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Hi I've had quite a few sessions in the past with the specialist diabetic podiatrists for foot ulcers and Manuka honey dressings are worth their weight in gold. It has to have a high % of honey (the stuff on super market shelves is not strong enough) Anyway I still have both my legs due to their...

Cavity you look like a lovely girl in your picture. Keep it that way, don't let diabetes spoil them with issues like your conjunctivitis etc. get some counselling to help you accept your diabetes and bulimia issues. I know our clinic as a permanent psychologist perhaps yours will to. Confront...

Well done Andy, read your stats you have the right attitude by not beating yourself up about little slip ups. The whole idea is living with diabetes and NOT letting diabetes life your live. Fewer than 6% of diabetics achieve the recommended level of 6.4% average for their HbA1c. Spot on

Maybe you do. Just think of the tax payers who are funding your little games. If anyone is in doubt or worried they can see their own GP FOR ROUTINE TESTING. Stop wasting resources and grow up. You can give unrealistic readings eg was their hands clean or sticky with foodstuffs? Not a laughing...

I wonder if you inject insulin? Everybody needs carbs. The only substance the brain recognises is glucose. It needs it to function. Ketones are the end result of muscle breakdown to supply the starving body of energy., you breath stinks of them and not pleasant for others. Yes cut back carbs if...

Hi Claire it seems to me you are very opinionated regarding your nutritional advice from a diabetes nurse specialist , yet you were the overweight type2 who got into that condition in the first place. How long have you actually had diabetes and more to the point altered your eating habits for...

What's the difference from us testing & injecting to someone swallowing pills or using inhalers to assist breathing? Tell them to get a life. I've been injecting for 48 years now and never been approached or question. Just do it automatically and quietly. Mothers breast feed in public on...

Re: Would you prefer to be on insulin injections or on a pum Hi Folks I currently am on the multi injection regime and have been for umpteen years now. Was diagnosed in the 60's and insulin and delivery devices are much improved believe me. (As a 5 year old a glass syringe and stainless steel...

This is the kind of ignorance that gets on my nerves. As a staff nurse and fellow type 1 also known as juvenile onset diabetes; then insulin dependent diabetes; we are NOT the overweight ones as a general rule. I have nursed numerous diabetic patients and in total fairness 80 - 90% of type 2...

Thanks Sam just read the article, very interesting as I have had some nightmare stories caused by night time hypos. Unfortunately I live in Scotland and we seem to fair badly in trials although I would say that ERI kidney/ liver transplant unit is currently undertaking beta cell implants on type...

Hi folks. Had type 1 for 47 years and sorry to say almost every situation in life involving hormones and fluctuations eg stress, menstruation etc affects blood sugar levels. Like most of you no one can give you answers as we all react differently and are individual. You need to know your own...

Re: What are your H test results? Yes I truly wish everyone would sing from the same hymn sheet. Percentages are out ( only valid in daily blood glucose testing. ) We (ex nurse) now refer to IFCC HbA1c mmol/mol rather than the DCCT HbA1c %. Old acceptable range 6.5 - 7.5% is now between 48...

Hi I am curious to where you read about AP? I must have been sleeping as I've never heard of it. I've had type 1 for 47 years and the treatment is the same as when I was diagnosed at 5 years old. Smaller needles, pen injectors however same old injections and rules