Hi,
Been Type 1 for over 40 years, my great 21st B'day pressie from the gods above (OH thank you) 🙄.
I'm pretty much under control, have been most of my life, even with all the sex,drugs & rock'n'roll in my younger days, best thing that ever happened to me was the Actrapid insulin.
Have noticed recently that nowdays GP's diabetic doctors seem to mostly know textbook diabetics and not individual people, case in point; I weigh about 12 stones and am around 5' 11", when I moved to a new area a few years ago, the GPs diabetic doctor asked to see me and when I saw her, her first statement was since I was over 50 I should be on more than 20mg of Simvastatin, so my question to her was - had she seen my cholesterol figures, to which she replied 'No', so I pointed out to her that my average is around 4-6.
The BEST consultant I had was a diabetic himself at St. Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, and he knew exactly where his patients were coming from, shame there's not more diabetic doctors around .
I've stopped taking Statin's for about 5 years now, and my cholesterol's still lower than 6, so it was all a pharmaceutical con about everyone over 40 HAD to be on Statin's, and the newspapers finally caught on earlier this year about it 🙂.
Has anyone else had problems with FinePoint needles and NovaPen 5, where the lid can't be closed?
My GP wanted me to switch to FinePoint as it was cheaper than NovaFine needles, also it seems the FinePoint needles seem to bend very easily whilst I'm injecting myself, anyone else have that issue?
Been Type 1 for over 40 years, my great 21st B'day pressie from the gods above (OH thank you) 🙄.
I'm pretty much under control, have been most of my life, even with all the sex,drugs & rock'n'roll in my younger days, best thing that ever happened to me was the Actrapid insulin.
Have noticed recently that nowdays GP's diabetic doctors seem to mostly know textbook diabetics and not individual people, case in point; I weigh about 12 stones and am around 5' 11", when I moved to a new area a few years ago, the GPs diabetic doctor asked to see me and when I saw her, her first statement was since I was over 50 I should be on more than 20mg of Simvastatin, so my question to her was - had she seen my cholesterol figures, to which she replied 'No', so I pointed out to her that my average is around 4-6.
The BEST consultant I had was a diabetic himself at St. Peter's Hospital in Chertsey, and he knew exactly where his patients were coming from, shame there's not more diabetic doctors around .
I've stopped taking Statin's for about 5 years now, and my cholesterol's still lower than 6, so it was all a pharmaceutical con about everyone over 40 HAD to be on Statin's, and the newspapers finally caught on earlier this year about it 🙂.
Has anyone else had problems with FinePoint needles and NovaPen 5, where the lid can't be closed?
My GP wanted me to switch to FinePoint as it was cheaper than NovaFine needles, also it seems the FinePoint needles seem to bend very easily whilst I'm injecting myself, anyone else have that issue?