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Type 1'stars R Us

My early morning hump in the road has tuned into a flippin’ mountain... 11.9 at its peak, into the tens now... :banghead:
 
Hello everyone,

I forgot to wish @Mel dCP a happy birthday yesterday, so belated happy birthday wishes.

Nothing much to report, blood sugar has behaved reasonably well so far today, it seems not to be going up just as the little gingerbread man starts to take off his onesie, which probably means the basal is doing it's job better today.

I always feel with T1D we have to work twice as hard as anyone else to stay healthy, the half hour a day brisk walk is just not enough, those 5 a day fruit and veg just aren't enough, it's very demanding.

But anyway.............
 
Hi all, hope you are well.

I picked a kilo of blackberries from my garden yesterday and cooked them down added some sugar and sieved them (love the taste but the pips are a nightmare) et voila! 600ml of blackberry sauce.

Into my last 10 days of my Dexcom trial. it's b**** brilliant - not sure what i am going to do without it.

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Alison54321 said:
I always feel with T1D we have to work twice as hard as anyone else to stay healthy, the half hour a day brisk walk is just not enough, those 5 a day fruit and veg just aren't enough, it's very demanding.
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Days like that are usually made better with a ~HUG~ cake, filter coffee (or tea) and blowing s*** up around the universe :D but that could just be me ;)


Bit of a :rolleyes: day really.

Running mid 4's all day then lunch down to 2.8 o_O so lunch, plus a bit extra, and waited till I had started to go back up to a high 4 then stuck some insulin in.

Now running mid 4's again :bookworm:
 
helensaramay said:
That's interesting for you to say that.
I am not sure when you were diagnosed; I was diagnosed in my mid-30s so I am very aware of life without diabetes.
I have always been reasonably active. The exception to this was a 45 minute round trip drive to work every day for 18 months about 5 years before diabetes. I hated not having the time for myself to exercise, to cook and even to do boring things like banking. I put on a little weight (it takes a lot for me to do that) and felt a bit bleurgh.
Now, I work from home. On the plus side I have no commute, I avoid the colds going around the offics and can prepare something fresh for lunch every day. On the negative side, it is very very easy never to leave my desk and never to leave the house for exercise and I miss out on the social scene around work.
I make a concerted effort to get out, go climbing, go to the gym, do some shopping, get on my bike, ... even in the winter. I know, if I don't for a couple of days, I feel bleurgh.
Apart from that, my only illness is sports related (tennis elbow from climbing).

Sorry, that's a long winded way of saying that, apart from the insulin and finger pricking, I look after myself the same with diabetes as I did without it. I don't find diabetes adds any additional demands on my stay healthy regime.
Perhaps I'm lucky, perhaps my baseline fitness helps, perhaps it helps that I hate sitting still and enjoy exercise, perhaps it helps that I seem to have healthy genes (my mother goes to the gym in her mid-70s ... and neither of my parents have diabetes), perhaps it helps I like fruit and veg and don't eat meat, ... or perhaps I am kidding myself.
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But you probably are doing twice what is recommended, you probably do do more than half an hour a day of brisk walking, you probably do eat more than 5 fruit and veg a day, and it keeps you healthy.

Which is great, I do too. But you're proving my point, rather than proving me wrong.
 
Went into town and got ar return bus ticket one stop further down the road. I must say it was exhausting walking to the 3 stores even though they are so close to one another, Boots, Primark and Tesco Express. I went into Primark first to get a new belt and I bought a pair of pj bottoms, as a pair of mine from 6 weeks ago are missing ! so I bought a a pair of grumpy cat bottoms, then a couple of items in Tesco and when I went to Boots pharmacy there was a long queue, too long for me to wait as I was tired and catching my breath. so, walked to the bus station and I told the driver my ticket was for the stop before the one I needed and he said I didn't have to pay for the extra stop and it was alright to get off a little further, which is nearer to my house. So that was good of him.
Also the sun came out earlier and it is very hot again, phew il_340x270.1368673408_eof3.jpg
 
Tony337 said:
I don't like chocolate cake and I love the warm weather in fact the hotter the better which doesn't effect my insulin at all...
To balance it out I'm coeliac and have Bile Acid Malabsorption so I have my own crosses to bear and I couldn't eat that cake Mel even if I wanted to.

4.0 this morning so happy days.....

Happy times and places

Tony the turnip
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I LOVE CHOCOLATE CAKE :hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry::hungry: and :hungry:
 
helensaramay said:
That's interesting for you to say that.
I am not sure when you were diagnosed; I was diagnosed in my mid-30s so I am very aware of life without diabetes.
I have always been reasonably active. The exception to this was a 45 minute round trip drive to work every day for 18 months about 5 years before diabetes. I hated not having the time for myself to exercise, to cook and even to do boring things like banking. I put on a little weight (it takes a lot for me to do that) and felt a bit bleurgh.
Now, I work from home. On the plus side I have no commute, I avoid the colds going around the offics and can prepare something fresh for lunch every day. On the negative side, it is very very easy never to leave my desk and never to leave the house for exercise and I miss out on the social scene around work.
I make a concerted effort to get out, go climbing, go to the gym, do some shopping, get on my bike, ... even in the winter. I know, if I don't for a couple of days, I feel bleurgh.
Apart from that, my only illness is sports related (tennis elbow from climbing).

