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Type 1'stars R Us

@Fairygodmother the last bit's one of my facebook window cleaning lines, for giggles on a windy day, but thanks for the suggestion, I was lucky as it happens, stupid but lucky, having missed my swim I dawdled, then pot the bike in the back of the car, planned to try a chemist on route to town and park on the outskirts and cycle in if needs be, but anyway, the chemist at the end of my street RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO THE POOL AND SPORTS CENTRE I remembered it when I drove by, remembered I'd an item to collect from my usual chemist so drove in a loop, got the owed script and struck lucky at the one nearest me.
Downside's a spike to 10 as I ate but didn't cycle, so I've had 1u and am going to the gym shortly.

Dunno what to have for tea yet :)
 
Well, while we're all waiting for news of Knikki's nuptials, I was having a glance at the number of times this thread has been viewed - jeepers, it's up to about 411,000!

I wonder if there's some sort of prize if it gets to half a million....
 
It would appear walking three miles home, with the wind in my face all the way and the last mile uphill, can drop me from a 12 to 3.1.

I've been forcibly reminded windy weather sends most of my students and a significant number of my colleagues quite wild. Never mind, it's weekend here we come once I've been food shopping! (Plus, the 3.1 situation is happily resolved and settled. 6.6 last time I checked.)
 
I was at hospital about a month ago for my 6 monthly check. Doc thought it best that with my wayward BG, going on a pump would be best. After 37 years of injections I am running out of good areas of my bod to inject, legs arms and stomach are a bit lumpy. So I get all excited and says in our area there is a budget for 30 pumps per year ( the population is around 650 000) and it may take up to 2 years. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Got a surprise this morning, letter through advising I have an appointment at end of October at the diabetic pump clinic at a different hospital than I usually go to.

I assume that this may be the start of the process to see if I may be suitable.

Has anyone else gone through a similar experience and if so approx how long did it take.

Thanks
 
Scott-C said:
Well, while we're all waiting for news of Knikki's nuptials, I was having a glance at the number of times this thread has been viewed - jeepers, it's up to about 411,000!

I wonder if there's some sort of prize if it gets to half a million....
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I’m seriously hoping we hear nothing from @Knikki tonight. Let us hope his time is spent trying to keep things up;). Blood sugars can drop rapidly on days like these:).

A prize???????......... don’t hold your breath:)
 
therower said:
I’m seriously hoping we hear nothing from @Knikki tonight. Let us hope his time is spent trying to keep things up;). Blood sugars can drop rapidly on days like these:).

A prize???????......... don’t hold your breath:)
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Lol, there's probably an, "as the actress said to the bishop" reply to bits of that, but I'll leave it....
 
Alison54321 said:
There are only 4 days left on my current libre sensor, that went quickly.

Has libre speeded up time, and made it go faster? Is the time between sensors now the correct measurement of time?
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Mine just ran out today and I discovered a hidden feature of the Blucon (and I presume MiaoMiao) - it's still reading it nearly 10 hours later. Got another one in my other arm settling so I'm taking whatever extra I can get for now

This week has flown by so it might be that - doesn't seem any length of time since I got my 3 day warning on this sensor.
 
db89 said:
Mine just ran out today and I discovered a hidden feature of the Blucon (and I presume MiaoMiao) - it's still reading it nearly 10 hours later. Got another one in my other arm settling so I'm taking whatever extra I can get for now

This week has flown by so it might be that - doesn't seem any length of time since I got my 3 day warning on this sensor.
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You've just reminded me to put a sensor in for tomorrow, as the current one's about to run out. So thanks!
 
db89 said:
it's still reading it nearly 10 hours later
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Lol, db89, that takes me back to when I first used it!

I can't remember now whether it's the blucon or xdrip, probably xdrip, but it pulls another 12 hrs out of libre and then end of.

First time I saw it happening, I was thinking, godarn, it's still running - for how long, a day, a week? But, nah, 12 hrs then that's it.

