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kitedoc said:
I am now attached to a Tandem pump. the T-slimx2 (X2 means second model , I think) here is sunny Oz.
The educational process was very well done, both with pre-session video presentations via email (and a quiz to answer correctly enough to be able to move through the 5 modules)!! and my DNE (Diabetes Nurse Educator) and the Pump rep spend 2 hours with me (methinks they took pity on a slow learner)!
Comparison: Pump Length cm bare/in belt accessory Width cm b/b.a. Thickness cm bare/casing plus clip
Animas Vibe 8 / 8.4 5 / 5.4 2.2 / 3
Tandem.T-slim 8 / 8.5 5 / 5.5 1.5 / 2.2
More later when I have had time to work it out and have learned enough from my mistakes to say something profound.
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Sounds like a promising upgrade, fellow cyborg :borg:
 
Mel dCP said:
Bore da ffrindiau!

Had a couple of high alarms in the night, not sure if it’s the beginning of resistance week or the vestiges of the three tons of fish I had for dinner. Took small corrections to deal with those, and now I’m at 3.7... so I’ve turned off my pod for half an hour.

Did I mention I had my first pod failure at the weekend? Had to change it in the car in a multi storey car park in Cheltenham...

Salty chocolate is amazing. I usually have 100% cocoa stuff, and often put a sprinkle of pink salt on it. Really gives it some oomph.
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3 tons of fish? THREE TONS! 50% to be converted to glucose. Um, is that a low carb diet? And fish plus salty chocolate might have you becoming mighty thirsty!!!! Please enjoy !!!!! Glad the emergency changeover went well. Testing in field conditions, conditions the clinic cannot easily reproduce for you.
You get to choose the next test: Um, underwater, or with use of one hand only (use of improvised gadgets made beforehand allowed) or blindfold. This is also a sanity test so do not feel obliged to prove that the test can cause insanity.
Oh! And tests are held in this universe only.
Of course DSNs and doctors have to undergo the same testing to prove they have requisite experience!!
 
Mel dCP said:
Sounds like a promising upgrade, fellow cyborg :borg:
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Thank you @Mel dCP. It does not alert me with a Fur Elise tune but with various beeps and clicks. Being a one-in-all there is no separate input panel to mislay and full adaption to use of Dexcom CGM can be downloaded soon and next year hopefully the insulin reduction with low BSLs (CGM) program will be downloaded also. Waterproof to 1 meter for 30 minutes (sucks, will not be enough time to dive very shallowly for the 3 ton of fish). Battery top-up say 20 minutes twice weekly whilst showering.
So far, so good !!!!:):blackeye:o_O
 
kitedoc said:
3 tons of fish? THREE TONS! 50% to be converted to glucose. Um, is that a low carb diet? And fish plus salty chocolate might have you becoming mighty thirsty!!!! Please enjoy !!!!! Glad the emergency changeover went well. Testing in field conditions, conditions the clinic cannot easily reproduce for you.
You get to choose the next test: Um, underwater, or with use of one hand only (use of improvised gadgets made beforehand allowed) or blindfold. This is also a sanity test so do not feel obliged to prove that the test can cause insanity.
Oh! And tests are held in this universe only.
Of course DSNs and doctors have to undergo the same testing to prove they have requisite experience!!
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Well, it was two giant fillets of basa, a fish I haven’t tried on my current dosing regime. I generally dose for the protein in white fish at half my carb ratio, and extend the bolus over 2 hours. I had it with turnip wedges and roasted broccoli.

Not sure a pod would stick to wet skin, so underwater testing is out. I do carry syringes so I can do an injection in case of total pod failure, which’ll be an experience as I’ve never injected myself using a syringe before. One of my DSNs is T1 and on a pump, so she’s got some tales to tell!
 
becca59 said:
Thankfully didn’t happen. Doesn’t always, there is no pattern to how my levels are following swimming. Pleased to say however that have had a straight line on my Libre for about 9 hours of 5.5-6.2. Result!
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Awesome! When exercise works it really does work!
 
Mel dCP said:
Well, it was two giant fillets of basa, a fish I haven’t tried on my current dosing regime. I generally dose for the protein in white fish at half my carb ratio, and extend the bolus over 2 hours. I had it with turnip wedges and roasted broccoli.

