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kev-w said:
Can I suggest ringing back a few times! I always find it's worth mithering them when you need stuff doing as I usually find the telephone handlers to be a bit complacent if they're not tut tutting at your blood strip usage :p
Good luck and I hope you get sorted :)
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Do the dsns not realise that the strips are nutriitious and thus should not be restricted !!
 
smc4761 said:
Forgot to add, brekkie this morning was 2 poached eggs 2 slices of warburton seeded bread at 11.9 g per slice, so about 24 g of carbs

I am on a silly ratio of 1 unit if insulin to 4 g of carbs, so 6 units of Novo rapid at 7am By 10.30 sitting here with a BG of 11.1. and yet at 7 am it was 5.6
Don't you ever wonder what is the point GRRRRRRRRR
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The Novorapid limps along a bit, doesn't it ?
 
porl69 said:
Urgh! 15.6 before dinner so yet another correction dose with dinner. So mush for my post this morning WINNER!!!!!
My etch-a-sketch looks like the Alps today. Ah well onwards and downwards (hopefully) with this correction dose
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"Climb every mountain >>>. it is a bummer sometimes is it not ?
 
kitedoc said:
"Climb every mountain >>>. it is a bummer sometimes is it not ?
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Especially when you forget to bolus with breakfast and come on here stating great start today with a 4.3 and a straight line.....that straight line is still straight BUT straight up :banghead::banghead: it WILL come down.....trust me it will....I have half a pen of Fiasp and am not scared to use it lol
 
Alison54321 said:
My blood sugars do that. They follow a pattern, for a few weeks, as regular as anything, and then suddenly change, just at the point where I have worked out the pattern, and how to deal with it.

I think we must become experts at adapting to change.
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Frustrating ain't the half of it ! A clockwork. We could be leaders in the climate change debate, once we could put our diabetes on auto control ( yeah ! Right!).
 
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porl69 said:
Especially when you forget to bolus with breakfast and come on here stating great start today with a 4.3 and a straight line.....that straight line is still straight BUT straight up :banghead::banghead: it WILL come down.....trust me it will....I have half a pen of Fiasp and am not scared to use it lol
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Yeah, the modern world, we need an alarm to help us remember each dose, carbs, erg of energy expended. No wonder we get tired !!
 
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Cumberland said:
Bless you
Hypos are terrible things wishing you respite from them Alison and hope tweaking your insulin works for you
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Thanks Cumbs,

My dawn phenomenon seems to have decided to turn it's curve upside down, and become a dip instead of a rise, and I have no idea why, nor how long it will last, but it's affecting the rest of the day, because I'm still working with the previous pattern.

Once I get used to this pattern, it will of course change again.
 
kitedoc said:
Yeah, the modern world, we need a bl...dy alarm to help us remember each dose, carbs, erg of energy expended. No wonder we get tired !!
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I have a Timesulin on the top of my pen which tells me when I last took the lid off. I check it VERY regular but not this morning....
 
Robinredbreast said:
I telephoned my surgery, and as it is not 'urgent' regarding having just one Tesiba pen, I now have a telephone call from the duty dr next Tuesday, the 24th ! I am fuming, they haven't received my letter to Gp informing him of the change in Insulin, :mad: nor my discharge paper's from the hospital!! I am ringing the diabetes nurse at the hospital right now.
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If do not already, suggest the doctor or nurse use dictation software, dictate the letter sign it and post it - I know discharge summaries are a pain for doctors and nurses (they have told me often enough) but you would think the health authorities in which ever country/countries/states would try to enable more efficient communications!!
 
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Knikki said:
@Robinredbreast Maybe your not fully recovered from your hypo of the the other week, take it easy have a nice cup of tea and put your feet up.

@CranberryIce Having a similar issue at the moment bloods running all over the place no real idea why, I'm sure you'll crack it soon.

Things OK over here in my world running mid 7's at the moment which is OK still experimenting with Lantus amounts not quite got it sussed.
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Hi @Knikki, I think insulin adjustment is always a work in progress. And good work on the 7's
 
helensaramay said:
Not a bad idea.
However, a sample of one night is not enough for statistical analysis. I suggest you don't restrict yourself to one night of rum and coke. Perhaps you should try some on another night over the weekend.
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So, basically every night over the coming weekend :). I like you already lol
 
Afternoon all, and how are our Etch-a-Sketches doing? Mine doesn’t look so much like the Alps, but the Spanish Massif Central...so much for insulin resistance tailing off... also wondering what the flippn’ point is myself :(

Going into Cardiff on the train shortly for groupie duties, private film screening of an upcoming BBC documentary doncha know! So let’s see if I can get an actual Himalaya with all the excitement (other mountain ranges are also available) ;)
 
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