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Type 1'stars R Us

Mel dCP said:
As my teenager would say, “well then”. Blood test was easy, did the usual ball of cotton wool and a bit of tape over the hole while I walked to the car, and drove a couple of miles into town. Noticed the gearstick felt wet, looked down to find this... :depressed: Luckily I had a long sleeved jacket to chuck over the carnage while I went shopping. Clearly I was a bit too juicy today!

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And when I got home I made ‘prawnslaw” - a 150g pack of king prawns mixed with a citrus mayo (Hellmanns, yuzu, pink salt, black pepper and some dried seaweed) and a 300g pack of beansprouts. Was soooooo nice.

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Shower next to wash the blood off, and prep a new Libre site. Going to try on on my upper chest to give my arm a break. Then a 21st birthday party later...
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Oh gosh Mel looks like you got the lead role on a slasher/ horror film

Enjoy your party
 
@Mel dCP thats a bleeding nuance - someone had to say it!

So 9.2 before breakfast, 5.9 mid morning and 6.9 before lunch, so seem to be cruising along nicely, until I do another test! (what I can't see won't hurt me, right? :playful: )

OK so just just another test 8.3 3 hrs after lunch and apparently still 4u IOB - lets see where I end up in about 1.5hrs when I should be going home.
 
Those prawns look delicious @Mel dCP - I could be biased though as they're my favourite! :D

Decent day today - bit of a spike and correction with an extra unit after my porridge this morning. Though my lunch of spicy chicken pasta has left me cruising along fairly flattish this afternoon. Libre has started under reading drifting beyond 2mmol today but I'm not as concerned about it as xDrip+ keeps recalibrating. Weekend of F1 to look forward to as well which is improving my mood after a frankly manic week.
 
Afternoon. Slight dip into the mid threes while doing some gardening, I did my usual 50% over two hour bolus for my prawns. Perhaps I should have just sat on the sofa watching Jeremy Kyle...

Partying with our local Plaid Cymru bunch tonight, at the local rugby club, which just happens to be a hundred yards from my front door. Could get messy.
 
Not been on much since my 6 monthly check which left me completely deflated. Although my HB had come down slightly considering the effort I put in was very disappointed. So the story of last 10 days.........

For around 35 years with my type 1 I trundled along not paying as much attention as i should to my condition. A few years ago I started putting in more effort, more testing. At end of April this year I went on DAFNE course and what an eye opener. Since then its been lots of effort watching what I am eating lots more testing and doing correction doses, something I had never done previously

I also started low carbing of sorts. Mon--Fri all I would have was cereal for brekkie, salads or soup for lunch, so around 40 g carbs and 20 g carbs then dinner. I had completeley cut out bread, potatoes rice and pasta, so dinner was chicken, meat, etc with loads of veg so typically 20 g of carbs. On the plus side I managed to lose around 4 kg in first few months though I have since put 1kg back

At weekends I need my cereal, 40 g my 2 bacon rolls for lunch, 60g and my chinese, or Indian meal with rice so around 120g of carbs

In June I got my Libre and I love it, sort of

I was finding on many occasions however that i was going to bed with a BG of 6 and waking up at 4 with a BG of 7.5 then by 6.30 it could be hitting 11 or 12. Dawn phenomenon. Sometimes I would take a correction, sometimes it worked others it did not

My ratios are quite high on Novorapid breakfast is 1:4 lunch and dinner is 1:5, with Levemir morning and before bed

Once I have my breakfast and lunch in particular my BG would go up from say 7 and rise to 12 before dropping back to 7 at lunchtime. After lunch same again going from 7 and up to 12 before dropping down to 6 or 7 at dinner.
This would mean my average glucose for the day was sitting anywhere between 8.4 and 8.9 according to my Libre

Because of my disappointment 10 days ago with my HB1AC I decided to still have same breakfast and lunch but at dinner have some potoato or rice, adjusting Novorapid. My overnights BG improved greatly with fairly flat lines overnight.

Guess what my BG has improved to the point for the first time ever this morning my average BG showed for the last 7 days as 7.8. Whoooooo Hoooooooo a milestone for me. Maybe not the great BG you guys can get but for me that was a major milestone.

And how did I celebrate, went to bed on a 6.7 woke up at 2.30 with a 7.7, took small correction dose and woke up to 12.2. Had brekkie and correction dose at 7am, by 10 am sitting at 13.6, another large correction dose and finally at 12.30 down to 6.9. Of course this has bu ggered up my 7 days average glucose and I am back to 8.0 :(

Oh well back to drawing board

PS hope you are still awake after reading my life story
 
smc4761 said:
Not been on much since my 6 monthly check which left me completely deflated. Although my HB had come down slightly considering the effort I put in was very disappointed. So the story of last 10 days.........

