Robinredbreast
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Morning all, changed sensor last night, which is a necessary but annoying process. New one still a bit erratic, but starting to show some consistency. Woke up with blood sugar somewhere in the region of 5.6, which will do fine, though consecutive readings with my new sensor said it was somewhere between 4.4 and 6.7, which I suppose averages out.
It'll settle down soon enough. Going to visit the local hospital today, because I got a letter to go see Fraser Gibbs, well I won't actually see him, but he's the consultant for the clinic, this afternoon, whereas usually it's someone whose name I can't remember. I last went in December, so I'm not sure why I'm going, but I assume it's something Libre related, as he plays the lead role on it.
Not much else going on. I decided to split my bolus insulin, officially, or in my head officially, as I'd sort of been doing it a bit for a while unintentionally, but I'm turning it into an official decision. It's because though I usually only use 4 or 5 for a meal, now that I pre-bolus and then wait, I find my blood sugar hovers around whatever it was when I injected, then slowly starts to decrease, then without a word of warning drops to the low 4s, and I find this a problem if I've taken 5, this chasing a rapidly dropping blood sugar is the main creator of problems at the moment, because I end up with a zigzag effect. I'll see how that goes, been trying it for a couple of days, and it seems to be ok. The other problem is not being able to pre-bolus, because my blood sugar is in the low 4s and I know if I inject 5 units it'll go crazy low too fast, so I end up eating first then injecting, whereas splitting the does just makes it all more manageable.
Hope everyone has a good day.
That made me laugh @Robinredbreast, makes it sound like some sort of drug!I did, just a small 10 g pack
@Knikki . Great history lesson. Maybe something along those lines should be made into a sticky. T1 diabetes down the ages.
It's a creative writing prompt.Well I'm going to die an interesting death. Hmmmm....
With my three word surname and a little jiggling around, I’ll be buried alive by my family of living meth addictsSorry, this appeals to my (morbid) sense of humour, but what I like about the post below, is that whatever I choose, I'm not coming to die from complications of diabetes.View attachment 34586
It's a creative writing prompt.Got to love fiction.
your split bolus sounds pretty good. Dare I mention the "pump-word"? I have found splitting boluses much much easier with my pump.
I always end up being one of those people who doesn't make enough noise, or isn't enough of a problem, to ever get offered a pump. This has happened with many other things as well.
This is often the sort of mindset that permeates institutions. I was thinking that with what @WuTwo I think it was, said the other day, about being told that she didn't need libre because her HBA1c was too good, and other people needed it more.
Though the guidelines for England do say that testing 8 times a day means you qualify, so that that sort of mindset shouldn't get in the way.
Good morning Diabetnam..
Woke earlier on a 4.1 & now sitting on a six..
This has recently been my "office".. Discreet place to test & inject too!
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A little trip down memory lane
Back in the day when testing how much glucose was in your system it was literally bucket chemistry:
5 drop of urine with 10 drops of water add in tablet of magic and wait for it to turn a colour. Accuracy oooooo you'd be lucky at 4 hours but more like 6 that was most of the 70's and into the 80's.
Then things improved where you had to weeeee onto a stick
Great unless you were drunk or hypo or really didn't want to go.
Something similar came along later which used blood, least that was a bit quicker but still find the colour on the side of the tube, try doing that late at night
Then the early blood test meters started to turn up sort of late 90's an yes they had finger prickers something like this
These were great, certainly got blood out your finger plus it is the only thing I know of, other than a long bow, to go through and inch of oak. Only used it twice and then used to ram the pricker needle in by hand which was easier and as for a needle, more like a nail nothing compared to the these days.
So image dealing with the above to monitor your sugars and hold your sh** together, no" ooooooo ive gone up 00.5of a mmol after eating two bits of rice should I call emergency"get back in the bin
It might explain my sometimesattitude towards T1 and why bouncing around between 4-10 don't bother me to much.
Then again in 20 years time we will all be sitting here going "Remember that Libre", "oh yes, how primitive"
so @Jaylee has been holed up in a padded cell for a bit...............No doubt stood there 'rocking' and singing to himself going dooo-lally!
Is this a sound proofed room, so no one can hear you scream ?!!!
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