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Type 1'stars R Us

Knikki said:
Evening all.

Seems I'm in a bit of a grump as I'm started to run high, like 11+ at some points during the day and I'm not sure why. Nothing has changed, but it did the same this time last year which lead to rant when I saw the DSN and I think one reason I got an EtchA Sketch.
Really need to start hitting the gym again but it is blinking cold out and past 5pm CBA runs over me in its bus.

Oh well ~shrug~

@porl69 did you say you were getting "pumped" :hilarious: this weekend? Well good luck if you are :)
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Haha.....well....picking my pump up Thursday, getting prescription for my Dr and an account with Medtronic. Going live on Feb 7th . And thank you
 
slip said:
So went to see the physio this morning, we chatted and went through my symptoms - the sciatica has long since gone but has left me with an 'uncomfortable at times' hip joint and I've always had what I call a stiff back but the doc put it down as lower back pain - pain it isn't unless I've just grown use to it! But we get to the diabetes bit - 'So you're Type 1...............so you were diagnosed when you were small then', 'ummmm no I was 27', 'really? that's very unusual, T1 is a juveniles condition'........now I might perhaps be more accepting of this sort of thinking from an older person but he wasn't that old (I've probably got at least 20 years on him). I did inform him that T1 can strike anyone at any age in fact, whether he believed me or not is another matter. Anyway I left with an exercise sheet in hand and the fact my hamstring and muscles are short (and I'm not!). :oldman:

edit to add: BGs have been good, although after yesterdays Chicken Sunday roast my numbers stayed a bit high, high enough for me to want to do some corrections (note the plural!), didn't come down until a 2am correction last night got me back on track this morning.
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A similar spout from my DSN about 18 months ago, 'only children and adolescents are diagnosed with type 1' I thought good grief and this is a diabetes medical professional who is saying this :wideyed: :rolleyes:
 
Having spent all weekend in a right tizzy over a number of things, (not least having to do some Main Paid Job paperwork at home because we're doing our "Pretend Ofsted are in" this week) and got myself all prepared for work at home every night this week, just in case, all my side of the work kind of all fell into place very fast between 8.00 a.m. and 8.30 a.m. this morning. The bonus is, the rest of my team all got "done" this morning which just leaves me and as I'm getting "done" in the capacity of my main role, not the temporary minor role, all the tizzy has subsided... now just to coax my blood sugars that it was just a drill, not the real thing, and please would they play nicely now.

I did have a bit of an internal "Go away and leave me alone to make my own decisions" moment as celebratory food was being consumed by those who wanted it, and the Militant "Just one bit won't hurt" Brigade were trying to coax me to have some. But, most fortunately, I got distracted by some student-related mischief to be diverted before my mouth opened without an engaged brain.
 
Robinredbreast said:
A similar spout from my DSN about 18 months ago, 'only children and adolescents are diagnosed with type 1' I thought good grief and this is a diabetes medical professional who is saying this :wideyed: :rolleyes:
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4 years ago, I had 2 GPs tell me that I was lying about my 65 years old (at the time of diagnosis) father being T1...which then got amended to an intimation I must have misheard what the hospital staff told him (in my hearing) and followed by I could only possibly be T2 and I just had to accept it.

I'm so glad I don't have to deal with them now. Also, that I didn't "just accept it."
 
Today's unexpected interest - learning how to apply a libre sensor if the springy thing has gone ping. This wasn't very easy, though it would probably have been better if I'd known which bit had gone ping. The disk came out, so I thought I had to try and rearm the springy bit. Cue much poking of plastic, and even sawing off the top of the applicator so I could free the blue bit. I didn't do too badly, and eventually got it almost together, and was able to press the disk onto the sensor. Unfortunately at that point it all went ping again.
I did however now have the sharp metal inserty bit, so was able to put that into the sensor again, and I then simply manually applied the sensor. Strangely I felt nothing while doing it - obviously pushing it on is slower than the springy bit.
3 hours later and it all appears to be working - that's saved 50 quid or a tedious phone call :)

Hmm, this also probably means I now know how to replace a knocked off sensor. Dismantle the applicator, retrieve the needle, sterilise it, insert through the hole in the top the right way round (practice with a dead sensor?), manually stick on,

(s'pose I should put a note : I don't necessarily recommend doing this...)
 
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evilclive said:
Today's unexpected interest - learning how to apply a libre sensor if the springy thing has gone ping. This wasn't very easy, though it would probably have been better if I'd known which bit had gone ping. The disk came out, so I thought I had to try and rearm the springy bit. Cue much poking of plastic, and even sawing off the top of the applicator so I could free the blue bit. I didn't do too badly, and eventually got it almost together, and was able to press the disk onto the sensor. Unfortunately at that point it all went ping again.
I did however now have the sharp metal inserty bit, so was able to put that into the sensor again, and I then simply manually applied the sensor. Strangely I felt nothing while doing it - obviously pushing it on is slower than the springy bit.
3 hours later and it all appears to be working - that's saved 50 quid or a tedious phone call :)

Hmm, this also probably means I now know how to replace a knocked off sensor. Dismantle the applicator, retrieve the needle, sterilise it, insert through the hole in the top the right way round (practice with a dead sensor?), manually stick on,

(s'pose I should put a note : I don't necessarily recommend doing this...)
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Manually affixing the sensor. I used to drive the lancets home without a spring loaded pricker in the old days.
But i have a high pain threshold.
I've still got all the gubbins from my Libre, now you have me interested in the mechanism?

Lol, probably not recomended.
But I'd love to see a "Haynes manual" style account on what was done? :)
 
evilclive said:
Today's unexpected interest - learning how to apply a libre sensor if the springy thing has gone ping. This wasn't very easy, though it would probably have been better if I'd known which bit had gone ping. The disk came out, so I thought I had to try and rearm the springy bit. Cue much poking of plastic, and even sawing off the top of the applicator so I could free the blue bit. I didn't do too badly, and eventually got it almost together, and was able to press the disk onto the sensor. Unfortunately at that point it all went ping again.
I did however now have the sharp metal inserty bit, so was able to put that into the sensor again, and I then simply manually applied the sensor. Strangely I felt nothing while doing it - obviously pushing it on is slower than the springy bit.
3 hours later and it all appears to be working - that's saved 50 quid or a tedious phone call :)

Hmm, this also probably means I now know how to replace a knocked off sensor. Dismantle the applicator, retrieve the needle, sterilise it, insert through the hole in the top the right way round (practice with a dead sensor?), manually stick on,

(s'pose I should put a note : I don't necessarily recommend doing this...)
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I would have given up as soon as I thought I may have to manually insert it! (now that sounded much better in my head :))
 
I've never had a libre that fails to 'fire' or prematurely fires, does anyone know if Abbott expect the whole thing back if reported and a replacement offered, and if so do they send a different returns bag than the one they send for just a sensor? Evilclives post got my thinking if after hacking bits off and he called it in could he use the excuse of trying to fit it in the returns bag? :D:playful::hilarious:
 
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