I was paying for libre back then, so it was a big deal getting more out of it. I'm on script now, but I still run the extra 12 hours just on a point of principle - don't chuck away some free stuff.

There's a point I forgot to mention to do with changing sensors when using xdrip and blucon.

We've got the calibration gig in xdrip. It calibrates with the sensor you're using. Change the sensor, what happens next?

You put blucon on the new sensor, it'll pick up on the next 5 min read and send to the phone. Blucon has no idea it's on top of a new sensor.

I don't know to what extent xdrip reads back to look at much earlier calibrations.

Maybe it makes no difference at all if you've got a day old new sensor but still have two week old readings on the calibration graph.

Because I'm not sure about that, I err on the side of caution and clean out the calibration graph at the start of each new sensor so that the whole show is starting afresh. I'll do that sometimes too if the current sensor is sketchy and takes time to settle.

Couple of pics to illustrate. Go into Settings, Stop Sensor, click "Don't stop, just reset all calibrations".

That cleans out earlier cals which you've done for earlier sensors so you get a brand new graph for the new sensor to work from.

It then asks you for a couple of new bg readings.

If that's not done, you just end up with an incoherent cloud of white dots from weeks worth of earlier sensors. Like I say, I don't know whether it actually makes a difference - maybe it ignores much earlier ones, I don't know.

There's also the calibration data table to play with. You can long press to delete dubious cals, but I'm just playing guessing games with the utility of that at the moment.

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Heck, @Scott-C, I couldn't decide whether to mark that post with an Informative or a Useful. :D

So if it's 12 hours that means I have about an hour left before I need to start the new one - thanks for clarifying how long it will last for. I hadn't yet got to the point of moving on to the next sensor in xDrip but some research I did earlier in the day suggested that using 'Stop Sensor' when removing it will also reset all the calibrations whereas the 'Just Reset' option is useful for when you feel the sensor's calibration is dodgy or has drifted incorrectly. I shall try it later and see what happens.

As an aside and as mentioned in Knikki's thread from earlier this week I'd be pretty lost without the calibration feature as my sensors seem to be drifting further and further out in the second week. Hours before this one officially stopped this morning it had been reading 4-5mmol lower over the previous 24 hours. So when I was in range, it thought I was hypo and then perfectly in range when I was actually in lower double figures. I'm hoping it's just these couple of sensors as the first one I tried some months ago didn't drift this far. Abbott replace the previous one but with xDrip I haven't been as bothered about this one. Something I really hope they address or improve whenever they come out with the next iteration of the Libre in the future.
 
kev-w said:
Quick question regarding which chemists sell Tegaderm patches? My local Boots is out of stock, I can go to the town one to see if they've got any but do say 'Lloyds' sell them or anywhere does anyone know?

I've a new sensor put on last night, no patch so thought I'd grab a couple just then whilst paying bills before swimming :( no patch no swim :( so a cycle to town's maybe not a bad idea as exercise replacement but it's currently persisting down and I maybe don't need the exercise that much :p
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I bought a load but don’t like them, they’re yours if you’d like them?
 
Evening all! Just driven from South Wales to Oxford and back, had a mild glycemic excursion to 7.7 but dosed for that while in the queue to pay at the Severn Bridge, and I’m 6.3 now. Roquefort stuffed mushrooms for dinner, and wine because it’s Friday and I’ve had a crapola of a week.

Love to you all, can’t tell you how much I’ve come to rely on this thread... ❤️
 
Accidental double dose of Levemir averted, Novorapid adjusted for a long walk day, current stormy weather permitting, work-based shopping list prepared, (I even remembered to get the cash in advance this time!) and job list ready for a minimal walk day tomorrow.

Now I'm ready for my day off.

Are the nice brown mushrooms in short supply at the moment? They are one of my staple veggies, always have been, and there were none in either supermarket on last night's food shopping trip. There were white ones, but they aren't as nice, and even they weren't as plentiful as usual. Leeks were noticeably lacking the other week.
 
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