Search Results

Thanks Steve, have you ever taken insulin without food whilst b.g reading was high due to dawn phenomena or anxiety? Seems this is the worst thing you can do in terms of insulin management. It took me 4 days to realise what I was doing wrong. Now I make sure I take food with the insulin +...

Tinkering at the edges. If obesity is really their concern, they need to look at banning sugar and alcohol, and whilst they are on cigarettes too. Those three things are societies biggest problems, count that four things if you include stress of western working and living.

HI Everyone, I've recently got myself in a a real loop. Just got a freestyle libre. At first I thought it was great, but now I'm having second thoughts. The ability to constantly get a reading has made me paranoid, stressed and concerned 24 hrs a day. Before I got the Libre I was just finger...

I was interested in what you said about protein affecting your blood sugar. I attended a DAFNE course last week and they advised that non-carb meals have no affect on blood sugar?

Hi thanks very much for you reply. I should have mentioned that when I said I only get hypos through the night when sometimes I don't test, I meant when I was using the finger prick test to make sure everything was settled before I go to sleep. Sometime I'd have no idea what my reading was...

Thanks for the further information. Taking it earlier really does make a massive difference. For you, how long before you eat do you take our short acting? 5mins? 15mins?

Hey, thanks very much for that. This is really good advice. I will give this a go with taking the insulin earlier. This could be a really good way to deal with the spike. Thanks

Hi, my basal is spot on 26 units in the morning of lantus. Watched the graph this morning, basal remained at 7.1 all night. I only get hypos through the night when I don't check by b.g before I went to sleep. That is my own fault!

Hi. I've just started wearing the freestyle libre. I've checked the results several times aginst my accuchek aviva finger prick test and they are usually pretty much the same. So in my experience they both seem to telling me the same result. Thats not to say they can't be out a little bit as...

Hi Eveyone, Would anybody like to share their expreince of how well their insulin matches the glycaemic release of their carbs/meal. I've just got a freestlye libre and I am suprised at how high the bloodsugar can rise after eating, even when it's a low glycaemic index food, like porridge. I...

Thanks again for your time. I think as you say, everyone is different. I will watch my readings over the next week or so and try to understand my own reactions etc. I think all these things come with experience and testing. It's like a full time job.

Thanks very much for your reply. What you say is correct. I think what I am saying is that although I should correct for the high blood sugar, I don't need to take as much for breakfast carbs as part of these seem to go straight into the reserves not the blood stream.

Thanks. The accuchek aviva. Also now using freestyle libre.

Thanks very much for your reply. I agree with what you have said. After thinking about it last night, I think what I should be doing is eating breakfast but not taking as much for the carbs because part as that seems to go back to reserves. E.G Say my reading was 13.5 and I had 30g carbs, i'd...

Thanks for your reply. Interesting you mentioned the dawn phenominom. Only found out about it 2 weeks ago. I saw it for the first time this morning with the Freestlye Libre I've just started using. B.G all night was 7.1 constant. Woke up, after an hour was 9.8. Amazing. Now I can my adjust my...

Orderd mine from their website Friday and got it delivered this Wednesday. I'd only just heard about the device a week ago on the DAFNE course and bought one straight away. Had on it on for a day now. Absolutley thrilled with it. Hardly any lag between meter reading and actual blood glucose...

The Freestyle Libre can do this job, but it's not yet available for children. May be worth contacting the manufacturer to see if they can update you on when it will be available for children. Its a sensor worn on the arm, you can scan this sensor with a meter to give you a reading. This could be...

Hi, I've just bought a libre, been wearing it for 2 days. It is absolutley fantastic! I've been wating 20 years for this. It was the first question I had when I was diagnosed. "do you have a continuous monitor?". I think if your readings are already really good, I can't see this devices readings...

Hi Everyone, Can anybody help with this problem? After just completing the D.A.F.N.E course, I am starting to apply some of the knowledge I have picked up during the course. One of the things that caught my attention was that following a mild hypo, typically through the night and where I...