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Type 1'stars R Us

A bit of a late reply as I've been thinking about the hypo/hyper thing. Also, it's been One of Those Weeks with a vengeance on all fronts and my tolerance of many people is rock bottom. (You lovely lot being some of the honourable exceptions.)

I think, on the whole, at work I'd rather be running in the 6 - 8 range, given it's not entirely ideal if I have a hypo at work. I'm also lucky enough to be able to walk off most hypers. Definitely able to do that this afternoon having been about 8 since I got up, over-estimated the fast-acting in the hopes it would come down a bit, was still over 8 pre-lunch, after a morning sitting at the computer catching up on various admin jobs and also avoiding the rain, so had a no-carb lunch and stomped off to walk it all off via the errands list. (A splendid 5.4 on my return.)

I've also been lucky enough, so far, never to have had a really scary hypo or need intervention (another reason for running slightly higher at work if possible - some of my colleagues are people who are definitely not on my "trust in a diabetes crisis" list.) I've found it scary enough with the "bit worse than mild" ones I've had which I've come out of fairly fast but I do accept it's all part of the gubbins of this diabetes shenanigans.

At home, I'm perfectly happy pootling around on high 3s, 4s and low 5s, all of which have me reaching for the snacks at work!

I do reckon it all averages out...

On a different kind of hypo/hyper question - I'm not someone who likes being touched much by people I don't know well, I mostly can accept for some people it's a friendly gesture and try not to react, but I've been very aware lately I seem to be reacting badly to it from absolutely everyone in my vicinity, and was trying to pin down if it was related to being hyper or hypo which I'm reluctantly thinking may be the case. Not entirely sure I wish to declare to some people this may be the case as it could lead to a secondary bad reaction from me getting cross with the "Is it your diabetes, do you think?" (bit like "Oh, is it that time of the month?" used to drive me mad as that was rarely the case.) Or I may just try to stand well back from everyone!!
 
helensaramay said:
I am with @Alison54321 on the hyper/hypo debate: there is no simple answer for me. I fear becoming too complacent with either.
However, I am surprised no one has commented on the recovery speed. Unless it is a recurrent hypo, I recover pretty fast whereas hyper seem to take forever to recover from with NovoSluggish. Some suggest exercise to bring down bg but when I am high even the effort of walking eems to rise it further.
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I did! Quick recovery from hypo. Minutes in fact. S
Hours with hyper.
 
Afternoon. I too battled the elements to get my flu jab, warm here too, so was just in a t shirt. Had a nice coffee in the new farm shop next to the surgery, a pootle to the big furniture charity shop (we’re looking for a dresser) and a local art gallery, and now we’re back home in pyjamas watching Star Trek.

Still having a 1am high and a 10am low, so more fiddling with my basal rate. Just had a couple of eggs so far today, been running 5-6 apart from this morning, so I think it’s set right for the rest of the day. My autumn needs are a little less than summer.
 
As it has been pretty miserable here with wind and rain, spent a few hours on Youtube looking at insulin pumps and peoples experiences of them.

Now MDI can be a bit of a pain (literally) but the pump also seems like a lot of faffing about, calibrating etc. For those who use the pump is it worth all the extra effort (think I know the answer) ?
 
therower said:
@Mel dCP .
Just a t-shirt?:woot::woot::woot:
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Yup. I did wear a floppy scarf with it, so that the practice nurse didn’t spot me wearing my Libre on my upper chest... ;)

@helensaramay - our river is running quite high, but the bank on the other side is lower than ours, so not too worried! The wind and the rain has eased off considerably now, must have reached you though?

@smc4761 - it really is worth it. A little more effort yields great results, I can dose down to 1/20 of a unit, so can account for every single carb and g of protein, plus I can correct using tiny doses when I get to the high sixes, without having to wait until I go higher than I want to in order to be able to take half a unit to bring it down. Plus the ability to turn it off for a little while when I’m hypo, means I don’t need so much dextrose to fix it. The flexibility of being able to adjust the basal rate is brilliant - you adjust it to suit your food, activity and BG level, rather that having to adjust your food and activity to suit the stuff you’ve injected once or twice a day.
 
helensaramay said:
Most of my day so far has been spent inside watching the wind (no rain). I ventured out to clear up some leaves to minimise the chance of them blocking my drains but I think there is the same amount back again already. Thanks wind.

Instead of having flu jabs, I have been baking. There is a lovely smelling pumpkin pie cooling on the rack. It is my first ever attempt as I struggled to convince my boyfriend pumpkin can be sweet as well as savoury. Until we went on hols to New England. Now he knows what I meant.
I am a little concerned the pie is rather large for two of us but we will do our best.

I also have some sourdough dough resting for a couple of loaves to bake tomorrow.
I have now managed to use all my mixing bowls so the baking will have to take a break until the dishwasher has finished.

Glad to hear from @Mel dCP and she hasn’t been washed away by Callum and his floody friends.
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I brushed all mine up put them in garden bin went in looked out the window and they were all bk again we have a massive tree at the front
 
Cumberland said:
2 hypos today has left me feeling a bit pants
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Sorry to hear that Cumbs, I hate the time lost to hypos and the feeling that I have no option but to feel pants. I imagine they were the ones that drain you?
 
porl69 said:
Been 90% in single figures since Wednesday and 1 hypo.
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Way to go!

There's going to be a point in a few years time when all the ccgs who aren't yet funding libre and haven't even heard of blucon/mm/xdrip/spike are going to look back in time and say, "just a minute, all those folks back in 2018 who were using all that "illegal" stuff which we've never heard of were right."

It does make it easier, no doubt about that.
 
helensaramay said:
Most of my day so far has been spent inside watching the wind (no rain). I ventured out to clear up some leaves to minimise the chance of them blocking my drains but I think there is the same amount back again already. Thanks wind.

Instead of having flu jabs, I have been baking. There is a lovely smelling pumpkin pie cooling on the rack. It is my first ever attempt as I struggled to convince my boyfriend pumpkin can be sweet as well as savoury. Until we went on hols to New England. Now he knows what I meant.
I am a little concerned the pie is rather large for two of us but we will do our best.

I also have some sourdough dough resting for a couple of loaves to bake tomorrow.
I have now managed to use all my mixing bowls so the baking will have to take a break until the dishwasher has finished.

Glad to hear from @Mel dCP and she hasn’t been washed away by Callum and his floody friends.
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Hi @helensaramay, Dipping a tentative finger into the culinary arts, does added onion to the pumpkin mix help to sweeten the result??
 
helensaramay said:
I am with @Alison54321 on the hyper/hypo debate: there is no simple answer for me. I fear becoming too complacent with either.
However, I am surprised no one has commented on the recovery speed. Unless it is a recurrent hypo, I recover pretty fast whereas hyper seem to take forever to recover from with NovoSluggish. Some suggest exercise to bring down bg but when I am high even the effort of walking eems to rise it further.
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There have been times where i have the hypo symptoms (adrenaline-based - shakes, sweats, rapid heartbeat) and the BSLS are 8 to 10 mmol/l plus. I am not doubting that the hypo happened but sometimes the glycogen from the liver does a superb job, except that I then spend 3 hours plus bring the rebound BSL back down !!! Never, Never smile at a hypo !!
 
helensaramay said:
Noooooooo.
Pumpkin pie is really a spicy custard tart with a vegetable after taste.
It still taste good after a few beers.
However, shaping the sourdough loaves was a little more challenging than usual.
Hopefully, they still bake well tomorrow.
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Finger crossed for a great result. Perhaps I was thinking about making pumpkin soup sweeter tasting with onion.
 
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