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I've tried white bread, brown bread, 50/50, porridge and cereals (including high fibre types) and every single thing give the same reaction, it's really odd. I've not tried rye but I'm skeptical she will eat it tbh

This is a perfect example of what happens at breakfast, doesn't matter how far in advance I give her insulin she will predictably spike like this then plummet but from what I gather this doesn't make sense. At lunch her dose right now is spot on and we get and nice gentle rise when I pre bolus...

I'm not on Facebook anymore but considering rejoining just for such groups

I've waiting so long before giving her her breakfast before that she had a mild low and she still spiked to 14mmol! I mean I don't want to low carb her really but it just makes sense to give scrambled egg or something first thing so she's not going through the roof however my orders are that...

So she needs less basal in the morning maybe? She has 1 unit in the morning and 2.5 in the evening now her overnight last night looked nice and steady once she came down from her tea

She has about 11 units total a day... not sure what the average is for her age. I appreciate I probably won't be able to get great control with the techniques but I should be able to greatly improve her levels. I have learnt that once she hits 9mmol I give a half unit and she comes back down...

As an example I'm thinking of my daughters spike after breakfast, I pre bolus and give her the meal when she starts to drop and I'm sure the insulin is working, she spikes sometimes 8-9 mmol. .. its a very steep rise followed by a very steep drop which eventually keeps going until she goes low...

Sorry to bring up an old thread but I've been reading this the last couple of days I'm a bit confused, from what I'm reading basically you give your bolus and then if the rise is too steep give another tiny dose of insulin to kind of round it off, then be on the look out for a low that might...

It's made me realise that giddiness and silliness with her is a sign of an impending low which is also great as I really struggle with spotting her hypos before they happen since she can't tell me she feels funny

Very reassuring! Also very interesting, will be great to see over the 2 weeks how her days compare

Oh yes the rep said max 4 calibrations a day, it asked me for one at 3am last night and I put one in this morning when she was trending level in the 5s

Oh yes I treated as it was downward trend too :) Just curious, learning to take into account the lag time plus discrepancy... also don't want the DSN reviewing the readings and thinking she's been that low! It said she went down to 2.9mmol before but lowest meter reading was 3.9, now it says...

We are 24hrs into the dexcom and I'm finding it tends to give a more extreme number than the reality. For example the meter caught a post meal peak of around 11mmol but the dexcom says 13mmol, a 4.1mmol translated as 3.9mmol. Is this typical? Will it improve as more time passes and we calibrate...

I LOVE this thing! Strangely she had a high but slow spike going to bed, which came back down on its own... related to her tea maybe? On a plus note her basal for night looks good as she was fairly flat when she came back down Waited for the curve this morning after giving insulin before I...

Musugr is fantastic!

Interesting things happening! The spike of course was our trip to the golden arches, I got an alert saying she had gone below 4.4 and the arrow was still going down however the BG monitor said she was a little higher, give a biscuit anyway, she come back up and now apparently she's falling rapidly

It's green haha but they give us a pink silicone case ;)

They had loads of pumps out on the table and it was mentioned a lot haha, I know they're trying to convince me. They answered a few questions I had about it anyway and I've got the instruction manual for this so ill have a nosey but I really don't think it's for us

Yes but no alarms, we're getting funding due to her age

First meal after fitting and high alarm going off already [emoji28]