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Type 1'stars R Us

porl69 said:
PLEASE no pictures if you succeed :hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:

4.4 on waking this morning (and straight line thru the night). Although Libre scan saying Lo all night.....would have called this one in by now BUT Xdrip calibration is saving the day (and this sensor)
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I’ve had exactly the same last night - Libre sensor in the red all night, despite Spike having me in the mid fours. I’m hoping that doesn’t get taken as gospel when I put my application in for a C1 and D1 entitlement on my driving licence, I think the two bloods a day are all they need. Luckily DVLA still ignore CGM data...

@helensaramay - Vietnamese food is amazing, also v jealous!

@SueJB - good luck with the trains! Doing anything nice in that London?
 
Good morning teabags. It’s cold, horrid grey wet cold today, too cold to pile anything by the front door, not even flowers, so best be civilised today Knikki and save your experiments for spring . Cat says he was thinking about getting one up on the wombats but decided not, staying in as much as possible. Hope you’re feeling ok now smc, and please can we have some recipes helensaramay? It was the red backs behind the garden shed and the huntsman on the bathroom ceiling that persuaded us a year was a tad too long in Adelaide kitedoc.
4.8 this morning, rising to 7 so small correction. Cheerful about that.
 
@smc4761 These are 10g tubes of glucose and are available on prescription, they can be useful.

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@helensaramay but if they cured your T1 next week, hopefully you wouldn't need too many prescriptions if any at all after?!? So their logic isn't that flawed ?
 
kev-w said:
@smc4761 These are 10g tubes of glucose and are available on prescription, they can be useful.

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My wife keeps telling me to get these on prescription. I always felt that, with an average of one hypo a day, it would be taking the mickey. Mind you, that was pre-keto - nowadays, I have only about one hypo a week, so I may reconsider.
 
Colin of Kent said:
My wife keeps telling me to get these on prescription. I always felt that, with an average of one hypo a day, it would be taking the mickey. Mind you, that was pre-keto - nowadays, I have only about one hypo a week, so I may reconsider.
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Mine are about ten years out of date :D Tastes like washing up liquid...
 
looking for a wee bit of advice. Since I started treating my diabetes with a lot more respect and eating much better I have never had pizza. Boss fancied a pizza for dinner tonight so going to go daft and have some pizza, around half of 1 which is around 100 g of carbs.

I know we are all different but as a rough guide how do you split your dose for pizza, pepperoni and hot and spicy meat pizza. I was thinking maybe 70/30
 
Knikki said:
@SueJB I now have London Calling by the Clash going round me noggin :D

Morning...

All rather fine today on the old BSL front.:)

So today I will be mostly trying to create square, cuboid or rhomboid poop! :woot:
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A fine tune! London called, I went and returned ................all on time
 
Mel dCP said:
I’ve had exactly the same last night - Libre sensor in the red all night, despite Spike having me in the mid fours. I’m hoping that doesn’t get taken as gospel when I put my application in for a C1 and D1 entitlement on my driving licence, I think the two bloods a day are all they need. Luckily DVLA still ignore CGM data...

@helensaramay - Vietnamese food is amazing, also v jealous!

@SueJB - good luck with the trains! Doing anything nice in that London?
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Cheers @Mel dCP I was working, came home and now drinking a G&T.
What's everyone's opinion about T! and alcohol..... honestly?
 
kev-w said:
@smc4761 These are 10g tubes of glucose and are available on prescription, they can be useful.

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Thank Kev , I did not realise this and have been forking out for the Glucojuice at £1 a pop for those times I just can't face chewing at 3am when my CGM is waking up the house. I am seeing my DN tomorrow .. it shall be on the list of 'requests' :)
 
Hills and valleys today
Cant win.

Spike alarms woke me up twice in the night... I was clearly so tired, under-treated my lows and went back to sleep. Woke up for work but sill low! Fed up by this time and over treated it. A correction two hours later proved to be too much and sent me low again... This has pretty much been my day!

Defo gave the right basal dose in the morning- so must just be super sensitive to any insulin?! Not eaten anything different today (fairly low carb). Must be the socks I put on..

Hate running high but this low is just as draining.

p.s currently 3.8 and dropping. :/
5th low of the day?! (maybe 6th?!)
 
SueJB said:
What's everyone's opinion about T! and alcohol..... honestly?
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Alcohol has been the cause of a few of my nastier hypos. The crash while asleep after a nightcap has been bad news, especially after something sweet and sticky.

Alcohol definitely adds complications to sugar management, and getting paralytic isn't great for people with a fully functioning pancreas let alone when T1 sticks its oar in.

However I wouldn't stop drinking for T1, just take a bit more care than normal.
 
SueJB said:
Cheers @Mel dCP I was working, came home and now drinking a G&T.
What's everyone's opinion about T! and alcohol..... honestly?
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What @Scott-C said. I don’t drink beer or cider any more, I stick to dry wines and spirits, as I don’t need to worry about dosing for them, and then having loads of IOB overnight for the carbs. I’m a little more insulin sensitive the day after I drink say an entire bottle of wine to myself; a couple of glasses doesn’t affect that.
 
Mel dCP said:
What @Scott-C said. I don’t drink beer or cider any more, I stick to dry wines and spirits, as I don’t need to worry about dosing for them, and then having loads of IOB overnight for the carbs. I’m a little more insulin sensitive the day after I drink say an entire bottle of wine to myself; a couple of glasses doesn’t affect that.
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Ha!! I've been known @Mel dCP to drink an entire and worry what it does to madam BG, but nothing "appears" to happen. I still have 6 bottles of brilliant cider that have been sitting in the pantry for 15 months since diagnosis. I bet they've gone off:arghh:
 
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