For around 35 years with my type 1 I trundled along not paying as much attention as i should to my condition. A few years ago I started putting in more effort, more testing. At end of April this year I went on DAFNE course and what an eye opener. Since then its been lots of effort watching what I am eating lots more testing and doing correction doses, something I had never done previously

I also started low carbing of sorts. Mon--Fri all I would have was cereal for brekkie, salads or soup for lunch, so around 40 g carbs and 20 g carbs then dinner. I had completeley cut out bread, potatoes rice and pasta, so dinner was chicken, meat, etc with loads of veg so typically 20 g of carbs. On the plus side I managed to lose around 4 kg in first few months though I have since put 1kg back

At weekends I need my cereal, 40 g my 2 bacon rolls for lunch, 60g and my chinese, or Indian meal with rice so around 120g of carbs

In June I got my Libre and I love it, sort of

I was finding on many occasions however that i was going to bed with a BG of 6 and waking up at 4 with a BG of 7.5 then by 6.30 it could be hitting 11 or 12. Dawn phenomenon. Sometimes I would take a correction, sometimes it worked others it did not

My ratios are quite high on Novorapid breakfast is 1:4 lunch and dinner is 1:5, with Levemir morning and before bed

Once I have my breakfast and lunch in particular my BG would go up from say 7 and rise to 12 before dropping back to 7 at lunchtime. After lunch same again going from 7 and up to 12 before dropping down to 6 or 7 at dinner.
This would mean my average glucose for the day was sitting anywhere between 8.4 and 8.9 according to my Libre

Because of my disappointment 10 days ago with my HB1AC I decided to still have same breakfast and lunch but at dinner have some potoato or rice, adjusting Novorapid. My overnights BG improved greatly with fairly flat lines overnight.

Guess what my BG has improved to the point for the first time ever this morning my average BG showed for the last 7 days as 7.8. Whoooooo Hoooooooo a milestone for me. Maybe not the great BG you guys can get but for me that was a major milestone.

And how did I celebrate, went to bed on a 6.7 woke up at 2.30 with a 7.7, took small correction dose and woke up to 12.2. Had brekkie and correction dose at 7am, by 10 am sitting at 13.6, another large correction dose and finally at 12.30 down to 6.9. Of course this has bu ggered up my 7 days average glucose and I am back to 8.0 :(

Oh well back to drawing board

PS hope you are still awake after reading my life story
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Good to see you back @smc4761 I was wondering where you were. A week of good blood sugars is very good progress, if you can do it once you can do it again. After a week the gremlin will always come and mess things up, it's just what happens. But you can chase the gremlin away and get back to that good average.

I don't think everyone here has really good blood sugars, certainly not all the time. The libre is great but it takes a while to work out how to use the information it gives us, it's an awful lot of trial and error.

When I first got mine my average blood sugar went up in the first few weeks, because I'd reduced the severity of the hypos. It took quite a while to start getting better numbers.

Don't be too disheartened by doctors, you weren't given a very positive message, it was quite negative really, which does happen sometimes, it happens too often really.

Keep on keeping on, you're doing great.
 
smc4761 said:
Not been on much since my 6 monthly check which left me completely deflated. Although my HB had come down slightly considering the effort I put in was very disappointed. So the story of last 10 days.........

For around 35 years with my type 1 I trundled along not paying as much attention as i should to my condition. A few years ago I started putting in more effort, more testing. At end of April this year I went on DAFNE course and what an eye opener. Since then its been lots of effort watching what I am eating lots more testing and doing correction doses, something I had never done previously

I also started low carbing of sorts. Mon--Fri all I would have was cereal for brekkie, salads or soup for lunch, so around 40 g carbs and 20 g carbs then dinner. I had completeley cut out bread, potatoes rice and pasta, so dinner was chicken, meat, etc with loads of veg so typically 20 g of carbs. On the plus side I managed to lose around 4 kg in first few months though I have since put 1kg back

At weekends I need my cereal, 40 g my 2 bacon rolls for lunch, 60g and my chinese, or Indian meal with rice so around 120g of carbs

In June I got my Libre and I love it, sort of

I was finding on many occasions however that i was going to bed with a BG of 6 and waking up at 4 with a BG of 7.5 then by 6.30 it could be hitting 11 or 12. Dawn phenomenon. Sometimes I would take a correction, sometimes it worked others it did not

My ratios are quite high on Novorapid breakfast is 1:4 lunch and dinner is 1:5, with Levemir morning and before bed

Once I have my breakfast and lunch in particular my BG would go up from say 7 and rise to 12 before dropping back to 7 at lunchtime. After lunch same again going from 7 and up to 12 before dropping down to 6 or 7 at dinner.
This would mean my average glucose for the day was sitting anywhere between 8.4 and 8.9 according to my Libre

Because of my disappointment 10 days ago with my HB1AC I decided to still have same breakfast and lunch but at dinner have some potoato or rice, adjusting Novorapid. My overnights BG improved greatly with fairly flat lines overnight.

