Instruments of pain. These were the 1st needles I can remember. The pack had to last a month......View attachment 30547
That's the puppies! (Or similar.)
Occasionally they detached from the syringe whilst injecting..
Instruments of pain. These were the 1st needles I can remember. The pack had to last a month......View attachment 30547
My belly was my favorite(?) place. I had horrendous lipohypertrophy because of those needles.....same place day in day out as it was less painful!I'm aghast, thank whoever I managed to miss that bit! Instruments of torture sounds more appropriate. A serious question - where did you stick 1 1/2 inch needles if you were skinny?
I'm aghast, thank whoever I managed to miss that bit! Instruments of torture sounds more appropriate. A serious question - where did you stick 1 1/2 inch needles if you were skinny?
Hehe I forget about that aspectThat's the puppies! (Or similar.)
Occasionally they detached from the syringe whilst injecting..
@porl69, another hats off, these make me want to hide behind the sofaInstruments of pain. These were the 1st needles I can remember. The pack had to last a month......View attachment 30547
Hehe I forget about that aspectNever knew how much insulin had gone in!! Just reattach and push the plunger and hope for the best
eek!Instruments of pain. These were the 1st needles I can remember. The pack had to last a month......View attachment 30547
Hello everyone!! Hope you all had a great new year and Christmas!
I have a quick question, I’m trying to do a low carb diet, (yes another new year resolution!) not for weight loss but just to try and improve my health in general, but obviously it’s quite difficult to do a really low-carb diet without having hypos at the start? What type of foods do you eat when you’re having a hypo but trying to avoid carbs?!? Currently I’m drinking Lucozade which seems to be working but thinking I might grow tired of that and it goes flat if you open a bottle and then don’t use it for another few days!
Any ideas would be most appreciated!!![]()
Hello everyone!! Hope you all had a great new year and Christmas!
I have a quick question, I’m trying to do a low carb diet, (yes another new year resolution!) not for weight loss but just to try and improve my health in general, but obviously it’s quite difficult to do a really low-carb diet without having hypos at the start? What type of foods do you eat when you’re having a hypo but trying to avoid carbs?!? Currently I’m drinking Lucozade which seems to be working but thinking I might grow tired of that and it goes flat if you open a bottle and then don’t use it for another few days!
Any ideas would be most appreciated!!![]()
20 years for me, and I think the same re the torture age. I was put on MDI, given novopens and a medisense meter (possibly with a small cost) - test strips on the NHS, needles weren't for a while. The stab-u-like device wasn't a horror. I was also given a vial of each insulin and a handful of syringes - I still have the syringesI was diagnosed 15 years ago ... at least my 15th diaversary is in 10 days time ... and had thought the diabetes technology and treatment had barely changed until recently.
But, now, I am wondering if I was on the cusp of pen, lancet, test strip, basal/bolus ... introduction and only just missed the torture age.
When I lived in Leeds, around 2001-2002, I was being taught carb counting for the first time under the team at LGI, as I had just made it onto the pump waiting list. Alas, I didn't get the pump (as I was moving away), but I adjusted my MDI doses accordingly, and loved the flexibility. When I saw my suburban GP for something unrelated, about a year later, he tried to convince me that I should not be carb counting, nor should I be varying my doses. Seems he was of the old school where fixed doses and constant snacking to balance the insulin were the norm. I politely nodded and ignored his advice...20 years for me, and I think the same re the torture age. I was put on MDI, given novopens and a medisense meter (possibly with a small cost) - test strips on the NHS, needles weren't for a while. The stab-u-like device wasn't a horror. I was also given a vial of each insulin and a handful of syringes - I still have the syringesThey didn't try anything with exchange units or carb counting at all. I remember asking the consultant when diagnosed what to do with different readings (since it was obvious to me that I could use them as a guide to tweak things) and he dismissed me saying I should treat them as random! I worked it out for myself...
Seems all this talk of insulin torture implements has scared my body.
There I was this morning, on a conference call, and I started feeling "funny". Whilst continuing my presentation, I took a BG reading and came up with 3.0. Hmmm. Not good. I can talk whilst pricking my finger and I can talk whilst reading the results. I can even talk whilst opening the tub of Glucotabs but I can't talk whilst stuffing them in my mouth. Eventually, after what felt like hours (but was probably only seconds), I came up with a question to start my colleague talking and was able to correct.
Unfortunately, the distress did not end there - my new tub of 50 Glucotabs, which is labelled "Juicy Raspberry Fast Acting Glucose" is full of 50 ... well, 45 now... fake orange flavoured Glucotabs. Yuk!
I can eat fake berry flavour but fake orange and banana taste nothing like the original flavours and cause my stomach to turn.
I could think of no reason for the hypo (which was one of the ones which got worse before it got better) as I had weighed, calculated the carbs and eaten my breakfast less than an hour before.
The only explanation is my body was trying to find ways to avoid having insulin via any of the harrowing implements photographed above.
All fine now ... provided I don't scroll up to the photos.
Not strictly low carb, but if I can catch a low early enough, I try an apple, orange or banana. I figure it is a good opportunity to get some fruit onboard. I think you have to go a little bit easy on yourself while you adjust your insulin to your new regime.Hello everyone!! Hope you all had a great new year and Christmas!
I have a quick question, I’m trying to do a low carb diet, (yes another new year resolution!) not for weight loss but just to try and improve my health in general, but obviously it’s quite difficult to do a really low-carb diet without having hypos at the start? What type of foods do you eat when you’re having a hypo but trying to avoid carbs?!? Currently I’m drinking Lucozade which seems to be working but thinking I might grow tired of that and it goes flat if you open a bottle and then don’t use it for another few days!
Any ideas would be most appreciated!!![]()
Hi,
Firstly? Basal test. Whatever the amount of carbs or not in a diet you bolus for, get the groundwork sorted first before the building.
https://mysugr.com/basal-rate-testing/
Secondly, don't avoid carbs if you are low. A couple of Jelly babies or the same number from a more covienient pack of fruit pastels do it for me..
Insulin is a ride you can't get off. So if it goes adrift? Don't feel you failed at LC. Treat that hypo.
Edit, I'll tag in @Mel dCP she's a recent pumper & LCs.
Good afternoon here, G'd Morning there.
I was the tender age of 27 (in 1980) when I met Stan Clarke in Sydney.
Stan was an expat Brit working in electronics. His daughter also had T1D and in response to a request from the Sydney Children's hospital he had set about and made the first fully portable, battery-operated glucometer in 1978.
Yes, he used the Ames glucostix in his device and set up a home factory to make more of these devices which cost AUD 35 back then.