From your experience how do you think the patches would hold up to my Mountain Biking Activity? I do this activity in an aerobic manner, throwing myself down rocky trails, jumps and all quite quickly so a lot of twisting and turning of upper body and core and of course perspiring heavily and getting very muddy and wet at this time of year.
I have looked at them seriously and thought I would probably average using 2.5 patches a month and its that expense that is holding me back, any advise from your experience and anyone else's much appreciated.
@gennepher amazing progress with bg control - except all the effort and dedication you have shown makes it less amazing and more justice. Good on you for having a well founded plan and executing that plan.
Interesting observations @gennepher. I do eat to my meter and find that if my fasting reading is a bit high then a small snack of something like a bit of cheese helps to calm it down. I usually don’t eat though until about 12 noon and later if I’m not hungry. Dinner is best for me at about 1800 and maybe then a couple of home made flax crackers with cheese spread later on if I get peckish.
It is eating to my meter that persuaded me to go with the libre system - I too am self funding and although the libre system is quite expensive I do think, for me, it works very well.
Have a great day if you can, koffy calls - how decadent.
@OldButBold sorry you are still suffering but glad the bedtime routine helped. Take great care..
@gennepher you have come such a long way since you first found your way to this thread, it's good to see that you are finding what is right for you to control your T2.
Thanks for the reply @dunelm. Seems to me that CGM may help me clarify where there could be any tweaks to when or how much of the limited foodstuffs I am now prepared to eat. The infamous macros I now see are no longer by design just the result of shuffling the pack of food I will eat. It is actually much easier to just not eat at all until I run out of energy.Hm. We certainly know that there are some things that we do not know but at the same time we need to think about what we do know - lot’s of people do not know what they know. We do have to think about what we are thinking about.
I know that if I eat too much protein then I may as well be eating carbs - it’s like eating the contents of a tin of sweet corn - just cut the corner and chuck the contents down the loo. I also know that I have a reading of say 4.3 then I can eat a bit more than if it reads 5.1.
The beauty of the Libre is that you get a graph of eight hours previous to your reading and that graph enables me to extrapolate, in some small way, to what will happen if I choose wrongly (ingredients and portion size).
If there is no practical solution - i.e. if I get a nasty upward trend then I fall back on what worked the last time - usually a bit of cheese or a few nuts and fluids - plain water or lots of tea and then walk.
@gennepher I admire your tenacity and thank you for such interesting observations. Well done on achieving a better understanding on how to control this awful Type2, brilliant.
I am still learning such a lot and still baffled by much of what my pet Dracula tells me. At the moment I find long fasts raise my readings but like @dunelm and I suspect others a snack on cheese or nuts before sleep helps to lower them. Too much protein can raise them significantly.
You are doing brilliantly. The testing is the only way we can find out what really works for us - as you have so clearly shown by getting your numbers down into the 5s during the night. It is a huge achievement as your numbers were so high before.
@gennepher your post was so interesting and I take my hat off to you for what you have achieved and continue to achieve. I would struggle to eat so low but I really agree with using the info to suit personal needs. We sure are all individuals. Thank you for inspiring and lovely to read posts.
Have a great Friday everyone. Dont go out in this rain unless you have to (looking at you @OldButBold ) drive carefully. Stay/get well, take care.
It is actually much easier to just not eat at all until I run out of energy.
Thanks @alf_Josiah. I think I have been extensively monitored over 3 months and Drs seem happy with bloods, heart rhythm etc. I analyse my intake daily for carbs, cals, nutes and vits. What it comes down to is normally tea until 13.00 hrs then a salad with avocado, egg or mackerel fillets for choice then try to cover as many of the gaps as I can with anything LC I will tolerate - short list. Not exhaustion levels just flagging/bored by 13,00 hrs when often waking by 4.30.If I followed your way of eating it would put me straight back in hospital, I hope you are not causing yourself long term damage.
I am not medically qualified, but running your body at exhaustion levels is in opinion weakening your immune system leaving yourself open to infections.
Good luck Alf
Plenty of variation there @Cumberland. Hope you are staying as dry as possible. Take care.6.6 yesterday
10.3 this morning
Have a good day
Thanks @dunelm I am doing the pre and post meal testing and sort of getting a picture it's what goes on in between that worries me as on occasion I have tested early and got higher readings than I would like. Finger pricking is also causing me some problems with my instrument playing.I know from personal experience (clumsiness) that it is easy to dislodge a sensor. I have managed it twice. I now use a waterproof transparent adhesive wound dressing of the breathable type over the top.
If what you are already doing is working for you and you would like a little more control then why not just do pre and post meal testing and see how you get on. I guess that I already know what I can and cannot eat but I like the comfort blanket.
@gennepher I agree that sometimes it seems like a living hell. Other times, though, I am very grateful for having a roof over my head, with heat and AC and water that are included in my rent so I don't have to worry about paying utility bills. I don't have to worry about break-ins because we have good building security. If the heat goes out, or the air-conditioning, I don't have to scrabble around for money to pay to repair it. I don't have to pay the grounds crew.
Here I pretty much keep myself to myself. I have neighbors but rarely see them and -- thank goodness -- rarely hear them, unless the couple next door has their grandchildren to visit when their apartment turns into the gym from hell. There are free exercise classes and movies and other activities I could participate in if I wanted to -- and sometimes I have. I am as independent as anyone can be without a car, and if I could afford a car I would have one. As it is, I can walk to the grocery store. And if I want more exercise I can use the equipment in the fitness center 24/7, or walk the corridors any time day or night regardless of the weather. And -- unlike at my house -- I've only seen one spider since I've been here, and he was already dead!
Right now I am sitting here enjoying a second cup of coffee. If the stove had gone out I could have called downstairs to the front desk and they would have sent a maintenance man up to repair it and it would not have cost me a cent, just as the new fridge didn't cost me a cent when the old one broke down 2 years ago.
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