Preparing for holiday and completely stressed out

enzina said:

On Sunday i'm going on my first holiday since i am doing the whole T1 program. I'm so anxious, stressed and even down, i nearly wish i could stay at home. The diabetic kit is ready to go in the hand luggage, i have everything double or triple backed up.

Yesterday i have applied a new Libre sensor and it's faulty! The levels show 2-3 mmol too high, that's just no good. Now i'm testing with strips as well and wait for the sensor to stablize. I had to call Abbott quite a few times, got a replacement sensor very quickly but usually they are telling me to leave it on for 3-4 days before they replace it. I do have three spare sensors and don't know if i should apply a new one, of course these things are always happening on a weekend.

I'm going away on my own since several years and never saw it as a problem. "Only" on Lantus was easy in comparison, have travelled to the US and Middle East. On Sunday i'll go to Fuerteventura.

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Happy holiday. Ironically, the same happened to my new Libre sensor, which I put on in great haste as I was leaving for Cornwall last week. The metre was overreading and staying high. I wondered if I hurried the application and messed it up. I just used it with the Glimp App for the trend arrows, and finger pricks as I figured there were no guarantees that the next one wouldn't be the same.

Hi, @enzina , a few tips on holidaying with fast-acting:

If you're walking around a lot doing sightseeing, that counts as exercise, so might lower your bg as much as a gym session, so it's worthwhile thinking about notching back your usual meal dose a bit if you're going to be wandering around a lot.

If you're going to be drinking alcohol more than usual, remember it reduces the amount of inter-meal glucose coming from the liver by about a half, so sometimes reducing basal is a good idea, and/or having a carby snack before bed.

That whole hassle of getting to the airport, usually at ridiculous times of the day can take us so far out of usual routines, I'd let bg run a bit higher, and not bother with correction doses too much - going hypo when going through security is best avoided.

And, last but not least, if you can treat a hypo at home, you can treat a hypo anywhere in the world!

Have fun - I confidently predict that when you get back, you'll be wondering what you were worrying about!

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I remember getting on a plane for the first time after I had all my paraphernalia I want to carry with me now! Just thinking about it is enough to put my blood sugars out of whack!!

But you know what? It was worth it!!!!! Enjoy yourself!

Being ill ruins every holiday, and a diabetic's holiday even more!