Recent Content by Greymalkin

Interesting stuff. After 18 months with the Libre 2 continuous glucose monitor, I believe I've thoroughly tested what I can get away with in terms of conventional carb-consumption. I'm now persuaded that all foods which are based on processed starches are effectively laden with nearly-instant...

Glad I'm not alone in having tried fasting and found it helpful. I've lately adopted what I'm calling a 44:4 diet, semi-permanently. I'm never hungry early in the day...I only need coffee. On an eating day I start at 11a.m. with a lot of mostly raw vegetables, and in the four hours before 3pm I...

I'm relieved to find I wasn't alone feeling dissatisfied with the Libre's alarm functionality. I had already set up 'custom' alarm sounds from my phone's menu - a rising two-note tone called 'Meteor' when my BG climbs past 7.5, and the dropping two-note tone called 'Orion' when it falls past...

These are great answers, many thanks for those. I'll investigate. ;)

I've had the Libre 2 for close to a year, now. I value the high and low blood glucose (BG) alarms, particularly as a monitor to levels during sleep. But there is still a problem which could easily be sorted by a little reprogramming by the manufacturers. Lately I was comfortably in range when...

In the end I ordered one of those green kilo-bags of dextrose powder. I hadn't felt very encouraged by my use of it, till today, when I used it liberally in hot water, as if it were plain caster sugar. It's quick and easy, and very effective. After so many years using widely available soft...

After years (decades) with type-1, I shouldn't have to ask, but here goes. For at least ten years, I went about my daily life with my testing kit and insulin pens in a reused sunglasses bag (very tough and long-lasting), with the tightening cord wrapped around the neck of a 500ml bottle of...

Thanks for all replies. I have this morning tried each of the six 'dud' pens with a new needle screwed fully on, and all of them work as intended. So, it was my error. The needles weren't too short, but I hadn't ensured their inside ends had entered the cartridge. I'm glad I hadn't returned...

Thanks all. After so long on single-use pens, I don't want to think how much waste I could have prevented with reusable pens. I think my GP or their representatives at the pharmacy could have suggested the cartridges, long ago. Yes, space in my fridge is limited! I wonder why the single-use...

I've been on Humalog and Lantus for over twenty years now. Just in the last couple of years, I've had half a dozen pens (both insulins) where the twist-and-pump function failed. In at least three cases they didn't work, fresh out of the new box. Today I found the Humalog pen I've been using...

My thanks to you all for replying. Your answers make me wonder how I've survived this long. I've taken some liberties with my wellbeing over the years. My diet tends to vary between extreme self-denial, dominated by sliced carrots and other raw stuff with hummous and a little fruit, but with...

I had an auto-generated SMS text message from my GP when I turned 50, asking if I'd like to start a course of statins. I had barely heard of statins so I don't know why it was left to me, to decide. That was some years ago and I still don't know. GPs here are woefully hard to be seen by. I...

I've only used the LibreLink phone app, but I'd like to know if the basic data presented by the app on the phone, could be shown by a watch. I try to run every day and my rather large phone is a pain to carry with me. The Libre monitor is likewise not a handy thing to hold. Given that our...

Thanks all, I feel encouraged. :)

Thanks for that, I will try calling. I don't like making baseless or untested assumptions, but might the calls be made intentionally tedious in order to encourage use of the web-method instead? I don't say the Abbott terms and conditions are unusual or equivocal (I haven't examined them closely...