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To test or not to test....

Debloubed

Debloubed

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Location
Aylesbury
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Pump
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When people say 'Pacific' instead of 'Specific' :-)
Lots of posts about test strip availability for 1's and 2's recently, so here's a classic example of why they should be available by the truck load for type 1's (that's not to say they shouldn't be available for type 2's just in slightly smaller trucks :wink: )

this morning I woke, tested and was 7.1. Fab. Approx 1.5 hours later, tested again before breakfast to find I was 13.1 (eek!) so I checked for bubbles, none found so counted breakfast carbs and bolused to cover carbs and high BG. Fab. Tested again 2 hours later, 15.6!!! checked pump, found a bubble hiding in the top part of where the tube attaches to the pump, primed it out and bolused a correction. 1 hour later, 12.9, heading in the right direction again. Just tested for lunch and I was 7.9 so back in my ball park. So, awake for 7 hours and tested 5 times already. what if I hadn't had enough to test? what if I had to miss the 2 hour post breakfast testing for fear of going over my limit of strips? Ok, so perhaps I should have found the bubble on my first check but those little blighters can be good at hiding! Hopefully I will get better at spotting them with practice. If I hadn't caught the 15.6, it could have kept on rising and then who knows what would have happened?
 
That's as good as a example as any for the need to be prescribed test strips to your own personal needs. I too can test anywhere between 5-8 times a day, but I am lucky that I don't have problems with test strips with my gp.

Nigel
 
Hi Carbsork, so how do you explain removing the 'blockage' and my BG instantly dropping and returning to normal? that's not a rhetorical question, I genuinely would like to know! :lol: I have no other explanation for the continued rise in BG, if basal was wrong then why did it go back to normal? unless it is massively wrong from the hours or 7-10am I suppose......would that have happened all of a sudden? as in one day 7-10am ok and the next, not ok?
 
blimey, I get bubbles every time! or have done thus far :P I get rid of them but they manage to get back some times! I find it hard to keep the insulin vial upright when wearing the pump so perhaps that's why? who knows, I've seen some other users have similar probs with the Accu Chek so maybe it's just a design issue....I answer no to all your other suggestions so far, so keep 'em coming! although liver dump could be the prob, but one plus of the pump I have noticed when fasting is no rise in the morning, due to basal rate? But lot os other possibilities I suppose, keeps my brain ticking over, so not such a bad thing :lol:

anyway, back to my original point, thank goodness I have a good supply of strips at the moment!!
 
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