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Hello! About time I joined this forum!

EngineerMe

Active Member
Messages
25
Location
Cardiff/ Bath/ Kent
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi there! I'm 23 and have had Type 1 diabetes for 11 years now... and have only now just joined this forum!
Better late than never I suppose!

I've always tried my best to control my blood sugars but do struggle sometimes as it can change so quickly. I'm interested in getting a Freestyle libre so if I anyone has one I'd love to hear how you're getting on with it.

I'm currently a chemical engineering student (graduating next year) but my dream would be to work on diabetes related technologies or research in the future.
 
Welcome to the forum @EngineerMe, I'm sure you'll learn a lot here and be able to offer great advice too!

You'll find the most applicable advice in the Type 1 section, you can find it here:

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/type-1-diabetes.19/

We all struggle with BG management at times, it's just the way of it. The Libre is an excellent and fairly affordable tool to assist with managing your diabetes. You'll find TONNES of threads on here regarding it. I can say first hand that it helped me a lot with sorting out my overnight BG and also gave me an in depth understanding of how various foods impacted my post-prandial levels.

This following book is brilliant for us T1's (and insulin dependant T2's) - I can guarantee that if you were to read it, you'd learn so much more than you already know - even after 11 years. It's the best book I've read to date regarding diabetes management, and I never wrote it by the way

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B06XCDTPP1/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Look forward to seeing you around the forum!

Take care,
Grant
 
Thanks Grant!

That book looks really good! I'm pretty terrible at finishing books but that definitely does look worth a read!

The Freestyle libre does sound really good. I've got a diabetes checkup this week so might have a chat to them about it. At £50 every 2 weeks I don't think I could use it all the time long term (the life of a poor student ) but maybe a month or so to get my head around my trends.
 
Don't worry it's a page turner...

It's well laid out in the respect that you can use the contents page to go to the correct section. So if you wanted to remember how to calculate your I:C ratio, then you can go to the relevant section quickly from the contents. It's more of a reference tool, however it does read like a book too - wherein the author shares a lot of first hand experience and stories.

I used the Libre back to back for a couple of sensors and once everything was ironed out, I stopped using it. £100 a month is expensive and something which we all can't budget for.

Abbot have actually been issuing boxes of sensors to Clinics, so if you're lucky - you might even get one for free. I know that some forum members have done.
 
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