Morning all, what a gorgeous day!
4.2 this morning. I am beginning to see a pattern. Last night put a -5% temp basal on for 6 hours and got a nice straight line, soon as that finished around 06:00 it started to drop. So need to adjust basals, though not sure I can do it by 5% given I can only reduce per hour by 0.05u with the Omnipod rather than 0.01u per hour as I could with the Combo.
Apolgies: rant follows!
Today I need to go to the Lloyds pharmacy in Sainsbury's with loins girded for a ridiculous scenario. Last Monday I put in a prescription request for 4 items, which included blood pressure pills (Felodipine) and thyroid meds (Liothyronine and Levothyroxine). Patient access says all 4 have been prescribed. On Tuesday I had a phone call from the surgery, they want me to move from 5 mg Liothyronine tablets at £110.04 per 28 (gasp!) to capsules @ £55 per 28. I am fine with that - in fact I am horrified at the cost! even of the cheaper ones! I agree and the person on the phone says Lloyds can't supply capsules but do I mind if the script is sent to Boots in town. I say OK, though it's more difficult for me to get to town rather than Sainsburys. So on Weds pm I pop into Boots and they deny having any prescription for me, but tell me to ring Lloyds and get them to send it over. I ring Lloyds who don't seem to know what I am asking, but eventually say they will do it. I ring Boots and tell them to retrieve the script from the "spine" and say I will pop in on Saturday afternoon. I took my last BP pill on Friday night. I went into Boots yesterday who still did not have my script. Eventually they extract a script for the Liothyronine from the spine and give me 14 tablets. Apparently despite all the hoo ha, the prescription says it's for the expensive tablets rather than the capsules. However, the rest of the prescription is missing inc the BP tablets I am desperate for. The lady in Boots rang Lloyds who deny all knowledge of any prescription for me. This happens frequently. My choice was to get on the bus and get off the bus at Sainsburys and then wait an hour for another bus home. Soooo.... I went straight home and need to go argue the toss this morning when I can go in the car. Meantime BP is 168/110 this morning. Talk about frustrated!
The ridiculous thing is that since my prescription was reduced from 10mg Liothyronine when I was splitting the much cheaper 20mg tablets, no one has given me a blood test for the breakdown of TSH/T3/T4 to see if 5mg is working, because apparently the test is expensive.
Anyway, sorry to bore the pants off you.
Congratulations
@MeeTooTeeTwo @Eternal422 @Northerner and
@Gwynn - what a bumper crop of HSs.
Have a nice day everyone.