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@Timostags think you have been given some pretty poor advice. I am concerned by the remark your DSN makes that the ratio should be 10;1 We are all different and for example I am on a ratio of 4:1 for brekkie and 5:1 for all other meals.

If you can keep a food diary of all you eat and insulin doses given as well as your Libre results.

Hope your hypos sort themselves out
 
smc4761 said:
@Timostags think you have been given some pretty poor advice. I am concerned by the remark your DSN makes that the ratio should be 10;1 We are all different and for example I am on a ratio of 4:1 for brekkie and 5:1 for all other meals.

If you can keep a food diary of all you eat and insulin doses given as well as your Libre results.

Hope your hypos sort themselves out
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I log the amount of carbs I eat along with dosage but probably only make a note of what I actually ate when it's something out of the ordinary or something I have had to guess the carb content so I can look back and work out what happened if my BG doesn't go how I expect.

Yes I have only been carb counting for a couple of months and think my ratio is right for my evening meal but might need reducing for lunch - I have just left it at a flat ratio until I could discuss it with my DSN before fine tuning it to different ratios for different meal times.
 
helensaramay said:
Wow - you had an appointment and have the opportunity to make it earlier?
I am in awe.
I usually have my appointments 13 months apart. I don't get the appointment until a month beforehand and if it is not suitable it will be later.
I think they see me as being able to look after myself so I am low priority. I guess I shouldn't complain because I do have a pump.
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The DSN service in Nottingham is really good to be fair, I'm supposed to have a 6 month appointment. I last had an appointment in August. I called up last week asking if I could get an earlier appointment, I had a call from the DSN today asking why I had asked for it to be moved forward and ended up getting an appointment to see her this week!

Although 1 thing I want to bring up is to see if they will prescribe Libre rather than me self funding. I have looked at the guidelines and it looks like due to my hypo unawareness I SHOULD be able to get it but we'll see.
 
Diakat said:
Ugh, Monday.
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Tell me about it.. Grand finale at work with an hour to go I gashed my wrist with an angle grinder... Tidying up some weld joints.? My own fault..:banghead:
Patched up by a first aider. (The guy insisted.) Then went back to what I was doing..
The gaffer thought it best if I was seen to by a professional HCP.
The boss's parting shot was, "you shouldn't have been wearing gloves." Lol, I was wearing my full PPE. The glove which the wheel cut through as it came to a stop saved more personal injury..(narrowly missing my watch strap.

Dropped into my local sugery & was seen by a nurse within 5 minutes. Superficial, more a burn than a cut.. Bit of a stinger though...
Pretty much my diagnosis on the injury.. But the firm know I'm a D & panicked.. ;)
I've healed quickly from worse...
 
Jaylee said:
Tell me about it.. Grand finale at work with an hour to go I gashed my wrist with an angle grinder... Tidying up some weld joints.? My own fault..:banghead:
Patched up by a first aider. (The guy insisted.) Then went back to what I was doing..
The gaffer thought it best if I was seen to by a professional HCP.
The boss's parting shot was, "you shouldn't have been wearing gloves." Lol, I was wearing my full PPE. The glove which the wheel cut through as it came to a stop saved more personal injury..(narrowly missing my watch strap.

Dropped into my local sugery & was seen by a nurse within 5 minutes. Superficial, more a burn than a cut.. Bit of a stinger though...
Pretty much my diagnosis on the injury.. But the firm know I'm a D & panicked.. ;)
I've healed quickly from worse...
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I know Mondays are bad for some people, but slashing your wrist is a little extreme... ;)

Seriously, though, glad it’s not too serious x
 
helensaramay said:
@smc4761 I find my night time levels depend heavily on what I have eaten for tea.
Anything fat or carb heavy is likely to lead to a rise overnight - my BG can rise 4 or 5 hours after eating.
This has nothing to do with my basal levels because if I eat something less carby or less fatty, my night time BG is level(ish).
Over the years, I have learnt to double bolus (or combo bolus on the pump). This is slightly scary because I then have fast acting insulin on board and a BG of around 5 when I go to sleep.
I never top up the carbs without insulin before bed because my BG is in the 4s or 5s. I will only have some fast acting insulin pre-bed if I am hypo.
But we are all different - eat different, willing to take different levels of risk, exercise differently, and have different diabetes.
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@helensaramay I don't understand this "I will only have some fast acting insulin pre-bed if I am hypo" can you explain please or I've misunderstood everything about bolus
 
Mel dCP said:
Afternoon all, bit high through the night, had a bit too much wine, and didn’t want to have a hypo on top, so didn’t correct at bedtime and just turned my high alarms off - but unfortunately the usual BG lowering effects didn’t kick in, grrr. Got to love the unpredictability of this stupid disease, eh? Down into the purple now, but could have done without it, tbh.

