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Cheers I will do that, it seems an utter waste to simply incinerate them.

Many thanks, but sadly they quote on the site “We are always very grateful for the donations of unwanted, in-date and unused insulin and other diabetes supplies, such as needles, lancets and test strips. This is a great help to people with diabetes in developing countries. However, due to...

This coming August 8th, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of 11. Jokingly, I've been told that I might receive some recognition. While a gold Libre 2 seems a bit excessive, a gold watch with the inscription '50 years diabetic - handled with care' would definitely bring a smile. In...

Due to the advice by those who don’t inject daily, we have been advised over time you use various mm fine point or other insulin pen needles. So I find going through one of my medicine filled drawers, which I suspect we all have, a mix of 4mm, 8mm, 12mm insulin pen needles that I will never...

I am currently, like most people, unable to obtain a current HbA1C, though my eA1C is 6.4%, simply where does that place me... am I well controlled or badly, since I was advised by my GP to self isolate, which at the time I felt was slightly extreme, but after reading the above, and hearing the...

Diabetes Type 1 is a auto immune response which destroyed the cells that produce insulin... thus it is to do with a weakened immune system... people with asthma’s and cancer are lower on the attached freely available list, and diabetes is higher in ethnic minorities ... where deaths have been...

I find that comorbidity in diabetes isn’t a consideration for this government, especially when people with respiratory issues are told to shield or self isolate, when this chart shows people with respiratory issues are lower than diabetes and those with heart issues... it supposedly costs the...

I have to travel to Salisbury, I am less than 5 miles away from Stonehenge, and there ain’t many shops around... we have Warminster to right, Salisbury to left, I’m stuck in the middle without any ability to buy ragu.

Hi, Pipp My problem, which isn't I suspect singular to myself, is my most local supermarket is 15 miles from my home, so under the governments current distancing rules, that would not perhaps be deemed essential travel. But where I live we have no shops, no pubs, no streetlights, no doctors...

Hi, I have been diabetic type 1 since 1973, haven’t thus far any underlying health conditions, which I can only praise my mother and father for keeping me in check in my younger years... Does anyone think that the current governments choice of vulnerable people should include diabetes? I am...

I have been diabetic type 1 since 1973, diagnosed when I was 11, at school. over that time I have moved from Bristol, to South Wales, then returned to Bristol and now I live in Wiltshire. My problem is, within Wiltshire I have not yet seen a diabetic consultant or diabetic nurse at the local...

I note from a recent hospital audit that some people who have been submitted to hospital find that they did not receive the care they should if they are either type 2 or type 1 diabetic. It mentions the fact that some people due to being admitted has an in-patient could end up with high blood...