hh1
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- Type of diabetes
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- Insulin
Thanks @Cumberland, had forgotten you were so close to the line
Hi, @evilclive, I am not sure of the technology but it had a galvanometer- type face and one read the BSL from where the needle settled after about a 15 second delay. His later models had the more familiar lit up numbers on a screen and a 10 second delay.Was it basically a colour -> number converter?
Right on, brother !!Oh this thread make me giggle
All this trip down memory lane is fun.
BUT hindsight is a wonderful thing. Yes syringes, needles and testing kits were interesting and fun to use some 20+ years ago, BUT at the time that was all that was available and it was simple a case of use or...…..well I like life and cake...….
Things have moved on, all for the better, but they do with all aspects of medicine and treatments and dealing with long term conditions has improved greatly over the years no matter how bad your GP/DSN/Medical Team may seem to you. Plus it will only improve as we move forward in time.
I get the whole "glad I was not diagnosed when I was younger...……" where as I am the opposite, I really do admire people who in the later years get this wonderful condition we enjoy and share because as I have seen it is a very BIG change in the way you live your life after diagnosis.
T1D is not rocket science, yes, I get the reason why people are scared of it and fearful of it.
But there are plenty of us out there that have had it for a very long time, before all the various diet fads, carb counting, MDI, pumps, fitness regimes, technology etc etc and some are walking wounded some are still intact with just flesh wounds but we are still here to offer (dubious) advice and sometimes a realty check, plus a shoulder to cry on.
These days with the amount of information on offer plus the advances made in care, blood testing, nice lovely thin needles and variety of insulins it has never been easier to keep a track of this T1D malarkey and should NOT stop you from enjoying life (cake, chips, booze, rumpy pumpy, full fat anything) and stop you from doing anything.
Having said that it at times, T1D does things I have no idea why, annoys me, frustrates me and many *** moments however it does not stop me doing anything and tomorrow will ALWAYSbe better.
OK that might upset the apple cart, not meant to but you might get my drift. As I said in the rant I sometime see thing in a different way to other.
Hi @helensaramay, I wonder whether your New Year resolution to be more physically active has caused this?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.
I was just about to post the same thing. All this talk of heres what it was like 30 years ago, got me thinking how much things have improved in past 10 years or so.
The next question will be what will type 1 look like in 10/15 years time. Will we we look back in horror at the fact that we had to inject ourselves numerous times per day. The primitive finger prick testing we did maybe 10 times a day. The constant struggle with highs and lows.
Amazing progress has been made in past 10 years, with insulin pumps, CGM, even better insulins, long may the progress continue
...Edited to add; I discovered a new CGM device today. (Mooching about the net.) Surgically Implanted under the skin, lasts 3 months. A patch is worn over the under skin location of the sensor as a transmitter.
Edited to add; I discovered a new CGM device today. (Mooching about the net.) Surgically Implanted under the skin, lasts 3 months. A patch is worn over the under skin location of the sensor as a transmitter.
@slip probably you and lots of more experienced/aka long suffering T1s here might remember me seriously asking if the length of the needles increased with time. I was certainly worried and was thankfully reassured by yous. I don't seem to be able to come up with a term to define all you great people who have been dealing with T1 for so long without causing offence so I'm trying out a few
How about.....?
wise T1s (but us new ones on the block can be wise too)
permanent prickers (but that's wrong coz you've moved onto pumps now
Give up, ideas on a postcard
I'm still waiting for the "Marilyn Manson" contact lense CGM thing.. The one that make the eye look like a PCB?!
I already have a natural HUD at around 4.5 to 3.8mmol regarding HA.. (My hello, I'm going low alarm.)
The cynic in me suggests the more diabetics there are to develop the "market" on products. The more innovative it will all get...
Edited to add; I discovered a new CGM device today. (Mooching about the net.) Surgically Implanted under the skin, lasts 3 months. A patch is worn over the under skin location of the sensor as a transmitter.
Eversense. I can’t find an endo willing to cut my arm and insert it so that I can try it out. My endo says that she’s not a surgeon. It’s go some neat features, but incase it goes bad there isn’t a quick exit plan to remove it- at least not a do it at home exit plan.
Have you seen the price?
I'm still waiting for the "Marilyn Manson" contact lense CGM thing.. The one that make the eye look like a PCB?!
I already have a natural HUD at around 4.5 to 3.8mmol regarding HA.. (My hello, I'm going low alarm.)
Why do I see this?
However note that the eye colour is changing from red to green so maybe he is coming out of a hypo
The price? No, I didn't look that far...
They never seem to push the price up front & I guessed I would be led down a "rabit hole" finding out..
Some one will be trained up once the reps are active, the usual default for such things is to the GP here in Oz. !!Eversense. I can’t find an endo willing to cut my arm and insert it so that I can try it out. My endo says that she’s not a surgeon. It’s go some neat features, but incase it goes bad there isn’t a quick exit plan to remove it- at least not a do it at home exit plan.
Some one will be trained up once the reps are active, the usual default for such things is to the GP here in Oz. !!
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