Recent Content by SalRead1

I saw my consultant at the beginning of November and explained why I wanted to move over to having a pump, specifically Omnipod 5. The entire team listened carefully to what I was saying and surprised me by agreeing it was a good idea. I thought I would have to fight for it. I have had to wait...

I’ll be really interested to hear how your son gets on. I have an appointment to discuss pumps in November and have been seriously considering the Omnipod 5 as I am not keen on tubing - too much to get entangled! I do have concerns about scarring since you have to replace Omnipod every 3 days...

Every 20 minutes today I have had a message saying signal loss and scan sensor. I do this and 20 minutes later I get the same message. I switched all the alarms off and back on, same with my iPhone. No difference. I have the latest app and IOS. Abbott told me to scan every 10 minutes for 2 hours...

Many thanks to all those people who have drawn attention to the Shuggah app. I have downloaded it and although it tells me I have tens of readings I can’t find them anywhere. When I click on Home I can see the TIR, high/low, average HbA1c, CV and Today pie chart, but I can’t find any actual...

I used to try and comply with the 8-hour fast, but if I had to have some carbs I would have orange juice and this was deemed acceptable. I always felt it was an unwise stricture, and still do. Fortunately my consultant no longer asks for this. I never took my insulin beforehand but waited till...

Following Joe Wicks” workout class (allegedly for kids but lots of adults doing it too) every day. I thought I was relatively fit, doing yoga and Zumba every week, but it seems I’m not! While the weather was great I did masses of gardening, then broke all the mowing equipment so that put an end...

I had to phone my diabetes team and they commented on my HbAiC results, saying how good they were. Next question was were the results masking hypos in particular? They were indeed. I was so pleased that they picked up on this, but at the time we couldn't relate it to TIR as I hadn't then got the...

I have similar experiences during the day, but night-time hypos are characterised by what can only really be termed as dreams which go round in circles. It’s like trying to solve a puzzle where the solutions are constantly moving. At some point I get so frustrated by it all that I wake up.

Frio is great. I don't use mine so often because temperatures don't often get up to 30 degrees where I go, but I do find it handy to have something to keep my 2 insulin pens together in something I can easily recognise - saves a lot of tipping stuff out of a handbag!

The App Carbs and Cals is really helpful too - far more so than the book because the App updates regularly and is also a lot cheaper. It has pictures of food on 7" plates so you can work out your carb intake relatively easily.

The dietician on my retraining course said you need around 140gm of carbs a day to maintain brain function at its optimum level. This was only 3 years ago so naturally I’m very confused about the low carb diets and people having a very low carb intake in general.