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Type 1'stars R Us

Robinredbreast said:
I think Guinea pigs are just so cute, also a bit of useless information, in Switzerland. you must keep more than one GP as they are very social animals, bless them, yep I know I'm a wus, but a proud wus :)
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I wouldn't want to have a sole guinea pig for that reason :) And yes, they are almost unbearably cute <3
Fingers crossed Owie and Suus, who are brothers, will stay civil to eachother, or they will have to become sole rabbits.
 
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Cleverly put together exhibition. Crafty advertising because there's not much there from Pompeii but lots of interesting stuff about eating and drinking in Roman times
 
ert said:
I've never experienced insulin without a libre. I couldn't even begin to imagine it. It would be like a world without mobile phones.
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Perhaps you should try insulin without the libre. Just in case that time comes when you have to.
Like @Scott-C i think CGM ‘s are wonderful pieces of technology but I still like to keep my gut feeling and intuition regarding BS levels as good as I can. Always go a week or so without a CGM to keep my mind focused, even after 28 yrs.
 
Scott-C said:
I suppose there might be a Peruvian version of C&C.
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Ah, yes, the capabara would have many more cals, it’s have to be a sharing capabara.
The guinea pigs look totally wonderful, @ANTJE, so hope they defuse the rabbit wars.
Where do I get the hazelnut choc bics @Robintedbreast? The Lidl ones are too moreish and an armful of Fiasp for a packet.
Well, the pred text was nearly predictive, huge spike after lunch but looking back probably a miscalculation of carbs. It was a social time and I was just too caught up in the gossip. Note to self: turn ears off and plug brain in when totting up carbs.
 
therower said:
Like @Scott-C i think CGM ‘s are wonderful pieces of technology
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About 18 months ago, curiosity led me to buy a dexcom g5. I left it sitting on the sideboard for a while, then, one day, my libre/blucon stopped working, there was a bit of supply problems at the time, so didn't have a spare, so decided to use the g5.

And that didn't work either! So, I'm sitting there with about 300 quids worth of cgm kit on two arms, none of which was working, so I went old school, was out for a few pints on a Saturday night, tested at around each pint.

The surprising thing was that when I typed the bg, carbs and insulin dose into xDrip+, the predictive simulation was pretty close -cgm without a sensor.

There's been a few times when I've been out late, phone charge has died, it is quite liberating having to go old school for a while, but not sure I'd want to for more than a few days, although I guess I'd "adapt back" if forced to.
 
@Scott-C .
I guess it’s a lot like riding a bike. You never forget.
We both have had more years than we care to remember doing it the old way and this techno stuff is a godsend. We know though that if we had to we can still draw on all those years and get by relatively safely.
I find it a little concerning nowadays that the ability to “ ride the bike “ is being lost and replaced with getting a “ croggy “ everywhere. If you get my drift:)
 
I've got far too used to Libre now. When I was first diagnosed there was only urine testing, and no nice little glucose meter, or even the strips without the meters. But once I had a glucose meter I'd go into panic mode if one of them broke, which they had a habit of doing, and got to the point where I always had a spare just in case, because I couldn't manage without one.

I think I'd feel the same way about Libre now, I could get by, I suppose, but I'd rather not have to try.
 
therower said:
@Scott-C .
I guess it’s a lot like riding a bike. You never forget.
We both have had more years than we care to remember doing it the old way and this techno stuff is a godsend. We know though that if we had to we can still draw on all those years and get by relatively safely.
I find it a little concerning nowadays that the ability to “ ride the bike “ is being lost and replaced with getting a “ croggy “ everywhere. If you get my drift:)
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I guess if all the cgm companies went bust tomorrow, or brexit limits supplies, we'd still be able to use the techniques we've learned from cgm, even though we'd know less about what's happening between strip tests.
 
Fairygodmother said:
Ah, yes, the capabara would have many more cals, it’s have to be a sharing capabara.
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Oh, I really wish I could have a cuddle of capibara's in my garden (or whatever the collective noun for capibara's is), they are a guinea pig lovers dream!
Or else a group of little otters at my pond...

I also wish we had such great collective nouns in Dutch as you have in English. Ours are mainly boring.

edit: I just googled it and it turns out to be a ROMP of otters! Now I want them even more :)
 
Knikki said:
Sorry but that made me giggle :) it's only in the last year that I found out about Libre and to be honest, as much of the love hate relationship I have with it, it is proving to be an interesting tool. Not perfect, but useful.

And yes for 30 years there was no blood tests of any sort and only one or two types of insulins from what I remember. :)

Things have indeed moved on and for me it's the pens and smaller needles that are the biggest and most comfortable change :)
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You go back further than a lot of us;). I’d forgotten back when I started and had to carry a syringe and little glass bottle of pig insulin around with me on a day or night out.
The pens are amazing.
 
Since I was diagnosed in 2001, I must say the libre has been a great help but I'm not relying on it 100%. I know there are families with little ones who are T1 and absolutely rely on it and say they cannot live without it etc. But I fear one day there's going to be an issue or if tech fails like a black out moment or all hell breaks loose and panic mode activated - I'd say nothing beats an old fashion way of finger pricking, I mean those who were diagnosed pre libre and CGMs, we survived right? I remember those clunky thick BG meters where you had to wait 15 secs to get a reading. :hilarious:
 
@Knikki and @therower , for the occasional meet-ups which are being arranged, I suggest we get on ebay, buy some old school heavy guage needles and colour changing strips and gently introduce the newly dx'd to these.

I was also going to suggest putting the low carbers in a corner and throwing crisps at them, but I'd probably get banned again, so I'd like to be absolutely clear that putting low carbers in a corner and throwing crisps at them is entirely unacceptable behaviour...
 
Scott-C said:
@Knikki and @therower , for the occasional meet-ups which are being arranged, I suggest we get on ebay, buy some old school heavy guage needles and colour changing strips and gently introduce the newly dx'd to these.

I was also going to suggest putting the low carbers in a corner and throwing crisps at them, but I'd probably get banned again, so I'd like to be absolutely clear that putting low carbers in a corner and throwing crisps at them is entirely unacceptable behaviour...
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Funny. It made me laugh so hard my abdominals hurt. Of course, you've opened yourself up for a response, so you have only yourself to blame. I used to love crips, but after being diagnosed with diabetes, I'm convinced keto is the only way forward for me. The motto I live by: If you're allergic to nuts, you don't eat nuts. If you can't process carbohydrates then why eat them?
 
Scott-C said:
@Knikki and @therower , for the occasional meet-ups which are being arranged, I suggest we get on ebay, buy some old school heavy guage needles and colour changing strips and gently introduce the newly dx'd to these.

I was also going to suggest putting the low carbers in a corner and throwing crisps at them, but I'd probably get banned again, so I'd like to be absolutely clear that putting low carbers in a corner and throwing crisps at them is entirely unacceptable behaviour...
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If you throw crisps at me, I'd be quite happy to eat them. :hilarious:
 
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