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hh1 said:
Oh well done @Robinredbreast, it's a step in the right direction. It's hard to be different when you're that age.
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She was diagnosed at 2 1/2 years and yesterday we were talking about how she was diagnosed and she said she doesn't know anything different than having diabetes, I just hope she gets through the teenage years relatively unscathed.
 
Knikki said:
Must admit I am thinking about going back to injecting in my leg, just not sure if the 4mm needs will get through the trousers and the leg and I guess doing that would be a one shot only needle use.
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I think they still do 5, 6, 8 mm needles. I was on 8 mm needles before and then my DSN said, what on earth are you on 8 mm for, they are far too long, so I was put on 4mm.
 
Japes said:
Currently sitting with my feet on a soothing ice pack after a 22.8 miles walk with not one single double figure or sub 4 number all day. (at least, not that showed up on the hourly tests I do on a long walk day!) That's in a day with a humungous slice of carrot cake, two packets of crisps, three Nakd bars, an egg, cheese and mushroom muffin, two apricots and a large handful of strawberries. I'm well chuffed with myself, as I'd been missing really long walk days, but hadn't been getting the balance of food/insulin right for them at all recently.

It seems, for now, spreading out the carbs across the walking day and having half the insulin I'd have usually for those until about 3.00 p.m. worked well, then having 10/15 grams every hour or so until I got home. I landed in on 4.9!
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And two apricots! Very well done walking all that way and neither hypoing nor spiking.
 
Robinredbreast said:
I think they still do 5, 6, 8 mm needles. I was on 8 mm needles before and then my DSN said, what on earth are you on 8 mm for, they are far too long, so I was put on 4mm.
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Lucky for me, I've only used 4mm except for when I went to Spain and forgot to take enough.. managed to buy 5mm with no real difference. 8mm sounds toooooo big
 
8mm needles are awful to use, I remember my doctor had to change my brand of needles from BD microfine 5mm to cheaper brand of 8mm needles. I don't know what he was thinking but 8mm needles kept bending on me and it was difficult to inject with, also more painful. I'm glad the doctors here are okay with prescribing BD microfine because I know a few CCGs have ordered gp surgeries to change brands of medical items.
 
Morning folks, I have been enjoying NOT the joys of type 1, riding the enormous rollercoaster of high and low.

I am very much a desk jockey, all i do all week is sit on my butt and look at spreadsheets. So how i thought i would manage to build a 4m x4m decking without having interesting BG is beyond me. The work involved considerable more digging and heavy lifting than i had anticipated, the wood alone weighed over 760kg

Even after having additional carbs and a drastically reduced Basal after the first 2 hours my BG dropped dramatically. Topped up with some cola and some biscuits, which raised it slightly before dropping back quickly. So complete disconnect of pump for 4 hours whilst i worked away and BG remained fairly decent at BG 8.3.

Put pump back on had lunch which i bolused for and was on reduced basal. Continued working and checked BG about 1.5 hours later, oooooooooooooooops BG 21.2 . Had a small bolus and increased Basal slightly and a few hours later back to BG of 8.3 A further hour later down to BG 3.8. So more carbs and decided to call it a day, I had been working in rain for over 4 hours now. Of course BG shoots away up again to BG of 16.2

On the plus side the frame is in place, just need to add Noggins and the top boards which should be a lot lighter work, so hopefully less issues

I could NEVER be a manual worker with type 1
 
I've noticed something different about fiasp. At first I thought I was crazy but the colour of the cartridge has changed. It was red and yellow and now it's this puke yellow green colour. A tad light then Tresiba. I quite liked it when it was red and yellow.
 
Going out with 5 friends for dinner tonight as a birthday surprise for my best friend :) Usually her birthday parties are of the lots of alcohol and possibly some illegal party boosters kind, but she's very happily pregnant now so this seemed like a good plan to make up for her missed party. She never goes to restaurants so she feels very uncomfortable in any place where there's more than one fork next to your plate. We want her to feel happy, loved and birthday-like, not uncomfortable, so we chose an all-you-can-eat-place with Spanish tapas :hungry: She doesn't know yet she'll be going out for dinner tonight, which spares her being nervous about it and I love surprises :)
I'm going to be seriously overeating on lots of mystery carbs and enjoy every bit of it.
Eat that, diabetes!
 
Antje77 said:
So it looks like you got some pretty old penfills. Are they still in date?
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Fortunately in date until 11/2019. I know a few months ago they had to recall a batch of fiasp flex pens. My bf and I spent most of the afternoon looking for fiasp and I didn't realise about the colour until this morning. I haven't noticed any high readings or site reaction.
 
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