- Messages
- 31
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Bolusing after food or forgetting at all.
Not changing needles or lancets, until recently not testing (for months at a time) and just flying by the seat of my pants!
Think I've changed lancet like once in my life, utterly pointless when you (almost) never bother testing anyway.Not changing needles or lancets, until recently not testing (for months at a time) and just flying by the seat of my pants!
Not changing needles or lancets, until recently not testing (for months at a time) and just flying by the seat of my pants!
I stack too - only half or a unit at a time, but it really helps.Since I got Freestyle Libre I've seriously started insulin stacking, only small amounts, but it's now an integral part of the management system.
I used to be bad at changing lancets, and needles, but I do that every time now, just because I decided to, and I'm a bit of an all or nothing sort of person, and now I wouldn't dream of reusing them. I never got an infection either, though, but I just decided maybe I had been lucky for so long it might run out, so it was a risk reduction strategy.
So get this! Went pump free for 3 days whilst mine broke down of a weekend. Terrible control but it was nice to be 'off the lead'!!Mine may be eeking out the pump-free time after a shower.
I always remove mine when showering and then put it back on after I get dressed ... sometimes that may take a little longer than it should but I love the freedom of not being attached for 30 minutes a day.
Red wine and cheese............or didn't you mean that sort of bad habit?
Tony