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    BG Riding High During The Night.....

    Afternoon All, As you can see for my signature below I'm using the Medtronic Closed Loop Set Up, it's all big & clever and my bloods have been lower than they have even been. One of the best parts of this is that during the night my blood reading usually are about...
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    New Cannula Issues.....

    Afternoon All, It doesn't happen every time, but maybe 1/3 or 1/4 times when I place a new cannula on my stomach, my BG levels shoot up (to between 12/15mmol/L) for a few hours and eventually corrects itself. I'm just not sure why, maybe some infusion site issues ...
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    Medtronic 780G Pump & Guardian 4 Sensor (Closed Loop System) Temp Target ?

    Hi all, Have been on this closed loop system since Nov 2022, and all in all am very impressed!! For the last 30 days I'm 83% in range (+3.9 / -10.0mmol/L) and my average blood sugar reading is 4.5mmol/L. That's assuming I'm reading the tech correctly....... Yes, the...
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    How Many Carbs.....

    do you have a day ? After reading the v interesting thread here :- http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/low-carb-diets-and-diabetes-uk.51623/ I thought I'd pose this question to our forum. 30 or 300 or no doubt somewhere in between....... Checking via the myfitnesspal app I'm averaging...
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    Milk ??

    As I'm now carb counting I just wondered what other people do regarding drinking milk. The type I have is about 4.7 carbs per 100ml all of which are sugars. So what do you do ? Do you have a jab of bolus (quick acting) insulin or just no insulin because it's all sugar that will spike your...
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    "Private" DN ???

    Was just wondering if anybody sees a Diabetic Nurse NOT via the NHS ?? Does anybody pay for one "privately" like through BUPA or somebody like that ? My DN is just fine but I get the impression she is spread a bit thin and just doesn't have the time to look at my data as much as I would...
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    I've Read Here......

    that (depending where you live in the Uk) some Type 2's have to buy their own blood meter / strips. Well I have a spare meter right now that I have no use for & was wondering is there a Charity of some type where I could send this meter and hopefully help somebody out......
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    Is this On The Market ????

    Please excuse me for my lack of knowledge on this subject, in fact what I'm posting here may well indeed be incorrect. Ok, we have the Omnipod http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetic-prod ... -pump.html A pump which is tube free, WoW how good is that ?? Secondly, we have the G4 CGM...
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    Carb Counting Apps......

    I've recently started carb counting using the Accu-Chek Aviva Expert meter. My blood levels are running a bit high but it's early doors & no doubt the insulin ratio will change when more data has been produced. Carb counting has been easy at home, I was given the "Carbs & Cals" book and adding...
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    Must I Do As I'm Told ???

    Hello everyone :wink: Just a bit of background info, I'm a type1 Diabetic taking Humalog & Lantus insulin. I live in Staffordshire in England 8) Yesterday I received a letter from my Doctor stating that "in accordance with local NHS guidelines" that I must now use the GlucoRx Nexus meter...