Alison54321
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Insulin
Thank you Scott, that explains everything. I will be more careful tomorrow.
It's probably simpler than a cortisol release. If you're at rest or under slight but steady load, there will likely be a general balance between bg and ifg.
Then, if you start carting a dog up upstairs, heart rate likely goes up, the extra pressure from the faster heart rate will increase pressure in capillaries, so they'll leak more glucose out into the lower pressure interstitial fluid, which is a good thing as the muscle cells the if serves needs more glucose for carrying the pet, so libre senses the higher glucose there and reports it. Then when heart rate goes down, it balances out again.
When I first started using libre, I didn't appreciate the interplay between the two spaces - blood and interstitial fluid - and it took me a while to understand the relationship between them, the way that glucose naturally seeps out of blood into if to deliver to cells, and will do so more when heart rate goes up.
I emailed the dietician this morning and she is now on the case (again!). She thought that the appointment had been made. She is the one who is pushing for the pump for meAny joy on the phone?
But I have a mango, ready, just in case.
Hi @Alison54321, Sometimes something called (incorrect politically) masterly inactivity is the best course. A lesson it has taken me, a stubborn so'n'so, years to grasp. We learn to anticipate as you did before the walk and then afterwards with the bolus. I think we have had to adapt this way because of the relative 'sluggishness' of even the fastest short-acting insulins.No I bolused after I got back. Normally he walks a reasonable distance, but today he didn't want to walk very far, and I had to carry him back up the stairs. When I got back in my blood sugar had gone up, and that seemed to fit with not walking him very far. So I did the bolus, and then just waited a bit, and drank some coffee/
So I'm wondering if the extra exertion of carrying him up the stairs raised my blood sugar slightly, then it fell later, after I'd injected, without me realising.
During the rest of the day I take him for a walk and it'll start falling a few minutes after I come back, but that doesn't really happen in the morning, usually it's just a small drop, and seeing as I didn't walk very far, I assumed there wasn't going to be a drop.
Must have been the unscheduled weight lifting.
Hi @Mel dCP, Do you need a spare battery or charger cord for your away from the house kit ??Pod change went well, I made use of the 8 hour “grace” period after it expires (as long as it still has enough insulin) to shunt the changeover time from 1600 to 1900, as I’m more likely to be home then. Was planning on doing it at 1800, but had to wait for my new sensor to warm up! Teenaged son was most impressed with all the new tech! We took the sticky layer off this morning to have a better look at it out of curiosity, and the other pic was the one I took with my phone to make sure the cannula was in properly, I’m pretty bendy but even I can’t rest my head on my hip to check!
Hospital was fine, I was just picking up batteries for the remote, a box to send expired pods back to the manufacturer for recycling, and syringes so that if I need an injection when I’m out I don’t have to carry pens. Seems less wasteful, as I’m carrying a spare pod and bottle of NovoSluggish in my bag anyway, just in case I need to change the pod. If I take a pen out of the fridge and carry it around for a month without using it, it’s a terrible waste. A 10ml vial should last a fortnight if I put 200u in at each pod change. Pump lady said I’d done all the right things with setting up a temporary basal profile for shark week, she’s happy for me to tweak and fiddle to my heart’s content
I’ve worked out that one 3g dextrose tab raises me by 0.6mmol, so I just take enough to do the job. I’ve been told off for not taking the prescribed 15+15 before now, so just smile and nod, and keep doing what works
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