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I can also sympathise with your situation as i have been type 1 for 22 years.....you know your body and how you feel better than they do, also many of the Doctors and nurses have completed a short course (a couple of weeks in some cases) learning how to treat diabetes problems, you've been...

38 mmol when i was first diagnosed 22 years ago type 1. My levels were often around the 12 -15 mark until I was diagnosed with left ventrical heart failure now my bg is very irratic (goes high even without any food intake) but I'm told this could be due to my medication...very difficult to...

Re: Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabete There you go again seeing the world through your eyes only..... I'm on Lantus and I'm OK.....I can understand that mentallity though it's easy to only think in terms of oneself (and not others) when your entirely focussed on your own...

Re: Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabete I would like to see the facts about the long term use of injecting a man made chemicaly compounded substance into the body everyday and lets not fool ourselves here modern insulin is man made and not extracted and purified like...

Re: Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabete To Bodybuilder type1.....this has to be biggest load of rubbish you have written so far....now I realise your purpose is just to wind people up which is is evident in......."muuhahahahah aaaa".....something a 5 year old would put I...

Re: Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabete To Bodybuilder type1.....this has to be biggest load of rubbish you have written so far....now I realise your purpose is just to wind people up which is is evident in......."muuhahahahah aaaa".....something a 5 year old would put I...

Re: Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabete To bodybuilder type1..... Eat lean and clean like horse meat eh! Pity muslce pumping doesn't grow your brain, then you may talk some real sence instead of the self worship **** that you do.....pushing your way to front of a queue...

I have read that a virus can make the imune system attack islet cells and cause Diabetes. but I don't recall having any flu like symptoms before becoming T1 I do recall having the typical tired, thirsty, running to the loo sysmptoms that are classic signs of Diabtes and high blood sugar but my...

Re: Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabete To Bodybuilder Type1......"I just don't see the difference between someone that does have diabetes and someone that does not" Well!!!!.... there is a big difference, one has a chronic life thretening Illness, the othere does not...

Re: Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabete To Bodybuilder type1.......I'm afraid you are totally disalusioned if you think that just looking after yourself will prevent Diabetic complications, you need a reality check my friend Diabetic complications occur to well controlled...

Re: Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabete To Bodybuilder type1.......I'm afraid you are totally disalusioned if you think that just looking after yourself will prevent Diabetic complications, you need a reality check my friend Diabetic complications occur to well controlled...

Re: Is there anybody out there that is happy to have diabete Happy to have Diabetes???? What kind of a dumb statement/question is that?? I'm type 1 for 25 years now reasonably well controlled. I love having chronic leg and foot pain every night which results in me being totally knackered the...

Danny I'm sure that being limited to 1 box at a time is just down to your Doctors practice and not NHS guidelines I would kick up a fuss and if they don't increase the amount of strips they allow you move to another Doctor. if there is a reason you need to test so many times i.e struggling to...

This is a question aimed mostly at type 1 Diabetics and it's just a general interest thing. But would be happy to hear what anyone thinks/feels about this. I have asked many times why me?...why have I got diabetes? What caused it? The health pro's come up with several theories but I still...

Re: Were you told how to match insulin to carbs when diagnos I was diagnosed in Sept.1991 and put on tablets for the first week which didn't do any good so they put me on Insulin and told me the amount to take, they also told me how to adjust the insulin intake to the BM readings and that was...

The internet is a great place for spreading virus's

Just an update to my original post where I said Diabetes is a "gradual destroyer and complications are the luck of the draw", well it would seem my luck is not that lucky I've just been diagnosed with heart failure.....Oh well I guess I'll have to cope wth that now, along with neuropathy...

One thing I have found confusing is the different approach's to diabetes care in as much as the diiferent insulin types otheres use and whether they carb count or not .....I personally have never carb counted or adjusted my insulin to the ammount of carb intake. I have simply found a background...

Please refer to my original posting as there was a typo error in the later posting due to my eyesight not being what it used to be...Something to do with Retinopathy and blurred vision I believe.

it seems there is a confusion going on here Jonty, I don't believe it was me that said "1 unit of insulin is actually 3 units on the pen"? I simply said that when I dialed up 72 on the pen I was led to believe that that amounted to 72 units. Just a little confusion going on here I think.