LooperCat
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I’d jump through whatever hoops needed to get a pump, personally - it’s made such a difference to my diabetes!
I’d jump through whatever hoops needed to get a pump, personally - it’s made such a difference to my diabetes!Could I please ask for everyone's input on me doing another carb counting course - While I like the idea about personalised carb ratios and correction ratios, I feel it is disregarding that fact I did DAFNE and I know my diabetes team wants to help me. It's a 3 month wait 1 lesson per week for 4 weeks from 9:30-15:30. The nurse did say she'd push for it sooner but I doubt it because everything is a long waiting list. I do find a bit awkward because I did have a discussion about pump therapy with my consultant and he took note that I did DAFNE. But the nurse said you'll have to do this course and wait 6 months to see any improvement and then if things don't improve the consultant will approve funding for a pump. (Things did slightly improve on DAFNE and it's been 7 months since I did it)
By then I would have seen my consultant and maybe then it'll be another discussion. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to learn and meet other folks who are in this area and make some friends. But the time lapse is overlapping with whatever my consultant has planned. Any carb counting course is not a waste of time, I always find it interesting and helpful and I would accept all the help I can get to improve my control.
I guess I was hopeful to have a better or slightly more improved control before I head off to university this September. If I did another carb counting course, wait 6 months and taking into account my hospital visits, it'll be more or so next year. I'm quite desperate at the moment and I know Rome wasn't built in a day. but university isn't waiting for me to get better, I have to get better. It would be worth it if I was not struggling for time.
I’d jump through whatever hoops needed to get a pump, personally - it’s made such a difference to my diabetes!
Morning friends,
After my hypo I shot up to 18.0 (for hypo I had 200ml-250ml of coke and a strawberry jam sandwich) - I was at 2.6 after 15 mins so I was nibbling away at my sandwich, then it went to 6.6, then 9.5. So I thought okay it might not to too bad, but uh oh 18.0.
The dsn said I should just leave it as it is and I know no corrections for hypos and the treats to reduce the rebound effect. but 18.0 is a bit high? my naughty self corrected and it's now 11.3, so I didn't sleep after that party. I'll have breakfast and might go back to bed. I hope everyone has a splendid day.
That approach works for me too, I know that one 3g dextrose tab raises me by 0.6mmol - so I calculate a dose for a hypo the same as I do for a high. Also, they’re not very nice, so I’m less likely to over treat!And there is more anger around. People get angry about things that years ago would just have been taken in stride, as on
Do you know how many mmol 10g carb raise you? If you can work that out, then you can make a little chart showing how much food you need to treat a 1.8 and get it to wherever you want to me.
Write down some food values beside your little chart, so that you know if you need to go up 6 mmol you should eat however many carbs, and therefore should eat 3 oreos (or whatever).
Works for me, and it made a huge difference.
That approach works for me too, I know that one 3g dextrose tab raises me by 0.6mmol - so I calculate a dose for a hypo the same as I do for a high. Also, they’re not very nice, so I’m less likely to over treat!
Do you know how many mmol 10g carb raise you? If you can work that out, then you can make a little chart showing how much food you need to treat a 1.8 and get it to wherever you want to me.
Write down some food values beside your little chart, so that you know if you need to go up 6 mmol you should eat however many carbs, and therefore should eat 3 oreos (or whatever).
Works for me, and it made a huge difference.
Hello, yes around 2 levels for me. 250ml of coke is around 3CPs that would have raised me to around 6.5, which it did. Unfortunately continued to rise when I followed up with a sandwich. I didn’t have anything less than a sandwich, I would have picked oreos.
If it was me I'd think I'd put Glucotabs on the urgent shopping list, or Dextrose tabs - vegan and revolting, so you won't want more than you have to have. I buy the tubs and just refill the tubes. They aren't nice, so no-one treats them as sweets and they just stay there until you need them.
If I buy anything nice, I know I'll eat more than I need ..... if Oreos are there all lonely in the packet, who am I to stop them going and being with their little crunched up friends?
Do you buy glucotabs in single individual tubes or in bulk?
I’m trembling as I’m reading your responseI know those tablets are absolutely horrible to eat. Sugar water isn’t any better but it works in desperate times. Which one do you prefer? Or are they just as bad as each other?
@Mel dCP have a good one and yep, pics please!
@MeiChanski I'm with @WuTwo and Mel on this one - find out how much x amount of fast-acting carb raises you by. I've mentioned before that when I'm treating a hypo, according to the level I start at I take x amount of jelly babies, sit on my hands for 15 mins, test, if I'm where I want to be I only eat slower acting carbs if I'm about to do something physical, so I definitely wouldn't have been munching a jam sandwich. Also if you eat something with slow acting carbs, or fat, you'll slow down the action of any additional fast acting carbs you need to take. If my first jelly babies haven't done the trick and I'm not back up enough, x more jelly babies, another 15 mins, another test and so on.
I get symptoms close to a bg of 4; I think you may have mentioned that your hypo awareness has fallen off. If that's right, I can see why you were hoping for cgm with alarms as opposed to Libre. If that's the case, I'd say you really need to make that clear to your diabetes team, maybe have that conversation with the nurse.
It's also worth working on measuring what different foods do in terms of spikes, as you seem to yo-yo a lot which is hard to control. And looking fore patterns can help; for instance I developed a pattern of often being high after lunch and worked out that I was eating something that had an effect I hadn't allowed for .
Hope that helps
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