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Some do just need more than others, if its what you need, its what you need - no matter whether the nurse thinks its a lot or not There can be very big variations between what people need. PS. I think you said you're aType1 somewhere - would help if you could fill that in in your profile - just...

There are a couple of barrier sprays available that may help, I know I get one of them on prescription cos if I use the infusion kits or sensors on my stomach it goes red as well. See if your husband can talk to his diabetic nurse/doc and get one prescribed - I know I used to used Cavillon until...

Go to your doctors then, the hospital departments not associated with diabetes would be very unlikely to diagnose you with diabetes anyways as that is not what they do, they diagnose and do stuff for their own specialities not others Your GP can do the proper test and then a confirmation test...

The NHS do do definite diagnoses But, was it an HbA1c check they did or just a finger prick check - if it was a finger prick then they (the HNS) cannot diagnose from that anyway, needs to come from an HbA1c (normally 2 fairly close together I think, 2nd one for confirmation) If it was an HbA1c...

I got Graves at the end of 2020 (to add to my T1 and coeliac) They put me on an 18 month course of carbimozole and it calmed down and then then said 18-month course ended and within a few months it was back to misbehaving - I did get the conversation of surgery or the iodine treatment to get rid...

Just because I suspect the vast majority of people who get the flu/covid,etc jabs have free prescriptions doesn't mean its the free prescriptions make you qualify. I'm sure I saw the updated covid guidelines and I'm sure diabetes does not qualify you by itself, but other things may well do - or...

Do note that with Tresiba, it is definitely one of the longer lasting insulins and it can take a couple of days after a change in dosage to take effect, so if you are changing the dosage of it, you'll need to be patient to see any results (I used to be on Tresiba before I got my pump, so have...

Just as a random thought, when did the pain start, was it shortly after starting the insulin - if so maybe you're just having a really bad reaction to whatever insulin you're currently on (I know at a DAPHNE course I went on, one of the guys was having huge problems with exhaustion and it was...

Unless the mechanism in the reusable pens is not working as it should be, cartridges in reusable pens should work exactly the same as flexpens, as it is exactly the same insulin, same dosing units, same needles - its just a metal pen instead of one-use plastic You can test how much its given by...

Even if it did read the libre 2 (which it doenst), the smart guard would have the same issues anyways, smartguard is from the pump not the sensor, so changing the sensor would make zero difference I tend to just cheat horribly for holidays and/or illness and just tend to tell it I've had more...

Heck, Medtronic still haven't offered me the upgrade to the Simplera yet!!, let alone something newer And yes recently I've been having a right fight with the G4's

Pasta is one of my pet-peeves - or rather how all the info for them on the sides of packets is based on cooked weight - well I'd like to know how I'm supposed to weight the lasagne (pasta) once its cooked ........ Anyways, they do normally say how much uncooked pasta turned into when cooked -...

Some times test strips are just wrong Also note with blood test meters they are considered accurate if within 15% of the actual value so if you were actually at 6mmol/l then anywhere between 5.1mmol/l and 6.9mmol/l would be considered accurate enough by the meters and for them not to be...

I use the 780g and G4 sensors and use my arms. Until I found an easy way it was a complete PITA trying to sort it out on my arm, however what I found was that if I cut the sticky patches in half it makes it a lot easier to put over the sensor and then I could happily do it one-handed - with the...

Do you know what the correction factor is set to - its named 'Insulin Sensitivity Factor' in the 'Delivery settings' I'd check that this is somewhere near what it should be for you and not set to something ridiculously large If you dont know what its meant to be then dont just guess, not sure...

I'd be guessing that it may be a combination of your insulin time and your correction factor.or just that Smart Guard is just not on, or there are some very weird settings on there If you try to give a bolus - does it show any adjustment at all?

debs248 is saying though that they no longer get test strips and lancets on their prescription anymore (and wasn't saying anything about paying for prescriptions) [Also I believe only those on diabetes meds get free prescriptions, if its being controlled by diet alone you do not get the...

It is of course possible that its your local CCG or surgery that's done the crackdown rather than your particular nurse though

Afraid I'm going to have to decline (didn't even realise I had been nominated, oops) I already moderate for a busy-ish forum and related discord channel so I just don't have time for another unfortunately But thankyou for the nomination

Same with me, if I dont like it I'll be even more stubborn than normal when hypo - and I'm stubborn as heck to begin with, so I have to have something I at least vaguely like I find Jelly Babies helpful cos the ones I get are 5 carbs each (so I know what I've having) and I can put them in my...