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I’m going to go against what everyone else has said as Duloxetine likely caused my tinnitus. It’s clear from the frequency at the ENT clinic that it wasn’t noise exposure and the tinnitus started after I was on Duloxetine for fibromyalgia. I use Headspace and Audible to get to sleep at night but...

Sorry if the information is stated somewhere else but are the carb values posted somewhere? It's just that I carb count (type 1 vegetarian on a pump - I'm super awkward) and it's difficult to guess when I've never eaten half of the things before. Haha :D

I have Type 1 and PCOS. Developed it when I was 19 ish after being on the depo injection. It's horrible as I have a hard time mentally on contraception but can't deal with all the acne, etc when I'm not on Yasmin or something for it. I did, however, get pregnant the first month I came off of...

Illness sometimes dips my levels, a couple of weeks ago I was struggling to keep them up when I had the cold. Yet with other illnesses, it's been a horror to keep them down. Just don't exercise with BG over 13mmol, it bumps your sugar up rather than lower it. Hope you're feeling better soon...

Re: Insulin pump Hi Jo, I've also been diabetic 19 years and I love my pump. The pump and DAFNE are the best things I've done for myself with regard to my diabetes I think. I started on mine in February this year. I was really scared of having something in me all the time because I'm a bit...

I'm not sure on my HbA1c as I haven't had it done since I started on the pump back in February so I put 2 out of 3. My blood pressure is always around 120/70 and sometimes lower. When I was pregnant, it was really low all the time. Cholesterol never seems to be bad except when I started...

12 years old, type 1.

I found this stuff way too sweet for me. I've tried the orange, orange and mango and the apple. :( I was hopeful with it to begin with and thought it may just be that I hadn't found the right flavour but it's teeth curlingly sweet in all of them. :eh:

When I was under Falkirk District, I got sharps bins from the doctor themselves. In Ashfield District, I got them on prescription and the council picked them up when I was done with them which I always forgot so had about 8 piled up at once, they didn't like collecting 8 at once for some...

Mine is called Hector... I've no reason, I just like it. :D

My highest is now 31.2. :( Stupid cannulas are bending for my new pump and I've had ketones 3 times. Nasty things!

Oh my, that is a blast from the past. You had to put loads of blood on then wipe it off before putting it in the meter if I remember correctly? And you could check the colours against the ones on the testing strip box to see if it lined up. I still call them BM sticks too, Sueycl. :P

Hello :) I'm vegetarian and have been since I was diagnosed at 12 - throwing up meat for weeks put me off eating it - but don't low carb. I'm type 1 and on a pump, however, so it's a bit easier for me to bolus for my carbs than if you're type 2. I try to eat low GI carbs like wholemeal bread...

Thanks again for all the information. I didn't know I'd get tubigrip on prescription. That sounds really convenient as I could just strap it on... so to speak. I wear a lone worker device around my neck at work and it annoys me so I'm not sure if I'd like the neck ones but I could knit that...

I have bad circulation, to this point where they thought I'd developed neuropathy as my pulses were so low last year but it was fine once I out socks on and walked about. A hot water bottle - not boiling! - and fluffy socks work for me. I never put socks on cold feet as they never seem to warm...

Yep, I'm type 1 and my doctor refused to give me anything but the glucoRX test strips. Now I'm going on a pump which links to the contourlink meter, I'm hoping they won't argue again. I've also had one practice that I had to write "please prescribe more strips." every prescription for about 6...

I have a 3 year old collie called Susie. I got her nearly 2 years ago from a rescue. I'm also a dog walker so at the moment I'm dog sitting a bullmastiff. She is HUGE! There's nothing better than getting out walking with the dogs pelting along happily. Love it! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

A school friend who is the same age as me - 30 - died on Friday because of complications with her diabetes. It's really shocked me and made me think about what I do. I try to do my best but there were 10 years where I didn't - I didn't have the best care and as a teenager, I just didn't care -...

My highest was about 27 I think, I don't remember anything higher than that anyway but I've been diabetic for 18 years so I'm bound to have forgotten some. My lowest test was 1.2. It was because I was on metformin for my polycystic ovarian syndrome and it stopped me having hypo signs. I have...