Sorry, that's a long winded way of saying that, apart from the insulin and finger pricking, I look after myself the same with diabetes as I did without it. I don't find diabetes adds any additional demands on my stay healthy regime.
Perhaps I'm lucky, perhaps my baseline fitness helps, perhaps it helps that I hate sitting still and enjoy exercise, perhaps it helps that I seem to have healthy genes (my mother goes to the gym in her mid-70s ... and neither of my parents have diabetes), perhaps it helps I like fruit and veg and don't eat meat, ... or perhaps I am kidding myself.
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I have always been fit, active and healthy, diagnosed 29 years ago age 31 ( don't even go there working out the math) lol I am actually lighter now, 8st 6 lb this morning, but normally about 8st 12 lb, so weight wise, I have hardly altered.
I have struggled through a few devastating times, being a single parent, working, pregnancy at 42 with my beloved daughter and life with type 1 has been a struggle, it's 24/7 and relentless at times, there is no day off from it and well, you know the recent 'blip'. But, the more I get shot down, with life's up's and down's the harder I fight to get back up and I
will keep fighting on. I was recently told I was a fighter and because I am a good weight, don't smoke ( used to years ago, :yuck: don't drink alcohol or take drugs, it saved my life.

So @Alison54321 yes type 1 can be demanding, it's 24/7 and a pain in the backside and we are here to listen to each other's triumphs, also the woes and to be supported, because we all know what life is like living with Type 1.

All for 1 and 1 for all :)

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I've bought home about 1kg of blackberries, though not quite all are going in the freezer as I've just tested some! Smaller, not as sweet and definitely pippier, but as my taste for sweeter things has diminished significantly in recent years, I really liked the fact they weren't as sweet as other years.

Definitely a pootling about at home day - it's rained. I am not complaining.
 
Afternoon folks hope you are all having a good day.

Wee blip last night, with a 3.2 around 9pm last night. Nothing made it go any higher so eventually coffee, 4 sugars and couple of biscuits before finally getting to 5.8 around 11pm at bed. Of course I knew what would come and of course 11.6 around 2am. correction dose taken back to bed and still 8.9 when i woke up.

Apart from that its been pretty good all day, now doing my usual afternoon drop. 5.7 at mo and going down slowly. Dinner will not be until 6 and I expect it to drop to around 4.5. May take a couple of jelly beans to try and keep at around 5 mark

Hope you all have a good night
 
helensaramay said:
I guess I am the wrong type of sample to use to prove if we need to try harder.
Proudly, the only thing I am typical of is someone who is atypical :)
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I used to walk loads when I was in my twenties, giving out leaflets for a political party. Wouldn't even vote for them now, but that's another story. But I did it because I liked doing it, not because of my diabetes.

I just like walking, and I like fruit and veg.

However, because I've had it a whole lot longer than you, I was sort of curious as to why I don't seem to have any complications, as when I first had it you couldn't do blood testing strips, so it clearly wasn't good control.

So I asked the doctor if it was because I had walked a lot, and eaten lots of fruit and veg, and she made some vague affirmative noise, so I went off and searched for evidence, and found plenty of it, that these things are beneficial.

The reason why you do it is irrelevant, it is the act of doing it that matters, and I definitely think we have to do it twice as much!!!!!
 
I just don’t get the endorphins other people do from physical activity. It just makes me feel tired and really horrible. PE lessons at school were daily torture - my teacher was convinced I am just lazy and because I’m tall I should therefore be super athletic. I am seeing the rheumatologist later in the year (my appointment this month got rearranged) as they are investigating the possibility of fibromyalgia or lupus. I did 7k steps around Cardiff yesterday and can barely get out off the sofa today. I have very hypermobile joints too - if I put any weight through a bent knee, as when running, my kneecaps dislocate; I can just about manage stairs. So it’s very painful for me as well. Tried yoga and dislocated my hip :banghead:

I can’t recall if I’ve mentioned any of this before, so forgive me if I’m repeating myself! But I do feel T1 adds an extra weight to an already heavy burden - as well as the pain and fatigue aspects, I also have to consider my glucose levels when I do anything active. I get postural hypotension too, so I also have to make sure I’ve had enough salt before going for a walk to the post office :meh:
 
Mel dCP said:
I just don’t get the endorphins other people do from physical activity. It just makes me feel tired and really horrible. PE lessons at school were daily torture - my teacher was convinced I am just lazy and because I’m tall I should therefore be super athletic. I am seeing the rheumatologist later in the year (my appointment this month got rearranged) as they are investigating the possibility of fibromyalgia or lupus. I did 7k steps around Cardiff yesterday and can barely get out off the sofa today. I have very hypermobile joints too - if I put any weight through a bent knee, as when running, my kneecaps dislocate; I can just about manage stairs. So it’s very painful for me as well. Tried yoga and dislocated my hip :banghead:

I can’t recall if I’ve mentioned any of this before, so forgive me if I’m repeating myself! But I do feel T1 adds an extra weight to an already heavy burden - as well as the pain and fatigue aspects, I also have to consider my glucose levels when I do anything active. I get postural hypotension too, so I also have to make sure I’ve had enough salt before going for a walk to the post office :meh:
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You don't have to like exercise, it's not compulsory.

Diabetes is a very different experience for everyone. Though if those of us who can ward off a few complications by doing some exercise do this, it saves resources for those who can't, so we should really just do it, in a quiet and well behaved sort of way.

It does prematurely age our cardiovascular system, so doing what you can is a good idea, but there is no need to go jogging, I often just dance around to a favourite song, to burn off a little sugar.

Once you have the pump sorted, hopefully you can look at ways of doing things that work for you
 
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