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The Libre is brilliant - a revelation. My Diabetes Consultant said to me 'The most significant advance in the management of diabetes in the 20 years doing my job'. Analogy. Before, using finger pricking, it is like sailing a boat close to a rocky coast and only being able to check your depth...

Thanks folks - so no ambulances then. I'm lucky in that I have super awareness of low blood sugar. I can feel 3.4 and at 2.6 I know I'm hypo. Without testing I can pretty accurately say whether I'm 3.4, 3.0 or 2.6. At 2.6 still functioning but shaky, can't concentrate, vision a bit weird. If I...

They do - even the diabetes specialists, never mind the good old GPs on the front line. See my post below!

Even the so-called 'experts', specialist Diabetes physicians, seem to be out of their depth!! I was diagnosed T2 in 2000 at age 50. And, having suffered drastic weight loss was prescribed insulin in 2005. Incidentally, I have never been what is defined as 'clinically obese' - which isn't...

Thanks for that, v useful. I'll get onto ASDA. TBH I'd rather buy it than have it prescribed. Yes, I know 2 people who buy them, not prescribed and they didn't do any training courses in order to use it. Both getting along well with it. The way it displays a graph showing what has been going on...

I’ve tried to self fund, but can’t get one. Where have you self funders been getting them? I have at last been prescribed it – long battle. I don’t meet my CCG’s criteria BUT as I broke my neck (ooops) I have peripheral nerve damage so I have to finger prick up to 4 times to get a place that...

Just completed the survey. There was a question about number of visits to A&E in last 6 months. Which I wondered about. I have been diagnosed since 2000 and have never been to an A&E, never needed to. So wondered why, under what circumstances, for what reasons, people would do this?

Hiya, if you are eating a lot more than usual and having a bit of a binge on chocolate, I'n confused as to how you are having hypos? I'd have thought your blodd sugars would be too high, not so low you get hypos. Mind I suppose it depends what your 'target' blood sugar level is and at what point...

Steve Redgrave is T1. He is a retired famous British rower. He won: Gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000 Three Commonwealth Games gold medals Nine World Rowing Championships golds If he can manage that ..... you should be OK:happy:

My docs told me years ago that Levemir doesn't last 24 hours. Which may be why it isn't holding for you. I take it morning and evening before bed. In fact I've finally got fed up with it and at last got Tresiba prescribed. So now just once in the morning. And far less 'clicks' required...

It is good if your body is sensitive to low. I'm not sure high matters so much. I consider myself very lucky in that if my blood sugars drop while I'm asleep, edging into hypo territory, it wakes me up and I sort it. 2.7 does it for me - boom, awake. Having said that I sleep like a log...

You can't. It goes up and down all the time. That's why they do the HbA1C test - it provides the average your blood sugars have been at over the last 3 months. Flattens the ups and downs that are going on.

I am going to have to self fund a Libre. I'm type 1 but don't meet the other criteria set by the CCG I'm in to have one prescribed. So where, how is the best way, place to buy one? Can anyone help please.