porl69
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- Pontypool, South Wales
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
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I hope they find a better name than insulin neuritis. Insulin is the innocent party !!!I just visited the Facebook UK Libre uses page, and saw people talking about insulin neuritis. Apparently they had been running high for so long, that when they started using Libre, and reduced their blood sugars, they started getting pain in their limbs.
Apparently it's only temporary. but sometimes I feel I've heard everything about what can happen with diabetes, and then I find I haven't.
It's good that with libre they are getting their blood sugars down, as they must have had quite some nerve damage, and at least there is the opportunity for improvement now.
I do think though that the main argument for libre must be that it just makes it so much easier to stay in range. But of course there is no data on how long people spent in range prior to libre, because it couldn't be measured.
Surely that libre can measure time in target range must be the most important reason of all for giving people access to it
A DSN active on twitter said she was looking at results with libre, and found that the people who tested most tended to spend most time in range, so it must be obvious that because libre offers as many tests as you want to do a day,. that that beats 8 test strips a day.
It's so frustrating.
'Tis the thought that counts !!Waving back ... and disappointed there is no emoticon
Thank you @kev-w, for widening my vocabulary, Here was I thinking on one's toes was about ballet !!!The Express does ace weather forecasts
Circular illness this, not that long ago I was trying different porridges, insulin change and the problem went but I've chased my a**e a bit lately, settling from the insulin then timing change and hey, porridge and I aren't getting on like we did and I needed a unit for correction today.
Maybe a bit more patience is needed as I wonder just how much shock to my system the basal timing change caused, and how much difference missing a couple of swims has, it certainly keeps one on ones toes
To stab or not, this patch of flesh, That is the question.Good afternoon fellow pin-cushions
Work has got in the way of say "Hi" this morning.
On the "where to stab?" question, I was told stomach below the belly button, bottom, top of thighs and upper arms. However, I too was told to pinch and never managed to master my double-jointedness enough to pinch my upper arms so never had.
With the pump, I was told I could put the cannula in all these places AND above the belly button provided it had some fat.
Going through the odd ab-obssession at the gym, I still avoid above the belly button but I imagine this is fine for most and would provide another area if you were to migrate from injections to pump.
I have not read the Express article (I read a couple of Matt Atherton stories about diabetes a few months back and got so annoyed about the terrible reporting). However, I found Theresa's (I can't call her "Mrs May" because that's my Mum) response a typical political response. She didn't lie; she said the Libre was available on the NHS which it is. Unfortunately, the MP who posed the question didn't ask the post code lottery aspect and, in politics, asking the right question is as important as getting it answered.
No one I have spoken to without diabetes is aware of the issue and, to be honest, have as much interest in it as I have about a postcode lottery for bowel cancer treatment, for example.
I am not defending Theresa or the NHS but it is the way our political system works, unfortunately.
TMH. Too much Halo.
Good morning perfectly ventilated people.
those ordinary mortals have far more damp issues.
Tried 7 units of Levemir as the day time dose, as I was going a bit high in the afternoons. Needless to say I instead went too low, but night time blood sugars were beautiful, so I'm going to try 7 again, but reduce lunch time bolus, and have a mid afternoon snack, and see if that works better.
Until, of course, everything changes again.
7.5? Half dose pens are pretty too.
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