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Bonjour tout le monde!!
That's my practice for now, off to the gastronomical capital of France today. Madam BG is clearly delighted 4.9 this morning, it'll be interesting to see how she rocks in Lyon
A bientot:)
 
Morning everyone,

Hope you enjoy your visit to France @SueJB

Good to hear from you @Robinredbreast I think @kev-w is right about yoga being a good idea, I'm thinking of doing it myself in the next round of adult education classes enrolment, missed my chance in September. All that stretching is very good for reducing arterial stiffness, I suspect that's why Kev is still so healthy, window cleaning is such good physical exercise. Yoga is a good second best, though. It's supposed to be relaxing too, so that's a double win.

I started a new sensor yesterday evening, that I put on in the morning. It's doing weird things, the reader readings are super close to my blood meter tests, this is just not normal, however I'm not complaining, just surprised.
 
Good morning y'all, 3.4 waking and it's starting to get boring now, mornings have become my weak point using Tresiba, I'm wary about moving an injection I've taken on a night for 34 years to a morning, but I'll get there eventually, todays isn't bad as it just dipped under half hour before the alarm went

@Alison54321 I did an ironic smile at the 'so healthy' bit :) but yeah there's some stretching involved at work getting into the corners :)

Forecast reckons perhaps the hottest October day on record so my shorts are having a last hurrah today :)
 
Curry last night, 6.9 before and 8u, 11.7 before bed 4u correction taken (or rather the other part of the split dose 3hrs after) and 5.5 this morning :woot: - so you would say I'd need to take more than 2/3rds to start with.............in reality, next time, who knows! :hilarious:

Going back to what Alison (I think) said about the Libre being a disrupter - I think it certainly has put extra pressure on the HCPs and the system, so many more people are now aware of just how 'bad' their good control was and now 'demanding' even better control and help the teams just aren't geared up for - I don't think the NHS planned for or realised the demands it creates.
 
Chest infection making life interesting, up all night with alarms again. Hit double figures for the first time in a while...
 
slip said:
Curry last night, 6.9 before and 8u, 11.7 before bed 4u correction taken (or rather the other part of the split dose 3hrs after) and 5.5 this morning :woot: - so you would say I'd need to take more than 2/3rds to start with.............in reality, next time, who knows! :hilarious:

Going back to what Alison (I think) said about the Libre being a disrupter - I think it certainly has put extra pressure on the HCPs and the system, so many more people are now aware of just how 'bad' their good control was and now 'demanding' even better control and help the teams just aren't geared up for - I don't think the NHS planned for or realised the demands it creates.
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Yes, I agree, and I think that the training most DSNs received didn’t incorporate the flexibility and fine tuning required for better control.
Going to try a 0.8 insulin dose ratio this evening and see if it makes a difference though with 0.5 doses to play with it could be a little hit and miss. Am I just being pessimistic to expect the miss, on what is expected to be the hottest October day in history in the south east, with the moon in the fifth quarter, Mars in opposition and Venus trying hard to stop him having a pub brawl?
 
Fairygodmother said:
Yes, I agree, and I think that the training most DSNs received didn’t incorporate the flexibility and fine tuning required for better control.
Going to try a 0.8 insulin dose ratio this evening and see if it makes a difference though with 0.5 doses to play with it could be a little hit and miss. Am I just being pessimistic to expect the miss, on what is expected to be the hottest October day in history in the south east, with the moon in the fifth quarter, Mars in opposition and Venus trying hard to stop him having a pub brawl?
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That may turn out to be perfect, never repeatable, conditions, Fairygodmother.
 
I picked up the latest Libre order from Superdrug yesterday: now £42 and next month will be £49.
Where do the rest of you who’ve not been given scripts get yours?
Another postcode lottery in this too, but why, when we all contribute equally are we not treated equally? (Yes, I know, some pigs etc etc, please resurrect Snowball.)
 
Good morning. A strange night with alerts going off a LOT! Just found out I can turn them off for a set time lol. Woke to a 7.6 on MM, 7.5 on Librelink and 7.3 on BG :). Had a 2 unit correction for an 11 during the night (alarm woke me, glad it didn't wake the misses). Now on a 9.9 and slow rise, so a 2 unit correction dose.
 
If ever I need advice on my diabetes I usually come to you guys. You are all so knowledgeable and have, "real life experience" of diabetes

So, I have an appointment with consultant at pump clinic to see if i will be a suitable candidate for a pump. I have been diabetic for 37 years and i am gradually running out good sites to inject. That and I experience dawn phenomenon on a fairly regular basis.

I was at hospital yesterday for my annual foot check and bumped into the DSN, who is very good and knowledgeable. She was asking how i was getting on, with Libre and diabetes in general. I explained my control was much better and i was now more confident about taking correction doses. I explained that if i see my dawn phenomenon coming I get up and take a correction dose. She was not impressed at all and said i should leave it till I get up and take correction dose with my breakfast. I should not be taking correction dose overnight.

I explained i was confident in doing this. her counter argument and i can see her point is. Pumps are like gold dust in our health area. If i keep taking correction doses and making my control better this could impact negatively on meeting criteria for a pump. After all if my control is good on MDI, they may prioritise others who do not have such good control.

