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<blockquote data-quote="EllsKBells" data-source="post: 1731537" data-attributes="member: 338121"><p>Thank you for starting this thread [USER=449887]@daemoncor[/USER] - it's really helpful for me - and others - to see that actually, other people do get up into the 20s after a hypo, and that the straight lines we see from CGM are not the norm. </p><p></p><p>At the moment diabetes is feeling like a nightmare for me. My control isn't terrible, and is better than it has been in the past, since switching to Tresiba, but I feel like diabetes is about to take all my dreams away from me. I'm currently an MSc student, doing my research project, and applying for PhDs for next year, but seriously questioning whether I should be, because every time I go into the lab, my stupid pancreas decides to find a new and interesting way to ruin the day. It's unpredictable and frustrating, and I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. For instance, if my dexcom beeps that I'm going high, great, but I'm not necessarily able to do anything about it at that time, because if I only have two minutes until I need to do something, it's going to take more than that for me to take my lab coat off, remove gloves, wash hands, go out of the room, walk down to the area where the bags etc are kept, do an actual test, inject, go back again, lab coat, gloves and so on. A pump would obviously be a game changer for me, because I could literally just take one glove off and deal with it, or set a lower basal rate, if I'm doing something like cell culture, which we do in a very very hot room, which tends to make me run lower. It being all over the place every day is exhausting, and it makes me look and feel incompetent, so I'm seriously wondering if I can actually pursue a career in research, or if I need a back up plan.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for the rant!</p><p></p><p>Thanks for your stories everyone <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllsKBells, post: 1731537, member: 338121"] Thank you for starting this thread [USER=449887]@daemoncor[/USER] - it's really helpful for me - and others - to see that actually, other people do get up into the 20s after a hypo, and that the straight lines we see from CGM are not the norm. At the moment diabetes is feeling like a nightmare for me. My control isn't terrible, and is better than it has been in the past, since switching to Tresiba, but I feel like diabetes is about to take all my dreams away from me. I'm currently an MSc student, doing my research project, and applying for PhDs for next year, but seriously questioning whether I should be, because every time I go into the lab, my stupid pancreas decides to find a new and interesting way to ruin the day. It's unpredictable and frustrating, and I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. For instance, if my dexcom beeps that I'm going high, great, but I'm not necessarily able to do anything about it at that time, because if I only have two minutes until I need to do something, it's going to take more than that for me to take my lab coat off, remove gloves, wash hands, go out of the room, walk down to the area where the bags etc are kept, do an actual test, inject, go back again, lab coat, gloves and so on. A pump would obviously be a game changer for me, because I could literally just take one glove off and deal with it, or set a lower basal rate, if I'm doing something like cell culture, which we do in a very very hot room, which tends to make me run lower. It being all over the place every day is exhausting, and it makes me look and feel incompetent, so I'm seriously wondering if I can actually pursue a career in research, or if I need a back up plan. Sorry for the rant! Thanks for your stories everyone :) [/QUOTE]
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