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So not got the thirst and toilet thing going http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html Have a chat with your GP about it or DSN - hopefully it will be ok.

Are you in the UK as JDRF (big diabetes charity) are doing packs for schools and parents about diabetes and that might help https://www.jdrf.org.uk/life-with-type-1-diabetes/school-resources

No answers, I do try and rotate from side to side on my fingers, and not just do my favourite ones (it was the dots that told me which was the favourite) - also with time the scar tissue build up does make it harder to get blood out of those areas (I am talking like the really small 1/2cm...

You are pretty much attached...tho there are cable less ones so you don't have the kind of wire bit you get on loads of pumps. Getting dressed is fine - I put it on the bed and change - you find places - and during the day it just clips to clothes and you forget it is there. I think the pluses...

It is possible to have good hypo awareness during the day and the ability to sleep through hypos - or more come round with someone else feeding you - I think it depends how deeply you sleep and when the hypo hits...so if you are in a deep part of sleep some people may not wake up. I would have...

I used to worry a bit - but then I had to change insets and when I was on the inset 2 I had quite a few failures and then blood gushers so I think that knocked my trust and made me worry. Now on the inset30 and I am able to trust that it will be ok and nowhere near the failures that I was...

NobleHead - super video - made me laugh :) I only thought Steel Magnolias - which is a bit depressing! I'm never that impressed with the way diabetics are portrayed on TV - stuff always gets lost in the wash if you get what I mean and the world is so straightforward take insulin and ta-dah...

I was reading this....and thinking about me and bread....I kind of stopped eating bread as my main lunch food as I'd spike up to 12 after and pasta and even potato are much better. So I tried pizza and went up too the teens...I did change my set though possibly prematurely, then I though lets...

Another vote for opsite flexifix and you can get it on prescription...I alcohol wipe, pop the sensor in and then add some tape over the top straightaway with the whole in the middle. I have some extra all over cover tegaderm style dressings to try out in the holidays when hopefully I will get...

A nice flat line is a very rare occurrence on my CGM. I do need to change my doses fairly regularly...I've just had a massive drop over the last few days (and then tonight I am up and high and not coming down as quickly as I would like...must be why I love Alanis Morisettes's Ironic song :D)...

It is interesting and insulin works differently in all of us - I wear CGM which massively helps with all this - but I know that the insulin starts to peak about 1/2hr after it is in, and then by 2 1/2 hours it is mostly done - and even though my pump might tell me that I have more insulin on...

Not an expert at all yet - but I generally drop/raise the dose an hour before my blood sugar starts to change - the general rule if you are on nova rapid is that the basal change doesn't really come into effect until at least half an hour after you have made it (not all of us will be the same) -...

If all that doesn't work then skin tac is very sticky - and you can apply that as some extra adhesive....but I agree with everyone - speak to animas as I have heard people talk about sets where the stickiness is just not very good.

I was told it was the way that insulin is absorbed...the whole continuous thing - it does take a month for the doses to settle down which was an interesting fact from the nurse (though mine still changes - and with the recent bowt of warm weather I am finding I can eat anything without blood...

Good luck with your pump...I've only been on one just over a month and for me it is worth it - it doesn't make it all really easy, but it is a lot more flexible...like I decide to walk somewhere or do some unforeseen extra bit of exercise, on injections I'd be routing around, having something to...

Thank you I do feel a little more normal now :D I am sorting stuff out and working it all out with the help of the CGM...I think I am probably a little hard on myself but then people post these flat line CGM graphs and it makes me wonder whether I am an oddity as I work hard at it but then my...

I did wonder about heat and the pump...as it doesn't ever mention keeping insulin cool, whereas if I was abroad with my pens then I would have them in the cool bag so not fridge cool but no 30 degrees hot either...so this is never an issue for the pump? Is insulin a bit more durable than I...

I'm not the biggest of people and fairly sensitive to exercise...but for a gentle walk I reduce it by 30%, the nurse said to do this 1/2 hour before yo=u do the exercise ideally so that the change is actually happening when you are walking. Some people find they need to keep the temporary...

I just went onto some less deep sets to stop the bleeding and that seems to have worked so far - I am using my legs and the chunkiest part that I can find, I also use my love handles - my stomach never feels like it has a deep layer plus I never injected into it, so the only thing that goes...

you know what - I am thinking of just getting some normal needles as I carry the vial of insulin around with me for the pump...so that would be easier than checking whether the pen insulin is all in date and useable.