think you're due more than 'showers' today
so if I take the middle one it gives me the 15th, intuition says the 22nd but if I say the 15th I'm not going to be far wrong (the Fri before diagnosis I'd had blood taken as I was a little ill)The plot thickens, hospital phoned me back and said 01/01/1984 my records start, BUT it could have been any time that year, I've come home to Google a calendar and find 5 Fridays in that October,
It's a little thing but has bugged me somewhat
I'd passed my motorbike test late summer but had my licence stopped which was annoying as I'd borrowed a 'legger' (Reliant Regal) for the winter whilst I rebuilt my scooter, I remember the morning cycle ride to work being quite hard in the beginning, cold at 06.50 with 4 miles to ride having been up since 5am to inject and eat
Hi @Fairygodmother, another thought or two on applying for insulin pumps. it is as though the hops are there to be jumped through sooo .. does one do as the DSN suggests and let the BSLs raise and the HBA1C with it until the HBA1C reaches the level required for intervention by pump?, as well as having more hypos, being unable to exercise because of them plus have nightime hypos all to prove one needs a pump?
Does said consultant understand that possible due to your early wakening and sleep disturbance you could be less able to drive your car in the morning? And alternatively how many high fasting BSLs does it take to cause retinopathy or something equal or worse to happen. What did you do to stop this doctor?
Please record all those hypos for your pump appointment!!!
Hi @tim2000s, Based on reading/experience and caution: Whilst it makes sense that one's brain resting at night may need less fuel and maybe tolerant lower than usual BSL levels in non-T1Ds - I am concerned that with T1Ds there can be issues to do with insulin absorption; the levels of insulin in the blood of these non-TiDs vs T1Ds; the very precise BSL control of blood sugars the pancreas gland on non-T1Ds vs insulin injected for T1Ds; the effect of exercise during the day on T1Ds' BSLS overnight and uncertainty about the level of liver stores of glucose in individual T1Ds that could all or separately make such levels at least risky to be exposed to. (and the blood glucose monitoring systems used by T1Ds are not necessarily as accurate as the ones used to obtain quoted results on non-TIDs)
Hi @Fairygodmother, but pumps have the ability to prevent complications, maybe reverse them etc. The UK Govt does not help either with its dismantling of the NHS. Sic the MP who is behind LCHF diets onto them !!! Now would Meghan Markle like a challenge.? Sponsoring charities for buying pumps etc??
I'm comfortable that if I drop to a CGM level of 3.5 overnight, it is inline with the experience of those who don't have t1d in terms of sensor accuracy. I'm also comfortable that given I'm using a closed loop, that's a safe level to get to whilst asleep as I'll not have had insulin on board for a good 1-2 hours prior to that.
I’d missed my ride to sewing group, and was of course too low to drive myself. Chugged a load of dextrose and coffee and as soon as I hit five I was out the door.
Afternoon all, what a lot to catch up on! Poxy night here too, high alarms kept going off (convinced it’s this grotty chest thing making me run high), so corrected and put on a +20% basal. Overslept until 10am with a 3.6 and my hypo alarm shouting at me
5s and 6s since, just had a lovely lunch of asparagus, mushrooms and poached eggs. More coffee in an effort to keep awake and start my online community First Responder training! Have bought myself a pair of blokes’ cargo trousers with lots of pocketses, so I can stash my necessary kit about my person when I’m doing the thing.
Had a copy of the letter last week from my diabetes consultant to my GP (I request copies of EVERYTHING) only to find it’s full of errors, wrong medications and saying an HbA1c of 40 was 6.7%... so I emailed to rectify all that for my records, and had a lovely reply this morning, so that’s all sorted.
@smc4761 - I may have mentioned it before, but when uploading to Diasend, your phone upload will override all the details in your scanner upload, so it’s best to log it on your phone if you’re using both. When I was discussing my idiotic injection schedule over the phone they were looking at Diasend and couldn’t see all the injections (I’d been logging on my scanner), just a nice graph, which just looked to them like I was managing well. I had to tell them to look at LibreLink as well, to get the full picture.
