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Type 1'stars R Us

Good morning all. Woke with a 4.6. Graph said I had a hypo during the night but this time DP helped me out.
Yet another nice day BUT can't go anywhere due to this bloody velathon
 
becca59 said:
Libre set at 4.5-9 and this one is insanely accurate. Hallelujah! Above-28% in-61% below-11%. Have eaten very low carb for the last few days and readings have been higher. Go figure! @Alison54321 going for a walk tends to raise my levels. Unfortunately the quickest way to get them down is vacuuming- I have lovely clean carpets!!!
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i find when im hoovering my levels start to drop quite rapidly its mad isnt it ;)
 
I think there is a variety that is used in place of sutures for children. So use on clean cuts would work as you found out!!
A friend of mind used superglue after the dental filling had fallen out twice !! Lasted 6 months but I think he was lucky because it does not stand up to being wet all the time.
Superglue is harsh on skin, eyes and lungs as it draws fat of the skin, and the fumes irritate eyes and lung tissue. I use an extractor fan and wear googles.
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Mel dCP said:
Didn’t they invent superglue as a skin repairer in the Vietnam war for mending soldiers in the field? I often use it on cuts, topped with insulating tape (or gaffer tale if it’s more serious!) - stings a bit but does the job.
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Not sure about the army story. They do have a form of super glue in place of sutures for children. Apparently it stings, and glues surgical gloves together too. Never get it near your mouth or eyelids !!
I must admit I tend to clean out cuts and leave then open if they are shallow, or use a steri-strip to close them after a dab with Betadine ( which will earn me a severe tut-tutting if my wife, a nurse, hears that).
 
4.2 for me but had dropped under 4 whilst sleeping, non scientific porridge eggs & wholemeal bread for breakfast.
A last lazy day I think, a swim with the youngest this aft, hedge needs cutting but my tools are at mums and I'm still car-less, I'm going to buy a banger I think, well another banger as I'm usually the cars last owner afore the scrapyard :)

Turned out nice again anyway :)
 
Home from a great kite fly on the beach. Good steady southerly and walking up and down the beach and watching the kites is a panacea for stress and worry.
Lots of children watch with mouths open in awe. They can quite rightly tell their teachers that they saw a dragon, and a hammerhead shark in the sky ( and fish it could not catch) and a big beetle bouncing on the sand.
Home, sweet home - brushing sand off boots, a line to untangle, things to pack away and dinner.on the way!
Remembering when I first wore the pump, keeping it protected from being pulled on or tangling, watching not to bend too much in a particular way and set off an obstruction alarm or bend a needle insert. Check the needle insert is still attached. And the belt clip feels a bit loose, I have had several fall apart, so order a spare tomorrow. ( no amount of fiddling, gluing etc works !!) So much now on auto-pilot !!
I forgot how dehydrated you can get even in winter when the wind blows.
Kite angle, wind strength and drag of tails: diet, exercise, medication: balance, balance, balance.
Saying: A kite in the hand is worth more than 3 up a tree.
 
@kev-w I’m also a “bottom feeder” when it comes to cars, currently rocking a 2002 Ford Focus while the husband is blaring around in a 2001 Nissan Micra. Still miss my ‘72 Land Rover, but it literally disintegrated... :( My bikes are pretty old too, can’t see the point in a new one!
 
Mel dCP said:
@kev-w I’m also a “bottom feeder” when it comes to cars, currently rocking a 2002 Ford Focus while the husband is blaring around in a 2001 Nissan Micra. Still miss my ‘72 Land Rover, but it literally disintegrated... :( My bikes are pretty old too, can’t see the point in a new one!
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My best car was the engine I'd taken from my old Mk 1 Trooper as I'd run out of chassis to weld to :p I bought a Vauxhall Frontera with a blown 2.3 engine and put my 2.8 engine in, finished it the day before my youngest was born and it lasted 5 years and did over 33k mikes ( https://www.fronteraowners.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=232 ) I'm willowkevin on that extremely long thread :) . I never got 'bikes' as in my younger days I rode a Vespa around the country :p
 
BG seems to be on a roller coaster. 18.8 one morning last week, 3.9 today. Not surprising as I'm having to cope with my sister's death.
 
@SueJB . Sorry to hear of your loss.
Time to prioritise. Give your diabetes the minimum of time and effort and focus on you and the important things at the moment.
 
SueJB said:
BG seems to be on a roller coaster. 18.8 one morning last week, 3.9 today. Not surprising as I'm having to cope with my sister's death.
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So sorry @SueJB, what was your sister like?
The beaurocratic, practical things we need to do when someone we’re close to dies seem like an extra insult; I hope you’re not having to do it all alone.
Come and talk to us while you’re in the midst of the emotional and BG roller coaster.
Hugs
 
Have just caught up with this thread; so sorry to hear about what's happened to you @Robinredbreast and hope you're feeling better and getting some food you want to eat! @SueJB, as someone who's lost a sister too, much sympathy, and yes, I remember the big D going off track. Bound to really.
 
Afternoon, my “let’s see how resistant I am today” experiment is going pretty much as expected.

