We really need some testing to see what the grams of carb difference there is between an unripe and overripe banana ! I think that being in normal range suggests that there are no or very little see-sawing, and that the instability of BSLs which requires lots of corrections doses may tend to keep the see-saw going to some extent.
Also feeling better with BSLs in range is usually the less stressful state to be in. Keep up the great work !!
Just remember Screwfix isn’t a dating agencyDon’t believe it. Just went to close window in conservatory and ****** me one of the hinges is busted. Gently placed window back in the hole.
It’ll be Screwfix on the way home tomorrow for a new pair of top hung window hinges no less.
Still love the place though.
Hi @Mel dCP, I certainly find that the night basal program is pretty efficient, sometimes too efficient. At least it is easily remedied with a pump ! I wonder whether you could look at the thread 'Omnipod Issues' and provide any input, please ?
pip pip!Good morning friends
7.4 this morning so I’m pleased with that
Have a jolly decent day what
We really need some testing to see what the grams of carb difference there is between an unripe and overripe banana ! I think that being in normal range suggests that there are no or very little see-sawing, and that the instability of BSLs which requires lots of corrections doses may tend to keep the see-saw going to some extent.
Also feeling better with BSLs in range is usually the less stressful state to be in. Keep up the great work !!
I think I've had my best day of blood sugars today, since I first got T1D. So that's one out of 15,332 days.
The Freestyle Libre has to get the credit for this.
The only problem is, apart from a bit of guitar playing, and a trip to the shops, I didn't do much all day, so I was able to watch it closely. Also my blood sugar is back to behaving in a more predictable way, after a week of behaving badly, which makes it a lot easier. Which isn't really sustainable.
I suppose I could have had as a good a day at some point in those 42 years, but I very much doubt it.
Feels quite strange.
Morning everyone,
Blood sugar reasonably well behaved overnight, I corrected with an overripe banana, at one point, and it looked like it might go too high, so I did a 1u insulin correction, and that worked.
Does anyone thing there could be a possible process by which the more our blood sugars stay in normal range, that the easier it becomes to stay there?
I started wondering about this after a type 2 thread where there was a throwaway remark where someone said that their GP said to them that they have to change what they are doing because their body is used to a slightly higher blood sugar, and if they do nothing it will stay there, sort of because the body is used to it.
That's a very bad summary of what they said, and I know GPs can get things wrong, but it made me wonder if the more our blood sugars are stabilised in the normal range, the easier it becomes to keep it there.
I tried reading something about this, it was a hard google search, it focused on the role of gaba, but it was so complicated I gave up.
This is a very dodgy theory, but.............
Hi Alison, I think I am coming out in sympathy with you. Since 16.30, yesterday I have checked the Libre about 20 times and the highest reading I had was 7.4, the lowest 4.5. Like you probably the best I have ever had in over 13500 days of being type 1. The Libre does seem to be helping me and hopefully all those that have it.
If only all type 1's who want one could get one, it would surely help all of our control thus saving the NHS a small fortune on the mid to long term
That's kind of how I thought it worked. I know I can feel <4 and >11 but between those figures seems ok. Unless there's a sharp rise or fall where I feel ill no matter what the actual figures are.It could be like when we don't pick on Hypos's because we are running low, so the body gets used to it and fails to get picked up.
If you run high-ish, so lets say for arguments sake 10-13, all the time the body would get used to it but you would still have the problem of excess sugar floting about and if the sugars pushed up to say 15-20 then you may not pick up. Or BSL may drop to 8 which for them may make them feel like a hypo and so correct.
Of course, if said person then sorted all that out and ran say 9's all day then body would get used to that as well.
Just a thought.
Helensaramay I've never used a pump but I do use Lantus. I don't find any over-run beyond 24 hours and sometimes it doesn't seem to even reach that to the point where I'm talking to hcps about trying Tresiba. It may not be the same for you so you might want to be a bit cautious initially, depending on whether you prefer to correct hypos or hypers. Hope that's what you were driving at?Morning All,
As @Mel dCP is getting used to her pump, I am getting used to being disconnected. It is certainly a weird feeling and I am definitely not used to it. Last night, I got out my pump belt to strap it to my leg ... but there was nothing to strap. This morning, I did a BG test before the shower, calculated a correction and added 30 minutes basal because I would be disconnected for that long ... except I wasn't.
