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Dear Mr Pot :) I had tingling in my left foot when I was diagnosed with Type 1 DM ten years ago. It cleared up completely within a year of tight BG control :) Re: the original post - please make sure you have your B12 levels checked when you see your GP as you also mentioned anaemia. Best...

Hi Pinewood :) A suggestion would be to use only the low alarm on the Dexcom for a while, and don't look at the numbers unless you want to. You can temporarily turn the high alarm off if you want to take a break for a bit. It definitely sounds like an overnight hypo. Was it related to...

Hi Chloe, Having a low BG alarm just makes life with T1D so much easier and safer - the miao miao looks great :) Do have a look at the excellent ABCD (Association of British Clinical Diabetologists) Flash Glucose Monitoring education videos online too - they are absolutely fabulous, and may be...

Hi - I'm a Consultant Anaesthetist with Type 1; one of our Theatre Sister's is also a Type 1, as is one of our ODPs. You'll find a lot of support in the working environment and your team will be very fortunate to have a Type 1 midwife with the increasing number of pregnant mums with diabetes...

Hi Buzz, Please don't worry at all - I'm an anaesthetist with T1DM myself. We're very used to dealing with diabetes and surgery. Your hospital will have its own protocols for insulin pumps and surgery. We can do a lot of shoulder surgery under a regional local anesthetic block now too, with or...

Welcome to the Type 1 club Dray_F96 :) Many congratulations on bringing your HbA1c down to 46 - that's a really remarkable achievement and is so important. There's a lot of evidence now that good control, especially in the first year after diagnosis pays dividends later in terms of reduced...

I'm having to self-fund the Dexcom at the moment - it works out at around £5 per day - no hypos at all and my HbA1c is 41. You may be able to get some funding from your CCG, but it's still far more difficult to achieve this than it should be. I think the NHS position on funding CGMs may change...

Hi indiaemily, I'm a Consultant Anaesthetist with Type 1 DM. I'm so sorry to hear about the problems you've been experiencing. There are loads of Type 1 DM staff in healthcare, and I found it really supportive when I was diagnosed (at the age of 50) to discover that one of our theatre sisters...

Chronic high blood glucose leads to a buildup of sorbitol within the intraocular lens itself. When the blood glucose is returned to normal levels there's an osmotic imbalance and the lens swells slightly. This leads to the change in focusing distance. The change in diopter correlates well with...

Hi Ian, I had a very similar presentation of late onset Type 1 with GAD antibodies at the age of 50, three years ago. I've used a Dexcom G4 CGM to keep the average BG at about 6.0 since diagnosis - all the HbA1cs have been between 40 and 45 so far. Set the low alarm on the Dexcom to 4.5 to...

Dear Dee, I was in the same situation just over two years ago - late onset adult Type 1 - BGs seemingly unpredictable and swinging from the twenties to mild hypo levels on fixed insulin doses. Very difficult to predict the effects of exercise at that time. Please don't worry - your diabetes...

Hi Dom, Well done - this is such important advice, and one of the keys to improved diabetic control. I'm a Type 1 diabetic too and find that just 30 minutes a day of moderate exercise makes a huge difference to my basal insulin requirements. It's not difficult to fit in at all, and pays...

Dear Simon I'm 51 and was diagnosed as a Type 1 about 18 months ago. I do lots of hill walking and landscape photography in the Peak District! Please think about getting a Dexcom CGM monitor. http://www.dexcom.com/en-gb It works out at about £5 a day but isn't available on the NHS yet...