in isolated/singleton...

I had different eyes done by different surgeons (in the same hospital), and was given different drugs for each. There seems to be no consensus in the medical community. Afterwards I could drive without glasses for the first time in forty years.

I'm not in the army, but I've just had my defence security clearance (SC) marked with re4strictions: no courier duties and no singleton/isolated posts. This is said to be for national security reasons and nothing to do with health and safety. It shouldn't affect the job I'm doing, except that...

I wasn't warned that my weight might increase, which it did, fairly abruptly, by several stone. Furthermore, I'd been losing weight gently for a couple of years, and had just got down to a weight I was happy with. So my illusion that this was due to my innate virtue and healthy lifestyle was...

I had the same experience, and of course once I started it was fine. It's a pity no-one had explained earlier what injections entailed, as I should have started a year or so earlier than I did.