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just got my stuff through the mail. if you use bayer test strips and keep the top if the box they will send you the following for each quota of lids from the top of the boxes Blue or pink meter case x2 lids clip n stop (no idea what that is) x 5 lids first aid kit x 10 lids GI diet book x 20...

its weird, fatty bit, not so fatty bit. Morning, night time .. Cant find a pattern.. It doesnt usually bleed either when it stings so hitting the blood vessel thing seems unlikely... I am just destined to go through life I guess feeling more pricks then second hand dartboard.... :oops:

Hello I had weight loss of course at diagnosis and then a blanket insulin regime that on reflection wasnt matched really to carbs etc and so could have been on the generous side.. In the mean time weight piled back on and despite a 4/5 night a week exercise programme the wight crept back up. i...

I would suggest that besides Atkins, all weight watchers and fat fighters and the like concentrate on reducing portions, reducing fat, increasing exercise and carb counting. All of which with the right insulin regime would be productive in weight stability or reducing it. The only addage of "no...

Hello Last week we were discussing the situation with Diabetes and insurance and the DVLA in my DAFNE course. It was stated that your insurer could not prejuduice against you for having this condition nor could they put your premiums up. is this everyones experience? Regards Paul

Bit of both. Sometimes its when it goes in, sometimes its when it dispenses... I thought maybe i just had oversharp needles or worse relatively blunt ones..

What a difference a year makes eh! Good work my man.. For things to change, first I must change... Sounds like you started doing that again!!

Hello just done a bit of research and answered my own question!! http://www.bayerdiabetes.co.uk/sections/connectwithmycommunity/Bayer-s-Around-You-Support-Programme/makingapositivedifference I thinks that very good of them, multi billionaires or not.. Im not sure all test strip suppliers are...

Hello I will do and to be fair .2 variances dont concern but intrigue me. There was a day though when i would feel the onslaught of a hypo and test to find a reading of 25+ then do another moments later to find it sub 4.0.... At my MOT the nurse just swapped the meter over and so thus far I...

Hello I was given 5mm to start with which was a disaster as I just bruised badly instead, then to 6 with not much chnage and then to 8mm. I was advised by the dafne team that a chap that was on the larger size should be using 7mm and above.. i threw out all my 5mm so i havent got a...

Ive started to leave my active insulin out of the fridge but am not seeing the benefitd.. It still stings sometimes when it goes in and im not using the same sites over and over nor using a funny angle. Thoughts peeps??

Hello I use contour strips and I am sure i saw a bit of bunph once that said if you save them up you can send of the tops of the boxes back to bayer and they will donate diabetes stuff to the africans etc.. Does anyone know how to redeem such an offer? Regards Paul

Hello I know that meters are not 100% but the other day i took a reading and then another and then another within 2 minutes of the first on a different finger but on the same hand. Assuming that I hadnt dipped my fingers in tate and lyle or touched something.. How usual is it to get 3 different...

or Roy Walker consoling Dave after Mrs Dave has injected him with the glucagon pen in the side of the head by saying "ahh, thats good.. but its not quite right... Say what you see, say what you see.... " :lol:

The kicker for me is tho! This information I was given was LW whilst on a DAFNE course in the spot set aside to discuss the myths and legend of medication, medical staff advise etc and that in general the GP's dont know enough to give you advise to be self sufficent!! :roll:

Ive been advised to keep mine in the fridge all the while and that having it out when I am out and about is ok.. Insultard is defo cloudly, cant speak for the other long acting ones. funny how the advice you get from health care professionals can vary so greatly..

Most people have easter Egg hunts in April, but oh no not dave !! He has the children running around the garden playing "find the orange barley lucozade!! cheap b****rd!! :) Can you imagine on re runs of bullseye with the contestants all playing "jab the hypo patient in the *ss" on bullies...

I just finished my DAFNE course this week and my partner came along for the managing hypo's part. She is very much looking forward to sticking it to me in event of a flake out!! Everyone I asked who has had expereince with the pen reports the same as Tracey that in high probability you will feel...

Hello Ive got the HA1BC consistently at 6.0, yay! but after taking orlistat since end of dec i dropped from 95 kg to 90 and am now back to 94 despite doing nothing extra and exercising even harder and cutting out what i felt were treats.. Thats a bummer but ive just completed DAFNE today and...

Hey dude.. how did the DAPHNE course go? I have just finished mine today and feel way more positive about the road ahead!!