How many people do you tell about your diabetes?
- Extended friends and work colleagues (34%, 30 Votes)
- Everyone! I could bore for my country about it! (30%, 27 Votes)
- No one - I'm not even answering this poll (22%, 20 Votes)
- Only my close friends and family (14%, 12 Votes)
Total Voters: 89
What medical identification should a diabetic use?
- Tattoo saying "diabetic" on forehead & brass bell (46%, 61 Votes)
- A discrete bracelet or dog tag (35%, 47 Votes)
- Nothing – I hate wearing medical ID (7%, 9 Votes)
- Wallet ID (6%, 8 Votes)
- Nothing – nobody would look at it anyway (6%, 8 Votes)
Total Voters: 133
When do you think the holy grail of a closed-loop insulin pump/BG monitor, that actually works, will be available?
- It doesn’t matter, the NHS will never fund it (51%, 27 Votes)
- 2020 (30%, 16 Votes)
- 2025 (11%, 6 Votes)
- 2015 (8%, 4 Votes)
- 2012 (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 53
Why should the NHS pay for CGMS for diabetics?
- Improve general quality of day to day life (42%, 33 Votes)
- Just 'cause we're worth it (23%, 18 Votes)
- Shiny gadgets are cool (16%, 13 Votes)
- Prevent incapacitation through nephro/retinopathy (15%, 12 Votes)
- Save us having to finger prick so much (4%, 3 Votes)
Total Voters: 79
Who's your diabetes-related idol?
- None of the above (59%, 57 Votes)
- FG Banting (20%, 19 Votes)
- SG Redgrave (13%, 12 Votes)
- HG Wells (4%, 4 Votes)
- All of the above (3%, 3 Votes)
- JJR Macleod (1%, 1 Votes)
- NJ Jonas (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 96
