Type 1'stars R Us

[kitedoc]

To the song " One more night ...", "Hol--us bolus, One more bolus, ......
A saying for the day: A prophet is never believed in their homeland, a HBA1C never tells you the range.

 

[karen8967]

What a morning roll on 2 oclock

 

[LooperCat]

Morning campers. Nice dinner of kedgeree last night, made with roasted cauliflower rice. Managed to get my dose right for it, for once! Smoked haddock is going into the list of protein I don’t need to bolus for, as long as I cover all the carbs, even if they are the slow veggie ones that DAFNE tells us to. 14g carbs in a massive bowlful, bolused 1.35u extended over an hour (love the ability to do this!) and the Etch a Sketch showed me in range all night.



Woke up at sparrow fart for the bog, saw I was in mid sixes so whacked in half a unit (blue blob) to stop it going up any further and that seems to have done the trick.



Hopefully the rest of the day will run as smoothly. Teenage son just arrived home by train for the first time, which meant I didn’t have to get my **** out of bed to drive to Cardiff to get him, so it’s nice to have him home. Until it isn’t More decorating today, need to move some heavy things so teenager will be assisting...

Hope you all have a calm day, friends.

 

[smc4761]

Good morning...should say not so good morning
Woke to a 14.9 grrrrr. Had bolognese and pasta. Worked out the carbs, easy worked out bolus and added 2 units and split bolus. All going swimmingly, 8.1 before bed dead straight line. As soon as I was in bed thanks to etch-a-sketch my bloods started to climb. Ah well, breakfast, correction dose and now on a 11.7, yet another correction dose. Salad for dinner today, don't want to rock the boat too much lol

I am usually pretty much the same if I have a high carb meal, like Bolognese. I have even taken splitting the dose and will go to bed with a decent level 6--8. But like you during the night it will rise and I usually end up with a 12+ in morning.

I now eat a much reduced carb diet and only really have a carb heavy meal at weekend, I like my curries and rice too much.

These things are sent to keep us on our toes in case we think we have got this diabetes lark sussed

 

[smc4761]

No @Knikki it really doesn't make sense it's why i'm rather intrigued with it all. But you guys really seem to take it in your stride so well. I guess many of you have had it for so many years.

Hi Moggely, if only it was easy it would make life soo much easier. I can eat same things at same time, do the same thing. One day its fine, the next high and the next low. There is no logic to it. Even after 37 years, every day is a learning day.

all I can suggest is just test a lot and make adjustments to your diet and insulin as required

 

[Knikki]

@kitedoc The day is just not complete without a Jaffa Cake

@Moggely Yep there are a few on here that have had T1D for a couple of years, we learn to live with it, adapt to it and change when we need to. However like everything, and I bet its the same with T2D, is that some just really struggle.

@kev-w Had to re-read your reply a couple of times and relook at the picture as I mistook the phrase "my roll on's on the right out of camera shot...." as I missed the "out of" and thought you used Tetley Tea Bags as a roll on
Sorry

@karen8967 Have another ~HUG~ sounds like you need it.

@Mel dCP More "food porn" looks really tasty as well

On a side note thought I caught a rising spike at 8.8 with a quick blat of 2 units of Ashpidistra BUT no looked at the Etch A Sketch later and hit a 12.2 flying butt monkies are back, so wallop in another 4 which has stopped it and leveled out at 6 and bit, lunch and more Aspidistra and expect a drop below 4 or 3 later.
Also got my MiaoMiao yesterday but as this sensor runs out tomorrow I will set up with the new one when I replace.
Expect some updates and more cursing and swearing and creative ways around the swear filter

 

[porl69]

@kitedoc The day is just not complete without a Jaffa Cake

Ewww lol. M<any years ago I worked at Burtons biscuits in Cwmbran, not far from myself. I worked on the Jaffa line and the supervisor told me I could eat as many as I wanted. Was on the part where the jam was put on the biscuit bottom (WARM JAM). It was at a moment in my type 1 life that I didnt really care about myself (not a good place at the time). I ate a LOT of unfinished Jaffas, to the point of I really don't like them much now. Luckily I got the sack from there for finding the icing sugar store with one of my friends....we had an icing sugar fight!!!! Surprising where icing sugar ends up to days after lol

 

[porl69]

Oooh. Can we create a new t1 language?
Perhaps we can use animal names instead of swear words.
Flamingos instead of *** * and Crested Porcupine instead of **** and sharks instead of ****.

