Type 1'stars R Us

[Diakat]

Oh flamingo. Was between 7 and 4 .5 most of yesterday - just woke up now at 12.7. have corrected or adjusted whichever word you prefer. Grr.

 

[karen8967]

Good morning everyone have a good day

 

[Japes]

Oh flamingo. Was between 7 and 4 .5 most of yesterday - just woke up now at 12.7. have corrected or adjusted whichever word you prefer. Grr.

There's something in the air, I've been fine for days, even got through the pizza episode (can pizza cause that much of a delayed reaction?!?!) with no problem, now suddenly been over 10 for 16 hours and no amount of adjusting is doing it! Meh. Wasn't going to walk to the station before my day trip up to Lancashire, but might well have to do at least a couple of miles or the three hours on the train really will keep me up high!

 

[CranberryIce]

Waking bloods of 10.3 :/
Second night in a row where my correction didn’t budge my levels at all.

No alarms in the night as MM got knocked out of place. To be honest, was so exhausted yesterday would have probably slept through it.

Correction dose given.... ah.

 

[kev-w]

Morning y'all, and a 14.6 for me, I must have not set the right dose on my Tresiba pen yesterday morning and taken extra as it was a nervous bed time with my bloods dropping and I'll have eaten around 60g simple carbs during the evening to stay up, as I was worried I set a 3am alarm and I was at 10mmols then.

Poppycock, fiddlesticks, Mels cat and a few stronger profanities to it whilst I wait for it to drop for breakfast.

 

[smc4761]

I will buck the trend slightly my fellow colanders. Good BG from lunchtime eventually hitting a hypo, for me at 3.7 at bedtime. Choccy biscuit and 8 jelly beans and gradual rise overnight to a 8.1. Not too drastic but still double what it was

 

[Alison54321]

Morning everyone, my gingerbread man went awol yesterday, so I had to break into the HCP zone on the libre with the secret code, but no matter how many times I tried to reset the insulin calculator he would not come back, but he reappeared early this morning, no idea where he'd been, out partying no doubt.

It's no wonder though that under these stressful conditions I had a hypo around 11 pm, and ate a banana, and some sweets, I was expecting a rise, but my blood sugar just bounced around in the 4s all night, which is fine.

Apart from that I played my guitar, as I'm still trying to memorise some songs I wrote, and read some Charles Dickens. I don't think, though, that that is a way to get nice low blood sugars, so I'm not recommending it as a method.

 

[becca59]

Had a straight line in the 5/6s for about 14 hours. **** a hoop! Especially as on hols. Decided to experiment with a pizza as a treat. Never usually bother. Now, why did I do that!! Been on a 14 for about an hour grrr...!despite 3 staggered doses! The devils food! Oh but it was delicious

Certainly was the devils food! Will be a long time before I go there again. Back to lower carbs today. All those highs make me lethargic and mucked up my lovely sats!

 

[Tony337]

7.0 at 5.30am and 3 hours later 7.0 so whilst not perfecto its a vast improvement on yesterday.

Have a terrific Tuesday

Tony

 

[Alison54321]

Certainly was the devils food! Will be a long time before I go there again. Back to lower carbs today. All those highs make me lethargic and mucked up my lovely sats!

Ugggggh, your pizza experience has reminded me of this Kenny Rogers song

"You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done"

Perhaps T1D makes us gamblers too

 

[Knikki]

Poppycock, fiddlesticks, Mels cat and a few stronger profanities to it whilst I wait for it to drop for breakfast.

That made me giggle, you'll be using bounder, cad and rapscallion next

I have ended up changing my night time Dulac to a morning Dulac which at the moment seems to be working (no doubt spoke to soon) and while my over night is still going low I am not dropping into the below or less than 3 area for long periods, which I was.
So, still experimenting because only been doing this since Friday and Dulac does take time to work. Watch this space.

As for pizza well is all I can say to that

 

[LooperCat]

Certainly was the devils food! Will be a long time before I go there again. Back to lower carbs today. All those highs make me lethargic and mucked up my lovely sats!

Have you tried using different bases for pizza? I’ve had good results with a slab of pan fried tofu, 90 second bread (30g almond flour mixed with a beaten egg and salt & pepper in a plastic takeaway container; nuke for 90 seconds), fathead dough, slabs of aubergine or beaten chicken.

Had a bit of an odd one last night, was running steady in the 5s after a dinner of roasted salmon, and then whoosh. Six corrections in a couple of hours stopped it running away, but 5.3 units is quite a lot for me... not quite sure what’s behind this - o don’t normally need to dose for salmon, maybe I do now? But I didn’t eat 5u worth of ANYTHING...

It’s resistance week, but my specific shark week basal programme usually covers that. Weather getting colder? Being away from home? The abscess (now very small)? Or the fact I’m allergic to mum’s dog and parrot? I was expecting to be using less, as I’ve been busier than normal. I’m chugging through about 30% more insulin than usual even for this week, so much so that I’ve got to change my pod this morning rather than tonight, because it’s almost run dry.

Ah well. Day out in Liverpool today, meeting my son under the clock at Lime Street Station - he’s getting the train up from his dad’s on his own for the first time. All part of my campaign to make him a bit more independent and less reliant on being driven everywhere.

