Recent Content by Antje77

Frio keeps it cool enough for a month. Insulin pens are designed to keep at room temperature for a month, and a Frio does this. If you only need your insulin once a day and not need to take it with you everywhere you go, you can just store it in the fridge as well if you like.

What do you base your insulin doses on? Most T1s have insulin to carbs ratios, nothing to do with calories. What insulin(s) ar you on, and are you being treated by a hospital team (endocrinologist and diabetes specialist nurse) or by a GP? People should never comment on peoples weight, unless...

On LibreLink, my Libres have consistently predicted 8 mmol/mol lower than my labwork for 9 years now, nicely corresponding with the sensors usually reading lower than a fingerprick by 0.8 - 1.8 mmol/l for me. Strangely, on LibreView the difference between prediction and labwork tends to be 1 or...

Well, I needed that room to smuggle booze... First meal was a great success! A burger and pulled pork from locally raised animals and grilled on a charcoal grill with coleslaw and onions. No problem at all to leave out the bun, and they added extra pulled pork instead! Tasted much better than...

I'm completely spoilt. Asdked neighbour Tale to help me pry it from the car without hurting it, laid out the garden hose to soften the ground for digging and went to get the groceries from my car while the ground was soaking. Got back to the garden just in time to see Tale put the tree in a...

This happens to me sometimes depending on my cycle. Your profile doesn't say your age or sex so I have no idea if this is relevant for you but I definitely need(ed) to decrease both basal and bolus for this. At the moment my cycles are completely unpredictable at 49.

I have my fingers crossed for you to be able to go home soon, and feeling confident enough to make a start with managing on your own!

Hello and welcome @Daisys Driver ! Ask away, vent if you need to, read everything that seems relevant (and discard half at a later point), and don't forget to go outside to enjoy the weather in between! Finding the right doses of insulin takes time because the only way to find it is by trial...

Hi @erasmusbee I've had T1 for close to ten years now, and my insulin sensitivity has varied: Acouple of years ago I used around 150 units of insulin on an average day, at the moment it's down to 50 or 60. I have tried metformin in addition to my insulin to see what would happen. It reduced my...

For some, pain raises blood glucose, for me it doesn't. Infections or inflammation do raise my BG though, and while your symptoms may be caused by laying wrong, it could also be you have something else going on. I agree with @lovinglife , best to get it checked out. If I suddenly see higher...

According to your profile you are in the UK so you should be able to get a meter and strips through the NHS. Have you asked your diabetes nurse/endo/GP to prescribe you a meter and teststrips? If you want/need to self fund for some reason I'd look in the above info. Meters are cheap or free...

All this talking about gardening lately has apparently had some effect on me. I bought an apple tree today and planted it! It's a tree that grows miniature apples, not for eating so no problem with diabetes. :) They didn't have small trees and I wanted one right now, good thing I live in an...

I agree, its similar to those blood draw forms saying to fast from 10 PM. Slots for a blood draw are available starting at 8 am but I prefer to come in at 1 or 2. I'd much prefer if they told you how many hours to fast instead of a time they apparently expect you to go to bed. As for this part...

Why not have a little something to treat a possible hypo if you have symptoms and your sensor says you're on the low side as well - instead of eating hours before the possible lowish BG happens? Do you know what your latest hba1c was? You only mention numbers within and on the low side of the...

Tagging @ElenaP , who uses the Ypsomed.