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I have had diabetes for 27yrs nearly 28. and at the moment it is pretty difficult to keep it doing as I tell it. last Hb1AC was 50 (which for me is a miracle) and it's taken a vast amount of work to get there. But the point of this post is, despite my Diabetes' best attempts I have become a...

Hello, been on the forum for a while but have been missing. Would just like to pat myself on the back as I have recently become a World Champion in equipped Bench press. I have been type 1 for 27 years and have weight trained through all of it. And despite everything that type1 can throw at me...

If this is not allowed just remove. I competed on Saturday 10/9/2022 in the AWPC World Powerlifting Championships in Manchester. I competed in the M3 125kg Equipped bench press category and benched 175kg, this was despite having a series of hypos leading upto the mornings flight. this was the...

hi has anyone had the experience of cannulas sealing themselves off or the body doing it? Since Thursday last week I have had my cannulas sealing off after a couple of hours. I am on the new Medtronic 640g with silhouette soft cannulas or I have also been trying the Minimed Mio 30 (these are the...

Don't know if this is the right place for this but here goes. Been diabetic for 24yrs this year and have just recently started with swelling of my ankles/feet (before the heatwave started) been for my annual review and circulation/sensation to my feet are good and am on different medications for...

I have been for a follow up for my Retinopathy in my right eye, the good news is that after 7 or 8 lots of laser treatment it has apparently settled and even the "Big Fan Shaped" vessel right next to my Retina has gone! so was quite relieved as I had some small micro bleeds in both eyes. But the...

Hi everyone, now I have been on my Medtronic 640g for a few years and am about to get a renewal as the funding is still in place, but my question is, has anyone ever had a large bleed from the cannula site?? And I don't mean the usual bleed when you inadvertently catch a small vessel whilst...

I have had diabetes for 23yrs now, and I have had two cataract surgeries (both successful) and Retinopathy in my right eye (eight lots of Laser treatment, which wasn't pleasant but successful) all through my years of diagnosis I have trained with weights. Even competed in strongman competitions...

I have been on the pump for nearly three years now and it is brilliant, it has changed my control immensely, but the last few weeks I have been developing redness around the canula site after just a day. I do a full set change every two days because of the amount of insulin I have to use...

It looks like that after I have my next Cataract operation in the next six weeks, I am once again going to step onto the platform. I am only doing a Deadlift completion in October, I did one last year, with the intention of competing in Full power powerlifting but I have had a couple of setbacks...

Well I had my scheduled review today of my left eye, didn't go as planned as they have found some vessels growing on my retina in my left eye(the one operated on) and the difference in my vision from the non operated eye to the one operated on is too big apparently, but because of the still...

Well its been six weeks since my cataract surgery in my left eye, the healing has gone well I have developed a small "twitch" in the lens as it heals (quiet entertaining if you want to feel sick) but as I have retinopathy in my right eye now with six lots of laser in that eye I have new vessels...

well am not a happy bunny!:banghead: went for my follow up apt at the hospital on Wednesday, and my HB1ac has crept up to 70!! so I am understandably a bit peeved. But for only the second time in 23yrs since diagnosis I got a "Well Done" of my professor !!! I thought hang on, how can I get a...

I have now had four lots of laser to my right eye, I was told that it was improving (can't see it lol), but just last week the vision in my right eye gradually got worse, so a trip to the hospital was called for. now have cataracts in both eyes, left one is a grade 4, right one is a grade 3.8...

just wanted to say about my life with this ever so nice, really easy condition to live with!!! (can you detect the sarcasm?), over the last 23years (longer than my marriage, older than my son) I have experienced some lows, and some highs, but I wouldn't change it for the world. bare with me now...

Just to ask everyone else, do you ever feel genuinely ill for no reason that you can put your finger on??? I have been experiencing high BS for a few weeks now and have finally managed to get them back to normal range (for me). Took some work but I'm glad I put the graft in, but I'm feeling...

Does anyone else just get sick of all the work you have to put in to your diabetes???? I don't know what is the matter, but at the minute I am truly sick of it!!. I have been experiencing some high blood sugars at the moment (been going on for two weeks) for what I can tell is unexplained as I...

I have proliferative retinopathy in my right eye, first round of laser was done as an emergency to save the sight in that eye, as the consultant put it. but on my check ups I have been taken in again to redo some areas, all done immediately in the follow up appointments. Is this a normal...

I'm sure that this has been asked before, but how do you all feel after you have treated a night time hypo? especially if it woken you up from sleep. I seem to be in the middle of a cycle of having them at around 1:30am, they wake me up with the usual sweating and nauseous feeling, get up test...

It seems that I am having my diagnosis changed from a Type 1.5 (still confuses me 22yrs later) to Type 2, they run a peptide test and my own insulin levels are at near normal, (they want to run another one in four months) initial diagnosis was type 1 after I had an infection in my pancreas that...