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Watches for Miao Miao

For iPhone/Spike App you have choice from Apple Watches, Fitbit Versa/Ionic, Pebble watches and I believe Garmin watch.

Post by: steve_p6, Nov 21, 2018 in forum: Ask A Question
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Freestyle Libre sensor Serious inaccuracies- Help us improve this!

@tim2000s I'm reminded of the story of woman who sued a Microwave company because it didn't say in the instructions not to dry her dog in it as...

Post by: steve_p6, Nov 21, 2018 in forum: Diabetes Discussions
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Abbot Libre

Agree alarms are very important if you've lost hypo awareness or have problems overnight. However, it's also pretty useful to have reminders pop...

Post by: steve_p6, Nov 21, 2018 in forum: Diabetes Discussions
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Can’t Get My Tresiba Dose Right At The Moment

That was my experience on Tresiba with bloods dropping 8-9 hours after taking. I now split it 50:50 at 7am and 7pm which seems to have sorted...

Post by: steve_p6, Sep 27, 2018 in forum: Diabetes Medication and Drugs
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Type 1 What am I doing wrong?!

Can I ask what monitoring regime you are following? Getting clear sight of what was happening to my BGs between meals was a big step in sorting...

Post by: steve_p6, Sep 25, 2018 in forum: Ask A Question
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Advice Needed Tresiba .

Tresiba 200u is only available in a flextouch pen to avoid this confusion. The dosing dial gives you the actual units.

Post by: steve_p6, Sep 4, 2018 in forum: Type 1 Diabetes
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Interesting article from UKs Daily Telegraph

Going off on a tangent from the original thread. However, just to clarify from a couple of relatives' experience. For the 'elder generation', it...

Post by: steve_p6, Nov 10, 2017 in forum: Diabetes Discussions
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Type 1 Splitting long acting?

You should only split Tresiba if you have a good reason to, otherwise leave it at once a day. Personally I split because taking once a day causes...

Post by: steve_p6, Oct 8, 2017 in forum: Ask A Question
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The Fallacy of Average: How Using HbA1c Alone to Assess Glycemic Control Can Be Misleading

An ongoing discussion with my consultant that he should be looking at the avg BG and TIR, TNIR data from the Libre ahead of the clinic HBA1C...

Post by: steve_p6, Oct 5, 2017 in forum: Diabetes Research
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Forgetting background insulin

That's diabetes for you @Jaylee , it always depends on something! I just simply wouldn't take the extra half dose and then go to bed, that's a...

Post by: steve_p6, Oct 5, 2017 in forum: Type 1 Diabetes
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Forgetting background insulin

Short acting works for about 4 hrs. Set an alarm for every 3 hrs overnight, check BG and correct as normal. This will manage levels...

Post by: steve_p6, Oct 4, 2017 in forum: Type 1 Diabetes
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Question for Tresiba users

Try splitting the Tresiba between morning and evening, I found it reduced my early morning lows.

Post by: steve_p6, Oct 3, 2017 in forum: Type 1 Diabetes
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Type 1 for 41 years. Feels like I am losing my way.

I doubt it will be that easy to get even England as will not be budgeted anywhere this year.

Post by: steve_p6, Sep 14, 2017 in forum: Type 1 Diabetes
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Type 1 for 41 years. Feels like I am losing my way.

I got a Freestyle libre, really helped because I could so easily see what goes on with BGs. 40yrs T1 so understand where you are at.

Post by: steve_p6, Sep 12, 2017 in forum: Type 1 Diabetes
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Levemir split dose - am I weird?

I'm weird too! I split Tresiba as well but it works far better for me than Levemir ever did.

Post by: steve_p6, Sep 1, 2017 in forum: Type 1 Diabetes
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fiasp....

There's no cost differential. My view was that I wanted to give it a go and I would let them know how it went. Certainly at my clinic, at the...

Post by: steve_p6, Aug 18, 2017 in forum: Type 1 Diabetes
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fiasp....

Yep persuaded consultant to let me switch. Early days so no conclusion yet as basal went bit screwy of late. MDI which is why consultant was bit...

Post by: steve_p6, Aug 18, 2017 in forum: Type 1 Diabetes
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Very Frustrated - Insulin Stopped Working

Sound like your basal needs have changed. Two weeks ago I started having very similar issues to those you described. Took me a week and had to...

Post by: steve_p6, Aug 15, 2017 in forum: Diabetes Discussions
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Possible resistance to Levemir

If it was insulin resistance I would have expected you to be seeing problems generally through the day plus changes to your insulin/carb ratio. I...

Post by: steve_p6, Aug 15, 2017 in forum: Ask A Question
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Insulin Not Effective

Have to go and check my sources [Bernstein or Think Like a Pancreas] but am sure that there is some mention of the anticipation of food being...

Post by: steve_p6, Aug 9, 2017 in forum: Type 1 Diabetes

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