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Type 1'stars R Us

Well, at least it’s different from the last three nights! Woke at 2.7 after a steady downward slope since 4am rather than the steady climb of the last three. Not sure which is medically preferably but me, just as long as I’m sensible enough, I prefer a bit of rich tea on waking to dialling up some novo in the early hours. Neither as happy as a steady straight. Causes: pfft, anyone’s guess. My money’s on previous three days ‘n nights were spent warding off the various bugs floating round the waiting room at the doc surgery. Moral: DIY, if you can.
As for the Libre question, since putting the new one on 24 hours before activating they’ve been behaving impeccably from the off. Back of arm, alternate 2 weeks for each arm.
 
A heads up to anyone who uses their Libre with the Librelink app on their Android phone - this is the first sensor I've used since my phone was updated to Android 9.0 and there is a bug in scanning with the NFC if you have the sounds disabled in Librelink. If you have it set to vibrate only it gets stuck in an endless cycle of vibrating, scanning, vibrating, scanning and so on and throwing error after error on the screen to say it couldn't scan. Works fine when turning the sound back on in Librelink though which is quite annoying. I thought I was going to be stuck without the use of the app for this sensor as I'd just started it with the reader 2 minutes before. Presumably Abbott need to update their app in line with the latest Android update!

On the numbers front I seem to be having a battle to keep them down in single digits this week so I'm hoping this sensor will give me some more useful live data.
 
? List to port or starboard (naval terms, no alcohol involved)?
 
@Scott-C and @db89 Downloaded the latest verion of xDrip+ last night and it seems they have changed versious things, not fully explored it but on the homepage:



There is now a battery life for the MiaoMiao its called Tomato.
 
I'll be exploring it with you @Knikki once this sensor has warmed up I'll be putting on my Blucon (received some replacement battery covers for the one I had to drill off last month ) and giving it a whirl.
 
Knikki said:
@Scott-C and @db89 Downloaded the latest verion of xDrip+ last night and it seems they have changed versious things, not fully explored it but on the homepage:



There is now a battery life for the MiaoMiao its called Tomato.
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May the tomatoes be long lived. Pretty and impressive graph picture !!
 
Saying for the day: The weakest link in insulin's effect is getting it under the skin often enough.
With all due respect to those where it did not happen well enough.
 
slip said:
7.2 before tea last night (Chilli and rice) 3hrs later 6.7, 6.8 before bed and then 6.4 this morning !

I'm not saying another word either!
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I am going to tempt fate and say REALLY well done, especially after rice and chilli
I am currently glued to a 7.1 and my etch-a-sketch looks amazeballs
 
Well, here goes.. after a spot of fiddling with the Bluetooth connection I finally got the Blucon to show up as bonded in Status, it's started collecting and I've fed it one actual blood test to calibrate from (plus another correction dose - sigh).




Have to learn how it all works now - like a kid at Christmas
 
Hat tip, again, to Dr Fraser Gibb at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for tweeting some more pretty pictures of the impact of libre in the real world:

https://mobile.twitter.com/drfrasergibb/status/1036926184230141953

I'd posted a couple of weeks back about one of his earlier tweets graphing results for about 100 patients.

This newer one looks at 320 patients now that libre has been on script for a bit longer here in NHS Lothian and more of us have been in for 6 month checkups and had an updated a1c done

It's pretty impressive: out of 320, the number of people now coming in below a1c of 48 has almost doubled from 33 to 60, and those who were above 75 has more than halved from 54 to 25.

Maybe it's just the novelty of a new toy and this won't last after the initial enthusiasm wears off, but it's all looking pretty good so far.

 
Libre (plus the toys) is truly fabulous, for those of us for whom it works. Can you spot where I had a nice hot bath?



Had a great night’s sleep, the tweaks I’ve made to my basal rate seem to have stopped the 1&5am alarms, although I awoke around 9 in the low fours. Etch-a-Sketch shows I’d started dropping around 0730, so have reduced it a little from 0630 - let’s see what tomorrow brings.

Off to my retinopathy screen this afternoon, so did all my close-up work this morning! Been making a slate sign as a wedding present engraved with the couple’s favourite song lyrics, plus a new “please close the gate” one for my front gate. We have the back half of a bigger house, and the pathway leading to it looks like just an alleyway, and our gate is constantly left open by delivery people. This has led to people flytipping out there, including piles of gravel+dogpoo which someone nearby is clearly just shovelling up from somewhere and dumping.

Hope you all have a smooth Friday. My pod need changing tonight, but I may have cut it a bit fine with how much insulin I’ve loaded the current one with, wonder if it’ll alarm during the scan?
 
Currently sat in my car (not driving, engine off). 2.9 and dropping. Stuffing my face.

Rollercoaster of a day. Woke up on 14.3 (I blame last nights take out ai guesstimated for) and apparently I was high for most of the night but must have slept through any alarms because I was that drained.

Ridiculously low iron levels and low thyroid levels at the moment so feel exhausted. Swinging from highs to lows- doesn’t help with the exhaustion. Sooo drained. Need my bed.

Liver on the menu tomorrow- my mum
used to cook it all the time as she was anaemic too-but I have never tried it (don’t eat much meat). It’s meant to be a great iron source?

Anyone else suffer from hypothyroidism and anaemia as well as T1?

Edit: Bloods seem to be rising. Wish they would hurry up. My body clearly doesn’t know I have a food shop and cooking to do.
 
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