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Never in many flights. There's no more metal in it than a pair of earrings, and those don't cause problems.

Good afternoon. I can only speak about my experience, so this may not be applicable directly. I came from Lantus(so still glargine like Toujeo, but a little different) to Levemir several years ago. Despite the shorter duration I've liked Levemir much more. It seems more consistent in action and...

A full week! This is a first for me in 26 years of T1 I'm really starting to love the keto way.

Like Antje77, I usually inject a few units the moment I wake up, whether I plan to eat breakfast or not. It took a while to get used to the idea of bolusing a significant amount without eating, but the effect is consistent enough for me that I've become confident it's necessary. It's certainly...

I find hand sanitizer gets them off easily (including the residue they tend to leave behind)

Their lower sugar ones don't have maltitol which is good, but they are still around 25% sugar. I sometimes make keto hot chocolate with just cream and 100% dark, or powdered cacao, but it could be nice to have something like this in solid form.

Sounds nice! I don't know about the dexcom, but I've wondered if my libre readings are affected by fast changes in temperature, particularly in water. I often notice funny blips from a hot shower where the reading jumps up then down again to lower than the start. The drop after is real...

I enjoy dark chocolate, but sometimes wish for a nice creamy but unsweetened milk chocolate bar. The low sugar ones always seem to include artificial sweeteners like maltitol. Ideally it would just be cocoa solids, cocoa butter and milk solids. Does a bar like this exist?

Congrats on getting your numbers down so quickly. That's a huge improvement and must feel much better. Is this monitored with libre/CGM or finger pricks? 8-9 isn't that bad, and going that high for a bit after a meal wouldn't bother me, but regularly staying there all day is not ideal. Yes, it...

For me high intensity activities with an anaerobic element that make my heart race, such as weightlifting, make it go up, while a steady slow to brisk walk (particularly uphill) reliably brings it down. Not sure what's the dividing line or if there's a level of intensity that can be neutral in...

I'm kicking myself right now, as I just broke maybe my longest streak of 100% in range BG ever. I over injected for a rise, then was dropping too fast and had no choice other than to have some carbs to treat it. I'm T1 for decades, often low carb, but not very experienced with true keto. This...

Thank you both. It does sound good!

I know what you mean about the Dextro ones in the paper. Bad memories of needing some when out and finding the ones that had been sitting in my bag too long were hard as rocks but having to crunch through them anyway! With Lift, I buy the pots of 50 to refill the smaller tubes I carry, and top...

Not in LibreLink, but most of the unofficial apps like Glimp, Diabox, Xdrip have ways of calibrating.

The Libre has been a huge help for me in achieving better control, but I never fully trust it, and strongly disagree about the advice that finger prick checks are unnecessary. I've had some sensors that give crazy false low readings in the first day or 2 then settle down, others that work fine...

When I get sudden highs with no obvious cause I usually put it down to my immune system. For me it's often the first sign I'm getting sick, before any other symptoms show up. Sometimes I've had these unexplained highs for a day or two without being ill after, but I like to think those were times...

Like others here, I find heavy strength training raises my BG, while low intensity cardio lowers it. I used to do nearly all strength and little cardio, and would often need a bolus before or during to keep it down. Recently I've been adding a lot more cardio, and in the effort to reduce my...

I suppose cats would be fairly low carb, but it's somewhat frowned upon to eat them

I use kinesiology tape. I cut a short length (rounding the corners to reduce chance of it peeling off, and making sure the skin there is dry and without sun lotion/moisturiser). I also put a disk of paper the size of the sensor between them to avoid pulling off the sensor when you remove the...

For type 1s I believe the guidelines now allow them to prescribe the Freestyle Libre without any further criteria, and I've not heard of any T1s having trouble getting it in recent years. I don't have experience with getting a true CGM prescribed, but a quick search indicates that at least in...