Snapsy
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Morning @nessa1970 ! Hope you've got sunshine where you are today.
Keep talking, won't you?
Love Snapsy
Keep talking, won't you?
Love Snapsy
Morning @nessa1970 ! Hope you've got sunshine where you are today.
Keep talking, won't you?
Love Snapsy
Right Mrs!
Time to get tough or you're going to end up in a coma.
Take your background insulin. Just do it, think of all the parents on here who've got kids, with type 1, babies, toddlers, grumpy or self conscious teenagers, those kids can do it and so can you ok?
My suggestion to you on your thread along the same lines last week was the 3 meals, remember?
Pick 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, and 3 dinners, carb count them precisely and stick to a rota of these meals?
Well I'll start you off with a breakfast one. One slice of toast has (on average before anyone shouts at me ) 20g of carb.
A 200g bowl of Yeo valley full fat Greek yogurt with around 5 strawberries chopped up has 15g of carb. I live off this stuff ! It's delicious. So take your background and tomorrow eat breakfast and inject for it.
What's your insulin to carb ratio? Do you know?
How high is your BG right now? While you're giving yourself your background insulin, you may as well try and get your BG down while you're at it right???? Yes??? 10 seconds of your time. Quicker than getting yourself a glass of Coke.
Other than that my final piece of advice is phone the Samaritans. Tel: 116 123
Oh @nessa1970 I'm thinking of you, please take care of yourself, I'm scared for you. Hugs
x
Take a trip to a cancer hospice and then you`ll thank god you`ve only got diabetes
Yes I'm a kiwi an still here in ole nzHow are you this morning @nessa1970
What's your BG?
Had any breakfast? More importantly have you had any insulin?
(Oops! You're in NZ? what time is it, maybe breakfast is not relevant, are you from NZ but now in the U.K.?)
Hello Nessa,So I stopped taking insulin for three weeks an started taking some again
Mostly basal 8 morn sometimes at night use to be 12 an 12
I may correct a HI once every second evening
I am very weak tired cold hands feet legs bit heavy dry mouth thirsty I must drink eight litres a day at lest five are coke an or juice
I'm bloated in tummy I think if I don't no water
Anyway I am finding I'm on a journey I don't know how to stop
My fizzy is like herion
But I'm high sugars without coke so I no juice an coke isn't helping
But of course the sandpaper mouth makes me drink it
My ketones are fine
So I'm not dieing or in danger
So any advice cool
Thanks
Yes I'm a kiwi an still here in ole nz
I did have a peice toast with Vegemite
Drinking water too
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Sorry Nessa I didn't realise that you were in New Zealand - I thought that you were in the UK.
You can buy the Libre on the Internet but it costs about £150 at first and then £100 a month after that. In your case I would recommend it until you are stabilised.
Yes I really would love one of those as the finger pricking is what is hard my fingers hurt all the time it's awful
Is that the one you put in your arm an it's lasts two weeks an you swipe pass it an it shows the reading?
Hello again Nessa. Yes you have the right description of the Free Style Libre. The £150 is for one months supply of the "thing you put on your arm" plus a "reader" which is a bit like a mobile phone. You can even "swipe" it through your clothes, so it is completely private.
After your first month you purchase 2 more little "things that you put on your arm" - each one lasts for 2 weeks and costs about £50 = £100 per month. Everyone on this Forum who has one says that they are GREAT.
Also check that your Lancet is not set too high. I usually prick with it set on number 2 because I am 75 and there is not as much fat/meat on my finger tips any more. When my DN does it she sets it on 4 and it hurts quite a bit. Being retired my fingers are also softer now.
Let us know how you get on.
Okay I'll ask my dsn about how to go about getting this
I would be a lot of pressure off
Thank you very much