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Welcome @Mad76 - good to meet you :)
 
Hi guys. I’m thinking asking the consultant/ diabetes nurse next wed when I go for my appointment about if I can have the shield that goes on the pen where the needles are placed. Hope they will allow me as I used them in hospital. Does anyone else use the shield ?
 
Afternoon friends,

Another hectic day yesterday - huge spikes and low crashes. I accidentally fell asleep waiting for my BG to go up, but I also remember gargling coke and chowing short breads down my throat. But all in all 4.2, I can see the diabetes police are on their way to get me. :hilarious:
 
Lunch was a big salad and most of a pot of M&S Plant Kitchen Moroccan Lentil Stew (one pot = one serving, if you have a normal sort of appetite). Very tasty.

The new M&S Plant Kitchen range have all been OK, except one of the salads-in-a-bowl which had beetroot in it, and something else I don't like.
 
WuTwo said:
Lunch was a big salad and most of a pot of M&S Plant Kitchen Moroccan Lentil Stew (one pot = one serving, if you have a normal sort of appetite). Very tasty.

The new M&S Plant Kitchen range have all been OK, except one of the salads-in-a-bowl which had beetroot in it, and something else I don't like.
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As soon as I read beetroot, I ran far far away. :***:
I remembered my auntie made a beetroot smoothie, beautiful colour but tastes absolutely awful. :hilarious:
 
Yeah - my husband actually likes the evil stuff. It is never permitted to sully my plate :yuck:
 
MeiChanski said:
:hilarious: Oh dear. I have a jar of pickled beetroot and that didn't taste too good either. :***:
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Hiss, spit! Even that smells awful to me. I don't know why - I have never liked it, despite parents and friends insisting that I'd love it if I gave it a chance. Yeah, right ......:rolleyes:
 
Afternoon chaps, after failing to jump on the “ohmygodioversleptthensplashedpetrolalldownmyselfandnowhavetoteachferalchildren” cortisol/adrenaline spike yesterday, I squished it this morning with a 10g fake carb entry and have been low 5s/high 4s all day so far. So that’s nice - due to install my second Looping pod today, but am making the most of the 8 hour extension window to delay it until early evening, because I don’t want to have to do it in the middle of lesson 2 on Tuesday! So the dia-beepies are chiming merrily every hour for the day...

Had a dinner of smoked mackerel with a spinach and rocket salad last night, and bolused for the 10g carbs - but because they’re so gentle and slow, all it did was give me the 1u I asked for straight away, and then temp basalled at zero to mitigate the complete lack of impact the carbs had... so I’ll try that again with no bolus and see if the temp basals will take care of it. It nailed the protein perfectly, but I don’t tend to need much for fatty fish as the rise is so slow. It’s like learning pumping all over again...

Has anyone read this, about the Warsaw method of dosing for fat and protein? I’ll try it for white fish meals - basically you add the calories from protein and fat together, (in a separate dose to your carbs) and dose at whatever your protein ratio is over longer periods, up to 8 hours to nail the rise. Might not be necessary for meals with a lot of carbs, as the bolus for those would probably soak up the protein effect - although if you’re dosing very accurately for those carbs, it may account for an inexplicable rise overnight? I feel some experiments coming on :)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2901033/
 
Delticmatt100 said:
Hi guys. I’m thinking asking the consultant/ diabetes nurse next wed when I go for my appointment about if I can have the shield that goes on the pen where the needles are placed. Hope they will allow me as I used them in hospital. Does anyone else use the shield ?
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No. Never heard of this. Injecting doesn’t bother me luckily. Sounds like a faff to me. Do you not think that the more you inject the less you will think about it. If not than by all means ask.
 
Delticmatt100 said:
Hi guys. I’m thinking asking the consultant/ diabetes nurse next wed when I go for my appointment about if I can have the shield that goes on the pen where the needles are placed. Hope they will allow me as I used them in hospital. Does anyone else use the shield ?
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Do you mean the tickleflex? If so, there's been a few threads about it, search for tickleflex, the reports seem fairly positive.

I suppose there's a fair chance the hospital might give you one to help you on your way, but if not it's less than twenty quid:

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/shop/tickleflex-injection-aid
 
@Delticmatt100 I've never actually heard of them before you mentioned them. What are they called so I can google and look at a pic?
 
I’ve got some of those knocking around in a drawer, think they’re called “safety needles” iirc.
 
Delticmatt100 said:
Think I can get on prescription?
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I’m not sure tbh, I imagine they’re a lot more expensive that the standard needles - and they’re trying to reduce costs on those as it is. I expect you’d have to give some pretty compelling reasons for them to get funding approved - is it just because you don’t like seeing the needle?
 
Hi @Delticmatt100 .
Just thought I’d have a trip down memory lane.
Back in the day, 28yrs+ now, I was newly diagnosed. Given a 100 needles and basically, after some instruction, told to go ahead and inject.
First few days, absolutely fine, almost enjoyed the novelty of it all.
Fast forward a few weeks and things all went pear shaped. The newish routine of injecting suddenly developed a problem.
There appeared this barrier, totally invisible, but a barrier nonetheless. It was about 2 inches above my skin and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t inject through this barrier. I would spend 5, 10, 15 mins or more either sitting or walking around trying to break this barrier. Eventually I would, not because I wanted to but solely because I knew I had to.
A strange feeling actually trying to push the needle to inject only for it to stop a few inches short.
I would put the needle down, try to recompose and start all over again.
This whole episode lasted a few months, some days better than others, some days worse. I still can just about recall the sweating and fear of having to inject.
Not sure if my memories are of any use. As someone newly diagnosed like yourself they’ll be a lot of challenges to overcome but have no fear you will overcome them.
 
Luckily the fine, and relatively short, needles we have today are much nicer than the ones we were given 28 years ago @therower.
Any needle’s a challenge for the newly diagnosed and once you get more used to it all @Delticmatt100 you’ll no doubt be jabbing with happy abandon. Unless you’re needing to overcome a needle phobia which should never be dismissed lightly.
Your results, btw, are still looking good.
 
Could be. Seeing consultants on Wednesday so will ask.

Tx so much strange readings as u can see. Of late I been going for it not been afraid to eat **** lol looking forward to tonight's reading. Had lots of bbq food this afternoon
Fairygodmother said:
Luckily the fine, and relatively short, needles we have today are much nicer than the ones we were given 28 years ago @therower.
Any needle’s a challenge for the newly diagnosed and once you get more used to it all @Delticmatt100 you’ll no doubt be jabbing with happy abandon. Unless you’re needing to overcome a needle phobia which should never be dismissed lightly.
Your results, btw, are still looking good.
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