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Insulin Pumps with cathater/tubes don’t work for me either….they are not practical for me, wait for or get the Omnipod 5.

Yes, I’ve been a Type 1 for 56 years, I was 11 when I spent a week in the children’s ward in St Peters Hospital in Chertsey, the nursing staff were superb and I was discharged with the big glass syringe, large needles, a bottle of ProtamineZinc insulin and a bottle of soluble insulin and a metal...

I became a Type 1 Diabetic 56 years ago, at which time having 1 injection of suspended insulin each day, eating 3 meals a day at precise times and only being able to test my sugar using a Clinitest tablet in the urine. Now, with the real advances in glucose monitoring and insulin I can control...

I've been a Type 1 Diabetic since I was 11, that was 53 years ago and I am 64 this year. I've seen a lot of changes in the medical management of my diabetes, taking my blood sugars is now so much easier and so immediately accurate than all those years when we could only do it with a tablet in a...