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Using OP Dash with DIY Loop so no info on O5. However, re: bulkiness they are amazingly small, contact Insulet and they will send you a deactivated pod to try/wear.

My experience was 54u on Levemir split. Went onto Tresiba at 35u ( hypo city). Ended up at about 20-24u and split that twice daily as I found it hypoed 9-10hrs after injecting otherwise. You need to tune dosage to your own experience of how Tresiba acts. On subject of pumping did you...

Also are you aware if you need to buy items unavailable on prescription, eg Freestyle Libre, then you can claim VAT exemption at time of purchase.

Having just been approved for Omnipod, there isn’t a tie in for 4 years from their perspective so if patch pumping doesn’t work out you can keep open the option to switch to a tuned pump.

For iPhone/Spike App you have choice from Apple Watches, Fitbit Versa/Ionic, Pebble watches and I believe Garmin watch.

@tim2000s I'm reminded of the story of woman who sued a Microwave company because it didn't say in the instructions not to dry her dog in it as she had been accustomed to doing at low heat in the cooker oven :-)

Agree alarms are very important if you've lost hypo awareness or have problems overnight. However, it's also pretty useful to have reminders pop up when things are not going to plan and have gone high unexpectedly or have stayed high despite a correction a couple of hours earlier. As with...

That was my experience on Tresiba with bloods dropping 8-9 hours after taking. I now split it 50:50 at 7am and 7pm which seems to have sorted things out.

Can I ask what monitoring regime you are following? Getting clear sight of what was happening to my BGs between meals was a big step in sorting out my control.

Tresiba 200u is only available in a flextouch pen to avoid this confusion. The dosing dial gives you the actual units.

Going off on a tangent from the original thread. However, just to clarify from a couple of relatives' experience. For the 'elder generation', it tends to be radiotherapy and hormone treatment to put the cancer into remission exactly for the reason that you say that something else will get you first!

You should only split Tresiba if you have a good reason to, otherwise leave it at once a day. Personally I split because taking once a day causes me lows early morning (generally 9-12 hrs after taking). @SimonCrox nhs tariff has Tresiba only 10% more expensive than Levemir

An ongoing discussion with my consultant that he should be looking at the avg BG and TIR, TNIR data from the Libre ahead of the clinic HBA1C measure. I daren't mention standard deviation yet! Unfortunately, I assume reflecting the lack of access, the NICE guidelines only focus on the HBA1C...

That's diabetes for you @Jaylee , it always depends on something! I just simply wouldn't take the extra half dose and then go to bed, that's a recipe for disaster.

Short acting works for about 4 hrs. Set an alarm for every 3 hrs overnight, check BG and correct as normal. This will manage levels sufficiently. It will be pretty obvious by morning if you did forget your long acting. You can then safely take a half dose of long acting (i'm assuming you...

Try splitting the Tresiba between morning and evening, I found it reduced my early morning lows.

I doubt it will be that easy to get even England as will not be budgeted anywhere this year.

I got a Freestyle libre, really helped because I could so easily see what goes on with BGs. 40yrs T1 so understand where you are at.

I'm weird too! I split Tresiba as well but it works far better for me than Levemir ever did.

There's no cost differential. My view was that I wanted to give it a go and I would let them know how it went. Certainly at my clinic, at the moment, the view is that it's good for Pump but not yet proven that better for MDI.