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- Type of diabetes
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- Pump
Heya all,
I've now had diabetes for longer than I can remember (nearly 45 years I think), and its taken me a long while but I finally feel like I'm in some sort of control
Bit of background: Most of my first 35-40 years or so my control was god awful (that's a very polite way of putting it), my HbA1c during my A-levels was 90+ lol, it wasn't til the appearance of the libre than my control changed from its previously awful state (where getting an HbA1c of under 58 was pure luck rather than skill or judgement) - the libre did get my HbA1c down into the 40's for the first ever, however my inconsistent DP was causing many rollercoasters on my libre graph
However even with the libre my time in range was between 40 and 50% no matter what I tried, and my overnight rollercoaster rides were making my tired and irritated (I think I just wasn't sleeping well due to said rollercoaster)
So my latest improvement is mostly cos I finally persuaded my hospital that I needed a pump just under 2 years ago (it took a number of years of fighting for it and I only got it cos the old consultant retired ...), and I managed to prove to them that I needed the sensors as well that worked with said pump (mostly due to my nasty DP most nights of the week, but hypos on the other nights - with no predictability) - so I am using Medtronic auto-mode on the 670g to deal with that - though I still have a lot of 'tweaking' to do, I cant just leave it to do its thing
So yeah my proud achievement is getting from my previous 'control' to this
That graph/chart compares the last 30 days with the previous 30 days, and woot, look at that percentage of time in range
I've now had diabetes for longer than I can remember (nearly 45 years I think), and its taken me a long while but I finally feel like I'm in some sort of control
Bit of background: Most of my first 35-40 years or so my control was god awful (that's a very polite way of putting it), my HbA1c during my A-levels was 90+ lol, it wasn't til the appearance of the libre than my control changed from its previously awful state (where getting an HbA1c of under 58 was pure luck rather than skill or judgement) - the libre did get my HbA1c down into the 40's for the first ever, however my inconsistent DP was causing many rollercoasters on my libre graph
However even with the libre my time in range was between 40 and 50% no matter what I tried, and my overnight rollercoaster rides were making my tired and irritated (I think I just wasn't sleeping well due to said rollercoaster)
So my latest improvement is mostly cos I finally persuaded my hospital that I needed a pump just under 2 years ago (it took a number of years of fighting for it and I only got it cos the old consultant retired ...), and I managed to prove to them that I needed the sensors as well that worked with said pump (mostly due to my nasty DP most nights of the week, but hypos on the other nights - with no predictability) - so I am using Medtronic auto-mode on the 670g to deal with that - though I still have a lot of 'tweaking' to do, I cant just leave it to do its thing
So yeah my proud achievement is getting from my previous 'control' to this
That graph/chart compares the last 30 days with the previous 30 days, and woot, look at that percentage of time in range