Recent Content by EllieM

I would like to confirm that @lovinglife is standing for re-election.

I am curious about the app. At present I have the option to run my new g7 on my phone during the grace period of the old sensor running o my pump, thereby allowing me to delay starting the sensor on the pump till it has settled down. (It frequently reads quite low for the first few hours. And...

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My T1 mother (who almost died of DKA before she was diagnosed in her early twenties) took me to the doctor for tests when I woke in the night asking for water several nights in a row. So I got diagnosed unusually early. These were the days when the only form of blood sugar testing was a...

You don't have to use vinegar you can also use lemon juice in same proportions (ie 1 part lemon juice to 3 parts oil). (We have several lemon trees in our garden so usually use this). Still remember reading somewhere how salad dressing made with walnut oil could turn a wilted lettuce into a...

Very interesting (if depressing) but could you supply some links to back up these statements?

Do they have a cgm (eg libre or dexcom)? That makes the monitoring a lot easier. You should be able to send the results to your phone if you need to access them.

Hi @Haper and welcome to the forums. Is your diabetic family member a child or an adult? As a T1 since the age of 8, I can confidently sya that there is a big difference between supporting a child (help with injections, carb counting etc) and an adult (at this stage of my life mainly help with...

Hi @shell bull and welcome to the forums. I am really sorry you are currently struggling. Depression and diabetes don't make happy bedfellows. It's easy to get (more) depressed when your blood sugars are uncooperative, and depression (in my opinion) makes it harder to control your levels. So...

Thanks for the help @Nicola M and @grantg . Looks like I can still buy a versa 2 online in NZ so that's what I'll probably do. Long term, I may reconsider when I'm forced to change my aging phone. Would love to have it going direct to my watch but to do that I would currently need an apple...

This thread may be of interest https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/for-the-type-1s-only-please-mounjaro.205049/

I had a frozen shoulder about ten years ago. It took at least 3 years to heal and has only gone back to normal in the last couple of years.... (It didn't help that the second shoulder froze as soon as the first one was mostly healed, though the second one went faster, maybe because I hit the...

My trusty fitbit versa 2 is getting (very) old and isn't holding a charge for 24 hours. All I really use it for is 1) viewing my dexcom g7 levels via the glance app on OS Wear 2) steps and heart rate 30 seeing the time I don't need a lot of fancy features that will eat up battery - I really...

Unfortunately I'm not a medtronic user so can't help you with medtronic specific problems, but my (limited) understanding was that the pump learns from your needs, so that it may go out of range when your needs change, it is supposed to get you back to normal eventually. Tagging @searley who is...

Hmm, this paper says not??? https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.044775 Patients with versus without PAD are at a higher risk of CV death of CV death, HHF, and kidney outcomes, and have a consistent benefits for CV death/HHF and progression of kidney disease with...