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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Pump
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Is Degludec the new one that can last up to 72 hours…or something like that. I have 2 long acting injections as my sugar level would just rise in the evenings and so my tea time bolus was about twice of any other time in the day! It's funny but getting used the cgm I can now look at the spikes and also the dips and have a fair idea about whether it is my basal insulin causing me the problems or my bolus…and also that relationship between your basal and bolus…so I have had to increase my night time insulin because I was rising over the night and not staying level, and this meant that in the morning my bolus for breakfast has dropped quite a bit because that will be the point that my 2 long acting injections overlap the most as I inject morning and night, but then the morning basal is right, because if I reduce that then I have a 3/4pm steady rise! It is so much easier seeing it in pictures and graphs for me, I would take so much longer reacting to patterns on single finger prick tests. I am hoping for a cracking HBA1c next time I go and it will be a cracking HBA1c without loads of hypos too - which is the best bit of it!
I am hoping to go on the pump, so I won't ask about degludec as there is no point trying to persuade them for a different insulin if I have the pump and then I can hopefully work everything else out on that. I reckon the CGM will be invaluable when I start out with the pump - it will certainly help me to trust it quicker!
I use sidiary which can import readings from most devices, this then can print quite a few different results... But the hba1c suggestion it gives is almost spot on every time... Infact this last time with the DSN I showed her what I thought it would be 8.3 she went on the computer a got my result of 8.3
I have found that my levels have been much more stable since I've been on a new insulin Degludec, I was on Humulin I before which was only lasting about 12 hours.
However I had rice tonight and after about 3 hours when my Humalog wore off I've started to rise to about 8 but still not a bad reading for me, with Humulin I would have been at 15+
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Sensor prolonging tips please….I get the 1st week fine, don't need extra adhesive, but then normally around day 10 I will have some bits with ??? - I had a 2 hour patch last night and then another 2 hour patch today. I am thinking it is because of movement of the sensor (but open to any other ideas) - I had it all taped with tegaderm which was great til I saw a red rash developing under it…and had to carefully un peel it and found a beautiful red rectangle!!!! I have some skin tac wipes - do you wipe the skin or wipe the sticky on the sensor before you put it in, and then people have said if you wipe the skin be careful about leaving a hole for the sensor needle to go through???? So don't want to wreck a £50 sensor before I've even started…any tips. At the moment I am back to micropore and my meter is back (it is still accurate even when it comes back after a 2hour absence!!). I know that one side of the plaster is pretty much completely free - happened when taking off the tegaderm (which was just before the 2 sets of ???- so I am assuming that it was probably the removal of that which didn't help!)….tips please
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