On the plus side, my clothes look better without their bulge and I am not having to think about dropping the pump when I go to the loo.
On the negative side, I can only correct whole units (my backup pen does not do half units) and I woke in the middle of the night with a high BG because Lantus isn't as good as a constant drip of NovoRapid (and I may have remembered my Lantus dose wrong after two and a half years).
Hopefully, all will be back to normal tomorrow.
Does anyone know if there is anything I need to consider when I reconnect?
I disconnected at 2pm and took my daily basal at that time so am planning to reconnect around about the same time.
Do I keep my doses the same or do I need to reduce them for the first day?
I like this Alison, I think I see what you're getting at. Are you talking about the physiological process that judges the amount of bg and then sends the message to the pancreas to produce insulin? Because it would make sense that if that process gets overloaded by high bg (which I presume it isn't programmed/equipped to deal with) it doesn't know what to do and therefore may malfunction/go haywire, whereas if the signals it receives are all about bg within the normal range it just ticks along as usual - the fact that the pancreas is b****red is irrelevant to this process. Have I understood you?Yeah, What I'm wondering is that there is a process that regulates blood sugar in the body, insulin is produced as a result of that process, it is not, of itself, the process, though I think cells in the pancreas are.
So if we don't produce insulin our body's ability to regulate blood sugar goes haywire.
But if we have a cgm like thing that makes the blood sugar more stable, that would mean the signals sent to the system that regulates blood sugar, aren't so weird, so does that enable it to work a little, and help with the stabilisation, albeit in a far from perfect way, as no insulin is produced.
I'm just wondering, though way above my pay grade, so I can't really find out anything.
@Circuspony I agree completely that for many the interest wears off because you, like all of us T1s, just get on with it because you have to, so it often looks as if it's no big deal. I've had T1 for over 30 years and it wasn't until my sister actually came and stayed with me for an entire week a couple of years ago that she said to me, with some amazement, 'you have to think about this all the time, don't you?' I don't think the penny had really dropped that unless you eat the same things for every meal every day (which I don't, except for breakfast - arithmetic at that time in the morning?That's kind of how I thought it worked. I know I can feel <4 and >11 but between those figures seems ok. Unless there's a sharp rise or fall where I feel ill no matter what the actual figures are.
Nearly at my 1 year anniversary so will stop being 'newly diagnosed' then. Still feel like a total novice! Sister in law round at weekend and she lost her cousin to T1 last year (died in sleep from hypo at age of 33) so she was asking me a tonne of intelligent questions about how I was doing. Mother in law listening in interrupted with 'well you LOOK fine', so obviously illnesses only count if you've got bits falling off you.
It did strike me how boring long term chronic illnesses are though. The novelty of people caring how I am and offering help etc has definitely worn off. Nowadays when they ask how I am all they want to hear is "fine" and not me waffling on about it being a bad week.To be fair I'm pretty bored of the whole thing too.
I think for people with a fully functioning pancreas we just inject a bit of insulin and crack on - I spent 40 odd years thinking T1 was that!!@Circuspony I agree completely that for many the interest wears off because you, like all of us T1s, just get on with it because you have to, so it often looks as if it's no big deal. I've had T1 for over 30 years and it wasn't until my sister actually came and stayed with me for an entire week a couple of years ago that she said to me, with some amazement, 'you have to think about this all the time, don't you?' I don't think the penny had really dropped that unless you eat the same things for every meal every day (which I don't, except for breakfast - arithmetic at that time in the morning?) there are calculations to make for whatever you eat. And yeah, it gets boring
Hi Alison, I think I am coming out in sympathy with you. Since 16.30, yesterday I have checked the Libre about 20 times and the highest reading I had was 7.4, the lowest 4.5. Like you probably the best I have ever had in over 13500 days of being type 1. The Libre does seem to be helping me and hopefully all those that have it.
