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A pump is not impossible unless you are a child. I got a pump when I was 33 and I was diagnosed age 12.

People's interests and goals always develop over time. I would hope this happens to you too. I see from your profile you are 29 – I would love to be 29 again.

Thank you, @Grant_Vicat . I am always expecting it to get worse, or for something big and bad to crop up. Whenever my blood sugar goes above 9.5mmol/L for more than one hour, I feel like I am watching my life expectancy decrease in real time, or at least my chance of complications increase. I...

Come on, @Zhnyaka . You can't just say that without elaborating. What do you mean?

Do you mean that the number of people predisposed to it has remained constant but other factors mean more of those people end up getting Type 1?

There was a time when it was considered a good innings for anyone to live to 80. For me, I am just as worried about what quality of life I'll have when I'm older than the actual age I will live to. My last few eye screening letters say I have maculopathy. I also think my gums are becoming...

I am not sure that explains why type 1 diagnoses are increased 3 to 4 per cent a year.

I feel like this should be a more mainstream issue than it is. This is basically what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has been talking about for years and the media calls him a crank and conspiracy theorist. Why are more people getting chronic diseases? Shouldn't we be trying to find out the cause so...

I was diagnosed with Type 1 aged 12. The impression I got at the time was this was the most common age for the condition to come on. I was also told people can get Type 1 up to about age forty but it's very rare. In the last few years, almost every new type 1 diabetic I meet is an adult who...

I have sympathy for this because I, too, am experiencing lows in the night. However, this cannot be the solution. To deliberately ensure you have blood sugar that high on a regular basis is bad for the body.

Thank you, @searley . I agree with this principle but based on recent experience I don't know what to do with meals out. I cannot really enjoy a meal out if it results in four hours of misery afterwards. When you manually dose, at what stage do you do so? Also, what is your experience with...

Thanks, @EllieM. For large meals, I experience the same problem you describe. If the arrow is going up (even diagonally) and I go above 10, it basically means it won't stop rising until at least 13. I very rarely manually bolus because I have been told it will compromise the pump's ability to...

In recent weeks, my control has been very good. My 30-day average was 90% until a few days ago. Over this past weekend, I had some meals out and they all resulted in three to four hours of high blood sugar. For this reason, I dread every single meal out. I cannot decide whether it's worth...

It sounds like either your ratios and correction factors are quite far off, or there was a physical problem preventing insulin from being delivered properly. The way the Tandem T:Slim ought to work is that you can go to bed on a high reading and know that you'll wake up in range the next...

Thanks, @Hopeful34 . I have just changed sites but kept it on the same side as the Dexcom. It seems to be fine so far, so I will continue doing this.

I have had the T:Slim for the best part of two years. So far, I have swapped sides every three days when I change my set. I alternate between one side of the tummy area and the other. This is annoying at bed time, though, because if the pump is on the opposite side to my Dexcom it loses...

Yes, I know what you mean. I think I'll just ring 111 back first though.

Thanks, @AndBreathe and @Grant_Vicat. Due to the fact it's basically impossible to see a GP, I decided to phone 111 and give that a go. The woman I spoke to was quite good and I was told someone would ring me, but that hasn't happened. Maybe I'll get a phone call tomorrow. My leg looks...

Over the last few days I have noticed a hot feeling in my left calf. I thought it could be a muscular problem (and it still could) but I also had the horrifying realisation that it could be diabetes-related. I'm on the closed-loop system and I try very hard with it. My time in range is 80-85%...

No I didn't go low after my intervention of 2 units. For this meal, I gave a dose for each course. I wasn't timing it but I think there was a 10-12 minute gap before each one. I think I made the mistake of just underestimating everything. For example, the Yorkshire pudding was one of those...