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    Advice please!

    Hi, I have a T1 uncle who is currently recovering from a serious case of pneumonia. Since he's been released from hospital he's been unable to feel some of his fingers on one arm and gets shooting pains up his arm that also hurt his chest, especially if he tries to straighten the arm. It's...
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    Frequent hypos

    Hi all, I am a Type 1 on 20 units of Levemir twice a day (morning and night) and take various doses of Novorapid with each meal. My official dose for meals was set at 7 units for breakfast and lunch, 5 units for my evening meal, but now I find myself getting hypos almost daily. After the...
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    Healthcare Complaint - advice please!

    Hello everyone, I am a Type 1 diabetic, diagnosed 22nd December last year. I was visiting my family at the time of diagnosis, and was suffering DKA at the time, so got treated at a hospital in Lincolnshire and was prescribed both long-acting insulin (Levemir) and short-acting insulin...
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    Injection tips

    Hi everyone, I was diagnosed at Christmas as a Type 1 and had to do 4 injections a day. While I was doing this I had no problems with the injections, they were easy and painless. But when I started attending a diabetic clinic, their opinion is that I'm a Type 2 and now I only do 2 injections...