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Thank you for this. I have resisted taking statins for years, despite regular badgering by consultants and GPS. Once again my consultant is insisting that I need to take them, but I am far from convinced that any minimal benefits will outweigh the risk of increased A1c and probable weight gain...

No I am in the UK. Swanson's arrived today - have just taken one with lunch. We shall see...

I was eating low carb before I started on the pump but my management was indeed very poor on MDI. I was persuaded to eat more 'normally' when I went on the pump, I think because if I ate no carbs there was simply no protocol for dosage as much as because they found it bizarre and unwise - too...

Thanks - had actually ordered some of the Swanson 100mg R fraction ones just before I read your post. Glad I chose a good one! Already feel better in myself for going back to low-carb and have lost half a kilo in less than a week. BSs still a bit crazy, but you can't have everything in this...

I'm pretty sure I only got the regular, but it is a brand I trust so I will start there, use a higher dose, and research a source of the R version that I'm happy with to follow up when I've used the first lot. I have taken vit D for several years now and initially found it the best thing I'd...

Great, thanks so much for the advice. I have never heard of lipoic acid before but it sounds very interesting. I have just ordered some on Amazon from a manufacturer I trust. On the subject of the proteins... Just been looking at the book I was given years ago in Holland which contains tables...

Wow - thanks for taking the time to explain so fully. I have the original Bernstein book somewhere, which is how I initially went low-carb when I was first diagnosed. I too am LADA, though it took a while - a couple of years if I remember right - for them to decide that. I was persuaded to start...

Kirsten - I just came across your remark about bolusing for half your proteins and I am really interested! For 15 of the 17 years I have been diabetic people have told me I'm barmy when I say protein puts my BS up. I do now get grudging acknowledgement that they recognise that large amounts of...

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If i was you and you wanted to keep on with your pump get in contact with PALS who will arrange a meeting for you and the hospital trust to explain their why they are taking you off the pump.[/UOTQE] Thanks - I have never even heard of Pals, but I will give them a try.

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I have been on a pump now for ten years. I initially started pump therapy when I lived in Holland, where they are very keen to get people onto pumps. I resisted it for years, in fact I only decided to go on a pump when I was about to move back to the UK because I knew that would mean I could...

Hello pumpers, it's a while since I've visited the forum, but I have a question. At the moment I live in Northumberland, where the health authority accepted me and my pump when I moved here from the Netherlands in 2010. The process was slow, but relatively simple and funding was not too much of...

For what it's worth: I've been on vitamin D3 for about 4 years now, on the advice first of my specialist in the Netherlands and later also in the UK. I used to get it on prescription in NL, but was advised to buy from Holland and Barrett here, as although it is accepted that pretty much...

Yes I saw that. So maybe I need to contact Boots' customer service to ask if they are trying to implement some sort of unilateral ruling on this, or whether this is just a case of an over-zealous employee trying to exert a bit of power.

I was told recently by the assistant in my local (very) small branch of Boots that I would need to get myself an insulin passport. I duly made an appointment with my GP and asked him about it. He'd never heard of it, so called in the nurse who deals with most of the local diabetics (I'm on a...

Having just moved back to the UK from the Netherlands I've been issued with a cupboard full of new kit including a pump. Even after ensuring that I keep enough spare kit to cover all eventualities, I still have a bagful of surplus hardware (various pens including an Innovo and 2 Lilley Memoirs...

Have had diabetes - retrospectively diagnosed as LADA - so Type 1 - for nearly ten years. After going on a low-carb regime shortly after diagnosis my weight dropped to a sylph-like 52 kilos, which I was pretty happy with, and stayed stable for over 5 years. My BG was never very stable though...

Re: Where to get one:Dana Thanks jonesy, That Dana pump looks really good. Keep us posted as to progress introducing it in the UK please.