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hi Has anyone been recently with a pump? I’m not sure what the security procedure into the park now is, definitely x ray bags and have metal detectors. Do they have body scanners too? Feeling a bit stressed that it’s going to be like going through the airport every day, possibly multiple times a...

Hi I posted before about being a total moron and speeding - thus having to attend a course. My course is tomorrow and in addition to this my MiL is not well and is likely to receive a lung cancer diagnosis tomorrow. And I have bacterial tonsillitis. All of these factors have combined to...

yay me. 25 years of this rubbish. I’m 36 now so hopefully less than 25 years left to go!

We’ve got two ‘pool’ type holidays this year and I’m dreading it. It’s just a nightmare with the taking the pump on and and off to go in the pool. I end up with random high blood sugars and not able to eat anything. I’m only going because my husband wants to and my children. We usually only go...

im a total loser of an idiot and got a speeding ticket (first in 20 years) on Monday for 35 in a 30. I’m doing the awareness course but I’m so stressed about it and I cannot get my sugars down. My sugars always respond badly to stress. My worry is it could be weeks before the course and I’m not...

That’s all really. They had eaten about 60g of carb previously (this is a toddler though so quite a bit for a toddler?) Three hours later they were still at 6. My husband had bought her a big packet of sweets and given them to her without me knowing. I mean who gives a toddler 63g worth of...

I was on silhouettes for years - about 9 years - then suddenly they started to kink all the time. Tried the Mio. Failed. Tried the sure-T. Less failures (maybe 40% failure rate) but hurt all the time, they didn’t fail initially but perhaps 12-24 hours into being worn. Tried the mio 30s...

Hi I've been badgered into holidaying abroad against my better judgement, by my husband. I rarely ever go abroad, it stresses me out through security, my blood sugars are erratic, basically I just go and hope I don't die and wait to come home. Anyway last time I went to Spain I had a loan...

We'd possibly like to book Disneyland Paris for next easter - booking early makes it a fair bit cheaper - and my husband doesn't want to go this year as he says my daughter is too young as only 2. However it is likely that at some point - although I don't know exactly when - she is going to...

Hi all, I'm asking this on behalf of my dad. He was diagnosed aged 28 - originally told t2 although he had no risk factors for it such as family history or being overweight - and he didn't take insulin for several years but he did low carb and exercise which may have delayed it. He was then...

As you may remember I have had ongoing worries regarding my toddler for several months and the consensus was that I was overreacting, to put it mildly. I've left it all alone for a while but the last couple of weeks she has been really thirsty. Asking for a drink pretty well as soon as she has...

I think they should. Getting t1 is a total disaster and ruins your life. People should be advised if they are t1 you have a ridiculously high risk of passing the condition on (1 in 25) and then make a decision based on that. No one gave me any advice on the risk and I'm very sad about it. If...

hi I've been on a pump for nearly ten years and I've never had any success using any site other than my stomach. I used the quicksets at first. The 9mm were too long and kinked and 6mm fell out. 8 years ago I switched to silhouettes and they've been fine until recently. I've lost over a stone...

I am so fed up. Every special occasion. Every 'enjoyable' time. There it is. Ruining everything. My pump set failed at 12pm on Christmas Day so I had to sit and watch all the normal people enjoying Christmas lunch with a blood sugar of 18, feeling ill, and I couldn't eat anything. One piece of...

I've been diabetic for 24 years and I think the newer fast acting insulins are scary compared to the mixed insulins I had when I was diagnosed. I have a pump and find my basals are ok as I don't go low or high really. Unless I eat. I find my blood sugars are wildly unpredictable if I eat...

hi I know I've posted before and generally the consensus was that I was overreacting re my toddler daughter but I felt even then that her numbers were not right for a toddler. I stopped checking her blood sugars and left her be but Friday evening she ate a lot of carbs (90g maybe over a few...

6mmol two hours after a half a bowl of chips and 5.3mmol two and a half hours after? Two hourly seems a little higher than ideal.

I have been considering a dexcom and we are in a position now that we could afford to fund it. But how does it work? Does it just need wifi or a 3G data package to transmit? Do I have to carry the receiver as well as my phone or is the phone the receiver? Can someone explain it to me very...

I've posted a couple of threads here about worries over my toddler and generally the concensus was it was me that was overly anxious rather than anything wrong. However I've continued to have a nagging feeling and I've just been checking fasting glucose once a week. It has started to rise. It...

Due to suffering from anxiety and depression I've been unable to eat for the last four weeks or so and have lost over a stone (just below 8stone now and 5ft 6 tall) When I've checked ketones they've been there in at least trace amounts (haven't got any blood ketone sticks. In fact I don't think...