Recent Content by LornaFarrell

You can’t really know unless you have something like a libre or test every 15 minutes (which isn’t exactly practical!) So many factors make a difference, especially the GI of the foods and if you take insulin when you took it and what type you have. Once or twice I’ve tested at an hour and been...

When are you testing? If you test before meals, and say an hour or two afterwards, you may have missed a spike. Depending on how low carb your meal was. For example, yesterday’s lunch put me up to 10 but back down to 7 within an hour. The data you are collecting probably won’t include those...

Help! I know there must have been threads on this and I’ve searched but can’t find them, so I’m giving up and starting a new one. I’m lucky enough to have got a funded libre as I’m planning a baby and need to get my hba1c down first. I got it last week and so far it’s been great, I’ve learnt...

I know my diabetes Center are expecting a lot more people to get them. Currently they handle it all in house as it were and under 18s, pregnant women etc have to go to the hospital to pick the sensors up. Their concern is that they can’t do all the extra people that way and need them to be...

Yes, I’m T1. As Scott-C says, it’s all about the GI of different foods, so you don’t need extra insulin for peas and carrots. Which took a lot of getting used to as I’d always counted them but there you go! Putting insulin doses aside, would you count the extras if you wanted to keep track of...

Woo Hoo! Well done! Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of 20s which have me a bit panicked, even the hospital team can’t figure it out. Today looks good so far so if I can get to bedtime without going over 15 I’ll be pleased, under 9 I’ll be thrilled! Set your own targets and celebrate your...

It’s down to personal choice. From a diabetes perspective its best to give up the ones with sugar in except as a hypo treatment, but diet ones should be fine. Obviously if you discover a particular sweetener causes a spike then you’ll want to avoid that one too. There are various other...

Hi everyone, I have been keeping my carbs lowish and counting everything. Then a couple of weeks ago I did the DAFNE course and was told not to count veg or pulses. So, just out of curiosity really, when you say “20-100g a day” are you counting veg?

I guess it would be the sweetener? They are legally a carb, if you look on a tub of sweetener it’s about 98g per 100. But they don’t count as carbs for insulin dosing so you can ignore it. Or something like that.

No, I’m in a rural area and they’re the only one that covers this address. There are 5 surgeries that are closer, but in more densely populated areas so they won’t take us. I do like the surgery in general, it’s just getting repeat prescriptions that’s a problem.

14.7 this morning, and I have absolutely no idea why. Corrections not really working either, can’t get below 10. ‍♀️

Unfortunately you can’t, everything has to go through the pharmacy. Don’t ask me why, it’s an odd system but there it is! To be honest, even if it worked perfectly nothing would change the fact that it takes 25 minutes to drive to the pharmacy from home, in a direction that I never go in for...

It’s the pharmacy who aren’t opening the email, or aren’t asking the surgery to approve all the requests. They have admitted as much. They have to send the request to the surgery, and they aren’t.

That’s good to know, it was them I was looking at and I wasn’t sure how it would work with insulin. Do you know which day the delivery will be so you can stay in to sign for it?

Yes, it’s definitely the pharmacy. I email the request direct to them and each time there’s a problem they have either not processed the email at all or processed some of the items and left others off. They have admitted the error and appologised, but that doesn’t actually help when it happens...