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She’s still got all feeling, and I’ve read that as long as you check the temp with your hand or ask someone else, it shouldn’t be something to worry about x

Hi Everyone, I hope someone is able to help… it’s my lovely mums birthday on Friday and I have bought her a footspa, just a plug in thing from Argos… since reading up on how to use it etc, I’m seeing lots of searches saying for a diabetic NOT to use a footspa… does anyone here have and use...

Evening all, Writing as a daughter of a newly diagnosed T1. My mum has had a really hard day today, she hasn't eaten a lot and has been feeling very un-well. I think we thought we had gotten the hang of most of it but today really hit home that this is something she is going to have for the...

My mum is a newly T1 diabetic. Were still getting used to the changes and one of those is chocolate, she knows she is allowed chocolate as long as she take the right insulin but last night after tea she decided she would have a small piece and it send her sugar levels through the roof! She went...

My mum is a newly diagnosed T1 diabetic. We are working things out.. If she has a chicken curry for tea would she need to take the injection still? She is currently on a 12ml a day and four 4ml injections a day. We know that if she doesn't have a sugar in a coffee on a morning & breakfast she...

Hello all, A little update on my lovely mum, today we have had more of a talk about things and we are starting to learn together. I have read her all of your lovely comments and she is extremely overwhelmed with your support. She herself has a question for you, is too much carbs bad? This...

Hello, My mum has recently been diagnosed with T1, She has not told work that she is a newly diabetic but as she works in a school she will probably have to. Has anyone else had any issues with taking injections into work? maybe if your a teacher or work in a school you might have some helpful...

Daibell, Thank you kindly for your support and kind comments, I think we just need to get to grips with what were doing! Things like where's best to put the needle, telling people, the realness of complications. All things that at the moment are so new to her and our family that we feel a bit...

We do live in the UK, Leeds. She was diagnosed by the Hospital, it all happened very quickly which is why its such a shock. She went to the doctors Tuesday with what she thought was a kidney infect but was told she had an emergency appointment at the hospital Wednesday morning in which she was...

Hello, I found out yesterday that my mum who is 44 has type 1 diabetes. She is really struggling to cope and I just don't know how to help her. I don't fully know how being a diabetic works all I know is 'its a lifelong sentence' or so I keep reading everywhere! I understand she will have...