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Hi @Em55 As you are relatively newly diagnosed have you been sent on any carb counting and insulin adjusting courses? A lot of people here speak well of DAFNE but if that isn't available there is an online course which may be helpful. https://bertiediabetes.com/ I suspect that as you are...

Opinions vary on this, as you are not supposed to. Personally I used to make a pen needle last for several days when I was on MDI.

@Grant_Vicat has experience of CKD before his transplant so may be able to help? I assume you've tested for ketones and ruled out DKA? (If that is a possibility then I would call 999 or 111 now). Honestly, if you are going to A&E in the morning anyway it might be better to go now...

Welcome to the forums @staceyrid . It might help to include the pump type in the title of the thread. (I can't help because it's definitely not what I'm using.) Good luck.

You could ask for a fructosamine test if you suspect your hba1c might be off..... https://testguide.adhb.govt.nz/EGuide/?elv=1&name=Fructosamine&pn=2286&mn=1093&sd=3&ts=14cded77831

Yes, I fly quite a bit and as I now have a pump I get frisked every time. They've never taken me to a separate room, though, they just do it then and there. (But they ask me very politely so I guess if I was anxious (I'm not) they might take me to a separate room.) I always make sure I have...

Hi @NeetaMD and welcome to the forums. Given your weight issues I'd be pushing for that cpeptide test. Here is an article with a study on what happened when healthy non diabetics wore a cgm for ten days. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7296129/

You can do it with dexcom as well. I wouldn't personally be too concerned with highs, as they take time to result in serious illness, and she'll have people coming in twice a day. If she isn't cmpetent to do her own insulin I suspect that you'll have to accept that her control won't be as good...

Is 6.5 an hba1c @julieclarke ? (HBa1cs can be measured in %, so 6.5% , or mmol/mol (eg 50mmol/mol). 6.5% is the lowest level at which you get a diabetic diagnosis.) In any case, your blood sugars on this thread look mostly very good to me, (from the point of view of someone who has been...

Hello and welcome to the forums. What kind of pen are you using? I used humalog up to 18 months ago and haven't noticed an issue with a reusable pen.....

I'm a big sprout fan, but I'm lucky enough to be able to grow my own. Baby sprouts cooked as soon as they are picked are a very different prospect to the overboiled "school sprouts" which put many people off them for life when given to them as children.

Which app are you talking about? I know about dexcom (the answer is yes) but this thread appears to be about "smary watches" that can detect bg uninvasively, which so far, as far as I know, isn't possible.

I've been a G7 user for the last 2 years. Is there a reason (eg geographic) that you haven't upgraded? And yes I was recently told that my 6 year old android phone was no longer compatible. I bought an apple but only because was keen to use direct to watch which only works with apple watches...

Congrats on getting your bg down. Do you have any way to tell how much insulin is on board? I am a little concerned that you may go dangerously low.... For the future I strongly recommend getting some ketone testing blood strips (or at the very least urine). My understanding is that as a T1...

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And for those who are considering using direct to watch on an apple watch. 1) Yes, it loses connection sometimes but turning the phone and/or watch off and on seems to fix it. 2) Google apple watch dexcom complication. (Basically you can add the dexcom app to a watch face so that your bg is...

Like @Chas C I'm on the t-slim, which in my experience very much depends on you having manually set the correct-ish basal rates. When my bg goes high I have to manually add extra insulin because I become much more insulin resistant if my bg goes above 10.... (My pump assumes the insulin...

Personally I would need to eat a lot less carbs than you to go into nutritional ketosis. But you seem to be atypical in a number of ways so I guess this could be just one of them.... Is your endocrinologist absolutely certain you are LADA and not something rarer (eg MODY, T3C, etc etc)? You...

I agree with @lovinglife , cheese is my kryptonite as regards weight gain. (Still slightly heavier than my ideal weight but not enough to make me want to actively pursue weight loss strategies, just not gain back any.)

After waiting nearly a day without the temporarily fixing itsself, I tried turning my phone off and on. Working again....