long-acting insulin gremlin ?
Can I just say, to those of you who are admitting daft moments after so many years in, it's really reassuring for me as a newbie of just 6 months and a week (but who's counting?!) on insulin! Helps me feel not so bad about my mishaps in this learning process, and about accepting it's going to be a life-long learning process as well!!
Just got back from the Maxillofacial clinic at the hospital - all well with the trigeminal neuralgia for now, since I got my levels down to pretty much normal, I’m only getting the odd twinge, maybe a 5/10 on the pain scale once a week instead of the 23/10 I was getting every time I salivated before. She want to feature my case in a presentation she’s giving at a conference, which is all good fun. While I’ve featured in published scientific conference proceedings as a speaker, I’ve never been the subject before
I also got the last few years of HbA1c results, that wasn’t pretty... hugest was 131
Hi peeps, just looking for a wee bit of advice from you lovely people. No matter when I take my Novorapid, 20/30 mins before food, my BG is still rising by about 4 or 5 steps. It will drop back to fairly good levels after about 4/5 hours.
example today before lunch 7.5, waited 30 mins right amount of carbs for insulin and 2 hours later its at 12.2. Its now heading down, sitting at 9.9 about an hour after my 12.2 and by 6 oclock I expect to be around 7.
its the same with breakfast as well
Any thoughts?
Thanks Chris, after many years of running at probably 9 and 10, I have set myself some goals to bring it down gradually. My last Hba1C was 67, that was in March. The one before that was 78
I have an appointment in 2 weeks at diabetic clinic and I am hoping to bring that down to 60. Baby steps. Ultimately my aim is for around 54 and to feel comfortable with a BG of 6 ish
I find that I am OK in work at home, where I have good control of the situation, should I run low. I have a real fear of hypos, had a few bad experiences, so probably tend to err on the high side
When I am out and about at weekends usually to fairly far flung places, with my birdwatching/photography, I will run high. The libre though has given me much more control, perhaps I just to have more faith in my carb counting/insulin dose
This forum and the advice form the guys and gals here has defo helped me take a bit more control
I'm walking down to George Street this afternoon, as I spent my Edinburgh Festival budget...
Ooh birdwatching is our thing. Where is your favourite place?
Still messing with the setting...
Thank you @kev-w, I did not know this about Skybury. I shall look out for it.Good morning y'all, or not so good for me, 2.6 on the Libre and 2.7 on a finger stick so I'm cursing zoo animals right now as it's self inflicted, as I had a 1u correction jab with supper as I appeared to be trending upwards at bedtime. Actually no, I didn't appear to trend up, I didn't look at the gingerbead man and the high point I corrected for must have been the high point, which in year 35 is a daft mistake to make.
But hey, who's counting
@kitedoc What I meantwas that 'Skybury' coffee is grown in Oz near Cairns.
I'm still messing with the settings a year into it!
I've not found it yet, but there's apparently an Easter Egg hidden in the xDrip+ settings which lets you play retro versions of Asteroids and Space Invaders on top of your cgm trace...
Had a day off today, so popped in today to see Jade Byrne's show Pricks at the Pleasance Courtyard. It's about her 28 yrs of T1.
If you can rake another £11 out of the Festival budget, it was pretty good. Only on for another two days, afternoon 2:15.
Bit of North East humour and some dark stuff. I've always found it difficult to explain to non-T1s what a deep hypo is like. Jade does a 5 min piece on it towards the end which really brings home the intensity, mental confusion and doom of a sub-1.5 - won't say any more as don't want to do a spoiler!
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/pricks
good morning y'all4.1 waking so I just got up in time, I can't go to the Dr and moan " don't like this stuff 'cos it won't let me have a lie in of a weekend" I don't think
Yesterday worked out ok once I'd been up a while, down side to the day was no messing with the guitar last night as the crested porcupine rabbit bit me on the end of my index finger when I fed him some spinach, the little sheetso that's Harry rabbit 12 - Kev 0 biting the hand that feeds him...
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