I woke at around 8am with a 9.9 dawn rise, so I bolused for that, in order to get me to my usual 5-6mmol level - if I don’t, it’ll be high all day and mask the effect I’m trying to demonstrate. According to Spike, that 3u would have been gone by around 1130, but it started shooting up well before then, at around 1000. I’ve not eaten, other than some coconut oil in coffee (caffeine doesn’t spike me), so nothing there that would elicit such a high rise. Family are out, I’m not getting into any arguments on the internet, I’m very calm, keeping cool and hydrated. Watching a series about mediæval castles and doing some gentle knitting, so no adrenaline to cause a rise.

Injected 8.5u Tresiba at 0900 as usual (8.5u at 2100 last evening), normally this would hold me dead level all day long, so I think it’s proving my point that I’m very insulin resistant this week (well, today for the purpose of this data), and what happens if I don’t trickle Novorapid in every 45-60 minutes.

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For comparison, here is yesterday’s trace, where I took (in the end) 14 injections of Novorapid. Two were with food but included a correction. I kept it mostly in range, and always under 9mmol.

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Now reading 14.7 and feeling a bit rubbish.
 
Mel dCP said:
Afternoon, my “let’s see how resistant I am today” experiment is going pretty much as expected.

I woke at around 8am with a 9.9 dawn rise, so I bolused for that, in order to get me to my usual 5-6mmol level - if I don’t, it’ll be high all day and mask the effect I’m trying to demonstrate. According to Spike, that 3u would have been gone by around 1130, but it started shooting up well before then, at around 1000. I’ve not eaten, other than some coconut oil in coffee (caffeine doesn’t spike me), so nothing there that would elicit such a high rise. Family are out, I’m not getting into any arguments on the internet, I’m very calm, keeping cool and hydrated. Watching a series about mediæval castles and doing some gentle knitting, so no adrenaline to cause a rise.

Injected 8.5u Tresiba at 0900 as usual (8.5u at 2100 last evening), normally this would hold me dead level all day long, so I think it’s proving my point that I’m very insulin resistant this week (well, today for the purpose of this data), and what happens if I don’t trickle Novorapid in every 45-60 minutes.


For comparison, here is yesterday’s trace, where I took (in the end) 14 injections of Novorapid. Two were with food but included a correction. I kept it mostly in range, and always under 9mmol.
Now reading 14.7 and feeling a bit rubbish.
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Commiserations ! The pump is sounding more and more attractive.. There is never a perfect solution but it has to be better than the Novorapid Trickle (? name for a new dance ?) Also I have heard in palliative care they have a type of needle insert into which they inject pain relieving drugs via a syringe driver. Is it possible to try such a needle insert ( not the driver) to do the Novorapid trickle for one to two days at a time ?? Save on ouchy injections a bit?
 
@Mel dCP when are you next seeing your consultant? I think you might have said earlier in the thread but I'm on my phone and can't find it! I'm getting a pump and I'm pretty sure one of the reasons why (apart from them being amazed at my hba1c reduction) was when I explained that my best control is through splitting my dose on pretty much every meal - basically manually doing an extended bolus which you can do so much more easily with a pump!
Not sure what your trust/health board is like for being pump friendly, I'm lucky to be in a very pro pump trust. But I really hope you showing them your impressive amount of tiny injections will get you a pump! It shows such dedication to control as well as the actual fact of your control being good!
 
kitedoc said:
Commiserations ! The pump is sounding more and more attractive.. There is never a perfect solution but it has to be better than the Novorapid Trickle (? name for a new dance ?) Also I have heard in palliative care they have a type of needle insert into which they inject pain relieving drugs via a syringe driver. Is it possible to try such a needle insert ( not the driver) to do the Novorapid trickle for one to two days at a time ?? Save on ouchy injections a bit?
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PS. Medtronic make an injection port for insulin injections. I shall look for it at the pharmacy tomorrow and let you know name and serial (cereal) number. !!
 
kitedoc said:
Is it possible to try such a needle insert ( not the driver) to do the Novorapid trickle for one to two days
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I've sometimes wondered about that. Could we attach a pen to a cannula set or are there hydraulic/pressure etc. etc. issues?

Pumps pump constantly, so the first thing that springs to mind is how balancing pressure would work with intermittent bolus shots - what happens between shots? Would higher pressure in the pen and lower pressure subcutaneously suck insulin from the pen without us knowing?

Or detach the pen to avoid that, but how do you refill the tube without overdosing?

Answers on a postcard to Blue Peter, look what we made from toilet roll holders and sellotape!
 
Evening all, I’m thinking of abandoning in about 45 mins, got to 16mmol and feeling vile. Eyesight is going funny and I feel like I have cling film on my eyeballs. I think I’ve proved my point, however. I did know about the iPort, perhaps I could lash together something with gaffer tape and cable ties... I’ll have gone 12 hours without a correction, not going to go a full 24! And to think I ran higher than this all the flippin’ time!

@wildtoast - I’m seeing him on 11th September, so have at least two more (maybe three, cycle is only 25 days now) shark weeks to show data for. I’ve been heavily annotating today’s phone scans, so they’ll upload to Diasend in real time. If I ring the DSN about it this week, they’ll have that to look at. They seem to be quite pro-pump - it was them who suggested it when I phoned for advice about how best to deal with this week.

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*puts pharmacist hat on* Have you checked for ketones? I know you do low carb/keto so I guess you maybe have some ketones normally? But worth checking the levels if BG is high and you feel ****! edit: rubbish! Didn't know that one wasn't allowed hah.
 
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