Type 1'stars R Us

[kitedoc]

@kitedoc , the coffee you mention, is it 'Skybury'?

I only ask as my local roaster sells that, imported as green beans and roasted here, it's a nice drink

Hi @kev-w, I did not notice the brand, just that it had a caffeine kick like the proverbial mule !!

 

[kitedoc]

I talk to mine, as if that's really going to make any difference..

Does it answer back in anything other than numbers and impertinent HI or LO ?

 

[kitedoc]

That's good. Goodnight, @smc4761 , and everyone.

I have very little to report. I went for a nice long walk, which started with me burning off a small high, and then on the way back I decided just to get home without checking, as it was falling so slowly.

When I got back it was 4.2, and I panicked, and over corrected, after my experience the other day. It's all under control now.

It was very very bad of me not to check on the way home, but it was raining, and there were loads of people. I won't do it again, though.

Anyway, goodnight, everyone.

We all need a book of coupons with 'mea culpa' written on them. But we would need to cut down too many forests!!

 

[kitedoc]

I say a few choice words at times....... and thank goodness the cat can't repeat them

Just as well. Hopefully you do not have a parrott?

 

[karen8967]

Morning everyone have a great day

 

[smc4761]

Morning peeps, not off to a good start at all. I would not mind if it made any sense but hey ho the life of a type 1.

After a reasonably good day yesterday between 5--6.5 between about 3pm and bed at 11, I went to bed on a 5.9. Woke up at 2.30 with 11.6, eh how did that happen???????? Correction dose of 5 units of Novorapid, and by 5.30 Libre was showing 9.4 and going down. Not great but getting there. Woke up at 7 and its now 11.1????????????????

Ah well back to drawing board.

Its a bank holiday weekend so hope you all have a good un

 

[Tony337]

Good Morning
Its Friday yay...
3.7 at 5.30am but feeling good with it.....
Not low in the night then.
Had to take some extra novorapid before bed as wifey had made potato pie which was so nice I had 2 meals worth!
Work colleagues think I don't eat much as during the day I just eat a bit when I need to but by the time evening meal time arrives I'm ready to eat a cow between 2 bread vans.........

Have a top weekend

Tony

 

[kev-w]

Good morning y'all, or not so good for me, 2.6 on the Libre and 2.7 on a finger stick so I'm cursing zoo animals right now as it's self inflicted, as I had a 1u correction jab with supper as I appeared to be trending upwards at bedtime. Actually no, I didn't appear to trend up, I didn't look at the gingerbead man and the high point I corrected for must have been the high point, which in year 35 is a daft mistake to make.

But hey, who's counting

@kitedoc What I meant was that 'Skybury' coffee is grown in Oz near Cairns.

 

[Tony337]

Hey @kev-w I'm in year 44 and still make daft mistakes.
To err is to be human or some such tomfoolery quote I can't quite remember.....

All the best

Tony

 

[Japes]

Hypo-disrupted sleep the last two nights - this is new...

Went to bed a little lower than usual but not dangerously so based on experience thus far. Woke about 90 minutes later around midnight feeling odd so checked to find I'd dropped to 3.7., did the Dextro thing, checked a bit later, 3.7 again, so more Dextro another wait, 5.8, so had a snack, muttering darkly about eating when I didn't want to, and eventually got back to sleep. 7.1 this morning so all well again.

The night before, however, was split bolus sheer miscalculation and landed me on a 2.9! Full can of full sugar Coke, Dextro and a snack before that one resolved itself to settle on a 6.2 before going back to sleep. (The caffeine in the Coke seems to have no effect on my sleep when I've just emerged from hypo-land.)

Kind of wondering if my evening ratio may need general adjusting. I didn't walk much either yesterday or the day before, because of some work I was doing, so didn't make any adjustments for walking miles.

Mind you, I was relieved to realise when I went back the next day to the Words with Friends game I was playing when I registered the 2.9 it really was impossible to make a move, not that my brain had ceased to work!

 

[kitedoc]

Morning peeps, not off to a good start at all. I would not mind if it made any sense but hey ho the life of a type 1.

After a reasonably good day yesterday between 5--6.5 between about 3pm and bed at 11, I went to bed on a 5.9. Woke up at 2.30 with 11.6, eh how did that happen???????? Correction dose of 5 units of Novorapid, and by 5.30 Libre was showing 9.4 and going down. Not great but getting there. Woke up at 7 and its now 11.1????????????????

Ah well back to drawing board.

Its a bank holiday weekend so hope you all have a good un

long-acting insulin gremlin ?

 

[kitedoc]

Hypo-disrupted sleep the last two nights - this is new...

Went to bed a little lower than usual but not dangerously so based on experience thus far. Woke about 90 minutes later around midnight feeling odd so checked to find I'd dropped to 3.7., did the Dextro thing, checked a bit later, 3.7 again, so more Dextro another wait, 5.8, so had a snack, muttering darkly about eating when I didn't want to, and eventually got back to sleep. 7.1 this morning so all well again.

