Keep on jabbing, keep on testing… * – The psychological effects of a diabetes diagnosis
I’ll start by apologising to the Spencer Davis Group for destroying their fine lyrics and turning them into the title of a blog post about […]
Month: February 2016
Ah, ah, ah, ah, Staying Alive, Staying Alive…. Well Beta Cells anyway…
After a long interaction on Twitter that went something along the lines of “My basal is fairly stable and hasn’t changed in a year” versus […]
Which pump should I choose? How do I choose? Oh let me count the ways…
I’ve seen this question asked many times across multiple different versions of social media. And I think at its heart it misses the point. I […]
Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults – LADA – The Other (but more prevalent form of) Autoimmune Diabetes…
Here I am, a type 1, something which I’ve now written a great deal about on this blog, and instead of talking about Type 1, […]
#freestylelibre – How Libre changes glucose testing behaviour and the cost implications
Whilst responding to a comment on the Freestyle Libre in a well known internet forum, it occurred to me that there are a couple of […]
The risks adherent in Diabetes Technology – why #wearenotwaiting is the right thing to do
Over the past 18 months I’ve spent a lot of time looking at diabetes technology, mainly as a result of the massive step forward that […]
Apparently, “Even small improvements in blood glucose levels can save the NHS loads of money” Not if you do the sums.
The news doing the rounds on the Diabetes news circuit today is that even small reductions in blood glucose levels can result in huge cost […]