Type 1'stars R Us

Morning everyone, changed the Levemir vial again after two nights of high reading and corrections - anyone else feel like something the cat’s sicked up as soon as bs hit 12? And I thought this vial was going to last longer than two weeks in a pen in the fridge.
I love all the images of hand made beauties @helensaramay, @Mel dCP, and your avatar @kitedoc.
I’m still trying to load photos and now have two photo storage apps and multiple copies, ah well, maybe the grandsons (6 & 8) will do it for me when I trek to the lovely midlands on Monday. I have various ceramic things that I’m pleased and surprised by as time between making and viewing lengthens.
More part time job stuff to do in the Midlands too so I’ve been giving the knackety knee regular talkings to.
Cat is happily asleep and thankfully hasn’t brought me breakfast in bed for a few days. The last was a sparrow that luckily was still alive and flew out of the window once I’d prised Cat’s jaws open. Cat’s real name is Brian. He’s a big black rescue boy, well, he’s a trifle androgynous now since Cat’s Protection had his Mel’s cats removed before we got him, but he’s a real bloke at heart.
Cruising along happily a 6.1 at the moment and hoping it lasts.

Happy Saturday all. Beautiful sunshine here which cheers one up no end. Clearing the Lounge on a 5.2. Decorator starts Monday for 3 days. Always decorated ourselves so this is a first. Cannot believe it will be done in 3 days, it usually takes at least 3 weeks for us. Exciting!

Morning fellow pancreatically challenged chums.

Really starting to get hacked off with this type 1 lark, after 37 years it should be so easy. Take a BG reading take correct amount of insulin for food you are about to eat and it will stay level EH NO

All week in mornings I have been having silly high spikes. BG rising from about 7 to 13 after around 2 hours before falling back some 5 hours later.

Up this morning BG sitting at 9 oooops this is at 9am. Bolus up and as I am going out birdwatching I dont take correction dose. have my brekkie and off I go. At 10 am out of car to go for my walk, quick Libre Scan says 13.1.

Now when I walk I do so very sloooooooowly as I want to try and see some birdies and the path today is very flat so hardly using any energy at all.. 45 mins do a quick check on Libre 8.6 with straight down arrow. Quick finger check has me at 6.1. As I am now about a mile from car my mind goes into overdrive. For me anything below a 7 outside I really do not like

Luckily I am prepared and drink 250ml of coke and head back to car. Check again and its now 6.3 some 20 minutes later. Now back home nearly 45 minutes later and its only at 6.5. This is with finger check.

Type 1 seems to have a mind of its own

My husband sells big data processing solutions and thinks that if I were to plug all the variables into a spreadsheet then analytics would give me predictive patterns.
Yep but what about all the variables we just don't know or can't measure or won't measure. Even if you exclude insulin and carbs I can think of:
Cortisol, adrenalin and oestrogen/progresterone (no idea if being testy raises your bgs?)
Company kept by afore mentioned carbs during a meal (fat, protein)
Quality of carbs
Exercise (HiiT, slow burn or weights...)
Time of day

As an engineering problem it is pretty complex thus impossible to be perfect with a 12 watt human brain!
On a positive note, I did strategise myself through a circuit class without the need for jelly babies or a high bg thus:
Did weights beforehand for 15 minutes to get my blood sugar up.
Unplugged pump for the duration of the class (45 minutes) to keep it around 6 whilst working hard and thus encouraging a further spurt of glucose. Very impressed with self !

Does your husband acknowledge unknown unknowns @NicoleC1971? The free radicals of T1 that look like invaders in a pinball machine?

NicoleC1971 said:

My husband sells big data processing solutions and thinks that if I were to plug all the variables into a spreadsheet then analytics would give me predictive patterns.

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xDrip+ has predictive simulations based on carb and bolus amounts. It can be surprisingly accurate.

A few months ago, a sensor died on me, couldn't be bothered going home to apply a new one, but I carried on entering carbs, bolus and bg tests so I'd have an idea of iob. Even without the input from the sensor, the prediction was matching bg tests to a fairly high degree - cgm without cgm!

I only ate one meal yesterday, half a poussin with veg. Nice madam signed in at 5.6 this morning and as usual no breakfast. Tested before lunch 3.4............... so this is a hypo and I didn't feel anything except a bit cold.I wonder if this is normal. A couple of Herby Heck sausages for lunch and a naughty little bruchetta (5g) and back to a respectable 4.8. I've been working indoors as it's been piddling down in Oxford but I have an uncontrollable urge, which I'm going to control, to go out running. I don't run, never, ever. T1 is a real mystery and I applaud everyone who's been managing it so well for so long. Another shakey head moment.

