Jazz97
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- 151
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Just the one dose for now, but that might change depending on how it goes
Just the one dose for now, but that might change depending on how it goesUntil recently I have always over compensated for hypos. Even now in certain circumstances I will over compensate. If I am out and about and I have a low coming on, anything around BG of 4 I will start drinking cola and maybe some sweets. I tend to be out walking in far flung places with few people about. If I am at home I am a lot calmer and will just have a cuppa and a biccie.
For overnight hypos now I tend just to have around 6 jelly beans and go back to sleep.
@Jazz97 hopefully you will find Levemir a better insulin. I assume that you will be on a split dose, one before bedtime the other as you wake up?
As for Oreos, YEEEEEEEEEEUUUCH horrible biscuits
I've got pizza for dinner tonight. Let's see if I can keep my levels as low as that!Had pizza for lunch at work today - new regime! Pay day pizza (except pay day was a few days ago, we had to wait for a few team members to come back from training\project work), was 6.8 before. 8.9 now - pretty good going for guessing the carbs and timing of bolus for a lunch time carb feast of unquantifiable pizza!
@Knikki - I know how many carbs it takes to make me go up one mmol, so in theory working out how many I should eat isn't hard but I like Oreos. I'd switch to glucotabs in the house but I like the Oreos and I hardly ever get them... moan, whinge. Most sweets aren't vegan and the ones that are they usually put that gross not-real-sugar in that makes you run to the loo. I feel like yelling that being vegan doesn't mean I want to eat the no sugar option!!
Good info to have buuuttt the real question is - plain Oreos or flavoured? They have mint and birthday party (caramel with sprinkles) varieties out these days.
I've got pizza for dinner tonight. Let's see if I can keep my levels as low as that!
Aaah Robs - lovely horse. Did you ask him "why the long face?"?
As for the bird poop, someone told me it's good luck. I think I may have responded that it is the kind of luck I can do without. Although, on those grounds, the cars in my street must be very lucky. One day a row of 5 were "caught". I think the bird must have eaten something that disagreed with him.
As well as working, I popped out to vote and have been trying to sort out house insurance. It seems every insurer asks different things - one asks to list bikes worth more than £500 and another asks to list them if they are worth over £1000; one asks to list all items I may take out worth more that £500 and the other just says it will insure everything under £3000 up to a total of £5000; one asks to list jewellery items worth more than £250 and the next just insures all jewellery up to a total amount. It makes it a pain to compare. I think I have come to a decision.
I am now waiting for the rain to ease so I can go to the gym. Then we will have fish baps with tartare sauce and mushy peas for tea. The fish is pollock because that's what we had in the freezer. Fingers crossed I do better with the combo bolus than I did last night.
@WuTwo That's good to hear! I'm starting out on one dose in the morning, and seeing how it goes from there. My problem is at the moment I've been dropping a lot after three hours of taking novorapid and also dropping overnight. So hopefully that will stop! I cant deal with the hypo symptoms. And as other have been saying, once I start eating, I cant stop!
I can't quite decide if I'm bored, exasperated, or smug at Main Paid Work at the moment. I've changed duties, though still with the same groups, sorting out a massive, massive mess as a result of poor decision making on the part of those who don't work directly with students.
I'm bored because I find the kind of work I'm currently doing very easy and straightforward. (Apparently, I'm rare in this - judging by the carnage that took place whilst I Did As I Was Told and left it to several supposed specialists in this field to sort and, um, watched them undo the good work I'd done in the previous two years.) I'm exasperated because this could all have so easily been avoided and because it took precisely 30 seconds for me to re-establish control where all control had been lost... and there it has remained ever since with more work produced in the nine working days I've been back on the case than in the previous two terms. But, I'm also pretty smug because I was so utterly right in the first place.
Ahem. That's better - and all's well on the blood sugars front too, especially now all the over-heated insulin is definitely out of the system.
Is it time for you to become a not so called specialist in the field Japes? What would you have to do to be one?
I think my already twice postponed appraisal is going to be interesting enough...
To be fair, this current state of affairs may not last long and I'll be able to go back to my usual role, which normally gives me enough variety to prevent boredom, reduce exasperation and deflate my current level of smugness. I don't actually want to become an official specialist as I'm really not interested in further study and qualifications, other than the CPD and mandatory training, as I do a lot of music related work outside of Main Paid Work and that is important to me as well.
Goodnight everyone sleep well
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