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Just tested before sleeping, outch. Oh right, pricking has been hurting for a couple of days (or more ?), I should really change my lancet tomorrow . You know what, I'll get out of bed and do it now, it will be my present to myself upon waking up! So got out, found a new lancet and felt really...

I really would like to do this but I guess it would be a little complicated. I'm on fiasp and I can take my insulin when starting a meal without the need to pre-bolus, so that's alright. I'm sure I can dial up and inject in the dark. Would be a bit awkward and I'll probably stab myself in my...

Result on my libre app for last week. Scanning often and injecting 7 to 10 times a day (and possibly a helpful honeymoon period). Very happy! I made a screen shot right away for proof, as I think I won't be seeing this very often, if ever again :p

Today at work I managed to roll up my fingers backwards around the spinning axis of a machine (not the fault of my boss or the machine, just me being plain stupid). Probably not broken, but the hand looks quite interesting by now. After my colleage had stopped the machine and got me untangled...

In 2016 I learned to spin wool and learned to knit socks with the wool for my neighbors' sheep. I started a second pair, but I already knew how it worked and never finished the pair or spun again. Boring. In 2017 I learned to shoot insulin and guess insulin to food, work, exercize and every...

Scrolling through facebook I came across the following post on the group 'Pastured Pigs': "What do ya'll think about syringe guns?" My answer: "Very scary when you think you are reading in a diabetes-group on facebook!" Very happy I dont have to use a syringe-gun seven times a day, and I hope...

Have my three-monthly dn appointment tomorrow. Levels have been great for over a month, exept for the last two days of course, and I don't even know why. Grrrrrrrr. She'll understand (especially as I will bribe her with eggs freshly laid by my hens ), but still, she'll see the last days first...

Well, technically not the great british bake-off, but Heel Holland Bakt, the Dutch copy of the show. Not sure if type2 or LADA, but I guess it proves I still make some of my own insulin. Is it even possible to produce insulin in anticipation of food? Anyone else experienced this? The first...

A long rambling story just because I'm happy and it wants out! Yesterday I found out fiasp has been available in the Netherlands from the first of september. I had been looking forward to it as I have hopes it wil shorten the time I have to pre bolus (currently on tresiba and novorapid), and I...

I've eaten an hour and a half ago but I overdid the novorapid before eating or there might be some stacking going on. Now I'm slowly getting close to being hypo: I've been hovering around 4,2 since starting dinner (combination of watching the graph on my libre and double checking with...

So today diabetes suddenly decided I need less insulin. I didn't have serious hypo's, thanks to Libre, lots of teststrips and dextro's, and I used less novorapid than I normally do. Not a clue what the cause is (summer, pain in shoulder, honeymoon, sailing for a few days, time of month, a...

I'm starting to get used to diabetes (eight months in, on Tresiba and NovoRapid) and things work out relatively good, apart from the occasional frustration or anger. But sometimes stuff happens you or your diabetic nurse didn't foresee. Today the dog (small and young) decided to jump on my lap...

Is there a reason we should only inject in these places? I have a lot more skin and enough fattty tissue to use different spots.

Today I bought half a kilo of cherries, just for me :) I ate a couple on my way home of course. But now they're staring at me. They want to be eaten very badly and I want to help them just as badly. So I look back and forth from cherries to NovoRapid and I have not a clue what to do. I've been...

I love my Libre, even though I gave up on newspapers, television and television guide to try to compensate for the cost. Problem with it is: it says I'm lower than I am by one to two mmol/l (compensated for delay, etc, it's consistently off by around 1,5mmol/l. Not only this sensor, but the last...

I just found out (after eating) that corn from the cob with butter and marmite (couldn't find salt) is not an 'above ground vegetable'. Tasted wonderful though and took a small amount of insulin after finding out :) Curious what my bloodsugar thinks about this, but very happy about my meal and...

I was diagnosed whith diabetes (type 2) last november. Looking back, I know I've had it for at least two years before diagnosis (returning itches you-know-where started around that time). Within three months I went from tablets to more tablets to tablets plus long-acting insulin to basal/bolus...

Hello, hope this is the right place to ask a question, first time posting on the forum. I'm relatively new to having diabetes (type 2 or lada, on Lantus and NovoRapid) and I want to use my second expensive Libre sensor as I will have a weekend with long car drives and heavy partying :) My bs...