- Messages
- 64
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
So currently on the Freestyle Libre 1. Really has helped me control my bloods better. Not perfect as I'm still finding what effects my bg levels and when to inject for certain foods. Normally inject 15 minutes prior to eating but if I'm having wholegrain carbs I tend to have it after I finish eating to prevent a sudden drop and combat the slow releasing sugar.
My hypo awareness is really bad. A week ago was asleep and was in a hypo of 3.1 for 3 to 4 hours. Woke up and had no symptoms of a hypo but noticed as soon as I looked at my phone my eyes were blurry. Same in the day, can be fine 2 hours after dinner and I'll randomly check my by levels on the libre and glucose monitor and notice I'm in a hypo. Again, not aware until I check. Ratios and basal are fine. Sometimes I do make a correction dose error but works out most days.
Dietician and diabetic team keep refusing me for a insulin pump and I don't mind as much since pens are normal for me.
Even though the libre is a game changer for me I need to be alerted for when I'm going into a hypo or hyper. Even though I'm still in the trial period of 3 months on the libre, I feel like a cgm like the dexcom would benefit my control even more. Give me confidence on not setting alarms 4am in the morning to make sure I'm not high or low blood sugars. I have advanced diabetic retinopathy and my eye specialists that are currently giving treatment have said to prevent going blind I need to be under good control.
I've developed bad anxiety of hypos and when I do have a really bad hypo, a few days later a new floater comes out of nowhere. I feel like a dexcom would help me preserve further damage but not sure if it would be possible to get one on the nhs.
I can't afford to buy a dexcom myself and I do always double check on my blood glucose monitors to make sure I am hypo.
Really stressing me out and would be neat to have a smart watch linked to the dexcom so I can look at it throughout the day and feel better and more in control.
HbA1c level was 99 in February, 68 in June and 63 recently. Dietican told me I'm doing very well and I feel better for it. Never missing a dose, eating low carbs and being more active and healthy. Dropped from 12 stone to 11 and don't eat much calories in the day.
Sometimes the libre can be off for me and the trend arrows do nothing for me unless it's at a critical low. For example I was 5.8 with a down trend arrow but my gm monitor reads 6.3. Did nothing and levels sat between 6-7 anyway 2 hours later. Sometimes my libre reads 3.2 but my glucose monitors both read 4.5-5.
I know libre reads fluid instead of blood glucose but it's not 100% accurate.
Atleast with a cgm I can feel more confident and finger prick less. I'll always fingerprick before meals, 2 hours after eating and before bed/waking up in the morning.
Always have bad morning levels. Wake up with 6.0 and within 30 minutes jump to 8.0.
So I always inject about 2 units of humalog to counter the rise and it works out fine.
But yeah... do I fit the criteria for a dexcom? Aniexty of hypos, unaware of hypos until I'm critically low and just want to check my bloods fairly often.
Any advice would be great, thank you =).
My hypo awareness is really bad. A week ago was asleep and was in a hypo of 3.1 for 3 to 4 hours. Woke up and had no symptoms of a hypo but noticed as soon as I looked at my phone my eyes were blurry. Same in the day, can be fine 2 hours after dinner and I'll randomly check my by levels on the libre and glucose monitor and notice I'm in a hypo. Again, not aware until I check. Ratios and basal are fine. Sometimes I do make a correction dose error but works out most days.
Dietician and diabetic team keep refusing me for a insulin pump and I don't mind as much since pens are normal for me.
Even though the libre is a game changer for me I need to be alerted for when I'm going into a hypo or hyper. Even though I'm still in the trial period of 3 months on the libre, I feel like a cgm like the dexcom would benefit my control even more. Give me confidence on not setting alarms 4am in the morning to make sure I'm not high or low blood sugars. I have advanced diabetic retinopathy and my eye specialists that are currently giving treatment have said to prevent going blind I need to be under good control.
I've developed bad anxiety of hypos and when I do have a really bad hypo, a few days later a new floater comes out of nowhere. I feel like a dexcom would help me preserve further damage but not sure if it would be possible to get one on the nhs.
I can't afford to buy a dexcom myself and I do always double check on my blood glucose monitors to make sure I am hypo.
Really stressing me out and would be neat to have a smart watch linked to the dexcom so I can look at it throughout the day and feel better and more in control.
HbA1c level was 99 in February, 68 in June and 63 recently. Dietican told me I'm doing very well and I feel better for it. Never missing a dose, eating low carbs and being more active and healthy. Dropped from 12 stone to 11 and don't eat much calories in the day.
Sometimes the libre can be off for me and the trend arrows do nothing for me unless it's at a critical low. For example I was 5.8 with a down trend arrow but my gm monitor reads 6.3. Did nothing and levels sat between 6-7 anyway 2 hours later. Sometimes my libre reads 3.2 but my glucose monitors both read 4.5-5.
I know libre reads fluid instead of blood glucose but it's not 100% accurate.
Atleast with a cgm I can feel more confident and finger prick less. I'll always fingerprick before meals, 2 hours after eating and before bed/waking up in the morning.
Always have bad morning levels. Wake up with 6.0 and within 30 minutes jump to 8.0.
So I always inject about 2 units of humalog to counter the rise and it works out fine.
But yeah... do I fit the criteria for a dexcom? Aniexty of hypos, unaware of hypos until I'm critically low and just want to check my bloods fairly often.
Any advice would be great, thank you =).