Guess what my BG has improved to the point for the first time ever this morning my average BG showed for the last 7 days as 7.8. Whoooooo Hoooooooo a milestone for me. Maybe not the great BG you guys can get but for me that was a major milestone.

And how did I celebrate, went to bed on a 6.7 woke up at 2.30 with a 7.7, took small correction dose and woke up to 12.2. Had brekkie and correction dose at 7am, by 10 am sitting at 13.6, another large correction dose and finally at 12.30 down to 6.9. Of course this has bu ggered up my 7 days average glucose and I am back to 8.0 :(

Oh well back to drawing board

PS hope you are still awake after reading my life story
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DAFNE course I attended I found very useful and informative

Good luck with your on going battle
 
Flipping heck... I've finally settled down after discovering what happens if I give an extra unit of basal in the morning. At least, I think that's what happened - the pen was being awkward. I'm sure I heard 11 clicks rather than the usual 10 this morning as I injected, even if I'm pretty certain I counted the usual 10 units before I started.

So, I had a bit more breakfast, a unit less of Novorapid, walked a little less - and arrived at work on a 3.5! Got that back up to a more sensible number, and remained up, however, I've been on the lower side all day. Luckily a less active day than the previous two!

Arrive home early, being it's Friday and I leave work a bit earlier, to a 4.1 so I shoved food in the oven ( veggie sausage and jacket potato with some salad as quick and easy) so I can go for a walk later in the evening rather than before eating which was Plan A-ish. Just spent the hour after the walk coaxing things back up from a 3.7.

Then to add to all that lot of entertainment I discover the trains I need for Sunday are all disrupted by not one, but two sets of Rail Replacement Buses, thus making it totally impossible to get to where I need to on time. That's every single train journey I've planned for this year messed up by either engineering works or disputes. At least the reason for the second set of RRB is more unusual - a derailed freight train! I am so thankful I no longer used that route for commuting.
 
slip said:
@smc4761 get real! We all have ‘excursions’:woot:

As for the post meal rises, have you looked at pre-bolusing?

Welcome back!
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I do pre bolus. In the past that has been about 10 mins or so before meals, now doing at least 20-30 minutes before meals but makes little difference.

What is sooooooo frustrating, and I know you guys all have the same experiences, is we can inject at same times, eat same things do the same activity, yet 1 day we are fine, the next low the next high. Defo keeps us on our toes.

Night night wonderful peeps
 
helensaramay said:
Yep. Diabetes would be much easier if our BG was only affected by carbs.
You think you’ve got it sussed then Bamm! You miss the bus and end up walking/running further, your boss decides you need “a challenge” and you end up getting stressed, you celebrate a good day with a glass (or two) of wine, the sun is out so it’s warmer, the weather turns and it’s colder, you fancy/deserve a lie in, the moon is in the third phase of ascendency, you wore red today, your lipstick wears off too early, your friend has the cutest puppy, your Mum calls when you in the middle of cooking, the comedian on the telly was so funny you nearly pee yourself, the bake off cakes tonight look amazing, ...
Some may think some of these things don’t matter but diabetes is so fickle, I am pretty sure they all affect our BG.
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Our bodies are like orchestras with miscreant players, yesterday's sound and recording differs from today's. What to do ? Make a mobile of CDs?
 
helensaramay said:
Yep. Diabetes would be much easier if our BG was only affected by carbs.
You think you’ve got it sussed then Bamm! You miss the bus and end up walking/running further, your boss decides you need “a challenge” and you end up getting stressed, you celebrate a good day with a glass (or two) of wine, the sun is out so it’s warmer, the weather turns and it’s colder, you fancy/deserve a lie in, the moon is in the third phase of ascendency, you wore red today, your lipstick wears off too early, your friend has the cutest puppy, your Mum calls when you in the middle of cooking, the comedian on the telly was so funny you nearly pee yourself, the bake off cakes tonight look amazing, ...
Some may think some of these things don’t matter but diabetes is so fickle, I am pretty sure they all affect our BG.
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In other words, we're humans. :)
 
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