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Heya all, I've now had diabetes for longer than I can remember (nearly 45 years I think), and its taken me a long while but I finally feel like I'm in some sort of control :) Bit of background: Most of my first 35-40 years or so my control was god awful (that's a very polite way of putting...

Hiya all, So I'm wondering if anyone can help, I got my pump last year and finally got the sensors to go with it late last year, so have been using the auto-mode feature since late December, now most of the time it does a pretty good job - I'm now in target (3.9-10) about 90% of the time...

So, I realise this may not be an often asked question, but what counts as too low cholesterol, I know some of you know a lot more about this than me. Mine has dropped down (I am not on statins so it's done it without any intended medical help), so my results are: I realise it doesn't have...

So, I've now had my pump for about two weeks, and trying to work out whether I'm doing something stupid or whether these infusion sets just don't like me. The pump,infusion info: Medtronic 670g pump using Medtronic Mio Adance infusion sets - using Fiasp, been putting the infusion sets on my...

Well, after much time fretting with much pacing back and forwards I think I'm actually about to start with my pump next week (admittedly this is what I thought back in March but nevermind - disorganisation (not by me) followed by covid delayed it somewhat). But now at least I have all the stuff...

So, after much faffing and cursing under my breath I am actually going to be getting a pump :) It has been a bit of a challenge though, this is what has happened: 1. End of Oct: Persuaded the consultant I needed a pump (mainly due to my dawn phenomenon) - he said to book in to get a pump...

Hi all, So recently I've been having awful problems with dawn phenomenon - as in for the last three weeks I keep waking up between 3am and 5am and my sugar level is rising dramatically (this morning my body woke me up at 4:30am and my BS was at 16.5 - at about 2am it had been about 6!), it's...

So my docs were using PatientServices as their online system - and on it I could see appointments, see results, request prescription items, book some appointments and see a bunch of stuff, well they decided to change what online service they were using and eventually I've got an email so I can...

Ok, so each year the company I work for decides to support a charity and does some fundraising type stuff (don't know how much is ever raised, possibly not that much, but something is better than nothing right), anyways, they normally ask for suggestions, so its that time of year where they have...

Agghhhhh!!!!!! So I finally got my libre prescription (after self-funding for 2 years), I know many people had adverse reactions to the libre adhesive - strangely I never did (and I am one of those people that has a reaction to the white medical tape they use at the docs ....). So I finally got...

Hiya, Sorry if this has been answered before (it probably has) - but the search on these forums isn't the best so I couldn't find what I was looking for. So having recently changed to Tresiba from Lantus I thought it might be wise to do some proper basal testing, especially since I think I've...

So I went to my diabetes clinic this morning and my basal has been changed to Tresiba (from Lantus that was causing lows overnight - my libre often showed my BG dropping til about 3am and either staying in the red all night or my liver then going hell for leather and me ending up at 15+ by the...

Last week I had a telephone appointment with my DSN at my doctors surgery cos I wanted to ask her for a favour, So, she called me and the start of my request was 'You're going to hate me for this but can you ...' :) Anyways, my query was that I could see the last 6 years of my HbA1c results on...

So, I'm just curious as to how long sweet should take to get you out of hypoland (was at 3.9 so technically only just a hypo), if ten minutes earlier you'd been snacking on a hard boiled egg, or cheese or ham - as other stuff like fat or protein may slow it down. Yes I tend to snack with eggs...

Well, today I start my Fiasp experiment :) When I went to see the consultant about a week ago I asked about changing to Fiasp due to Novorapids very very slow response at times, so I've just taken my first dose of Fiasp and my Libre will be being used every 20-30 mins to double check how its...

So I got my latest hba1c results at my diabetic clinic at the hospital this morning and it was even better than last time - down from 49 to 47 :) - the 49 was Nov last year, the 47 was 2 weeks ago (previous to that it had been mid 50's to mid 60's for a number of years) In other words I actually...

So I'm getting fed up with Novorapid/Novosluggish - it seems entirely unpredictable at times and sometimes it just takes forever to kick in (the libre has often shown it kicking in at about 5-6 hours - sometimes it does seem to work in 2 hours though) - and I don't deal particularly well with...

So I got sent on a carb counting course by my consultant. The one where I live is a local course for Berkshire I think (or at least my bit of Berkshire), and was a course of one day a week for 4 weeks - so for me it was 4 Mondays* in a row, it finished a few days ago. Anyways, my initial...

Don't you just hate those days when first thing in the morning you realise you didn't take your Lantus the night before and then spend most of the day being somewhat higher than you'd like but not wanting to take more insulin in case Novorapid is being Novoslopid* today and is just storing it...

So there have been numerous threads where cholesterol has been mentioned and as far as I can tell you need to know the HDL, LDL and trigs to work out the relevant number, however looking at my results on the website my doctors uses I think I've only found HDL, non-high DL (rather than low), a...