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Well done @eggyg on your House Special. 🙂 Just missed it by a smidgen with 5.1 today.

Dez
 
10.1 this morning which I was surprised about as I didn't have any sweet things last night - although thinking about it now (doh!) I did have pasta (which I never normally have) and I had two bowls of crisps, one early and evening and one late ... I'm off for a scar work session in a bit then taking the dog to the vet for a vaccine in the afternoon. Have a good day everyone x
 
zippyjojo said:
Thanks @eggyg - I think the crux of the matter is that I'm scared of using insulin because I can't stand the idea of having a hypo. I've never fainted in my life and I hate feeling sick (yes I'm 56 even though I'm sounding like a 3 year old!). My consultant (the Hpb surgeon) said that I may be able to just use metformin and that there was no reason to think that my remaining pancreas couldn't cope - but he was looking at my HbA1c from when I was being a "good girl" for several months :(. I do see it as failure on my part I suppose and also I see it as making everything so much harder (travelling mainly if I need to always be keeping insulin in a fridge?). On other matters - we're keeping everything crossed to exchange contracts on this sale and our purchase next week🙂
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The one thing with needing insulin is there’s no spontaneity. You always need your kit but it becomes second nature. Insulin can stay out of the fridge for four weeks. Spare insulin for your travels is packed into a Frio wallet until I’m able to put it in a fridge. Being a diabetic on insulin/spleenless/pancreasless has never stopped me doing what I want. Using insulin has enhanced my life in fact. It’s made me feel “normal” ( well normal ish!) I’ll never be really normal! 😛
We’re all here to help you along.
Fingers crossed for sale/purchase going to plan. You’ll be up on those fells before you know it. Ullswater in the spring. I couldn’t think of anything more wonderful.
 
And it’s a 5.1 for me this morning. Off to get my pre-review blood test today prior to my review on the 3rd of February, what exciting lives we lead.
 
morning everyone 4.4 for me today, have been in the 4's most mornings since the boiler was fixed last Tuesday 18/1. Have been absent from the forum as I finally had hot water and heating, have spent most of the past week catching up on washing, and cleaning, I have 3 dogs and keeping up with them can be tough ( kitchen floor gets washed several times a day) even with hot running water.
Then had a couple of days at end of last week when I think the stress of it all hit me, but all is good again now.

Have a good day everyone 🙂
 
eggyg said:
The one thing with needing insulin is there’s no spontaneity. You always need your kit but it becomes second nature. Insulin can stay out of the fridge for four weeks. Spare insulin for your travels is packed into a Frio wallet until I’m able to put it in a fridge. Being a diabetic on insulin/spleenless/pancreasless has never stopped me doing what I want. Using insulin has enhanced my life in fact. It’s made me feel “normal” ( well normal ish!) I’ll never be really normal! 😛
We’re all here to help you along.
Fingers crossed for sale/purchase going to plan. You’ll be up on those fells before you know it. Ullswater in the spring. I couldn’t think of anything more wonderful.
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Thanks @eggyg - actually on the subject of moving - where is your diabetic specialist located?
 
4.3 for me this morning, but needed another 4 JBs to get me through the night despite another Levemir reduction and no real exercise although the hoof trimming is exertive. Levels are going high during the middle of the day despite being on what I consider to be a high daytime dose of 24 units but then dropping as soon as I go to sleep. Since I started the Libre 2 I have had all 3 very disturbed night's sleeps. It is not false alarming because I am not going high after I treat each low but it is odd that I am now on such a run of nocturnal hypos and feeling rather jaded I have to say.

Many congrats to @eggyg on your HS and Unicorn double achievement. Wow! You are certainly on a roll at the moment!

@zippyjojo Hypos only very very rarely involve losing consciousness. I average one a day and over the past 4 years that is a lot of hypos and I have never passed out and hope I never will and they have never caused me to be sick. Mostly I just feel a bit wobbly and my eyesight goes a bit weird and I feel a bit wooly but a couple of JBs sorts me out in a matter of a few minutes. Some of the early hypos were scary because my body was used to higher levels and also my levels were a bit unstable so they spiked and dropped fast which made the hypos feel worse but I have never needed assistance from anyone and hope I never do. I think it may be better to start insulin early and use small doses and get your levels stable before you need larger doses. I doubt the consultant knows how much you were controlling your levels through diet and if that isn't sustainable for you then you need some help. It is unlikely that you have any insulin resistance because you are quite slim I believe, so I suspect you are gaining very little benefit from it. To me, starting on a low dose of Humulin I might not be a bad option if that is what you have been prescribed or perhaps just a bolus insulin so that you can enjoy a sweet treat occasionally and just inject for it.

