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I recently obtained the freestyle libre. It is not a good system. Two sensors have failed after just a week and the readings are way out of the actual blood readings. I find that it is quite painful to insert and I react to the glue on the sensor. I am sure my insurers will be jumping up and...

I still used this site as I was diagnosed at age 3 as a Type 1 in Preston, Lancs. Now 65 years later, here I am in Canada and other than people in homes and first-line workers,(not all who have been done yet) are likely to be done by the end of June. We have a promise, likely empty at that that...

In my experience, some 62 years of it there has been some terrible external occasions when I have found that being diabetic mostly from insurance companies has been a pain or from people ignorant about it but mostly people try to understand that doing a blood test or taking a jab is a necessary...

My Mum used my bum when I was 3+ but since the age of 10 I have been using my thighs. I use a very short needle and never have a reaction. In the past some types of insulin have given me sore red patches but now there is nothing.

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My solution to laziness was to have a meter by my bed, another downstairs and one for the car. Then there is no excuse. Mind you I am on a mix of animal and analogue which gives clues about low BG and I feel like death if the BG rises above 7mmol. Still I have no complications after 62 years...

In my 62 year experience, a short time like that is no problem. If the temperature had been around 28-30 then it might be a different matter.

I find by mixing flavoured Greek yoghurt with plain Greek yoghurt that it lessens the carb content and tastes just a good. In 175g of plain yoghurt there is around 6g of carb and in a flavoured of the same volume has around 25g. So if you mix equal amounts of each type and eat some and save...

Congratulations, by keeping an A1C in the 5 mmol range virtually all the time, I too have lasted forever it seem waiting for science. They told me I would be dead by 48 and never have children. I have two grown kids and a passel of grandchildren, been married for 45 years and have been type 1...

Over my 61 years as a type 1, I have had 3 caesarean sections and one other operation. Due to the increase in pain due to a very low pain threshold, I use initially a higher than normal dose of bolus insulin. If that isn't enough after a 3-4 days I increase my basal too. Always works. I do have...

Yes you do as all carbs breakdown into glucose in the body and affects bloodsugar

Try this for a change, you can make it yourself. It is available in the stores here in Canada and the US but costs an arm and a leg. This recipe is courtesy of a financial independence blog HOLY **** CEREAL RECIPE Nutritional info per 2 tablespoons (for original Holy **** Cereal recipe): 130...

Firstly you should ensure you have a blood testing kit on prescription. I test about 4-6 times a day. Diabetes is about balance so exercise food and insulin need to be kept in even keel. You need to test frequently so you can take food if you need it and increase activity if your BS is up. I...

I having been a type 1 for nearly 61 years I have always been told to drink whether hung over or not with a stomach upset drink plenty of water and orange juice as the latter replaces the electrolytes and gives digestible sugar at the same time. That way you don't get hypo

Carpe Diem!!!! Having had the problem for the last 60 years, having owned 9 homes in two countries, several really interesting jobs, having 5 grandchildren and immigrated to a new country(Canada) in my twenties, life has been full. Travel, field trips, business successes have not been greatly...

As regular people have blood sugars scores between 4-6mmol, I aim to stay in that range my A1C is usually around 4.9 to 5.4 which my specialist is very pleased with. As I have been a diabetic for 59 years and have NO complications it is working for me. I worry about doctors who say diabetics...

Having lived with T1 for 59 years, I find that low carb is far better than high carbs. Have you tried sweet potato and cauliflower as a substitute for mash it takes a has a low glycemic index and is just as filling as potato, you can use spelt pastas instead of pastas. and mixing wild rice with...

For a start your insulins are synthetic rubbish, which remove your sense of hypo and make you feel like **** with irregular blood sugars, hence the depression. You could ask your doctor to try at least for your short acting insulin Hypurin Regular. Synthetic insulins nearly killed me after Novo...

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Well it is 36 years since I had my children. I was the first home treated diabetic in the country. I told my specialist Dr G Alberti that putting me in hospital would kill me and the baby, I have hated hospitals since the age of 3 when I was first diagnosed. So I got a huge meter to have at home...