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Bad weekend with sugars all over the place. Sore cannula sites, repaced cannulas. Argh...Poor food choices :( But.... I restarted a sensor on Friday after a full 8 days. Monday and it's still working OK today (although I'm expecting it to die and I totally forgot to bring replacement kit with...

Cheers buddy - it's more of a long term plan tbh. Actually things are ticking over really well the last couple of days. Monday I was 94% in range. Yesterday I got the train to the city and cycled back around 40km or so. Nice warm day, blood sugars were rock solid. I'm learning and the pump is...

I'm upping my game and trying to cal 4x day at times when my sugars are stable and there's no active insulin. Just done my third one today (5.5 vs 5.8) and will do one before I get off to bed. On a side note. Anyone use the Contour Glucometer? I've just found out that if you double tap the menu...

Never had to settle the enlite sensor. What are the benefits of this? Surely the more time you wait = lower TIR? I don't have the time to be waiting for a sensor to settle. Life is busy, kids work etc. I can't half fit a sensor and I don't see how it would settle better without the external...

Could well be. I didn't have issues with the Enlite sensor, it's just these bloody Guardian 3 sensors which seem to have a mind of their own. I've seen people restart them and get 21 days which is mental! I can get 4-5 days if I'm lucky. I wonder if the next box will be better, but I don't want...

Seem to be eating through sensors :( Last one lasted just over 3 days. Replaced on Thursday. This morning I woke up and my BG was 9.9. I calibrated and bolused. About an hour later suddenly I'm 2.2 but feel fine. I waited until my BG had come up to 4.5 and tried to recalibrate and got the...

I had BGL's over 10 in manual mode too. And with MDI. With my 640g, and with my Accucheck Spirit. Automode strives to keep you in a target range with a fairly stable graph of levels, rather than the peaks and troughs of extreme highs and lows. I can't think of any insulin delivery method that...

Hell yeah, it was lovely!!!

Day 5 on the sensor. Calibrated this morning. Just got asked (6 hours later) to calibrate again, so I'm gonna hazard a guess that the sensor is about to die. (1 day 10 hours left out of the magical 7 day life) This morning I had what some people call a "unicorn"..... Where my morning BG and...

The Mio is rubbish in my experience. Often the cannula would come out, usually in the middle of the night. I'd be alerted to high sugar, correct it and fall back asleep. 30 mins later high blood sugar, correction, back to sleep. By the third time I'm thinking somethings not right, take the...

Each day makes a little more sense and my TIR creeps up. Yay.

I was never particularly impressed with their support staff tbh (calling from australia I think goes through to Philipines or somewhere). I've had far more relevant and accurate info from the 670g groups on Facebook (the US one has 21,000 members!) and from the lovely crew here. I'll give it a...

Yeah it would be. Advice given to me was that there's no point even trying to calibrate if your BG / ISIG calculation shows you being below 3 or above 8. You'll generally get a Cal Error. What I'm finding is that even after I've calibrated, the sensor seems to be 3 or 4mmol/L off. Have been...

Having a few teething issues. Namely the accuracy of taking a BG and then calibrating, and the sensor seeminly wanders off and does it's own thing and loses accuracy. Now, I'm calibrating when I wake, before bed, and some point late afternoon. I'm only taking readings when my BSL is stable (ie...

Nah it's OK.... Just a bad run.

Into my first day on AM. Dinner last night - veggie curry and basmati rice. totally forgot to bolus with my meal. I know, right? What a way to start. So after [some time] and what looked like a long pink line of micro bolus, it dawned on my I hadn't had insulin for my meal. Corrected...

Well I'm fully expecting some teething issues when I switch over, as most have had. But will be a patient patient and I'm sure it will all work itself out in a few weeks.

Issues today for me: replaced cannula - painful and didn't seem to settle. So I tried a new one again. Same! Super painful and felt like it wasn't sitting properly in me. BSL rose from normal to 13 and still going up so I knew it wasn't in right. Had to leave work, go home and get ANOTHER one...

Monday here in sunny Western Australia. I'm "officially" switching on AM on Weds evening. I know it's not going to be perfect from the get-go but it seems I've got the basics set up. Just need to be sharp with my carb counting. New G3 sensors seem to be lasting well. Wondering what will be on...

Woo! Recent blood work shows my A1c has dropped from 8% to 7.7%. Cholesterol a tiny bit high and offered a statins which were politely declined. Funny as she was really hesitant when she asked... "Err would you like to try a statin...?" The sun's shining and it's Friday afternoon. Have a great...