eventhorizon
Well-Known Member
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I have a citizen eco watch - had it for years and it is great - about 1an hour of light runs it for about 6 months
We have plenty of sunshine here to spare.Don't you need sun for that?
Absolutely! Best thing EVER, my pump!Very true but just think about how much more a pump can do.
8 minutes for hard boiled and 4 minutes for soft?My first insulin pen in 1962 was glass and metal with a big needle and you had to boil it
@GrantGam From what I recall, the main reason the manufacturers moved to 3ml carts was the increase in T2 users with greater insulin needs. Many T2s were going through 1.5ml carts in a day or less, os it made sense to give them more.
That I can appreciate; T2's do typically use significantly more insulin than T1's. Now, my gripe... The T2's have their larger 3ml cartridges, and the T1's don't get their smaller ones. I can put this down to nothing more than the insulin dependant T2 financial market being tenfold larger compared to that of the T1 market. Money, money, money I'm afraid.
Exactly! And the sad truth is that the insulin manufacturers do not care about waste because they have already sold their products to organisations such as the NHS...Plus anyone out there who is rather insulin sensitive, for example, wouldn't use up all of the pen in the 28 days before it starts potentially losing it's efficacy which would result in more waste.
@noblehead I remember the Refloflux S and desperately wanting one to use with my "Blood on, wait 60 seconds, wipe, wait another 60 seconds" visual BM strips, but they were ridiculously expensive and our local health board wouldn't supply them to patients.
If it is a wristband why not make it run off of solar power.
How would that work? Wouldn't that require the user to take the wristband off. How often does a diabetic have to check their glucose levels? According to my research it's usually every hour but no more than 2 hours, is that correct?
It depends what you define as diabetic as to how often they need to check.
As a type 2 with diet control I spend between 1 and 2 UK pounds on testing, each week. I would like to have a quick and constant readout of BG levels as it would help me make good choices at the fridge rather than having to consider what I'd eaten what I'd done and how I felt and then guess what my level might be.
Such a device would not need to have interconnectivity or memory - just knowing my level at the moment of opening the fridge would be the important function. - above 9 and its the celery and cream cheese, below 7 a slice of melon.
They were expensive and like your trust mine wouldn't provide the meter for free.
It was the only bg meter that I ever bought and I'm sure I paid around £120 for it (it was certainly around the £100 mark anyway). I was single then and had a decent income so money wasn't too much of an issue, but that said at the time £120 was a lot of money.
What year was this if you don't mind me asking?