Tweet Over the last three years I have been lucky enough to work with a wonderful group of fiercely clever and passionate people as one of two patient representatives on the NICE ‘Guideline Development Group’ which was revising and updating the NICE Guidelines for type 1 diabetes in adults for the UK. Expert consultants, eminent…
“It’s ok, it could be a lot worse…” was the first thing I remember thinking. My Type 1 diabetes diagnosis was – what I imagine – not the most conventional. It was a Saturday night in February 2006. I’d been feeling thirsty, generally run down and as I described it “a bit funny”- and a…
Tweet Share December will see the REPOSE study I’m taking part in come to a conclusion, and with it, I’ll be handing back my insulin pump to the team at the hospital, although I hope that will only be temporary. In some ways, it feels like I’ve had the pump forever, yet in others it…
Tweet Share It’s been nearly three months since I started using my insulin pump as part of the REPOSE trial I’m taking part in, and I thought it was about time I did a bit of an update on how things are going. I think the first thing to say is that whilst it’s only…
Tweet Share Like many people, I have a love/hate relationship with exercise. And like many people, I suspect I’m not the only one who finds the hardest part of it is actually getting up off the sofa in the first place. My particular weapon of choice when it comes to exercising is running. I remember…
Tweet Share As part of the REPOSE trial I talked about last month, I recently attended a DAFNE course. I’ll be honest and say that a couple of weeks beforehand I was still pretty sceptical about attending. Not so much because I didn’t think I’d get any benefit from it, but more that I’d never…