@Knikki and @smc4761 were you on grams of carbs when diagnosed? I can remember being given a packet of cards with different foods on and there "Portion" value. I had to have 4 "portions" for breakfast at 8am 1 "portion" at 11am 5 "portions" at 1 pm 1 "portion" and at 6pm 5 "portions" and possibly a portion at 8pm before bed. Every diabetic appointment the cards and values were changed. HOW did we survive lol
Hi @porl69, yes, it was 10 g carb per portion, x portions per meal etc and it was a matter of knowing what the exchanges were, so that you could vary the food without changing the total grams of carbs per meal. But no carbs to insulin ratio, no lowering portions if high BSL.@Knikki and @smc4761 were you on grams of carbs when diagnosed? I can remember being given a packet of cards with different foods on and there "Portion" value. I had to have 4 "portions" for breakfast at 8am 1 "portion" at 11am 5 "portions" at 1 pm 1 "portion" and at 6pm 5 "portions" and possibly a portion at 8pm before bed. Every diabetic appointment the cards and values were changed. HOW did we survive lol
When the first blood finger test came out, maybe early 90's to do a finger test we had to use this horrendous contraption
Ouch.....I can so remember them....instruments of torture from the T1D museum of horrorsThese new fangled plastic syringes were wonderful when we first got them after years of using glass syringes, which i remember keeping in a hard plastic tube which I had to fill with industrial methalyted spirit. The needles were the size of a small javelin.
Even the insulins has improved dramatically in recent years, from mainly Pork insulin to "human" insulin as it was first called.
When the first blood finger test came out, maybe early 90's to do a finger test we had to use this horrendous contraption
I walk my hound every evening, 45 min to an hour, 3-4 miles, and I find a 0% basal for the hour beforehand does the trick. I'm still surprised that my body seems to favour glucose as its energy source after nine months on keto, but hey ho.Did another walk today, 3.5 miles - and dropped 3mmol with no IOB - my basal rate at that time of day is usually spot on. So if I do that again, I’ll have to lose a unit of insulin in the hour or two before I start, or just put on a 0% rate for when I’m out. Hmm. Or eat chocolate.
They were, by comparison to today's fingersticks, enormous (about 10 cm long) and required about sixty times the volume of blood that today's strips ask for. Many's the time I spent what seemed like several minutes trying to (a) make a deep enough injury to yield the required quantity and then (b) squeeze and squeeze like a lemon until I'd got enough. Then you had to wait 60 seconds before wiping off, then wait another 60 before you could compare the bi-colour square to the legend on the side of the tub... and hope there was something that resembled one of them...@Colin of Kent Bm Stix? were they the ones you peed on of stuck blood drop on and wait for the colour change? I do remember using the blood ones and, my then other half, was nagging me to test, so I did and was wondering why the colour of the thing was not changing, until she noticed that I was wiping blood all over the container, not the stick, yep was hypoing
I was given one of them in hospital at diagnosis. They called it the 'guillotine' which didn't really help matters...When the first blood finger test came out, maybe early 90's to do a finger test we had to use this horrendous contraption
Morning all. A bit dull here which is not conducive to my planned painting of doors.
Re exercise- swimming, walking fast, and gym raises my sugar levels and will require extra insulin. Ordinary walking and in Bloom gardening mornings I have a lovely straight line and require neither food nor insulin. But vacuuming, yes vacuuming makes my levels plummet! Requiring immediate sugar. Go figure!
Oh wow that picture took me back in time with a bang......soooooo much easier nowThey were, by comparison to today's fingersticks, enormous (about 10 cm long) and required about sixty times the volume of blood that today's strips ask for. Many's the time I spent what seemed like several minutes trying to (a) make a deep enough injury to yield the required quantity and then (b) squeeze and squeeze like a lemon until I'd got enough. Then you had to wait 60 seconds before wiping off, then wait another 60 before you could compare the bi-colour square to the legend on the side of the tub... and hope there was something that resembled one of them...
This picture is a lot like my first ever setup:
I'm aghast, thank whoever I managed to miss that bit! Instruments of torture sounds more appropriate. A serious question - where did you stick 1 1/2 inch needles if you were skinny?Instruments of pain. These were the 1st needles I can remember. The pack had to last a month......View attachment 30547