Recent Content by Helen46

I use the Contour Next One and am very happy with it. I accept that there are inaccuracies but if you get into the habit of testing prior to meals and 2-3 hours after meals I find the data more reliable. Mine talks to my Medtronic 640. I occasionally (especially in the winter) use it to bolus...!

Thanks Nicole...the physic has set me up with a range of exercise specifically to loosen the adjacent muscles and to smooth the passage of the nerve through the muscles. It is slowly improving but I will be glad to get back to regular routines. Helen

Auto mode. Our settings are about the same I reduced my high setting from 11 to ten and have not had any real increase in alarms. I have my BG target set at 5.5-6.5 as I found much lower and I got into strife if I needed to drive. My pump beeps one hour before I need to calibrate unless I have...

Me again. Felt a tad guilty and have now played with my settings and have reduced the "alert on high" from 11 to 10 as I realised I had not had an alarm on high for a while. So the holiday is over and although I reset it two days ago I have not had a "high" alarm so will leave it where it is...

I have the Guardian Sensor 3 and was continually being "alarmed"...changed the settings. I have "alert on high": currently 11 because I sometimes run into trouble with pump suspending on 5.4 a couple of hours before waking. Then if I have breakfast (40g CHO) + correction it can occasionally...

Yep, you are right...Sciatica! It is exacerbated by eating "soft cheese"! Being confined and in the high risk zone whenever anyone did a welfare check they brought me soft cheese (because they know I love it!). I even tried to refuse the last lot because I felt I had been living on it...goto...

I have had sciatica before, and you are right...it is not nice! This is on the opposite side and a very different sensation. Planning to go to the doctor but when I checked to make an appointment...the rigmarole was amazing!

Hi, I have virtually been confined to the house for 42 days. Over that period I have tried to keep up regular activity but find I am increasingly getting sciatic pain which I can almost keep under control with the standard exercises. However, I have also found that I am suffering a pain similar...

Totally agree with EllieM and Medtronic is easily accessed here (Brisbane). I can order them online (sensor/transmitter, wipes etc) but I go to local pharmacy for infusion sets, reservoirs etc, and they order them and I can pick them up usually 24 hours later. But you do need to be eligible for...

Same here.

Yes and I decided to change cannula type and to change it every second day. I am sure it helped.

Just throwing this out there. I have been working really hard to reduce HbA1c!!!! But last week I had nightmare day, Three phone calls to Medtronic over an 8 hour period Sensor seemed to be working but intermittently sensor was suspending pump but as it was a new sensor I was determined to try...

Hi Dancer, The problem when setting a temporary basal is that sometimes I hit the jackpot and need very little extra insulin (relatively) but on other occasions I need a lot. Difficult to predict. Advice from Endo was to have evening meal bolus for that correct if necessary 2-3 hours later, do...

I get this in the last 6-8 hours before I change the infusion set. Dr's advice was that the site deteriorates to some degree. Options are to change it more frequently or just increase the basal/correction doses etc. BUT as I also take additional time for the new infusion set to bed in I prefer...