Not sure a pod would stick to wet skin, so underwater testing is out. I do carry syringes so I can do an injection in case of total pod failure, which’ll be an experience as I’ve never injected myself using a syringe before. One of my DSNs is T1 and on a pump, so she’s got some tales to tell!
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What about a book/blog etc with one page for each contributor with some stories to tell? Title, could be by vote e.g. one such might be Diabetic Dalliances etc etc.
 
Has anyone had a flu jab yet this year? I had mine yesterday as I happened to be in the pharmacy collecting a prescription and the pharmacist asked if I had it and if not, would I like him to do it there and then. I said yes as it saved another trip to the surgery plus trying to make an appointment in the first place; apparently there's a big drive to have pharmacists administer them as whoever 'they' are are trying to capture as many people as possible this year.

That's actually not the point of this story; the point is that I had one of the worst nights of my life last night. Woke at 2 am hotter than I've ever been yet shivering and teeth chattering. Checked bg, all good at 4.6, but carried on feeling awful for the rest of the night even though bg didn't get above 5.8 till I got out of bed when I couldn't see properly - kind of visual migraine. That cleared but feel absolutely exhausted today and can't think what else it could be. Anyone had anything similar or any other ideas about what was going on?
 
@porl69 you had to post that twice???! I'm now twice as jealous about swimming in the Aegean - not the glucotabs :hilarious:
 
what a day ive had today woke to a 6.5 and my levels have been rising all day dont feel ill or anything given loads of correction doses changed insulin vials all to no avail dont ye just hate this diabetes lark at times currently at 14 no keytones another correction dose me thinks oh the joys rant over :(
 
karen8967 said:
what a day ive had today woke to a 6.5 and my levels have been rising all day dont feel ill or anything given loads of correction doses changed insulin vials all to no avail dont ye just hate this diabetes lark at times currently at 14 no keytones another correction dose me thinks oh the joys rant over :(
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Similar happened to me at the weekend, I binned the current fast acting and put a new cartridge in and it cured me :)
 
kev-w said:
Similar happened to me at the weekend, I binned the current fast acting and put a new cartridge in and it cured me :)
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Ive changed it kev do you reckon change it again currently at 8.8 but nothing to eat since lunchtime ive even put new basal vial in as well how are you getting on with your tresiba
 
karen8967 said:
Ive changed it kev do you reckon change it again currently at 8.8 but nothing to eat since lunchtime ive even put new basal vial in as well how are you getting on with your tresiba
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Oops :) you did say you'd changed the vial, I might need to go back to Specsavers and I'm out of suggestions, other than a bug maybe.
Tresiba, I'm picky so there's things I like about it and things I don't, flatter daytimes, more fast acting injections some days, 7.30am slope line drop giving me more night time hypos, but yeah, I'm not looking to change..
 
kev-w said:
Oops :) you did say you'd changed the vial, I might need to go back to Specsavers and I'm out of suggestions, other than a bug maybe.
Tresiba, I'm picky so there's things I like about it and things I don't, flatter daytimes, more fast acting injections some days, 7.30am slope line drop giving me more night time hypos, but yeah, I'm not looking to change..
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What time do you take yours i take mine at 10pm which seems to work well ive also got a half unit pen so i just go up in halves wen it needs adjusting well better than lantus
 
karen8967 said:
What time do you take yours i take mine at 10pm which seems to work well ive also got a half unit pen so i just go up in halves wen it needs adjusting well better than lantus
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I take mine at 10pm too:) I went for 16u to start with from 22u Lantus, I dropped it to 15 for a few weeks but my sugars were drifting upwards so back on 16u again.
I just wish that if it had to slope down at some point it'd do it at 7 at night, rather than at 7 in the morning :)
 
Looks like there's just the one evening drop-in option at my GPs for the flu jab which got me utterly annoyed last year as it was full of people who I knew, none of whom go out to paid employment kind of work and who could have gone to any of the three daytime options.

Oh, then there was the charming couple who glared at me and told me I was too young to be there. Pointed out the perils of working in my environment and carried on with my reading. I have my book chosen for this year's wait already!
 
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