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I was diagnosed as T2. I was given metformin, but it made me so sick, that I was started on insulin. Fairly early on, I was given a trial of the Libre, but when I queried it, I was told that I had no hope of getting it on prescription, ad a T2. I don’t know why, but I wasn’t convinced that I was...

I spoke to the manager in my local Boots pharmacy. She advised me to ring them up if there is something I need sooner, rather than later. So for example today I had a script for my painkillers and I needed them today,so I rang and asked if I could collect ‘this morning’ and they said they would...

I developed T1 at 51 having previously been diagnosed with T2. I wasn’t concinced about the diagnosis and got my GO to test for T1, It was only a week or two ago that someone very condescendingly informed me in a forum that ‘just because I was taking insulin it didn’t mean I was T1 and that T1...

Hi, I was initially diagnosed with T2 at 51 and I don’t know why but something just didn’t sit right with me and so I persuaded my GP to do the antibody tests and they confirmed that I was actually T1.

Hi, my team have arranged for me to try the Iport. How do people find it? How do I get supplies once I have had the trial, is it via prescription or do they come directly from medtronic? TIA

I asked my GP about having a kit at home, because sometimes I take quite a long time to come out of a hypo, and I had three shots of glucagon while in hospital recently, and it seemed to do the trick when I was struggling to get my numbers up. Anyway, my GP is lovely, but I may as well have...

Yes, she is on my side.

Hi, I struggle with my sugars because I don’t eat normally. I have Gastroparesis and so if I do eat, the food takes a variable amount of time to hit my system. I am mainly fed by tube into my bowel, and if that’s all I do, then my sugars are ok, but if I do eat anything, things that dissolve...

I must admit that I was a little irked when I was an in patient recently for something else and my consultant asked if I was sure I was T1, as I was a bit old to be diagnosed! I replied that my consultant was certain as was the diabetes consultant sent to see me while I was an in patient! (He...

Hi, I am really keen to try a pump, preferably the Omnipod. My consultant mentioned having to do a course. What arguments or tips have others used, in order to get a pump prescribed. thanks in advance Bean

I have one of the arm bands mentioned but tend not to use it any more. When I apply a sensor, I press around the adhesive edging with a teaspoon, to ensure that it is firmly stuck on and that seems to be working ( I haven’t lost a sensor since going from the Libre to the Libre 2 a couple of...

Crikey! A year seems an awfully long time to wait. I had to fight for the c pep and a gad tests and then my GP didn’t know how to interpret the results, so referred them to the community diabetes team, and I got a telephone Apptmt with the diabetes consultant just before Christmas - around a...

Interesting @Antje77 know I really had to push - and my GP didn’t know how to order the tests, or how to interpret the results, but I just had this funny feeling - and I was right, it did come back as T1. My poor GP didn’t know quite what to say, bless him

Why are they so reluctant to give c peptide and anti gad tests @Fenn ? Are they hugely expensive, or do they not want to diagnose T1?

Whilst on the subject of Baileys - Chocolate Baileys………..utterly heavenly, if you haven’t tried it

I’m new to all this, so no expert, but I think I’d treat it in the same way as any other meal and work out the carne and take some insulin beforehand. (Although the more correct answer is maybe not to have the drink, but surely a little of what fancy…….)

I was diagnosed as T2 last year (although apparently according to my bloods I had been diabetic for a year, but nobody had told me). I was given a trial of the Libre, which I much preferred to finger pricking and I was trying to decide whether or not to self fund this. I then started to grill my...

I have found the readings can be way out at times (up to 6 Mmoll different). I was getting obsessed with the differences and my DN said to stop stressing about it and to just use the Libre readings; and then if you get a high or low reading, then double check with a blood prick. I find the Libre...

Answered my own question - yes, the alarm does still go off, with the system sounds off.

Hi, I have today transitioned to the Libre 2. May I check - with the reader - I like to have the system sounds off, so that the reader doesn’t bleep every time I scan. Will this mean I won’t get high/low alarms though? thanks in advance Bean