Hope you all have a good one

 

[Alison54321]

Have you tried using different bases for pizza? I’ve had good results with a slab of pan fried tofu, 90 second bread (30g almond flour mixed with a beaten egg and salt & pepper in a plastic takeaway container; nuke for 90 seconds), fathead dough, slabs of aubergine or beaten chicken.

Had a bit of an odd one last night, was running steady in the 5s after a dinner of roasted salmon, and then whoosh. Six corrections in a couple of hours stopped it running away, but 5.3 units is quite a lot for me... not quite sure what’s behind this - o don’t normally need to dose for salmon, maybe I do now? But I didn’t eat 5u worth of ANYTHING...

It’s resistance week, but my specific shark week basal programme usually covers that. Weather getting colder? Being away from home? The abscess (now very small)? Or the fact I’m allergic to mum’s dog and parrot? I was expecting to be using less, as I’ve been busier than normal. I’m chugging through about 30% more insulin than usual even for this week, so much so that I’ve got to change my pod this morning rather than tonight, because it’s almost run dry.

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Ah well. Day out in Liverpool today, meeting my son under the clock at Lime Street Station - he’s getting the train up from his dad’s on his own for the first time. All part of my campaign to make him a bit more independent and less reliant on being driven everywhere.

Hope you all have a good one

Seeing as the abcess is shrinking, which sounds like good news, it must be the parrot.

 

[slip]

Now sitting at a level 6.6 after a high peak after breakfast and a waking score of 10.7 - seems we're all been affected by the drop in temp!

 

[becca59]

@MeldCP have tried the almond base. Difficult without a microwave and I found it too rich. Tofu no, worth a go. Am on hols at mo, so trying to make the catering as easy as possible. Fish pie (no potato ) and lashings of veg only today.
Well done on making your son independent. My son was an only child and We worked hard at making him independent. Even managed to encourage him to do Camp America from which he never looked back. Was shaking in the car on the way to the airport, and I told him if he got there and didn’t want to go so be it. He went, came back very thin from working hard and wearing a nipple ring He went from quite nervy when young, to a policeman dealing with the most horrendous stuff. Still cannot believe his capabilities.

 

[LooperCat]

@MeldCP have tried the almond base. Difficult without a microwave and I found it too rich. Tofu no, worth a go. Am on hols at mo, so trying to make the catering as easy as possible. Fish pie (no potato ) and lashings of veg only today.
Well done on making your son independent. My son was an only child and We worked hard at making him independent. Even managed to encourage him to do Camp America from which he never looked back. Was shaking in the car on the way to the airport, and I told him if he got there and didn’t want to go so be it. He went, came back very thin from working hard and wearing a nipple ring He went from quite nervy when young, to a policeman dealing with the most horrendous stuff. Still cannot believe his capabilities.

I tried a double quantity of the 90s bread base poured into a silicone cake tin and baked until just set in the oven, before turning out and topping. That worked quite well.

My lad is 15, I’m all for getting him out into the world. He’s planning an engineering apprenticeship at the moment, but it’s all a bit fluid. He’s a great lad, but I am biased.

 

[Fairygodmother]

Good late morning all.
I’ve been doing the 7.5 of overnight Levemir, dropped it down from 8 and the last 7 days on the magic screen show me 50% above range. I’m seriously not pleased. Imagine what dropping from 8 to 6 as advised by the DSN would have done. It seems even a 0.5 drop won’t solve the occasional swoop down in the early hours, which I don’t mind btw as it doesn’t swoop down lower that c3.4. Grrrrrrr.
I spent yesterday fighting recurrent highs and Novoslow. Sitting waiting for a dose taken an hour ago, plus DP dose, to take effect. Yup, it’s a new vial, new needle. More grrrrrrr. Same yesterday, so tomorrow I’ll be upping the DP dose by 0.5. I WANT A PUMP.
It’ll be an ‘interesting’ appointment with the DSN on Wednesday.

 

[Fairygodmother]

Well, another Novo dose and half an hour later I’ve risen from 7.2 to 7.4. Witch Totally Free!

 

[Alison54321]

Good late morning all.
I’ve been doing the 7.5 of overnight Levemir, dropped it down from 8 and the last 7 days on the magic screen show me 50% above range. I’m seriously not pleased. Imagine what dropping from 8 to 6 as advised by the DSN would have done. It seems even a 0.5 drop won’t solve the occasional swoop down in the early hours, which I don’t mind btw as it doesn’t swoop down lower that c3.4. Grrrrrrr.
I spent yesterday fighting recurrent highs and Novoslow. Sitting waiting for a dose taken an hour ago, plus DP dose, to take effect. Yup, it’s a new vial, new needle. More grrrrrrr. Same yesterday, so tomorrow I’ll be upping the DP dose by 0.5. I WANT A PUMP.
It’ll be an ‘interesting’ appointment with the DSN on Wednesday.

I have a similar problem with Levemir, and changing the day time dose from 6 to 7. I know I'm not using half units, but if I take 6 it's highs all afternoon, thar affect the night time Levemir as well, even though that's still the same, whereas if I use 7 the afternoon is all hypoey, and night time works fine. The different behaviour for the doses is far greater than what I'd expect from just one unit difference.

It's a very no compromise basal.

 

[slip]

@Fairygodmother well I guess you now have some ammunition to fight for a pump!