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    Work employer

    Hi there, Just wanted some advice. I am at the early stages of my pregnancy (7 weeks). The hospital have told me that i need a glucagon injection on prescription and glucogel incase of severe hypo. In my job i am very active, and i have a care plan so keep them up to date with any additional...
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    Pre conception tablets

    Im taking them with water. Its hard to know is it them or has my carb ratio randomly increased ? But needs changing dramatically. I will see how i am without taking it tomorrow. My nurse aaid nobody has ever had problems before
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    Pre conception tablets

    When i rang my diabetes centre today they said they had never heard of that before and that they reccomend it to everyone but i said something is making my blood spike because my bloods are never this high
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    Pre conception tablets

    Glucose isnt written on the ingrediente and ive googled some of the other ingrediente and that doesnt say sugar or glucose either. Just my blood was 7 and in 30 mins it rocketed up to 18 which i csnt understand why . This morning it only went up to 11 when i took it .
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    Pre conception tablets

    Has anybody taken the preconception pregnacare tablets? I had a really.high blood last night which was really out of the blue and cant get my head around it. The only thing that changed was earlier in the evening i took a pregnacare tablet for the first time. Going to take one this morning and...
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    Pre conception clinic

    I went to the pre conception clinic Friday. We spoke about my hba1c, blood sugars, they gave me a libre too, prescribed folic acid and spoke about what vitamins to take.
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    Pre conception clinic

    Can you start taking folic acid before the diabetes clinic give it you by just buying some ? Of do people tend to just wait?
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    Pre conception clinic

    I have my first preconception clinic to attend. Could anybody tell me what to expect? Also how long do you have to take folic acid before trying to conceive?
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    Using Omnipod In When The Temperature Rises

    Good evening, I just wanted some advice it has been extremely warm where I live at the moment! I was having hypos so decreased my different basals throughout the day I am still having at least one hypo a day or sometimes I catch it before I go hypo. When using an insulin pump when the weather...
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    Travelling with a pump

    So with Ryanair do you take your hand luggage and another bag aswell?
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    Travelling with a pump

    · Member Good morning All, I was speaking to another pump user and they informed me when they go abroad they do not put their medication in their hand luggage but a medical bag as well as their hand luggage. Does anybody else do this? Thankyou
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    Travelling with a pump

    Good evening All, I was speaking to another pump user and they informed me when they go abroad they do not put their medication in their hand luggage but a medical bag as well as their hand luggage. Does anybody else do this? Thankyou
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    What should your BG reading be before bed?

    My Diabetes nurse advised me not to go to bed if you are below 8, I suffer from anxiety, which is due to mainly worrying about my blood sugars. I feel comfortable going to bed at 8. I am on levemir twice a day, one of those doses is before bed , I seem to either drop loads in the night or go...
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    Ideas for suprise party

    Hello everyone! Im organising a little get together for my mum and dads ruby wedding annivesary. Ive thought of party games for adults. But i need some party game ideas to include a 7 and 9 year old. When looking online it has musical bumps, colouring in etc... I would like ideas of games...
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    Diet tips for diabetic type 1

    Any advice for Dieting and exercise for a type 1? I go to legs bums and tums fitness class, and it always decreases my blood sugar. I go to circuit training which is more intense and my blood sugar goes up.. and it doesnt go lower at all later in the day.. (which the doctor said should happen...
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    DAFNE

    I had to have councelling because i once went semi conscious from a low bloodsugar and was in hospital for a few days.. so petrified of low blood sugars. I got really bad anxiety and always had panic attacks if i went out of my house
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    DAFNE

    8 is good tho lol! When i was a teenager i used to be in the 30's lol.. are you really strict with your diet then?
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    DAFNE

    Urrrm estimate lol.. Ive figured out If i give myself 14 units of Novarapid at teatime and 14 Levemir.. Before bed im like 8... then i have a snack and when i wake up im all over the place lol like a rollercoaster
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    DAFNE

    Woww! This sounds extremely confusing!
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    DAFNE

    Your a type 1 too! and your on exactly the same insulin as me!! How weird haha! x