For example, I'm flamingoed off because my crested porcupine insulin makes me feel sharky.

(I was going to suggest food but "flapjacks" really does mean flapjacks and "sugar" means sugar and .... so it wouldn't work.)

Could be awkward if you visit a zoo and post about it on here!??

 

[LooperCat]

Well sharks have already been nabbed by me for THAT week... and I have a cat named “B*ll*cks” so you could use Mel’s cat for that particular word

 

[kev-w]

An ok day so far, drifted to 9.1 and left it and am back at 7.4, I'm a little flamingoed off repeating the same crested porcupine reasons for being late round cleaning windows as it's been a sharky time and I'm not earning money when repeating the crested porcupine reason to each customer.
Anyway, swearing aside I've my little un to collect for the night in an hour so a swim's on the cards

'Mels cat' to that is my general outlook on life....

 

[karen8967]

@kitedoc The day is just not complete without a Jaffa Cake

@Moggely Yep there are a few on here that have had T1D for a couple of years, we learn to live with it, adapt to it and change when we need to. However like everything, and I bet its the same with T2D, is that some just really struggle.

@kev-w Had to re-read your reply a couple of times and relook at the picture as I mistook the phrase "my roll on's on the right out of camera shot...." as I missed the "out of" and thought you used Tetley Tea Bags as a roll on
Sorry

@karen8967 Have another ~HUG~ sounds like you need it.

@Mel dCP More "food porn" looks really tasty as well

On a side note thought I caught a rising spike at 8.8 with a quick blat of 2 units of Ashpidistra BUT no looked at the Etch A Sketch later and hit a 12.2 flying butt monkies are back, so wallop in another 4 which has stopped it and leveled out at 6 and bit, lunch and more Aspidistra and expect a drop below 4 or 3 later.
Also got my MiaoMiao yesterday but as this sensor runs out tomorrow I will set up with the new one when I replace.
Expect some updates and more cursing and swearing and creative ways around the swear filter

thanks knikki im home now it was just one of them mornings in work were nothing goes right ive changed out of my uniform and im not moving off the couch ....well i will at some point

 

[karen8967]

Morning campers. Nice dinner of kedgeree last night, made with roasted cauliflower rice. Managed to get my dose right for it, for once! Smoked haddock is going into the list of protein I don’t need to bolus for, as long as I cover all the carbs, even if they are the slow veggie ones that DAFNE tells us to. 14g carbs in a massive bowlful, bolused 1.35u extended over an hour (love the ability to do this!) and the Etch a Sketch showed me in range all night.

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Woke up at sparrow fart for the bog, saw I was in mid sixes so whacked in half a unit (blue blob) to stop it going up any further and that seems to have done the trick.

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Hopefully the rest of the day will run as smoothly. Teenage son just arrived home by train for the first time, which meant I didn’t have to get my **** out of bed to drive to Cardiff to get him, so it’s nice to have him home. Until it isn’t More decorating today, need to move some heavy things so teenager will be assisting...

Hope you all have a calm day, friends.

you have done marvelous mel since on the pump

 

[smc4761]

Hi peeps, just looking for a wee bit of advice from you lovely people. No matter when I take my Novorapid, 20/30 mins before food, my BG is still rising by about 4 or 5 steps. It will drop back to fairly good levels after about 4/5 hours.

example today before lunch 7.5, waited 30 mins right amount of carbs for insulin and 2 hours later its at 12.2. Its now heading down, sitting at 9.9 about an hour after my 12.2 and by 6 oclock I expect to be around 7.

its the same with breakfast as well

Any thoughts?

 

[kev-w]

Hi peeps, just looking for a wee bit of advice from you lovely people. No matter when I take my Novorapid, 20/30 mins before food, my BG is still rising by about 4 or 5 steps. It will drop back to fairly good levels after about 4/5 hours.

example today before lunch 7.5, waited 30 mins right amount of carbs for insulin and 2 hours later its at 12.2. Its now heading down, sitting at 9.9 about an hour after my 12.2 and by 6 oclock I expect to be around 7.

its the same with breakfast as well

Any thoughts?

