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I've been storing both my NovoRapid & Lantus Solostar open injection pens in the coolest place I could find in my house (in a drawer in the kitchen, inside a Tupperware box), I have been removing the needles straight away after use and putting the pen lids back on yet they are still getting air...

Is being prescribed a lot of insulin and working down in large increments after suffering non-stop hypo's in accordance with good practice guidelines or is it as dangerous and unprofessional as I believe it to be? I'm 3 weeks into being diagnosed as T1 and am certainly not intelligent enough to...

I know nobody on here can really give me a definitive answer to this (I did just download an app to ask a diabetologist but when I clicked 'post' it wanted £20 p/m hence me pasting it here) but somebody must be able to tell me how they were started on insulin or give an educated answer. Any...

I checked myself into hospital on 09/06/2018 after noticing I was drastically losing weight (2 stone in 4 weeks but that previous night I'd lost 3.3lb whilst sleeping), I was diagnosed as being a type 1 diabetic and suffering from DKA. The out of hours emergency surgery I was told to attend...