The night before, however, was split bolus sheer miscalculation and landed me on a 2.9! Full can of full sugar Coke, Dextro and a snack before that one resolved itself to settle on a 6.2 before going back to sleep. (The caffeine in the Coke seems to have no effect on my sleep when I've just emerged from hypo-land.)

Kind of wondering if my evening ratio may need general adjusting. I didn't walk much either yesterday or the day before, because of some work I was doing, so didn't make any adjustments for walking miles.

Mind you, I was relieved to realise when I went back the next day to the Words with Friends game I was playing when I registered the 2.9 it really was impossible to make a move, not that my brain had ceased to work!

So your hypo awareness appears to be spot on. Now to find the cause of the hypos .......

 

[kitedoc]

Hey @kev-w I'm in year 44 and still make daft mistakes.
To err is to be human or some such tomfoolery quote I can't quite remember.....

All the best

Tony

My version is "To err is human, but always blame the weather, it cannot answer back" !!

 

[kitedoc]

Good Morning
Its Friday yay...
3.7 at 5.30am but feeling good with it.....
Not low in the night then.
Had to take some extra novorapid before bed as wifey had made potato pie which was so nice I had 2 meals worth!
Work colleagues think I don't eat much as during the day I just eat a bit when I need to but by the time evening meal time arrives I'm ready to eat a cow between 2 bread vans.........

Have a top weekend

Tony

I hope your jaw can manage it !!

 

[Japes]

So your hypo awareness appears to be spot on. Now to find the cause of the hypos .......

Indeed, and I'm very glad of it. The split bolus one just needs a bit of work to find the best time for Part 2 after chips in the evening. I went a bit early, I think.

Last night's midnight escapade has confused me a bit. When I come up with an answer, I'll log it.

 

[Japes]

Can I just say, to those of you who are admitting daft moments after so many years in, it's really reassuring for me as a newbie of just 6 months and a week (but who's counting?!) on insulin! Helps me feel not so bad about my mishaps in this learning process, and about accepting it's going to be a life-long learning process as well!!

 

[Alison54321]

I had a 4 am hypo. I seem to be having a few of them. I decided to correct it by eating 28g of carbs as wine gums, and then when it went too high, 20 minutes later, taking 2 units of novorapid. I decided I'd get more sleep that way. Which I did, and woke up with an ok blood sugar, but that's not what I would call satisfactory, as a way of dealing with the problem.

I'm walking down to George Street this afternoon, as I spent my Edinburgh Festival budget on a ticket to see Bruno Macaes talk about his book on Euroasia. I'm seriously worried about this, the place is packed with comedians and instead I chose to watch a talk on global politics. What has happened to me!!!

Anyway, that means I'm going to do a lower dose of Levemir tonight, and hopefully avoid that hypo. I might phone our DSN hotline, or tepid slow response line as it really is, and see if Lindsey, who I talked to last time, has any advice.

 

[LooperCat]

Good morning y'all, or not so good for me, 2.6 on the Libre and 2.7 on a finger stick so I'm cursing zoo animals right now as it's self inflicted, as I had a 1u correction jab with supper as I appeared to be trending upwards at bedtime. Actually no, I didn't appear to trend up, I didn't look at the gingerbead man and the high point I corrected for must have been the high point, which in year 35 is a daft mistake to make.

But hey, who's counting

@kitedoc What I meant was that 'Skybury' coffee is grown in Oz near Cairns.

Morning all, I did pretty much the same. Went to bed on a 9 (looks like I need to bolus for mackerel - my need to insulinate for fish appears to be very species specific...) with a small correction, woke at three to see it was 7 and rising fast. Took a correction and re-woke at 8 with a flippin’ 2.8 Had to turn the pump off and scoff a load of dextrose to bring it up fast as I had to leave for a hospital appointment by nine. Just managed to get it to 5.7 so I could drive. All very inconvenient.

 

[LooperCat]

Can I just say, to those of you who are admitting daft moments after so many years in, it's really reassuring for me as a newbie of just 6 months and a week (but who's counting?!) on insulin! Helps me feel not so bad about my mishaps in this learning process, and about accepting it's going to be a life-long learning process as well!!

We’re all still one decision away from a balls-up

 

[Knikki]

Late on parade

Well yesterday afternoon a flamingo 15.9 and I know what I did wrong, in with a correctioon dose and an hour in the gym brought it back down but still took a while, then PIZZA spilt dose and ran high 4's all night which was nice.

On a side note I now have the MiaoMiao up and runing and connected to an Samsung Andriod phone running the latest both xDrip and Android.

Suprisingly easy to setup, the phone saw the MiaoMiao and both said 'Hello' to each other and the xDrip connection wizard is one of the nicest I have used in a fair while.

The phone needs to have BluTooth on plus Location on which, I'm not a fan of but it works so hey ho. I don't have any other BluTooth devices connected so not run in to any issues.

I did nearly send the whole lot flying while having a shower this morning so I'm not going to try @Mel dCP bra strap trick, will leave that for another day.

Still messing with the setting but I do like the Calibration setup, somthing that the Libra mobile app should be able to do as well.