Twelve months with diabetes

[Northerner]

I have just printed out the summary of the last 12 months from my meter software. I have found that:

• I have done 2356 tests
• this equals 47.12 pots of strips, costing the NHS ?706.80
• My lowest BG was 1.7
• My highest BG was 15.8
• I averaged 6.4 tests per day
• My average BG from all those tests is 6.0 mmol/l
• the standard deviation was 1.7
• 77.5% of tests were within target range of 4.0-7.8 mmol/l
• 4.2% of tests were 'low' i.e. 3.5-3.9 mmol/l
• 5.1% were hypo i.e. .5 mmol/l
• 13.2% of tests were above range i.e. >7.8 mmol/l
• This means I had 98 'lows' and 121 hypos in the past 12 months

I daresay that most consultants would hold their hands up in horror at seeing all those lows and hypos! 😱 I did have one hypo which I'm pretty sure would have been lower than the 1.7 but I was too far gone to be able to test - almost didn't make it that time The vast majority have been very easy to spot and treat though, usually low 3s/high 2s.

 

[Doddy]

So that equates to roughly one hypo every 3 days? Not counting the "lows". Average of 6...pretty good 🙂 i would love a figure like that!
apart from the hypos and lows, I think they are a good set of figures! 🙂

 

[AJLang]

Wow that's an interesting load of statistics🙂 when I'm trying to keep my control as normal as I can I will frequently have two or three hypos a day😱

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Those averages %s and SDs look pretty darned good to me Alan!

 

[Northerner]

So that equates to roughly one hypo every 3 days? Not counting the "lows". Average of 6...pretty good i would love a figure like that!
apart from the hypos and lows, I think they are a good set of figures! 🙂

Wow that's an interesting load of statistics🙂 when I'm trying to keep my control as normal as I can I will frequently have two or three hypos a day😱

That's what tends to happen with me. I generally have more than one hypo in a day and maybe several days without. It usually happens when I am in a transition from being lazy to being more active and it is difficult to know how much to reduce my insulin by. 🙂

 

[pgcity]

Stunning figures. How do you keep the sd so low? Are there certain carbs you don't eat?

 

[Northerner]

Stunning figures. How do you keep the sd so low? Are there certain carbs you don't eat?

Not really. I don't eat much pasta but that's because I've never particularly liked it! When I am running regularly my levels behave very well. I don't get lows from running, although gardening can send me low at times! I don't snack on carby things, I tend to have nuts or cheese - the running means I don't have to stress about calories much as my weight remains fairly constant. I'm clearly also being helped by my own pancreas, which appears to have revived somewhat since I was diagnosed. I stopped using lantus in April so my pancreas is taking care of my background needs, otherwise I wouldn't be able to go to bed on a 5.7 and wake on a 5.0 like last night/this morning - I'd probably be up in the 20s! I appear to be a veeeeeeerrrry slow-onset Type 1, since all this probably started in 2005/6 when I began losing weight for no apparent reason and also had other symptoms. I was diagnosed in May 2008.