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They've given you insulin, and think it's type 1? At least you know. It's a very weird shaped learning curve, you have to very quickly get used to injecting insulin, counting carbs, and avoiding, and treating, hypos, so the first bit of the learning curve is very steep, then after that you have...

I have no idea if those seats are any good, and I don't like cricket, but my dad used to love it, and always watched it on the tv. A few times when I was young I went to a real match with him, it's a very civilised way to spend a day, and it's much more interesting in real life than on tv, so...

Love the sound of the doctor's bow tie. Can't you get yourself a 4, 6, and a 7 badge, they are just as virtuous, and you could have different colours, and they'd look pretty "all in a row".

That sensor sounds like it was a bit stressed, and might have benefited from a massage. We'll never know now though, and my extremely dodgy theory on Libre sensor having feelings will stay unproven.

Morning all, too much adrenaline floating around yesterday, so blood sugar went out of control yesterday afternoon, all is calm this morning though, and hopefully set for a nice steady day. Hopefully. Have a good day, everyone.

Yes. I never missed it when I didn't have it, but now I've used it with the Libre reader, I realise how useful it is, and I wouldn't want to go back to not knowing.

On the subject of blood sugar excursions into being high for too long, I always find when I'm trying to get it to go back down how weirdly accurate the little Libre gingerbread man is. It starts going down, then stops and rises a bit, and I check the gingerbread man, and insulin on board has...

That's interesting, it has the opposite effect for me, I don't like treating it as if it were human, and existed in it's own right. I don't know why, I'll have to think about this, I think to me it feels like a loss of control, but I'm not sure.

Thanks. He did say it'd be a year before I got one, so I'm not getting too excited just yet. But I can see that being able to vary the basal would be very useful, so hopefully something might happen.

It just does that to annoy you sometimes.

I'm back from the clinic, and I asked the nice doctor I saw about a pump. I wrote something very tentative on the "what would you like to talk about" box of the form they get us to fill in. He looked at my Libre results and said "I don't see why not", and then said it could take about a year. He...

I tend to call an extended high an excursion, though I don't like to talk of my blood sugar as if it were human like others do, when it goes on an extended high, it's as if it's broken free, and run away, and won't come home whatever I do.

Are you in England @WuTwo ? the new guidelines from NHS England are supposed to make getting Libre much less of a postcode lottery, I've seen on Twitter that a fair number of CCGs are taking their time to get up to speed, but if you fit the criteria you should be able to get Libre on the NHS...

You didn't end up talking to yourself, what you say is very interesting, especially because your reasoning on why you felt you needed a pump, is quite close to what my arguments would be too.

I always end up being one of those people who doesn't make enough noise, or isn't enough of a problem, to ever get offered a pump. This has happened with many other things as well. This is often the sort of mindset that permeates institutions. I was thinking that with what @WuTwo I think it...

Morning all, changed sensor last night, which is a necessary but annoying process. New one still a bit erratic, but starting to show some consistency. Woke up with blood sugar somewhere in the region of 5.6, which will do fine, though consecutive readings with my new sensor said it was somewhere...

Bad though it is that your knee hurts, it's good news that it should be fine before September.

Morning everyone, reasonably successful blood sugar day yesterday, and overnight, some sun outside, instead of cloud, and fog, at last.

I've got far too used to Libre now. When I was first diagnosed there was only urine testing, and no nice little glucose meter, or even the strips without the meters. But once I had a glucose meter I'd go into panic mode if one of them broke, which they had a habit of doing, and got to the point...