Dr Anna Dover from Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh saying it like she sees it on libre...

There must surely be a point where reluctant ccgs see the flippin obvious.

Scott-C said:

Dr Anna Dover from Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh saying it like she sees it on libre...

There must surely be a point where reluctant ccgs see the flippin obvious.

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You think? Bear in mind my experience this week when, having had just 4 weeks' worth of Libre on prescription, the GP delayed issuing the next prescription to check that I still meet the criteria imposed by the CCG - so he'd be happy not to have to prescribe it. And this whilst my CCG won't prescribe to any T1 with an a1c over 58, whereas one of the NHS criteria is that it should be prescribed to people with an a1c of over 60 something (can't remember the actual figure). The whole thing's a shambles

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The whole thing's a shambles

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Yeah, some of the policies are frankly insane.

How on earth does one ccg decide you only get it above a certain level and another decides you only get it below a certain level?

I wonder if anyone is firing out FOI requests for minutes of ccg meetings to try to unravel it.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if some people have decided to deliberately engineer a dka or hypo hospital admission just to meet the policy.

I wonder sometimes whether chief executives from across the country got together in a smoke filled room, drew straws, and said, "ok, Edinburgh, you got the short straw, give it a go and we'll see how you get on."

There's a win-win option though - everyone could all sell up and move to Edinburgh, you all get libre on script and the massive influx of T1s moving in and buying houses will push my house price up. Sorted!

Scott-C said:

Yeah, some of the policies are frankly insane.

How on earth does one ccg decide you only get it above a certain level and another decides you only get it below a certain level?

I wonder if anyone is firing out FOI requests for minutes of ccg meetings to try to unravel it.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if some people have decided to deliberately engineer a dka or hypo hospital admission just to meet the policy.

I wonder sometimes whether chief executives from across the country got together in a smoke filled room, drew straws, and said, "ok, Edinburgh, you got the short straw, give it a go and we'll see how you get on."

There's a win-win option though - everyone could all sell up and move to Edinburgh, you all get libre on script and the massive influx of T1s moving in and buying houses will push my house price up. Sorted!

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I lke your way of thinking scott-c

Home from me shopping nice pub lunch and a few bevies now getting settled to watch the boxing

Happy! Greek friend I stayed with in September and her husband are here and they, a lovely Polish friend, another Greek friend and her British husband are coming soon for British takeaway fish and chips, and wine, and fruit salad. We’ll drink many many toasts to the EU despite the Greek problems. Long live Erasmus too! Long live visa free travel! Long live human connections! Long live shared research and multinational friendships!

Tate Modern and Winter market today. Woke in the sixes, down to low threes by lunch (all the walking). Just under 10 now and feeling like I have a cold coming on. Small correction and hoping it settles before bed.

Hey @helensaramay . Next experiment. How about you inject him with some insulin and see if his liver is as smart as his pancreas.

@Diakat . I think colds are doing the rounds at the moment, hopefully it passes you by. Take care.

Thanks @therower - fingers crossed.

@helensaramay the team at my hospital all wore Libre for a fortnight apparently. What it did show was that all spiked after eating. The difference being that their bodies sorted it without intervention. I think we sometimes end up trying for too much perfection. How do we know that our bodies are not meant to peak for a short while and that a perfect line may not ultimately be the healthy option......Hopeful!

Diakat said:

Tate Modern and Winter market today. Woke in the sixes, down to low threes by lunch (all the walking). Just under 10 now and feeling like I have a cold coming on. Small correction and hoping it settles before bed.

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I had a tiny bit of my crochet stuff exhibited in Tate Modern this summer

Not a bad day here, caught a unicorn with 100% in range. King prawn vindaloo for dinner, currently knitting a sock with a cat on my lap, drinking a nice Chilean Cabernet. Running a 5.9 just now, just hoping the 2h extended bolus for the pagans still works!

karen8967 said:

I lke your way of thinking scott-c

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Lol, Karen, we've all been dealt a bad set of cards, but we've got to make the most of how we play them.

I go for the Monty Python, "Always look on the bright side of life, ta da ta da tee da" take on it.

And if that's not enough, I'll bring in the Daily Mash Bring It badger: