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Thanks for the replies, luckily i managed to find a pharmacy on the 8th try that had the strips in stock other wise i was going to buy a different brand meter that uses different strips that i could buy. I got hold of my diabetes nurse who said she had a stach of the test strips and would post...

Hi all, Ive had a bit of a worrying situation and im wondering if its happened to anybody else / informing people of what has happened. Im a type 1 diabetic and i get my blood glucose test strips on prescription. I use the aviva accu chek bllod glucose monitor as perscribed to be after i...

Just got back from my appointment with my diabetes specialist doctor and my hba1c was 10!! Ive only been diagnosed 3 years and its just steadily rising. My cholesterol level was high aswell i think it was 6.5. The doc told me that if i carry on the way i am in 10 years time ill be in heart...

Thanks for the replies, i took the lantus and everything was fine, i have taken up running recently and have been getting better control, i assumed that glucose levels would only be effected on the day of exercise but it seems that even on rest days my levels are better, perhaps this was the...

So its the middleof the great British summer and ive gone and got myself a cold :-( ive been feeling terrible all day and comfort eating **** that as a diabetic i shouldnt eat yet ive just taken my glucose reading and its low! Ive not taken my lantus for 24 hours now and only a small amount of...

Thanks for the replies. Ill try upping my novo rapid and see if that helps, i guess its just trail and error for a little while.

Hi I was diagnosed with type 1 a year ago and its taken me a year to real get it into my head that I am diabetic and that I should starts to deal with it. For the past year I've never really bothered monitoring my insulin levels very well, ive just been injecting the fixed amount which the...

Re: Did any of you type 1s have a virus before you got diabe I was diagnosed in june with type 1 shortly after id had severe stomach bug. My brother is also type 1 and he got his after a severe stomach bug 10 years before me. Maybe this was just coincedence or maybe the virus cause my...

Thanks Jeanette that's really helpful. I'll have to look into the other type of machine, it sounds like the one my brother uses.

Oh and the brand of machine is called freestyle optium if that helps answer my question

Hi a newly diagnosed with type 1 and I've got a question about the proper use of the glucose testing strips that go into the machine to read my bs level. The test strips come in a foil packet which you tear them out of but on the actual test strip there is a plastic flap over the top of the...

Hi I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes on Tuesday . I've been given insulin to inject 4 times a day. I have to inject lantus once at night and novo rapid 3 times before every meal. Up I till today everything has been fine but today was my first day back at work and I've been getting the shakes...