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    Fear of Insulin

    Diabetes is a progressive disease, and can get worse in spite of everything you do. Insulin isn’t failure, it’s a positive step to help you to continue to manage your diabetes.
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    A lancet is a lancet is a lancet

    Have you tried alternative site testing? I use it for general and before meal tests, saving my fingers for when I think I might be going hypo.
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    Found out l was T2 by chance

    You have two choices really, sit back and do everything your healthcare professionals tell you to (hopefully your GP has a nurse with specialist diabetes knowledge) OR decide to be actively involved and find out everything you can. In which case whilst of course your HCPs should be one source of...
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    Just a nosey patient

    I think patients are being blamed for poor doctors. As it read it too many patients were being given test strips but not doing anything with the readings. Rather than looking into why (possibly no one had explained it to them?) the NHS decided that it meant people with type 2 diabetes shouldn't...
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    Changed diagnosis?

    Thanks for the replies. Yes, very well controlled on Basal/Bolus which is the main thing.
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    Changed diagnosis?

    I was diagnosed as type 2 over 20 years ago, on the basis of my age (36) rather than anything clinical. The onset had been very rapid, I was put on metformim after a week when diet failed to have any effect at all, the dose was increased at every visit, and within a few years I was put on...
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    Diagnosis

    i was diagnosed about 20 years ago, having experienced very rapid onset of typical diabetes symptoms (drinking gallons but still feeling thirsty, so tired I was falling asleep at my desk, etc). As I was in my 30s I was classed as type 2 without any tests to confirm that. Diet didn't touch my...
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    Type 1 Airport security

    People are usually very nice, the only place I had a bad experience was Gatwick when someone must really have been having a bad day and turned my neatly packed kit bag upside down to go through everything, in public, and then left me with a large mess to sort out. Hong Kong wanted to see my...
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    Onetouch VerioIQ

    I use one, and really like it. I don't make much use of the pattern tracking function, but I can see how it could be useful. I like the easy to read display, the light (really useful for testing in the dark or dim light) and the fact its rechargeable. Another big plus is it only needs a very...
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    Accu Chek Mobile - Finger Tip Bruising

    Doesn't sound right, I've not noticed it being any better or worse than any other pricker. I also use alternative site testing to spread the load round a bit further which I find a lifesaver.
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    How do you manage a 14 hour fast when on insulin?

    Its very unusual to be asked to do a fasting bloods when you're on insulin, however lots of professionals (who should know better) don't understand that type 2s can be on insulin. When anyone tells me I need fasting bloods done I gently remind them I'm on insulin and they generally apologise...
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    injecting in a public place

    Ah, so if that's how you do it that's how everyone must do it? Please can I suggest tolerance and respect for other board members and their way of managing their diabetes? On the original topic. When I'm eating out I don't inject until the food is in front of me so I generally wear trousers...
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    Accu Chek Aviva

    I didn't intend the poll to be misleading, I really do believe that there is an issue here. The Accu-chek website (http://www.accu-chek.co.uk/gb/news/14april10.html) says Important: There is no change in the measuring process. Capillary whole blood is still applied to the test strip. Since...
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    Accu Chek Aviva

    I've been wondering why my home test results have been higher than usual, and had been blaming myself. I use an accu-chek aviva monitor, and have done for quite a long time now. I was wrong, its nothing I've done, its because Accu-chek (in the UK at least) have changed from giving a whole blood...