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Type 1'stars R Us

Good morning all
Have to agree with @Knikki on your last post. I do like seeing how people deal with the highs and lows of T1D. We are all so very different (thank God ) in the ways we treat it. Picking thru peoples posts we do pick up new ideas to deal with different things.
@Knikki the etch-a-sketch graph is very interesting . It will bring your HBA1c down a bit, much to the Drs disapproval lol
 
? 4 injections a day. A four-sided coin to flip !!
 
As @tvnerd mentioned to me: Being different means we can each make a difference.
 
I've just called in my libre sensor, I could cope with it scanning 2mmol low, although LO and 4.2....or 2.2 are somewhat different, typically friday night it decided to go 1 better (well actually 2 or 3 more 'better') and read anywhere up to 4 or 5 mmol lower. And lo and be hold it's been weeping too. They are replacing it and hopefully when the replacement arrives I'd have also received a free trial skin barrier spray to try with it.

It's taken me 2.5 hrs on and off to catch up with the weekends going-ons and forgotten which posts I was going to comment/reply to, so I won't other than the rants! just Brill! (we need an invisible icon that signifies an all knowing nod)
 
Thank you for that post @Mel dCP. I am impressed with what Dr Bernstein has achieved. I suspect in his journey of discovery he has found much to resent about the way he was managed early on , the attitude and response of the medical profession and their resistance to his innovative ideas. To me this seems to come across in his writing (have not heard him speak yet). There is that saying too "A prophet is not heard in his/her own land".
My caution with low carb is really about the actual way the gathering of evidence has progressed. To convince health authorities is not easy, even with glowing examples such as yourself. There appears to have been time over the years to gather such evidence but that takes money and you can bet no food company , or pharmaceutical company and their myriad contacts are going to put their hands up.
And in the "land of the free" where it seems there is such a disproportionate influence when it comes to research about diabetes upon the rest of the world (except for Dr Bernstein and others on his wavelength) such research often relies on private donations. And Big Pharma do not wish to see their profits reduced by low carbers either.
Good on the NHS for going ahead. I just hope that do things carefully and well because it faces the antipathy of we know who and the apparent sluggish attitudes of some staff (same in OZ).
So here is to: Each to his/her own management and the exemplars of each and the flexibility of HCPs.
 
hh1 said:
Nope, need at least 5 as I split my basal, plus any corrections.....I want to see that coin
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Um, what about a pie chart divided evenly into 5, each sector a different injection site, and then Um,,... spin the bottle !!!
Seriously though I have seen an injection site guide, a piece of thin cardboard about the size of half the injection area of the abdomen, which will generally also cover the same area on the outer side of one thigh. There are two vertical sets of 4 holes in this cardboard to indicate a total of 8 injection sites. So one works out a rotation pattern with L and R abdomen and the 8 sites or same for outer thigh. It means not returning to a similar site for about 3 to 6 days. If something similar could be added for arms and behind that changes to something like nearly 13 days. A good map of the procedure would be vital !!
 
Hi all, 39 degree C day here in Adelaide and 41 predicted for tomorrow ( and I have an appointment with my Diabetes Nurse Educator (DNE) tomorrow afternoon but at least it is school holidays so traffic will be light.
My insulin pump dose reduction on 40 to 45 g carb from 40 units total (bolus: basal 49:51) is now at about 24 units total (bolus to basal) 31 :69) but for me the stepping down process occurred with only a few mild hypos and none of the big swings I used to get after hypos.
I now need to persuade my DNE that my progress is A Good Thing because in one month I will be seeing her and my doctor.
Is this a useful strategy of notice of intention to show deviation from 'expected behaviour' or am I just a chicken trying to win favour?? Or, am I posing a rhetorical question??
 
Does your team place much significance on the basal:bolus ratio? I know a lot of HCPs say it should be 50:50 or thereabouts, but it’s never been mentioned to me. Mine ranges from 75:25 - to 90:10 and it’s never been picked up on.
 
Mel dCP said:
Does your team place much significance on the basal:bolus ratio? I know a lot of HCPs say it should be 50:50 or thereabouts, but it’s never been mentioned to me. Mine ranges from 75:25 - to 90:10 and it’s never been picked up on.
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Maaaaaate, No issue about ratios has been mentioned to me with my DNE or doctor. I do note that some on forum are particular about it and I just quoted my semi-exact figures for interest as I had got the impression that the basal % often increased as the carbs were lowered. The main issue I face is that my overall dosage has fallen.
It was always a puzzle when I was told that if someone lost their pancreas gland that the amount of insulin required by an adult to replace that loss was about 40 units of insulin.
Later on I found that that was further refined by weight of the person and that for a 70 kg person that was about 40 units.
But the elephant in the room is the amount of carbs one eats. The source of the figures for pancreas loss equivalent in insulin were from USA, land of the free and hi carb. Guess where a lot of Aussie doctors obtain their post-grad education and up-dating from: yep USA. I shoulda known better !!! (sings ....)
 
porl69 said:
@Knikki the etch-a-sketch graph is very interesting . It will bring your HBA1c down a bit, much to the Drs disapproval lol
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TBH not I am not really to bothered what the DSN or Drs think about how low my HBA1c is, I simply do it for myself and my own piece of mind. Yes that was a bit of an "off" day and seems that no matter what I did it was going to stay on the low side.

Last time I saw a DSN, Etch A Sketch follow up, my HB was 39 and got asked "you sure your diabetic"
"Was last time I looked"
"Your not hypoing are you?"
"Of cause I hypo I'm a T1 we all do at some point it just part of what we are, sometimes get it right sometimes wrong "

Did cause a smile and she was happy with the answer.
 
My view is that the ratio itself is irrelevant. If your hypos are fewer and less severe, that should be proof enough that things are heading in the right direction. That's what I think.
 
Low carb AND vegan? The horror... you’ll have the high carbers and the bacon police after you
 
The Sainsbury’s ones are nice as well!
I’m fairly lucky in that I can get away with eating an average of 130 carbs per day and know what, and how, foods affect my BS and if I go overboard it’s not the end of the world whereas with T1s and other diabetics on insulin etc it seems to be very much a balancing act in which a mistake can have serious consequences.
 
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What is happening???? looks like at least 2 T2s have infiltrated the ranks and by the look of it aren't even insulin users, good heavens what ever next?...................

Mel dCP said:
Low carb AND vegan? The horror... you’ll have the high carbers and the bacon police after you
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Too right she will! Whats the point in eating Low carb and vegan..........you might as well swallow air!!!

 

I am melting just thinking of the Aussie temperature's, just tooooooooooooo hot for me.
 
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