Change your basal cartridge!

 

[LooperCat]

Hi peeps, just looking for a wee bit of advice from you lovely people. No matter when I take my Novorapid, 20/30 mins before food, my BG is still rising by about 4 or 5 steps. It will drop back to fairly good levels after about 4/5 hours.

example today before lunch 7.5, waited 30 mins right amount of carbs for insulin and 2 hours later its at 12.2. Its now heading down, sitting at 9.9 about an hour after my 12.2 and by 6 oclock I expect to be around 7.

its the same with breakfast as well

Any thoughts?

I’d change all your insulins for fresh stuff, as Kev said. What sort of quantities of carbs and insulin are we talking here?

 

[smc4761]

Hi Kev,

I’d change all your insulins for fresh stuff, as Kev said. What sort of quantities of carbs and insulin are we talking here?

This has been going on for some time now at least a few months, well its become much more obvious, since I got the Libre, which gives a lot more info and I am checking much more often

Previously, before Libre, I would check BG before all meals and generally BG would be not that high. Now having the Libre I can check between meals and this is what as highlighted the big spikes. Dont get me wrong, come the next meal when I test with Libre it is pretty much in range. So I am guessing this rules out a dodgy batch of insulin

Breakfast is typically 40 g of carbs on a 1:4 ratio, lunch 30 g of carbs with a 1:5 ratio and dinner 30 g of carbs with a 1:5 ratio

My overnight BG have been generally fairly level overnight, maybe a rise/fall of 1.5 at most

Hope that makes sense

 

[smc4761]

@smc4761 do you regularly change your injection sites?
I ask because some experience insulin absorption problems if they use the same area for injection.
Is it worth changing to somewhere you don't usually inject (e.g. in your arm or butt) to see if that makes a difference?

I'm probably clutching at straws but it could be an experiment worth trying and would explain why it has got worse and doesn't chance when you change your insulin batch.

Hi Helen, i dont think its got worse, its just a case of I am now more aware of my BG between meals, thanks to the Libre. I change my sites very regularly and also change the needle for each injection

 

[Knikki]

@smc4761 Your using Nova? yeah I was finding that out with the help of Libre in which I would spike, and end up stuffing half a litre of Nova in before anything would happen, which as per, I would enviable hypo from the dramatic drop that Nova would cause.

Its one reason I made the appointment with my DSN and change to Apridra, which works for me far better than Nova.

From reading around and from my own experience what your seeing is typical Nova.

It might be worth experimenting with changing your basal but as you hate hypo's I would be wary of doing that.

Out of interest how long have you been making Nova?

Hope you mange to get to the bottom of it.

 

[smc4761]

@smc4761 Your using Nova? yeah I was finding that out with the help of Libre in which I would spike, and end up stuffing half a litre of Nova in before anything would happen, which as per, I would enviable hypo from the dramatic drop that Nova would cause.

Its one reason I made the appointment with my DSN and change to Apridra, which works for me far better than Nova.

From reading around and from my own experience what your seeing is typical Nova.

It might be worth experimenting with changing your basal but as you hate hypo's I would be wary of doing that.

Out of interest how long have you been making Nova?

Hope you mange to get to the bottom of it.

Hi Knikki, Only been on Nova for about 5 months, prior to that I was on Humalog for many years. I believe that Nova and Humalog are basically the same insulins just different manufacturers.

With my overnights being generally OK, fairly flat, I think I have my night time Levemir OK. When I take my morning Levemir around 7am with my breakfast my BG may be OK at say, 7. By lunchtime at around 12.30 my BG will still be at 7. By dinnertime around 6pm my BG will still be around 7. So between meals just before my Nova, the BG are fairly good. its just the spikes in between meals..

Typical breakfast will be museli or porridge, lunch will be home made soup, followed by salad. Dinner will be chicken, meat, followed by plenty of veg. No snacks between meals really. So no bread, pasta, rice or potatoes

 

[Alison54321]

My gingerbread man has disappeared. Something weird happened, I tried to put my numbers in and reader got all intrusive and started asking questions I couldn't be bothered to answer, and now he's gone.

Does anyone remember the code to get him back?