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what do you do if you eat something snacky, say, 20 mins apart? For example, earlier today I was offered a little cup cake thing (someone had a bday in the office!) so I said thank you, bolused and enjoyed (it was a bite size brownie thing) then 20 mins later, same bday boy did another round of...

Loving your post Nigel! My father in law has been diagnosed with some kind of mysterious illness which could be diabetes or could be insulin resitance or could be neither, we just can't tell (he lives a million miles away and we have to rely on his feedback from him, rather than actually hearing...

Hi Maryrachel, do you carb count? I can relate as I used to find that certain foods which one day were fine for me to eat suddenly caused a spike but now I carb count and can usually still eat them and stop the spike with the correct amount of novorapid (although I do have a small list of foods...

thanks Janrou, if they'd been champagne bubbles with the candle light I wouldn't have minded as much! Think it went ok, 7.1 before bed and 6.5 when I woke which is within my target range so I'm guessing I coped, despite the darkness! :D Good luck with your shift/fasting exercise, keep me...

Carbsrok, I recognise your friendly advise, did you recognise my humour?! My post was about fasting, how much I didn't enjoy it and that was it, friendly banter, not meant to be a lesson in all things basal. I am aware of basal rates as you don't have to be a pump master to know such things 8)...

thanks, but I don't think that at all! Wish I hadn't posted now, I was hungry and thought I'd share my dislike of fasting with people who may have fasted too - I have zero plans to change anything until my appt next week where I will sit down with my DN and the pump nurse and analyse my...

Ah, I see, your profile says you have been type 1 for 99 years but doesn't mention your insulin or your delivery method :lol: I've read the link, I know the score, thanks :D

Yep, on the pump! was your first clue that my post was on the Pump part of the forum?! :lol: I can't recommend it enough, lots to learn and a big commitment but if you get the chance, go for it! I (weirdly) thought I would miss injecting but I don't miss it at all! Changed my first infusion set...

Hi Nigel, thanks for that, I was aware about the pen side of basal/bolus but am less aware of pumping as I am only 6 days in! although the theory is pretty similar, by all accounts :D My original post was more about how hungry I was, I was trying to think about anything other than eating...

thanks, but I can't increase them as I am fasting to set the basal at the correct rate?? are you a pump user Carbsrok? Have you been told differently? I have different instructions from my DN team which expressly tell me not to correct unless hypo or above 14 otherwise I will have to abandon the...

Hi Tom, are you feeling better now? Nausea and vomitting is a symptom I unfortunately recognise, usually linked to majorly low numbers (below 2). But as already said, you could have a bug which would cause your BG to rise and fall randomly and also, if you are throwing up, your body can't absorb...

5 hours in to my first fasting 'stint' which started at 5am this morning and will finish at 12 noon - I am starving! :lol: had some high numbers so far so I'm guessing I will have to reduce my morning basal at some stage - which means this not eating lark will be worth it in the end!! it better...

Feel for you and your son. Being a teenager is hard enough! I am 5 days in to my new pump and it has taken over my life, I can't imagine having it and not testing or couting carbs as how would you know how to use it? But then like you say, he just doesn't use it properly.............what about...

I though Mabel perhaps?! but still contemplating :P

I have volunteered more than once for my local DUK chapter and have not been asked to help, not even on their badly advertised little Xmas card stall at the local market in December! Hana, you could mention this (I'm in Bucks, close to Reading, it might count as being district?!) that if they...

for a while, I went to both appts, at the GP surgery and at the hospital. I have attended the same hospital clinic all my life apart from 2 years when I lived abroad, even when I have lived out of the area, I have always chosen to travel back for the check up. Last GP appt, the nurse asked me...

thanks for your messages guys/gals, good night last night, did a 3am BG which was 6.5 and waking BG was 6.5 also - love it! Last night, I tucked the pump into a tiny soft mobile phone case I got in Tesco in a sale (cost £0.50!) and it was perfect, I lay on top of it and couldn't even feel it...

it's in!!! I now know why God gave us girls boobs :D Just hoik one of 'em up and slide the pump under it and Robert is indeed, your mother's brother!! I love it so much I can't even tell you :wink: I also now know why they recommend wired bra's only, stops it slipping out the bottom (so to...

Roo.be, does it cause an obvious lump in your bra? or do you slot it in between your boobs?! My pump is a Roche Accu Chek combo and it's too big to just slot?!

Fab idea! Stitch a baby sock to the back of my sports bra........cheap and cheerful :lol: Thanks Jopar :D Now all I need is a handy baby to pinch a sock from :wink: (have even thought about raiding my daughters keep sake box for an old odd sock from when she was tiny!! no, no, can't do...