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    Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

    Hi folks, Long time no visit - such is life. As the title - anyone have any experience with BPD and Diabetes? Recently diagnosed and I think it's playing havoc as I am up & down in mood dependant on stress etc. Been pumping for 3 years, turbulent hypo awareness and trying my hardest to get a...
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    DIABETIC REFUSED SUGARY DRINK

    tartanbee ........No offence intended at all.... but dont spend your time looking at text books and quoting DAFNE.......Every Diabetic (All 350 Million worldwide) ARE different. Folks will always know what works for them and thats the way it is !!!!!!! You tend to trust what works the quickest...
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    DIABETIC REFUSED SUGARY DRINK

    Jealous of a Red Bull and a Boost....?. hehe - best not to tell you I spent £10 on 48 of the lil blighters.....a fine hypo fixer Dont taste too good tho................ :mrgreen:
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    DIABETIC REFUSED SUGARY DRINK

    Having recently collapsed in the street with my 3 year old girl ...I'd already eaten a kit kat....its a scary thing when you are not in total control of the situation - I certainly could not help falling to the curb as I blacked out. Using the 15 carbs -15 mins rule ( it was no where near 15...
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    Angry.....Perplexed...... dunno

    Hello Alaska, Thanks for that .... will have a surf :D
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    Angry.....Perplexed...... dunno

    Yet another "after my consultant vist" thread........ Have struggled with control for one reason and another for the last ten years. My last visit to my specialist ended in us discussing the option of a pump. I was up for this as at the time I thought it would be a good thing. Given a lot of...
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    Carers and Family, would this help you?

    Personally - I think it sounds a brilliant device - in principle. The only thing I'd baulk at is the £30 tarif. If it were more in line with a basic mobile phone rental it would be a real winner. I know that folks are gonna say that mobile phones are advancing, but for the likes of me - when I...
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    Hypos and................. Stress

    Aww gee - thanks sugar2 - i will for sure bear that in mind. Its so refreshing to know that we are all different and not as condescending as some people !!!!!!!!! Like others that jump on the bandwagon - you have also seriously missed the point, and the "forum monitor " (now highlighted in bold...
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    Hypos and................. Stress

    Hey Snodger, I was always lead to believe that adrenaline was a natural form of glucose- a post on another topic - Sleep Hypos mentioned the same. Confusing, I guess it tends to change on merit with every instance - I remember a BDA advertising campaign from years ago..... The Rubix...
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    Hypos and................. Stress

    A concise answer would have been about the topic - STRESS AND HYPOS -not a freaking article on everything relating to hypos. Obviuosly living in the West Midlands is completely boring and you have nothing better to do with your time. IF you do not like my replies- its quite simple DONT REPLY...
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    Hypos and................. Stress

    ..............and until those such occurances happen ....one is un-aware. as per usual Cugila - you treat everyone as an imbecile and give them a sermon as opposed to a general answer. The reason I do not post is simple. YOU. My post was asking about people in general in the working...
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    Hypos and................. Stress

    Long time no post......... Had a pretty hard day at the office friday....... shortly after 2 hypos smacked me across the snitch. Was busy at home all day Saturday, but - thinking of the impending start to ANOTHER week at work !!! Result...... ?....... six or seven (one really big un at 1am ...
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    Diabetes Insipidus

    Thanks ebony, Its a worrying thing seeing the symptoms - I'm kinda hoping its just a desire for juice as a lot of kids seem to dislike water so much !!.....She was drinking water last night under protest which mebe suggests habit rather than illness !! Still keeping a very close on on things...
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    Diabetes Insipidus

    Anyone have any info ?..... my youngest girl has an incredible thirst.... BG's are normal after food intake. But she can drink for England and pee like a dressmakers dummy !!!!! She sweats a lot during sleep and gets grouchy quite often..... any help would be great ..... ta much !!!!
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    Symptoms of early Type 1

    I had a cold for a week...... went to school as normal - came home on the Friday night.....feeling terrible. Dad gave me a double brandy..(i was 11 !)...packed me off to bed. I woke on Saturday......about 11am....went to get a cuppa from Mam - who screamed at me. I'd de-hydrated 2 stone...
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    slight retinopathy

    Hey Hey, I had retinopathy a number of years back....had the surgery which was the worst thing I have endured as a diabetic.... Every so often I get the "spider effect" in one eye- my right, significantly the weaker eye as it had most shots of lazer........ After a while it disappears...
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    Addisons

    Thanks- thats useful.......
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    Addisons

    Can folks enlighten me on Addisons ? ........waiting for my test results today after the Synacthen test........ I cant do the CrAzY AdViCe anymore.......... spoke to the DSN after the BM's started to rage out of control.....waking up to levels of +20 were no good to me.....gone back to the...
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    Synacthen Test

    Hi Janabelle, Its just something the specialist said for me to go and have.....apart from the "crazy advice thread- its just the myopic hypos and the ammount im having......I gotta have a armful of bllod taken too .....for other tests !!!.......I do get very tired at times .,... but then the...
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    Synacthen Test

    .......it was mentioned during my last appt. Now I'm book in for one......sounds straight forward but there aint much of an explanation only about cortisol.....hmmmm!