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Type 1'stars R Us

@slip Man that must be so frustrating and annoying.

Guess I'm kind of lucky, consultant in the 1970's was physician who basically though himself as a God and now I think about it was rather patronising, still managed to make it thorough that.

My current DSN is great, she is also a T1D and we often have a good chat about things, she obviously has to tow the party line but is always interested to hear about things on the forum and what I have learnt.

Other than that BSL wise all OK bit bouncy around the green bit of Etch A Sketch with xDrip, Libre Mobile, Libre Reader and bloods all saying different things , bit annoying but coped with worse.
 
Good morning y'all, 11.2 waking for me and I slept through 2 alarms, go me

Frosty outside so a late cold hand Tuesday start, I too visited the hospital clinic yesterday to collect my Libre script and the DSN (good troop she is) reckons I'll get it from the GP come April and very pleased she is about the NHS guidelines directing the CCG as she'll be able to get more people on them so I hope that happens across the UK.

I avoid my GP's for diabetes and use them just for the repeats, my repeat says I'm overdue a review but having seen the consultant twice this year and the DSN 5 times it's cool, first GP review put me off as the nurse asked why I was there as she only saw T2s at her clinic she also had a little problem with MDI and me testing a lot but I wasn't really there to explain
 
I'd just like to point out my appointment yesterday was at the diabetes clinic at the hospital with a Doctor (or what ever he was!) not at the GP nor GP DSN or hospital DSN (I do not go to the GP practice for anything diabetes related..........at the mo!)
 
Agree about not relying on Libre re hypos; do you think the 13.3 when you woke up could've been due to a liver dump because you were very low?
 
My HbA1c gets red flagged every time I go to see my GP and I always have to spend half the appointment justifying it I keep screenshots of my Nightscout composite graphs on my phone for just such an occasion. He’s probably going to have an aneurism if it goes down again But having had many conversations about my management, he’s conceded that I mostly know what I’m doing, and know more about T1 than he does. He’s actually suggested I go into medicine...
 

 
Off to an appointment with the DSN this morning to see how the change from novo to fiasp’s going. I appreciate the follow up and will now need to sit down and transfer the last few days’ records to a form that’s easier to follow than the small scruffy notebook full of doodles, coffee stains and paw prints I’ve been carrying round with me.
 
Hi @Mel dCP, Don't you just hate it when someone gets the wrong end of the stick, misreads and takes things out of context. Makes you wonder whether the registrar was just trying to impress his bosses or make himself look important.
Two things to help - the first to take to appointments when you can see the person is not listening
and the other to prove that unicorns really did exist!! (Sort of)_ And please anyone that likes them help yourself:


 
Those coffee stains, doodles and paw prints add authenticity and character !!
 
Love those! It was his first day, so I think he was just a bit over enthusiastic and just launched straight in without double checking his info was right. Either that or he was just rubbish. I’ll be able to tell if I see him again, I suppose...
 
Hi @helensaramay, Just when you think you have that exercise thingy sorted along comes a wrong'un !!
Please see below as consolation:
Things do not always make sense and can be threatening

And the right answer may be near or far

But the sun will shine again and the you and the world are brighter for it.
 
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