Recent Content by johncon

That's what happened to me years ago. I was waking with high BS and the obvious solution (before the time of cgm) was to increase my basal. Since I've been on a cgm I've found that I need absolute minimum insulin through night and my high readings were due to a kickback. If you can get a pump...

I was on G3 until about a month ago, started on G4 and find them not as good (less confidence in them at the moment compared to G3). My 780 has been absolutely brilliant since I've been on it (nearly 3 years) so I hope that I've just got a faulty box of G4 sensors.

I was diagnosed in 1978 aged 9 and your post brings back all those memories. How times have changed, I'm now also on a Medtronic pump with sensor and find it absolutely life changing from what we had to go through when first diagnosed (practicing injecting into an orange and then being told to...

I'd agree with this all the way. DAFNE was the first step I'd taken in years (been T1 for 40+ years now), this led to me going on a pump and from there I've been using the MiniMed 780 along with the guardian sensor for the last 18 months. Total transformation for me. HBA1C is the best it's been...

Absolutely no chance. I had a mishap at work the other day while changing my pump line and rang her to get a bottle of insulin out of the fridge for me when I nipped home. Suppose I was rather daft in even expecting her to find where it was in the fridge. I walked into the house and there was a...

I'm on the same pump and I have a preset temp basal when I do exercise. You can set your own levels. The low corrections may be due to the fact you have your target range set quite high, for some reason the Medtronic pumps only aim for the higher end of the target range when offering correction...

Long time ago we had to self fund needles and syringes. Wasn't until the government gave these free to drug addicts they decided that diabetics merited the same. Need to find someone else that needs cgm before we can jump on the bandwagon ;)

There was a problem not long ago with people selling these on ebay for an inflated amount. People profiting from others needs isn't what should happen but that's the society we currently live in and morals are easily cast aside when these people see the chance to earn a few £££££ for doing...

I've just placed an order online this morning but think I'd have still maybe only ordered 2. What's the 'use by' date on them now? I know in the past I've had sensors arrive with only a couple of months before they were out of date so ordering 6 would not been really viable.

To be honest I now insert a sensor the day before I intend to use it (which means for 1 day/fortnight I've got one on each arm), the general opinion is that it can take anywhere between 24-48 hours for them to 'settle'. I cant remember for definite but think it was a week before I could get any...

I was hoping to find out in the next week or so but my appointment at the hospital has been put back 3 months so I'll have to wait until then. My current sensor is reading a little higher than my normal strips but its usually the other way round. Hopefully it'll even itself out when I do get my...

Looks pretty obvious that you need extra support when you've put your Hba1c as 10.9%. Sure that should be a flashing neon sign to your GP that things aren't working.

Did the basal testing without anything but water and found a massive difference to yesterday. I didn't realise how much just drinking coffee affected it. I'll repeat it tomorrow and hopefully get the same straight line.

Thanks ElyDave. I'll do that tomorrow see if there's any difference.