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WRT to the tslim - we’ve been told the NHS only funds the Basal IQ and if we want to buy the additional software and training we can at any time during the life of the pump if we pay £300 and do the online training (with support from our team once we’ve done that).

So far the dexcom is needing quite a lot of calibration as it was overestimating but as she’s high at the moment and we’re having to do finger pricks anyway it’s not too much of a problem. It will be a little more tricky when she’s got the pump too.
 
SB2015 said:
I have had to give up on Pizza. They just make life very difficult with so many different factors to manage, but they can be sooooooo tasty and tempting.
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After lots of practice. I think I have mastered home made pizza ... and as it tastes so good, I have no need to try frozen or restaurant pizza. My pizzas are "full carb" but always thin crust and, as a vegetarian, lower fat than meaty ones.
However, I have to do pizza revision about once a month as it's an important skill I don't want to lose :D
 
Thebearcametoo said:
WRT to the tslim - we’ve been told the NHS only funds the Basal IQ and if we want to buy the additional software and training we can at any time during the life of the pump if we pay £300 and do the online training (with support from our team once we’ve done that).

So far the dexcom is needing quite a lot of calibration as it was overestimating but as she’s high at the moment and we’re having to do finger pricks anyway it’s not too much of a problem. It will be a little more tricky when she’s got the pump too.
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How frustrating for you @Thebearcametoo. That wasn’t the case for me. I was given access to the tslim with Basal IQ and they signed me up at a time where the control IQ update was included, along with the training, at no cost to me. I got mine before the end of July. I self-fund my G6 sensors.

I would almost be surprised if Basal IQ pumps were supplied at all in the long term?
 
helli said:
However, I have to do pizza revision about once a month as it's an important skill I don't want to lose :D
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I like the idea of some revision classes. Perhaps once I have my 780G pump as that will help me to deal with the weirdness of a pizza profile.
 
Be helpful to me if you did - I need a split bolus for pizza so some up front and then some more 9usually more in total than the total carb value) before the spike some hours after I ate it.
 
We’ve also been told that we can upgrade to Control IQ at any time free of charge, I think we might have got lucky though and the DSNs were allowed to offer so many or only if you got the pump in July/August or something. We can upgrade at any time during the life of the pump though. Just Basal IQ alone is amazing, we’ve never had anything like that before, it has prevented many lows already! (Not all of course but it's pretty good) We find the Dexcoms very accurate, normally within 0.5 of finger prick and often identical, so far we’ve only had one which took a bit longer to settle after insertion and was reading a bit low for a few hours. Daughter is quite happy with the pump the way it is at the moment, and we've got other issues going on right now which have pushed diabetes a bit into the background for now, so I don’t think we are ready to upgrade yet. I hope we will be eventually though as I’m very curious as to how Control IQ works, and anything which can make life easier or improve control has got to be good!
 
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Be helpful to me if you did - I need a split bolus for pizza so some up front and then some more 9usually more in total than the total carb value) before the spike some hours after I ate it.
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I have a pump and, for me, one homemade pizza made with Paul Hollywood's recipe (250g flour makes 3 pizzas) requires a combo bolus for 80g carbs with 35% upfront and the rest spread over 4.5 hours. The topping is a thin coating of concentrated pasata (I boil it down for about 15 minutes to thicken it), some veggies like mushroom, peppers, onions, courgettes, just under half a ball of full fat mozzarella and, usually, some chillis.

I am not sure how helpful that is as we are all different and pizzas vary a lot.
 
I have a definite gap in my assimilation of the carbs and would be well hypo after approx an hour. I don't like pizza enough to eat more of one at lunchtime is the truth, so happy to stick with my 'less than half' of one we share about once a fortnight.
 
We’ve tried all sorts of pizzas, mostly shop bought but occasionally home made, and usually bolus the full carb amount up front but then need about 50% extra basal for 4-5 hours afterwards to avoid blood sugars shooting into the stratosphere.
 
It’s a long while since I’ve eaten pizza (after my youngest went vegan they kinda dropped off our menu)... but weirdly I always found supermarket pizzas to be fairly cooperative and ‘normal’ absorption-wise as long as I didn't have more than 2-3 slices (approx 60g cho). The enormous takeaway ones were always much trickier though!
 
Thanks everyone. I missed the email notification that there was more Intel on pizza

She was unwell the whole week after the OP so that had a whole load of other attendant dramas.

The following week we were back to hypo City culminating on a 2.5 yesterday (dropped in an hour from around 5) and now she's full of cold again.

I'm sure our basal needs changing but I can't get more than a week before something disrupts us to work out if my theory on what needs to change is right

Still no movement on the pump. I am keeping everything crossed that we can give it a go just to give her a bit more consistency
 
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