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After what feels like a long wait over the summer I now have a start date. I'll get my pump on 30th September and go live with insulin on 7th October. It's a bit later than I'd hoped, having been told it would be the begining of September I've kept things as free as possible thinking I'm likely...

Argghhh It should be a simple system, I send an email to my GP requesting a selection of items form my repeat list. They sort out the prescription, Tesco collect it and then I pick up the stuff when I'm shopping. So many times I go and collect the stuff only to find that I have been issues...

Anyone else using a pump who has young children, how do you "child proof" it? I'm due to start on the pump in a few weeks and this is one of my biggest worries. My youngest has some special needs making it more difficult to explain to him not to pull on the tubing and so on, though obviously...

Feeling a little shallow even thinking about this, afterall they are all going to do the same job no matter what colour. On the other hand I'm going to be attached to this little box pretty much 24/7 for the next 4 years so I'd like to make the right choice. Also a pretty colour might go a long...

This was posted on another site I read. Anyone using a medtronic pump might want to check their supplies against the recall list, apparently the reservoirs may leak and you may get an under dosing of insulin. http://www.medtronic-diabetes.info/_Checker.html?cc=gb&lc=en

Last week the wheels were set in motion for me to start pumping. I already have a letter form the consultant a few weeks back indicating she thought I would be a candidate for a pump. There were a couple of adjustments she wanted me to try first, which I've now done. While they have improved...

I've pretty much accepted that taking insulin means I'm going to have some hypos. Unfortuantly my diagnosis of diabetes didn't come with a second one of "super human powers of carb counting" :lol: and the odd miscalculated meal is inevitable. My issue is more with excersie, not going to the...

I'm finding it hard to find any information on this, since everwhere seems to be saying how great the remote is. I can see the advantage of not having to keep the pump in an accessable place but I have reservations. Can you still use all the features of the pump without the remote? I gather you...

At my hospital appointment last week both the consultant and dsn suggested that a pump would be worth thinking about as I've been struggling wiht keeping my levels, well level, for quite a while now. We did talk through a few tweeks to my current ratios to see if we can improve things but I'm...

I've had a few occasions now where I've tested and got an OK result, then taken my levimir as usual and found myself hypo not long after. The other evening I was driving home so tested before getting in the car, 8.2. Drove the 5 minutes home, made a cuppa and took my levimir. Around 15 minutes...

I seem to be struggling to get my overnight levels sorted, at the moment I'm waking up too high, seemingly whatever I do. I have experimented with snack/no snack and changing my doses but so far nothing seems to make much of a difference. I wake up with levels over 9 most days recently, and...

Arghhh, I was expecting a few wobbles over Christmas, we've been away form home so different meal times, harder to carb count and so on. However once I was back home I thought things would straighten out. Not so far. I've wondered about an illness, I have a bit of a sore throat and the kids...

I need a bit of a rant to day, I just don't feel I'm in control of my sugar levels at the moment and nothing I've tried seems to be making a difference. A few months ago I changed form Lantus to Levimir as I was all over the place. It has helped, I've stopped having so many random hypos but...

Had a birthday party at home this weekend and made these jelly squares, the kids thought they were amazing. I used sugar fee jelly and although they took a long time with setting all the layers each step was only a few minutes. You need several flavours of jelly, I used strawberry, Orange...

I was having a lot of trouble keeping my BG in range and recently switched to levimir twice a day from lantus once a day. I've also been fiddling with my ratios per meal rather than using a set one throughout the day. So far I've got one for breakfast, another for lunch and I'm still working on...

Arghh, I seem to be back to my levels being all over the place again. Back in Sept I seemed to be comming to the end of my honeymoon and was having trouble getting my insulin does sorted. I thought I'd cracked it till I got a misserable colds in December that seemed to last for weeks. Now I feel...

I'm starting to look at a phone upgrade, and one of the things I'd like to think about is a log book app for my test results, preferably one which will allow me to enter insulin doses etc as well. However I have a few questions First does anyone have an app they would recomend (or one they hate...

Over the last couple of days I've been having quite a few hypos, generally only just dipping under 4 but still not good and seemingly not very predictable. Last month I was having problems getting my levels down! We'd assumed my levels were creeping up as my honeymoon ended (diagnosed a year...

I've been having trouble getting my numbers settled for the last few weeks. It looks like I;m reaching the end of my honeymoon phase. I seem to have got a handle on most of the day, however my before tea reading is always a bit on the high side. I was at my hospital check up this morning and...

How long should you use a pen before replacing it. I ask because I have a novopen 4 which I've been using for around 9 months. I've wondered for a couple of weeks it it feels looser than my spare. I felt it was still clicking OK but the joint between the 2 halves seemed loose. Mu numbers...