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Type 1'stars R Us

I was out Friday, with a clutch of friends from here visiting another 15 miles away.
I offered one of them a lift as the poor woman’s got a glioblastoma and can no longer drive. Before I’d blinked 2 more had joined me. Still makes me chuckle that they chose to be driven there and back by a T1 with a recent knee replacement - what badass oldies will do to get an evening of food and drink
 


Thanks as always for the advice, BIB should that be temp Basal????
 
I was out Friday, with a clutch of friends from here visiting another 15 miles away.
I offered one of them a lift as the poor woman’s got a glioblastoma and can no longer drive. Before I’d blinked 2 more had joined me. Still makes me chuckle that they chose to be driven there and back by a T1 with a recent knee replacement - it’s amazing what things these badass oldies will do to get an evening of food and drink
 

Love it FG
 
I wish I’d driven further than the 15 miles with the badass oldies and taken them all to see Ed Gamble - I’ve only seen him on YouTube - he’s great
 
Afternoon, all, seeing as there's a theatre-going meme, thought I'd chip in with a plug for Jade Byrne's show Pricks, about her 29 yrs of T1.

She's doing a tour round the country with it during May, some of the venues might be handy for a few of us.

I went to see it at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, don't do theatre much but it was pretty good.

https://www.prickstheplay.co.uk/about-pricks
 

I had never heard of him before, just done a Youtube search and watched his routine on Live at Appollo which was quite good
 
Mm, this looks good and I'd quite like to see it. Don't think it's going to be showing in the county I Iive in so will mean a trip (as is usual round here
) if I can get to one.
 
The venues are a long way from me too
it’s be a good one to take the badass crew to
 
Just had a look at Ed Gamble. Found his diabetes bit very funny!

I am embracing the trial and error life today. Blood sugar was looking lovely at 5.8 (the lowest ove been, and feeling very shaky for it!). So thought I would test a banana without insulin just to see how much it raises my blood sugar. I'm a little scared at what's going to happen, but I figure it's best to know, especially as I usually have one with breakfast every morning, and its after breakfast where I'm currently getting my highest BS of the day
 
Jazz97 said:
I am embracing the trial and error life today.
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A useful thing to try every now and then is to wait until bg is fairly stable, then take 10g of glucose, and wait and watch to see how much bg rises until it settles out again.

And on the other side of the coin, wait till stable at about 8 or so to give a bit of hypo leeway, then take 1u of insulin without food to see how much it drops you before it levels out again.

DAFNE says it should be about 2 to 3 in either direction but that's a very general rule with broad margins based on observations of lots of people, so it can be useful to do those routines to figure out your personal numbers.

You can then apply them to multiples of 10g and 1u to get a clearer idea of how much insulin for a particular meal. That's more or less one of the main pillars of carb counting, but, as always with T1, there are other factors involved which influence things, but it's a good starting point.

It's easier doing it with cgm but still do-able with strips.
 
Ooh thank you! I may have to give this a go!
I've been testing a lot the past few days, and would love to get a freestyle libre, but cant afford to self fund at the moment (poor student here) and I have to wait a certain amount of time until I can be considered for one on the NHS. So finger pricking it is for now!
 
Totally agree. I think Spike caught the blunt of the grilling. Stomach muscles are still aching
 
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Definitely a false hypo! Woke up like this the other day as well. Annoying because it makes me want to eat to stop feeling so shaky, but good to know that my levels are getting to normal.

An hour after banana and I'm at 10.3. Will check again in another hour to see how I'm going. I'm hoping ot doesn't go up too much more, because bananas are one of my very favourite foods and dint know if I could do without them!
 
Aaargh Mels cat.......just put my jacket on and pulled my MM and libre straight off.....a call to Abbott's in the morning grrrrr
 
Jazz97 said:
I've been testing a lot the past few days, and would love to get a freestyle libre,
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The current RMOC guidelines for NHS England are that if there is a clinical need for testing more than 8 times a day, and it can be shown via meter history that this has been done for 3 months, they should prescribe, no ifs, no buts.

I think some people have been deliberately upping testing to meet the above 8.

Partha Kar, the NHS clinical lead for T1 says that the guidelines are to be regarded as a bare minimum and ccgs are free to loosen them. I suppose that might end up as a post-code lottery depending on how liberal particular ccgs are.

But I think, depending on how your team think about it, if you were to express a strong interest in it, explain how you've been testing a lot as you're keen to learn how insulin and carb-counting works and say you think libre will help with that, then, you never know, get a kind DSN or consultant on the right day, you might be in with a shout for getting it on script, no harm in asking.
 
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