If only all type 1's who want one could get one, it would surely help all of our control thus saving the NHS a small fortune on the mid to long term
I like this Alison, I think I see what you're getting at. Are you talking about the physiological process that judges the amount of bg and then sends the message to the pancreas to produce insulin? Because it would make sense that if that process gets overloaded by high bg (which I presume it isn't programmed/equipped to deal with) it doesn't know what to do and therefore may malfunction/go haywire, whereas if the signals it receives are all about bg within the normal range it just ticks along as usual - the fact that the pancreas is b****red is irrelevant to this process. Have I understood you?
I knew I should have not posted this, cos sods law says something will happen to spoil it.
I work in a large call c entre with about 2000 people with the facilities team, we look after the building etc. Running at a slightly low for me anyway, 5.2, just took my jab and of course the fire alarm goes off and we have a full building evacuation that I need to run with. I quickly find out there was a small fire which is quickly put out and fire brigade are called. This means we will be out for at least 30 minutes. After that I will need to attend a meeting to explain what caused the building to evacuate.
Luckily enough I had time to grab a couple of biccies and a couple of chocolate bars, just in case. Scoffed the biccies and that seemed to do the tick
As it happended my sensor for my Libre had just finished and I had set up the new one which was not due for another 25 minutes after fire alarm had gone off
Think I need a lie down
Wow, I'd never heard the active for up to four days idea before! Good luck when you start pumping again.Thanks @hh1
I vaguely remember when I first started pumping being told that, although the peak often drifts off in less than 24 hours, for many there is a low background amount active for up to 4 days.
I will assume this is very low and hope not to have too many hypos when I return to pumping.
As a pump is always connected and keeps track of IOB, I had lost track of how many corrections I do. Today (my first full day back on MDI), I have already used 5 needles. OK, not at @Mel dCP levels but makes me realise how much easier pumping is.
(Although some of it may be due to incorrect injection doses.)
I don't know what I'm talking about either and you've got me wondering too now!That is pretty much what I'm thinking. But obviously I have no idea what I'm talking about
I'm just wondering.
That's kind of how I thought it worked. I know I can feel <4 and >11 but between those figures seems ok. Unless there's a sharp rise or fall where I feel ill no matter what the actual figures are.
Nearly at my 1 year anniversary so will stop being 'newly diagnosed' then. Still feel like a total novice! Sister in law round at weekend and she lost her cousin to T1 last year (died in sleep from hypo at age of 33) so she was asking me a tonne of intelligent questions about how I was doing. Mother in law listening in interrupted with 'well you LOOK fine', so obviously illnesses only count if you've got bits falling off you.
It did strike me how boring long term chronic illnesses are though. The novelty of people caring how I am and offering help etc has definitely worn off. Nowadays when they ask how I am all they want to hear is "fine" and not me waffling on about it being a bad week.To be fair I'm pretty bored of the whole thing too.
Pop the early hours of 31st August into your diary for cake and wine! I think my first insulin injection was around 2amYeah it sort of, maybe, might work like that
I'm sure by now you have worked out that all of us are differnet in the way we handle things, as you are too
It is a "long term illness" not sure about classing it as 'chronic' but then again I do not seem to suffer with issues that I find many do on the forum, having said that, doing a search and I find one place that classes Type 2 Diabetese as a 'common chronic illness', so thats us off the hook
But I get where your Mother In Law (queue all the Les Dawson jokes) is comming from, I don't hide my illness, all my friends know but the way I'm when out and about and the things I eat I have had on more than one occasion "are you sure your a diabetic?"to which the reply is "Errr Yeah DUH!". But as like you I don't have bits falling off me, so too most they would think I'm OK.
T1D can be a major PITA, but with modern day tools and the amount of information avaliable out there, plus the awesome people in here, T1D is an easier thing to manage these days, certainly compaired to even 5 years ago and from this thread alone it certainly isn't boring
When you reach your 1 year aniversary I'm going to crack open a bottle of wine and have a cake and then raise a toast to you
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