I had an interesting day today. I left home at 7:45 am for a workday, only returning at 7:30 pm.
Upon arriving at the bridge where I work I found out I had forgotten my phone, so no access to CGM for the day.
I'm utterly spoilt, having used Libre almost from the start of my diabetes unlike many of you, so this vey much felt like flying blind even though I did have my meter.
The problem with that is that I only get a limited amount of teststrips funded, so I wanted to use as little as possible. I managed to fight the urge to randomly test all the time just because I'm so used to knowing what my bg is doing all day, and only used 2 teststrips in the end.
Now I'm wondering how other T1's deal with suddenly losing access to their CGM. For me it was mildly stressful, and I did a lot of thinking, trying to reason with myself on what range my number would likely be in and if I needed to check with a fingerprick already or not.
I also laughed at myself a lot for overthinking, and because I like to laugh at me when I do something mildly stupid like forgetting my phone.
So how do you act when you suddenly find yourself without a CGM?
(I'm on MDI by the way.)
More details and how it worked out on this thread. It's a food thread so my post is rather heavy on the food part of my day, and with that thread mostly visited by T2's the insulin decisions aren't very relevant:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/what-have-you-eaten-parallel-chat.177870/post-2783044