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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1976943" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Deep breaths, [USER=498843]@RoseShiel[/USER] , deep breaths!</p><p></p><p>Yes, it does get easier, but how long that takes varies from person to person.</p><p></p><p>You'll go through a slew of emotions over the next few months, but the vast majority of us just kinda grow into it in stages.</p><p></p><p>It can be unpredictable at times, that's just the biology of it, but as time goes by we learn more about how insulin works and it does get a lot easier to match insulin dosing and timing to meals.</p><p></p><p>Once you get some of the basic rules under your belt, there's remarkably few restrictions food wise - I regularly go out for curries, Chinese buffets and a few beers at the weekend, although obviously being coeliac as well will make it trickier for you (sorry, I know nada about coeliac).</p><p></p><p>What you say about your heart medication masking hypos opens up some possibilities. There's small unobtrusive devices called cgm - continuous glucose monitors. They're small plastic devices about the size of a 2 pound coin, which get stuck on your arm and they then ping blood glucose readings to your phone every 5 mins. </p><p></p><p>If the app reckons your bg is dropping too low towards hypo land, the phone will ring long before you are hypo, you can then have a look at the graph and decide whether you need some glucose to tail off the drop. </p><p></p><p>It lets you stop a hypo long before it happens, or at least make it a lot milder than it would otherwise be. They do lots of other useful things too, showing a continuous 24 hr graph so you can make better judgment calls about what doses and meals work for you.</p><p></p><p>The reason I mention this is that one of the conditions for getting cgm free on prescription is if you are hypo unaware. If your heart doc was to talk with your diabetes doc and was able to confirm the heart drugs are masking hypo awareness, you might be in with a shout. If not, it's about £100 per month (a version called libre is going to be more widely available from April on script so watch this space - libre can be turned into cgm quite easily for £150).</p><p></p><p>DKA almost killed me, I was unconscious for a day. A year later, I was standing on a ski slope in the Scottish Highlands, a sunny spring day and blue skies. Not dead. Enjoying a days skiing. Being T1 was irrelevant. You'll find your mountain moment at some stage!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1976943, member: 374531"] Deep breaths, [USER=498843]@RoseShiel[/USER] , deep breaths! Yes, it does get easier, but how long that takes varies from person to person. You'll go through a slew of emotions over the next few months, but the vast majority of us just kinda grow into it in stages. It can be unpredictable at times, that's just the biology of it, but as time goes by we learn more about how insulin works and it does get a lot easier to match insulin dosing and timing to meals. Once you get some of the basic rules under your belt, there's remarkably few restrictions food wise - I regularly go out for curries, Chinese buffets and a few beers at the weekend, although obviously being coeliac as well will make it trickier for you (sorry, I know nada about coeliac). What you say about your heart medication masking hypos opens up some possibilities. There's small unobtrusive devices called cgm - continuous glucose monitors. They're small plastic devices about the size of a 2 pound coin, which get stuck on your arm and they then ping blood glucose readings to your phone every 5 mins. If the app reckons your bg is dropping too low towards hypo land, the phone will ring long before you are hypo, you can then have a look at the graph and decide whether you need some glucose to tail off the drop. It lets you stop a hypo long before it happens, or at least make it a lot milder than it would otherwise be. They do lots of other useful things too, showing a continuous 24 hr graph so you can make better judgment calls about what doses and meals work for you. The reason I mention this is that one of the conditions for getting cgm free on prescription is if you are hypo unaware. If your heart doc was to talk with your diabetes doc and was able to confirm the heart drugs are masking hypo awareness, you might be in with a shout. If not, it's about £100 per month (a version called libre is going to be more widely available from April on script so watch this space - libre can be turned into cgm quite easily for £150). DKA almost killed me, I was unconscious for a day. A year later, I was standing on a ski slope in the Scottish Highlands, a sunny spring day and blue skies. Not dead. Enjoying a days skiing. Being T1 was irrelevant. You'll find your mountain moment at some stage! [/QUOTE]
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