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  1. Dougal

    Dupuytren's Contracture...

    The serum is now in the final procedures for acceptance by NICE. Just as well, I am in desperate need! Please go to the NICE website, and search on this: Dupuytren's contracture - collagenase clostridium histolyticum [ID621]
  2. Dougal

    Must I Do As I'm Told ???

    That is a sweeping statement. I cannot find any reference to this outside forums like this. I can easily say that all cats are black, doesn't make it 100% accurate! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  3. Dougal

    You've just got Diabetes. If you weren't confusde before, you soon will be.

    Have you tried looking at myfitnesspal? It is an excellent app, but is also available on the net. Just a thought. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  4. Dougal

    Im struggling with my insulin pump, can you help me ?

    Reece, I think your approach will work well. If you use all your energy beating yourself up about the past, you'll end up with no energy to continue your progress. Also, you can't change the past. Learn from it - definitely! I am still so amazed at your progress! I started talking to you about...
  5. Dougal

    Must I Do As I'm Told ???

    And silence fills the room . . . . Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  6. Dougal

    First "Official" 5K complete

    Congratulations! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  7. Dougal

    Must I Do As I'm Told ???

    Where did you get this from? Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  8. Dougal

    Must I Do As I'm Told ???

    If you have a medical need to keep your existing meter, all you have to do is tell them and they will re-instate your existing strips. Otherwise, it is a rationalisation step and helps to cut costs. There is nothing to say that you have to your choice of meter, only that you should have a...
  9. Dougal

    Pump Approval - It's official

    That is the only one that has been held in reserve, for several reasons. It was not approved by NICE when I needed it, it could have been prescribed anyway but if I did not take to the pump, it was a backup and all people who are on pumps have their pens and cartridges of their previously used...
  10. Dougal

    Look what i have!!!

    My husband calls my pump "The child", as in The child is demanding attention, are you talking to the child again, where is the child at the moment and is the child behaving itself today? ! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  11. Dougal

    Im struggling with my insulin pump, can you help me ?

    Congratulations! So glad to hear it went ok, I have been worried about you today. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  12. Dougal

    Pump Approval - It's official

    There was never any clear answer. My body started having trouble with Monotard about a year after I was diagnosed. I have been through all, and I do mean every single long acting insulin that has been available since I was diagnosed. For the first 5 or 6 times it happened I was taken into...
  13. Dougal

    Pump Approval - It's official

    It was certainly eye-opening! It had been coming for a number of years/months, with me not being able to tolerate a certain long-acting insulin, being moved to another, then another, then another. We could all see the end of the road approaching, but when I switched to Levemir the decline was...
  14. Dougal

    Help! I have so much weight to lose

    Zand, please try to think of it this way - you are overweight, but you can and are doing something about it. They have a really horrible personality, and that is something that will take a lot more to fix! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  15. Dougal

    Pump Approval - It's official

    I guess a was just in a different place at the time - I was having 6 to 8 fits a day and more hypos/hypers than I could count, due to incompatibility with any basal insulin. Everyone was concerned and my consultant admitted me into hospital on a bolus insulin drip for the last 3 days before I...
  16. Dougal

    DVLA medical

    Excellent Denbo - so pleased for you!!!! Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  17. Dougal

    Pump Approval - It's official

    Not trying to be difficult, but if you aren't using insulin, how do you know if you've done the wrong thing or pressed the wrong button? Could it not give the user time to develop bad habits without consequences which would become very obvious as soon as insulin was introduced? Sorry, still...
  18. Dougal

    Pump Approval - It's official

    Please could someone tell me why the time on saline? Admittedly my pump was an emergency - 2 weeks from seeing consultant to receiving my pump filled with insulin, but I am finding it difficult to understand the benefit. Thanks. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  19. Dougal

    Simvastatin and effect in BG level......

    Bluetit1802, just being nosey but please tell us what happens after a week! Thanks. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App
  20. Dougal

    Hypo Unawareness

    I agree with iHs, Donnellysdogs and Noblehead. It will take a good 6 - 8 weeks. Also be aware that if your control is too tight, you will end up where you started. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App