So any thoughts, should i take a step back for a few weeks and not correct for my dawn phenomenon
 
smc4761 said:
If ever I need advice on my diabetes I usually come to you guys. You are all so knowledgeable and have, "real life experience" of diabetes

So, I have an appointment with consultant at pump clinic to see if i will be a suitable candidate for a pump. I have been diabetic for 37 years and i am gradually running out good sites to inject. That and I experience dawn phenomenon on a fairly regular basis.

I was at hospital yesterday for my annual foot check and bumped into the DSN, who is very good and knowledgeable. She was asking how i was getting on, with Libre and diabetes in general. I explained my control was much better and i was now more confident about taking correction doses. I explained that if i see my dawn phenomenon coming I get up and take a correction dose. She was not impressed at all and said i should leave it till I get up and take correction dose with my breakfast. I should not be taking correction dose overnight.

I explained i was confident in doing this. her counter argument and i can see her point is. Pumps are like gold dust in our health area. If i keep taking correction doses and making my control better this could impact negatively on meeting criteria for a pump. After all if my control is good on MDI, they may prioritise others who do not have such good control.

So any thoughts, should i take a step back for a few weeks and not correct for my dawn phenomenon
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Its so annoying when you are doing loads to keep yourself in good control and then youir DSN tells you that! I dont know what to suggest to you sorry.
I am due to see a pump consultant on the 23rd October and in a similar situation. I am hypo unaware, very hypo unaware. I have just bought the MiaoMiao so that i get alarms when by BG is dropping low. So now I am in a dilemma....do I tell the pump Dr I have the MM and get alarms when my bloods are going low OR do I keep quiet and not say a word!?.....I think I am going to sat quiet :)
 
smc4761 said:
If ever I need advice on my diabetes I usually come to you guys. You are all so knowledgeable and have, "real life experience" of diabetes

So, I have an appointment with consultant at pump clinic to see if i will be a suitable candidate for a pump. I have been diabetic for 37 years and i am gradually running out good sites to inject. That and I experience dawn phenomenon on a fairly regular basis.

I was at hospital yesterday for my annual foot check and bumped into the DSN, who is very good and knowledgeable. She was asking how i was getting on, with Libre and diabetes in general. I explained my control was much better and i was now more confident about taking correction doses. I explained that if i see my dawn phenomenon coming I get up and take a correction dose. She was not impressed at all and said i should leave it till I get up and take correction dose with my breakfast. I should not be taking correction dose overnight.

I explained i was confident in doing this. her counter argument and i can see her point is. Pumps are like gold dust in our health area. If i keep taking correction doses and making my control better this could impact negatively on meeting criteria for a pump. After all if my control is good on MDI, they may prioritise others who do not have such good control.

So any thoughts, should i take a step back for a few weeks and not correct for my dawn phenomenon
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The DSN, presumably, knows more about the people making the decision than any of us, so she may well be right. However, as I read this the thought occurs to me that seeing as you have to go to work waking up in the middle of the night to do corrections is something of an inconvenience, and you could change the narrative from I'm proud of myself, to I'm really fed up that I have to do that, because it's disrupting my sleep. Just for that meeting,

I would be inclined to consider her advice, but the need to make corrections, means that your better control requires more work, and that may be also be a valid argument for having a pump. Without knowing what their criteria is, and how much importance they, personally, put on each factor, it's hard to know.

Does the DSN know more? probably, but not definitely.

If I were a pump doctor I would be more sympathetic to someone like @Mel dCP who had worked incredibly hard to improve her control, then someone who didn't put much effort in. But I'm not a pump doctor, so don't take any notice of me.
 
smc4761 said:
If ever I need advice on my diabetes I usually come to you guys. You are all so knowledgeable and have, "real life experience" of diabetes

So, I have an appointment with consultant at pump clinic to see if i will be a suitable candidate for a pump. I have been diabetic for 37 years and i am gradually running out good sites to inject. That and I experience dawn phenomenon on a fairly regular basis.

I was at hospital yesterday for my annual foot check and bumped into the DSN, who is very good and knowledgeable. She was asking how i was getting on, with Libre and diabetes in general. I explained my control was much better and i was now more confident about taking correction doses. I explained that if i see my dawn phenomenon coming I get up and take a correction dose. She was not impressed at all and said i should leave it till I get up and take correction dose with my breakfast. I should not be taking correction dose overnight.

I explained i was confident in doing this. her counter argument and i can see her point is. Pumps are like gold dust in our health area. If i keep taking correction doses and making my control better this could impact negatively on meeting criteria for a pump. After all if my control is good on MDI, they may prioritise others who do not have such good control.

So any thoughts, should i take a step back for a few weeks and not correct for my dawn phenomenon
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That’s insane, you’re doing so well. One of the things that got me my pump was that I WAS having to get up in the wee hours to correct. Their view was that I shouldn’t have to do that.
 
To be fair I dont deliberately get up in middle of night to make any corrections. I normally go to bed around 10.30 but most nights will wake up around 2 am then again a few hours later. Having the Libre I have got into habit of whenever i wake up, roll over do a quick check the roll over back to sleep again. If i do need to correct I now have the insulin pen by my bedside ready to inject if need be.

I hate all this having to play the game stuff and deep down I know the DSN is probably correct, she knows how to play the system. I dont think us mere minions are ever made aware what the criteria for a pump is As has been mentioned by others before it is simply a lottery.

Its such a shame that we have to go through this charade to get something that will improve our lives and ultimately give us a better quality of life as well as saving money in long run
 
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