Type 1'stars R Us

I've only ever bolus for protein once, this saturday just gone, T2 FIL breezed through the meal BG wise, I on the other hand didn't, finger in the air bolus wasn't enough for the carb free meal - but at least it was a fairly 'gentle' rise.

Edit to add I think @Mel dCP might have some input as she low carbs so may have to take protein into account?

helensaramay said:

~ shrug ~

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A UK ~shrug~


Or a Gallic ~shrug~

Knikki said:

A UK ~shrug~


Or a Gallic ~shrug~

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Page 465 of the Brexit agreement says we're not allowed to do Gallic shrugs anymore...

I've just lost all credibility at work after laughing at Scotts post, an uncontrollable laughing mad man does not sit well in the office (quiet literally)

Hello, something weird happened and I haven't been here for a few days.

Not much to say on the diabetes front, the gremlin is still gremlining, but nothing very exciting.

I see @kitedoc has posted some photos of his kites, they look great.

helensaramay said:

I am planning to make the most of my freedom for Gallic shrugs until the end of the transition period.
I will be Gallic shrugging into 2020.

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Looks like you got lucky - my sources in Europe tell me May was negotiating for both the right to shrug Gallicly and speak in the style of Allo' Allo' characters during the transition period, but Barnier just said, non, eet is un or zee ozer, so May had to concede one and decided to keep the shrugs.

Sorry, just filling in time while trying to ignore the live feed on the madness in Parliament at the moment. I wonder what the poor dear's bg levels are sitting at right now.

Anyone reviewing their stockpiling plans...

And we all thought we were having a bad day, like you say Scott I wonder what her Libre is looking like at the mo!

helensaramay said:

I believe we only need to bolus for protein when we eat very low carb meals. The protein is only broken down to glucose when our bodies feel they cannot get enough glucose from the "usual source". I think.
And the recommended "starting ratio" is half your carb ratio. But, as always, we are all different and the only way to know is test.
I think some people have spreadsheets recording their experiments, results and conclusions for different types of protein.

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I was told by my DSN to never do a correction after a hypo rebound until you have eaten a second meal since the hypo as the liver can recall the glucose and then the bolus has nothing to work on...I have never heard this before!
Could the liver do the same thing when it creates glucose from protein in your example?

slip said:

And we all thought we were having a bad day, like you say Scott I wonder what her Libre is looking like at the mo!

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The graph will be like the Himalayas!

becca59 said:

The graph will be like the Himalayas!

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We'll be getting a new member on the forum asking for help with dealing with stress at work and it's affect on her BG. It sounds as though this issue might be short lived though.

And she vows to stay and fight the high sugars.

Ah, the protein question.

Yes, I bolus for protein, but only certain types. You may recall that I don’t eat mammal or bird meat, or cow dairy.

I don’t need to dose for the protein in eggs, plant protein or fatty fish like salmon, tuna, sardines etc.

I bolus for lean fish like prawns and white fish, at half the ratio I dose for carbs, but on an extended bolus. For example I had a fish pie thing (the filling without a mash on top) for dinner last night with roasted courgettes. The carb count was 9g, so I dosed 0.9u for that (I’m on a 1:10 ratio at dinner), as I sat down to eat. I don’t prebolus. For the protein, my meal had 68g, of which I estimated 40g was from white fish and prawns (I’d used a fish pie mix of salmon, haddock and cod, plus a seafood cocktail with prawns, squid & mussels), so I dosed 1:20 and took 2u over 2 hours. I was 5.5mmol at dinner and 6.7 two hours later, so had a correction dose of 0.3u then.

Some of my low carb T1 buddies have different ratios worked out for all different types of meat - check out the TypeOneGrit page on Facebook. We (mostly) follow the Bernstein recommendations of 30g carbs a day, it’s not a method for everyone, but it works really well for me - diabetically and mentally. I don’t have anxiety about hypos any more as I rarely have enough IOB to drop me very far.

@kitedoc - love those kites, mate!

In other news, had a call from the people doing the Cardiff University study, - so far I meet all the requirements, although my control might be a little TOO good They’re going to get back to me on that - ideally they want HbA1c values to 50-75 because of the whole “if it’s low you must be having loads of hypos” trope. So I sent her a couple of 24h graphs from this week, and explained how I run my T1, so hopefully that’ll be ok. If this antibody works, and does actually regenerate some beta cells, then I can just knock my pump down a few notches.

slip said:

We'll be getting a new member on the forum asking for help with dealing with stress at work and it's affect on her BG. It sounds as though this issue might be short lived though.

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But how will we know who this member could be.....what avatar name would ( she ) they use?

EXPM1........TMPM........THERESATEASER.......??????????

She will be going no where unless they get the required number of MP's (48) going to the 1922 committee, saying they have no confidence

smc4761 said:

She will be going no where unless they get the required number of MP's (48) going to the 1922 committee, saying they have no confidence

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Wonder if we can request her Libre graphs under a Freedom of Information request?

@helensaramay . Thanks, I’ve just had to watch 44 secs of The life of Brian.

therower said:

But how will we know who this member could be.....what avatar name would ( she ) they use?

EXPM1........TMPM........THERESATEASER.......??????????

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‘Mels cat’

slip said:

‘Mels cat’

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Not much room for debate there bro.

therower said:

Not much room for debate there bro.

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Bit of an insult to Welsh cats though.