August 28, 2018
When James was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of six it was very difficult to get him to take his insulin injections. His parents injected in his leg, so that he wouldn’t be able to see the needle pierce his skin.
August 13, 2018
When Mike Davies was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 56, everyone assumed it was type 2 diabetes. Mike had developed the classic symptoms: An unquenchable thirst, a constant need to visit the men’s room and a feeling his eyesight was deteriorating.
After months of being on an insulin regime for type 2 diabetes, there was little improvement of his condition. He lost 4 stone within about four months, he felt unwell and drained of energy. Only after additional testing did doctors realise that Mike actually had type 1 diabetes and needed a completely different treatment.
September 1, 2017
When Lindsay's blood glucose levels got out of control despite her best efforts, things began to unravel, one after the other.
May 18, 2017
Before launching into his personal story about living with type 1 diabetes, Vincent warns that his is not the typical tale.
March 15, 2017
During a recent family holiday in Iceland, Jenni tucked into a nine-course tasting menu that ended with a decadent chocolate fondant.
February 10, 2017
Before switching to the Cellnovo Diabetes Management System, Benjamin, 19, had to set his alarm to administer an injection for the middle of the night.
Benjamin lived with a classic case of Dawn Phenomenon, an early-morning increase in blood glucose levels, which would begin at around 3 am and last until noon.
January 30, 2017
Perhaps it’s because he is an engineer, but Ralph has always had a particular affinity for all things technologically advanced, efficient, user-friendly and solutions-based.
He’s into systems that are moving forward, not taking two steps back.
January 12, 2017
Leigh Rickards was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in March 2013. He switched from multiple daily injections to the Cellnovo insulin pump in October 2015. Listen to what Leigh has to say about his experience using the Cellnovo Diabetes Management System and about living with #T1D.
October 11, 2016
Anita Hanson is no longer a slave to time.
Over the last two years, Anita has rediscovered the joys of shutting off her alarm clock on weekends and having a leisurely lie-in.
When out with friends, she no longer keeps her eye on the clock to make mental calculations on when she’ll need to go home to administer an injection.
Life is more flexible and a little less regimented since switching from multiple daily injections to the Cellnovo Diabetes Management System.
October 1, 2016
Leigh Rickards misses nothing about having to field questions or dodge strange looks from strangers when he had to administer daily injections of insulin in public.
He learned to ignore the looks from people who mistook why he was injecting and had stock answers ready for the times he’d have to launch into explanations.
The injections proved especially delicate when he was entertaining clients as part of his job.
