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Ahaha I guess I have to laugh at how easy this was to fix. I had another look at the freestyle website and the way to enable insulin dosage is by holding in the logbook button in the top left for three seconds. This brought back the insulin button straight away for me. I must have held it down...

Hi all, I recently was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Jan 2016. I've been using the one glucose monitor since then: the Freestyle Optium Neo. I am currently on a basal/bolus regimen. I have been recording all my insulin doses into the monitor before my meals and also my basal doses in the...

Trust your gut (and not your pancreas ;) )

OP, I'm in quite a similar position to you. I was diagnosed with type 1 at age 19 in early January of this year. I had high blood glucose levels (16.5mmol/L fasting BG). In hospital for a couple of days, I started on Novomix 30 treatment (purely insulin - which is basically one injection pen...

Sorry, but 'just accept you're a diabetic' doesn't just magically cure everything. I'm not going to wake up one morning and just accept it. It is not that simple. I trust it will come over time, but right now, you're absolutely right I'm cheesed off. I feel like I'm being left in the dark. I...

I'm a 20 year old male who was diagnosed at the beginning of the year with diabetes. For the past three years, I noticed that I began drinking a lot of water, all day long, busting to go to the toilet maybe once every hour. I weigh about 60kg and am about 180cm tall. I'm of Southern Italian...