Carb count changed for oats

[Lucyr]

My figures come from the neutra check app after i scanned the bar code.

Check the packet, nutracheck will be wrong for one of them

 

[Inka]

Thanks for that. Yes, I have asked. Too well controlled has been the answer.

Worth asking again at regular intervals @JonathanGi You might be able to use your very active life as one reason to have one. If you can give examples of problems, demonstrate how you tried, and failed, to solve them, then say how a pump would help that problem specifically, you’ll have a better chance.

 

[trophywench]

Nothing to do with oats but I noticed that you use a pump and were diagnosed only 5 years after me. I wonder why I can't have a pump?

Well do you live in Bedworth but with a GP surgery in Coventry and under the same Hospital team as me? Have you made a list defining every aspect of your life and blood glucose management that you believe might be made simpler by having a pump and going through every single one of them with your team more than several times over the years? If not, why not? Have you taken into account how many people are already pumping or are on the waiting list for one already at your clinic? (do you know, if not, have you even asked?) Are you already aware of all the reasons 'they' will tell you that you can't have one? Have you asked them for a list of why nots in writing?

Just trying to establish what work you have done to get one so far, is all.

 

[Bloden]

Thanks for that!

It worked!

 

[JonathanGi]

I don't go to a diabetic clinic only local GP practice nurse. I am not totally convinced I would benefit from a pump but I would like some more information.
I suppose I only really asked during cancer treatment. And then only because control was a little more difficult. Perhaps it's been quietly forgotten.

 

[Inka]

Ask for a referral to a hospital team @JonathanGi Mention the pump and your active life.

 

[Lucyr]

This is a bit distracting from Gills porridge thread. I thought you’d already started your own seperate thread about pumps @JonathanGi ? Maybe that was someone else, I can’t check on my phone.

 

[helli]

Have you asked? If so, what did they say? I got a pump after 10 years of Type 1. It’s more whether you qualify than how long you’ve had Type 1.

There was a whole thread on this from Jonathan: https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/why-cant-i-have-a-pump.110715/

 

[Inka]

@gillrogers I’d go by the carb info on the porridge box not on any app.

 

[Proud to be erratic]

@gillrogers, and if you need the comparison information for different types of porridge (or anything else) from different supermarket retailers just do a Google search "carbs in (porridge) , from (name a supermarket) UK". Adding UK removes the internet AI trawlers that will offer you solutions from anywhere in the world. Also, I have found carb info from an app that might have been written anywhere, but not in UK, can be (has been) particularly at odds with what a manufacturer says on its own website or has on its UK packaging.

Gathering accurate carb data is subject to the conscientiousness of the seller in the first place and definitely made more frustrating by intrusions from outside sources.