Not long got back from the dentist, just a checkup today. Apparently my quite receded gums are looking much healthier and have come back a little this year - basically since I got to normal-ish BG levels. Were any of you ever told about the effect of diabetes on your teeth and gums at any point? Because I certainly wasn’t. Had the fear of god put into me about eyes, feet, heart and kidneys, but not any of the other stuff. It wasn’t until I started with this dentist about four years ago that the subject even came up. He was super impressed by my cyborg accessories, though :borg: A quick scrape of a spot of plaque, and I’m good to go for another six months.

Quiet afternoon reading my first responder manual and waiting for a delivery, we’re doing catastrophic haemorrhaging and airways this week, so some good juicy (quite literally) stuff. Of course, when I see blood, I always have a deep seated urge to dip a test strip in it... :rolleyes:
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Nobody told me about teeth @Mel dCP either but things are going wobbly. I now understand a bit more the expression "long in the tooth". What a b**ger!!
 
Eye screening - done!

@Mel dCP- I spent years avoiding seeing the dentist but after a bad case of gum disease- been trying to keep on it.

Ah basal testing- was mixed.

Gave my usual morning levemir dose (6.30am) plus 1.5units of quick acting to beat the morning rise I usually get.

Stayed steady until 9.30am which I ignored, hoping it would drop but then ended up correcting with my lunch dose/meal.

Steady for a few hours then started creeping up 5pm- ish!

My insulin needs have increased a fair bit over the last few weeks. I have gone back to Keto to try and avoid big swings in my sugars.
 
Diakat said:
@Jaylee we need you to be able to type - do take more care.
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Thumbs & an iPad. More an Itchy severe graze as opposed to a "possible" (I mean this a close call, according to Alan the first aider. Lol) than a deep cut through an archery... I'll live. :)
I feel the position whilst using a "proper keyboard" maybe what I need to keep my wrist still ...

SueJB said:
Nobody told me about teeth
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Gums? Yep, more & more dentists & hygenists are "blaming it on the boogie." If you happen to be a "Jacko" fan... ;)
Quite often, I get asked about my diabetes control, as if they understand what's involved. Then look blank when one elaborates..
On the whole they worry you may go low whilst led out with the probing..
 
I notice gums bleeding slightly if sugars are high, but clean if not.

This weekend's fun was mobile phone based. It appears my waterproof jacket isn't, and I'd failed to carry it in the normal bag, so I needed a new phone. I don't really use them for talking to people, mostly just running Strava and now XDrip+, and occasionally buying some data when on a trip away, so PAYG and cheap is what I want. Strava means the cheapest don't work (eg my Alcatel Pixi 4, 10 quid is an impressive price and it makes a fair backup for calls + hotspot, but the GPS makes every trip look like a drunkard's walk and apps generally are a bit painful - though XDrip+ works). The old one was 40 quid 3 summers ago, and that worked fairly well (Huawei Y5). But since I was buying something new, I thought I'd try and get one with NFC to talk to libre sensors, to find out how it compares to the Abbot reader. The cheap end of the market doesn't really do NFC...
Fortunately google eventually found me an Alcatel A3 for 60 quid + 10 quid top up, which is now happily XDripping away and will strava in a bit. NFC works, though I need to wait a week for the new sensor to make it work properly with the Abbot app. Oh yes, and I hope the fingerprint wake up will make me faster at muting the alarm when it goes off in the middle of the night.

My wife enjoys the change in low alert tunes on the different phones :)
 
I "appear normal". Or rather, my eyes do. Which is a relief after the four months of very high blood sugars pre-insulin/LADA diagnosis which all happened after my previous eye screening.

I've been Person of Choice all day for dealing with the dramas. I've enough material just this term so far for a whole series of books... I'm just so glad when I was a teenager mobile devices and social media did not exist!
 
helensaramay said:
I'd be more likely to blame it on the good times than nose picking :)
And with that I will say Bon nuit (from Brussels) before you show me la porte.
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Lol, on the whole. They may see us as a "liability?" But i assure them I carry quick acting liquid carbs & a meter, should events go down hill.. They seem relieved at that.. A little against their ethics regarding sugar &'teeth.. But a compromise with what they think they know...
 
Morning :)

Bedtime reading 6.3
3am alarm- dropped down to 3.3 a couple of dextro tablets and back to sleep.

6am- down to 3.6 treated with dextros. Delaying my foot on the floor dose-
so expecting it to rise quickly
once I am up and moving about....
 
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