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Hi, does anyone on here use 8mm needles? I’m just curious as a around a month and a half ago my mum had a phone call from the diabetic nurse at the gp practice (she goes to the hospital for this) who was talking to her like she was 5 years old and kept saying she was concerned for her safety...

I wouldn’t normally ask on here but I have 1 eye that’s sort of hurts as though I’ve got something in it but it feels like my eye is blood shot. Would it be best to ‘try’ and get in at my drs or go to an opticians?

Hi, Has anyone been started on this yet?

Hi, can anyone tell me how my BS can go from 21.5 to 3.3 in two and a half hours without me actually doing anything? I really don’t understand this diabetes!

As I only eat just one hot meal a week I test before and 2 hours after. After a recent annual check at the hospital the Dr asked why I tested 2 hours after. I explained although I’d thought she would know why. She told me only to test before meals, I then tried to explain that I don’t eat...

Hi, I had an annual review on Monday at the hospital where I’m treated. Had a lady I’d never seen before commenting on different things. I told her I’d stopped taking Ozempic she didn’t ask why only when I stopped taking it. She flicked through my meter, which is usually downloaded when I’m...

I have a friend who is prediabetic and we were discussing diabetes and I didn’t realise but she thinks all overweight people have diabetes! Where do people come up with these ideas. She seemed very shocked when I said anyone can be diabetic.

Has anyone forgotten to take their testing stuff out with them when driving? If so what have you done about it? I’m just asking as I’ve forgot bring mine to work so can’t test before I leave work.

I don’t know if anyone can relate to this. When I have my morning break which is 1/2 an hour I eat my porridge there are a lot of foreign workers that eat heated up things like curry, spicy foods which is very smelly. It actually makes my stomach turn the thought of eating that for breakfast...

I work 12 1/2 hour shifts we have two 1/2 nd hour breaks a day. We are either on 1st or 2nd break. I don’t mind being on 2nd break but if people go late to there breaks it’s starts to impact me sugar levels. For instance last week I was 2nd so I assumed the person I was working with had already...

Hi, how often do you have a medication review with your gp or pharmacist at your surgery?

Hi, my mum is a type 2 diabetic and has leg ulcers on both legs. She now has blisters on 3 of her toes they have not been caused by skin rubbing on skin (the usual way) does anybody know of what could be the cause?

I work as an HCA in a hospital and 1 of my roles is to give out lunches/teas and also to feed patients. The food sometimes makes me want to vomit especially certain meals/food combinations. Do you think if I asked my manager to be excused from this duty a reasonable adjustment?

Can anyone tell me the best thing that can be kept in a car long term to treat a hypo. My mum is also diabetic, doesn’t travel far really but this week on a way to an appointment she was stuck in traffic after a car accident for 1 1/2 hours her journey was only about 15 mins if that. She had 2...

I have been using Ozempic from around March/April last year until May/June this year when I stopped taking it. My blood sugars came my down massively and I lost just over a stone in weight. I just ate the same as I do now but since I’m no stopping it I have put the weight back on so I’m just...

I’m abroad on holiday and I have a blister on the ball of my foot. What is the best way of dealing with it. I’ve had blisters before from obviously wearing new shoes but never one on the ball of my foot.

The only salt I add to food is if I cook a meal I add salt to veg. I only really eat a hot meal maybe once a week. I’ve just eaten to packets of cheddars and they seem extremely salty. Also a few months ago I bought corned beef to have in a sandwich and that was so salty I couldn’t eat it. Are...

Hi does insulin get packed with clothes etc or does it go in as cabin luggage?

Sorry bit of a long post!! I’ve been on Ozempic for just over a year, in that time I’ve experienced nausea, vomiting and what I can only describe as an anxious/ feeling of doom in my stomach. I’ve had a lot of time off work because of this and in turn I’ve received warnings for my sickness...

I go to my hospital for my diabetes. I keep getting text/phone messages from my gp surgery asking me to go in for blood tests. I have told them numerous times that I go to the hospital for my diabetes, I get told they’ll put it on my notes and a few weeks later I start getting messages again...