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Hello all. I wonder if anyone else using the Optium xceed meter has experienced the same problems as my son? We are on hols in the Lake District at the moment, lovely walking in the hills :) BUT having real problems with his meters - both of them. Yesterday he felt very low so he did a test...

Hello everyone. Hoping you can cast your minds back to your diabetic honeymoons! My son, 14, is still strongly honeymooning with ratios of around 1:50/1:45 at the moment. He needs a little more insulin in the evening. I thought that the honeymoon was when your own pancreas was still working a...

Hello all. My son, aged 13, was diagnosed T1 in March. He is doing just fine with the diabetes, but he has had lots of other health issues (to do with lymphoedema in his legs) and has had loads of hospital appointments since February. He missed half a term of school, and will be having some kind...

Hello all. My son (aged 13) is a newly diagnosed diabetic, on the MDI regime. He also has lymphoedema which prevents him from injecting in his legs, and to cap it all, he is very skinny! So he is just injecting in his (not very chubby) tummy. I am keen to avoid the fatty lumps problem and just...

Hello I'm mum to a 13 year old boy who has had primary lymphoedema all his life. For the last month, he has had a deep leg infection that wouldn't completely resolve despite IV antibiotics. Last week, we had the additional diagnosis of type 1 diabetes ... double whammy. He is so much better now...