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Like most things in life: you get out of it what you put into it. OS I am now putting into it! Left London 6 years ago and DAFNE courses pretty much unavailable to me. Maybe I should commute to London. However ... Got a BIANCA course in late Spring, which is 4 half days of Insulin & Carb...

I agree with the outcomes, so well said CambridgeLass I am ignorant but surely testing on animals is not pleasant. Consider also the ethics on whether to man should accept the "testing" done by Nazis on gypsies which was was very unpleasant yet led to advances in treatments. By accepting the...

I have no difficulties but I had to make sidesteps. Last summer I rec'd a letter about the costs of blood test strips and was told I would get a replacement meter and strip type. When I went to re-order online, there was a new type of strip available to me but I simply chose my existing type...

Frankie and others Sorry you suffered as a result. I understand an employer not wanting to have people off work but consider your colleagues and your manager that they "get stressed" seeing somebody else sick. Did you ask how it was medically proven to be stressful on them? Or was it just part...

Keeping Lantus in the fridge? News to me: when I started on Lantus I was told store the cartridges it in fridge UNTIL you start to use each one...... Then keep at room temp: I store in a drawer so it stays close to room temp. No stings for me.

Signed petition. I was helped greatly recently by a phone APP :D that details "carbs and cals" per item in a meal. I looked at all the foodstuffs and quantities and now understand much better how to reconcile (short-acting) insulin with what I eat.

I have not been diagnosed with depression, but we are prone to it: diabetic Stan Laurel famously had it. Luckily I was diagnosed type 1 when aged 5. Now over 40 years later the diabetes is no big thing for me; I certainly say it does not control my life, though maybe it has a significant input...

JUst used a free phone app to find out about mik. The measures above I find hard to understand. For 1 half pint of milk (which is about what I use on cereal) see carbs and calories below Whole milk 13g carbs, 189 cals Semi-skimmed 13g carbs, 132 cals...

I like my milk cold: Recently got a phone APP that states carbs and calories per item. From that: whole milk : 1 half pint glass of has 13g carbs and 189 calories Semi skimmed: 1 half pint glass of has 13g carbs and 132 calories Skimmed; 1...

Remember too that NICE has a political objective: save costs. They publicly ignored US research and US prescribing that identified 1 (new therefore expensive) drug as having very beneficial benefits in regressing breast cancer. A year or 2 ago it was roundly concluded in the press that NICE's...