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A fun few days!

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Hi Storm and welcome. I was diagnosed at 29 before there were meters or the internet and it was 16 years before I learned to match my insulin to my food and that was through a forum like this. Stick around, there are some brilliantly supportive and knowledgeable people on here and before long you will be helping someone else out.
 
Thank you all for your support and advice!

I was aiming for a waking reading of under ten by the end of the week, it is Friday (I think!) so the end of the week and 9.9 is under ten so happy with that. One goal achieved!
 
Looking at your signature @Storm, I have to ask - do you work in histopathology?
 
Hello Copepod, yes, I'm a pathologist.
 
Well, do start a thread about the fun in histopathology! 🙂
 
I could try but given the state my patients have to be in before they come to me it can be difficult to explain why I love my job so much...

BG two hours after tea = 8.3 Very happy with that indeed :D

A friend is coming over to go for a (short) run with me tomorrow morning. Have devised a 5km route going past several friends' houses just in case. Not really supposed to be exercising this week but I'm getting restless so I'm running but taking care doing it. Will be interesting to see how my blood glucose reacts. It's just like one big experiment with me as the test subject. 😎
 
Storm said:
I could try but given the state my patients have to be in before they come to me it can be difficult to explain why I love my job so much...

BG two hours after tea = 8.3 Very happy with that indeed :D

A friend is coming over to go for a (short) run with me tomorrow morning. Have devised a 5km route going past several friends' houses just in case. Not really supposed to be exercising this week but I'm getting restless so I'm running but taking care doing it. Will be interesting to see how my blood glucose reacts. It's just like one big experiment with me as the test subject. 😎
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Why not make it a parkrun? There's time to register free and check details of nearest / most convenient. Tomorrow most parkruns have a visiting Team GB athletes, which makes it a once a year bonus. www.parkrun.org.uk

What you do doesn't always help the patient, but it does help those left behind - I'm sure you know that!
 
Unfortunately I'll be at work when the park run gets going and 9am is too late for an early (v. early) bird like me🙂 Will be starting at 4am (so best not have any issues because I don't think any of our friends will be happy with such an early wake up call on a Saturday!)
 
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Unfortunately I'll be at work when the park run gets going and 9am is too late for an early (v. early) bird like me🙂 Will be starting at 4am (so best not have any issues because I don't think any of our friends will be happy with such an early wake up call on a Saturday!)
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If they are friends at the moment, I am not sure they will remain so if you call in at that time of the morning!,
Hope the run goes well and well done on bringing your levels down.
 
Storm said:
Unfortunately I'll be at work when the park run gets going and 9am is too late for an early (v. early) bird like me🙂 Will be starting at 4am (so best not have any issues because I don't think any of our friends will be happy with such an early wake up call on a Saturday!)
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Just ensure you have jelly babies (or similar sweets) in pockets, bumbag or whatever you run with 🙂
 
Morning bloods were 4.6 so had a sneaky digestive before heading out (dextrose tabs duly stashed in pocket - thanks for the reminder!), bloods 6.2 when I got home after a successful slow run. Pretty happy with that I have to say!

Now for the challenge of a weekend on call. This used to be a sugary caffeine fest....got to see how this goes!
 
Good to hear about your successful run. Presumably no irrate friends due to unexpected early morning door knocks? Enjoy your weekend on call - even more of a challenge when on call and with potential for unusual eating and sleeping opportunities. My type of on-call work is usually unpaid marshalling on adventure races, mountain running races, mountain marathons etc, often with some first aid / medical care for competitors or fellow marshals. However, today it's making sure microscopic animals, regular sized animal and humans don't cause each other any harm!
 
New-journey said:
Welcome to this forum and it's great you have such a good team to support you. I was diagnosed at 58 and was not lucky to have such a good team. Like you I wanted my numbers down quickly and my vision got blurred at the rapid decrease, I was too scared to mention it until I saw someone else mention it. Hopefully you won't have this as not everyone does but just in case you do and it passes!
Good luck with everything and hopefully soon you can exercise again and that will help you manage your diabetes. So much support here and do ask anything, there is always someone who knows or can point you to right place.
You are right, it is just taking those steps one at a time. Almost two years on and my confidence grows and grows.
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Thanks for mentioning the blurring of vision - I'm starting to feel that my reading glasses aren't quite right (although long distance seems fine - I just paced out 30m in the carpark and read number plates to a co-worker so that's good!). Do you remember how long it took for your eyes to settle down after you got your blood glucose levels down? I've gone from high 20s to normal range in 4-5 days - it must be quite a strange thing for my body to deal with.

Thank you again.
 
Storm said:
Thanks for mentioning the blurring of vision - I'm starting to feel that my reading glasses aren't quite right (although long distance seems fine - I just paced out 30m in the carpark and read number plates to a co-worker so that's good!). Do you remember how long it took for your eyes to settle down after you got your blood glucose levels down? I've gone from high 20s to normal range in 4-5 days - it must be quite a strange thing for my body to deal with.

Thank you again.
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I think we are all different so there is not one way of our eyes responding, and you could start a thread on blurred vision when going from high to low and ask others. I think I took longer to get down to single numbers than you but for a few weeks I couldn't read books. I think I had been high for many months before. Unlike you at the beginning I was so filled with fear I didn't mention it to anyone which didn't help! Good luck with everything. 🙂
 
Thank you - it is very true that we are all individual and react to everything differently. It's places like this forum that help show that there are multiple ways forward and we have to find our own balance 🙂

It's the reading that is starting to blur a bit for me...as long as it passes, I like a good crime novel of an evening!
 
Storm said:
Thank you - it is very true that we are all individual and react to everything differently. It's places like this forum that help show that there are multiple ways forward and we have to find our own balance 🙂

It's the reading that is starting to blur a bit for me...as long as it passes, I like a good crime novel of an evening!
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Hope it passes and you can enjoy your crime novel!
 
Storm said:
Good morning All,

Well, on Friday morning I had a blood test, on Friday evening I had a call from my very worried GP (apparently blood glucose levels in the 20s are bad 😉 ) and here I am on Wednesday back from the hospital reading all I can find on adult onset type 1 diabetes.

Suffering from a little bit of information overload but otherwise I'm feeling pretty happy that I can deal with everything I need to deal with but it is great to have such an informative forum because I'm sure I'll have wobbles and questions.

I look forward to chatting with you all 🙂

Storm
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Welcome Storm. There is a lot to take in but its worth the effort & good luck from a T1 for more than 51 years. 🙂
 
Thanks Hobie - it all seems to be going OK at the moment but I'm not being normal just yet - hopefully I can get back to my usual exercise routine and everything else over the next few weeks, then the challenge of long term management begins!
 
Survived my first weekend on call as a diabetic. Had a low of 3.9 yesterday afternoon - happy that I recognised the signs, I was a bit worried I wouldn't but it was fairly obvious. 2 Dextrose tabs (never had them before - revolting, aren't they!!?) and a couple of digestives later I was up to 19 and my blood glucose is still a bit elevated at 8.6. Time for a couple of hours kip then "test, inject, breakfast!"
 
That's a relief for you - well done!
I never use dextrose tablets after my first packet. Jelly babies are much more practical (don't crumble) and taste nicer. It's worth getting small ziplock plastic bags to hold portions that contain 15g of carbohydrate - number of jelly babies required depends on their size.
 
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