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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

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

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

So I’m fairly newly diagnosed and tube fed, which makes things difficult. I woke up and my Libre said I had a hypo in the night, but I didn’t wake up, so may have been a dodgy reading. This is my last Libre sensor and then I am moving to the Libre 2 with the alarms, which may help. So I had a...

Hi, I’m fairly new to all this. I’m sitting on the side of my bed and I know my sugars are going low (he Libre is saying ‘Lo’, so I know I should get up and do a finger prick……. But, how low is too low to go to bed on? I am trying to raise my level, but don’t yet feel happy settling down until...

They say that little things please little minds…..I am pleased today, to have received my new Libre 2 reader, that Abbott have sent me. They do seem very good at replacing things, and I really didn’t expect them to just send me a new reader when I asked for it. Secondly, my Son has been working...

My cat and I are battling it out to see who can get their sugars under control first! Has anyone else had experience of a diabetic cat? I have got the knack of injecting her now - do it while she is eating, rather than chase her around the house wielding a needle when she has finished! Perhaps...

Hi, I read that the NICE guidelines for the Libre are changing, but does anyone know if the guidelines for pumps are changing at all please? Thanks in advance!

Hi, I am newly diagnosed with T 1, but I have been using the Libre system since March. Have people tried the Libre and Dexcom and have a preference? My consultant thinks I might benefit from a pump, but is there a better type to ask for? Would I get any say in the matter? I was reading about the...

Hi, I keep having hypos and the trouble is that I’m 99% tube fed, so I get into a bit of a cycle. - hypo - Try and eat carbs (more often than not I’m sick (hence the tube feeding), which doesn’t help. - Try and get something down the tube - sugary water, a biscuit dissolved in water or some...

I have just been diagnosed with T1 diabetes at the grand old age of 52, which seems old to me! I am trying to kid myself that I am going through some kind of second youth! Is this unusually old, or do you think this has been going on for some time? At what age were you diagnosed?

Some good news, I think? I was given a trial of the Libre system as my sugars were all over the show. I tried desperately to get the tests to see if I was T1 or T2 and I kept on being given the runaround. Eventually I got the tests - just to shut me up I think - and it has come back as T1...

Hi, I am newly diagnosed, and I am currently suffering from several hypos per day and most nights I wake up with a hypo at some point. On a couple of occasions it’s taken upwards of an hour to get my sugar back over 4. At what point should I seek medical attention? Is it if I can’t get my levels...

Hi, I have recently been diagnosed - they say T2, but they haven’t done the testing so they don’t really know that for sure. My sugars are all over the place and speaking to the regional diabetes nurse today, she said she would talk to my practice nurse about ‘loaning’ me a Freestyle Libre as my...

Hi, and apologies In advance for asking so many questions! I was diagnosed 3 weeks ago and I am current taking 22 units of a basal insulin every morning. I seem to have just about got my waking sugar under 10 mmol/L every day, but the rest of my readings during the day are up and down like a...

Hi, I was diagnosed around three weeks ago. I sat in the garden for a short time on Saturday and was absolutely ‘eaten’ by bugs of some sort. I stopped counting at 30 - big red swollen bites. I don’t usually suffer at all, so I was wondering whether or not the extra sugar in my blood, or the...

Hi, I am newly diagnosed and I was wondering which free UK glucose monitoring app folks found the best? TIA Mungo

Hi, I take Oramorph daily for pain, but I see that it has a fair amount of sugar in it. Has anyone been prescribed a sugar free version? Has it affected your sugar levels? I’ve asked my GP about sugar free versions but he still hasn’t got back to me. I suspect that if there is a sugar free...

Hi, I’m Willow. I am newly diagnosed with T2 and have just been given insulin today. I have a jejunostomy and rely on that for nutrition. Now I have a blood glucose monitor I am paranoid about my high readings. I started off at 12mmol before any feed and this afternoon it got to 20mmol and then...