@Michael12421 As others have said. lovely to see you back and hope you are fully recovered soon.
 
zippyjojo said:
Thanks @eggyg - actually on the subject of moving - where is your diabetic specialist located?
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What’s one of those? :confused:
I’ve never seen one! Nor an endocrinologist or a GP for that matter. I’ve had a handful of appointments at the diabetes clinic at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and saw a DSN, who TBF is/was marvellous. This was only after nagging the DSN/general nurse at my GPs for years. apparently I wasn’t a “real” Type 1 so couldn’t go on a DAFNE course ( carb counting). The DSN at the clinic changed my type so I could access technology in the future, pump, CGM etc , put me on the course, got me Libre on prescription and generally made me feel as if I did count. I just see ( well, speak now since the pandemic) my surgery DSN yearly. Because I’m well controlled with no issues, they just leave me alone. If I needed some specialist help I’m sure it would be forthcoming. One of the guys I was on the DAFNE course with was from Penrith so I can only assume Penrith Hospital don’t deal with diabetes.

Just to add. I had my op at The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. So I obviously had aftercare from them but I didn’t become diabetic until three years after my operation.
 
Morning all and 5.6 for me.

Nice and bright. Plenty of green shoots showing the quagmire.

The haggis (veggie) and neeps were really nice. We've got a haggis left as they were on offer, so we'll be having a Burns night part 2 soon. If only I had a set of pipes to seranade the pudding.

Have a good day everyone.
 
eggyg said:
What’s one of those? :confused:
I’ve never seen one! Nor an endocrinologist or a GP for that matter. I’ve had a handful of appointments at the diabetes clinic at the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and saw a DSN, who TBF is/was marvellous. This was only after nagging the DSN/general nurse at my GPs for years. apparently I wasn’t a “real” Type 1 so couldn’t go on a DAFNE course ( carb counting). The DSN at the clinic changed my type so I could access technology in the future, pump, CGM etc , put me on the course, got me Libre on prescription and generally made me feel as if I did count. I just see ( well, speak now since the pandemic) my surgery DSN yearly. Because I’m well controlled with no issues, they just leave me alone. If I needed some specialist help I’m sure it would be forthcoming. One of the guys I was on the DAFNE course with was from Penrith so I can only assume Penrith Hospital don’t deal with diabetes.

Just to add. I had my op at The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. So I obviously had aftercare from them but I didn’t become diabetic until three years after my operation.
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I'm in Sunderland. Never had a face to face with diabetes specialist for 3 years now . Nurse left last may . No phone call if they have replaced her . Haven't had my feet looked at for a year . Did have an appointment for last week but they called off . The service has gone from being good to non existent.
 
Morning all - TinaD I think we must be neighbours (though I know we're not) as we seem to be sharing the same weather. Cold, misty mizzle yesterday and today blue skies and sun.

6.2 this morning with a decent overnight line that went up a bit, but not over range at any time.

Nothing much on except a visit to the dental hygienist today. Also making tomato sauce to get rid of an absolute glut of tomatoes we seem to have amassed due to friends giving them to us.

@eggyg congrats on the HS and Unicorn day.. Glad to hear about Ziffit as we have several large boxes of books in the loft that we haven't even looked at since we moved 5 and a half years ago. At the time of moving we gave 9 large boxes of them to charity and still had what's currently in the loft.

@Michael12421 good to see you back, but not so good to hear you are in such pain. Fingers crossed it will ease soon.

@Eternal422 I meant to add that it's the 2.32% voltarol you need. Anyway, hope it helps.

@zippyjojo honestly insulin is not to be feared. I fully support what both @eggyg and @rebrascora have said. I have been on insulin 20 years and in all that time I have never passed out, nor needed assistance with a hypo. It does mean more stuff you have to pack for holidays, but some airlines will allow you and extra bag (hand luggage) if you inform them ahead of time. Get yourself a Frio walllet to carry your insulin in. I travelled all round Australia for 6 weeks using one. Oh, and do not put it in the aircraft hold.

@Wannie so glad to see you and hear you now have hot water!
 
rebrascora said:
Mostly I just feel a bit wobbly and my eyesight goes a bit weird
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That’s interesting. On a couple of hypos I’ve had (including one this morning!) I get a small blinking “blob” in the centre of my vision - sort of like a migraine thing. For me this happens when my BG is low 3s on the Libre. Once the BG rises again the blinking goes away.
 
awakening 5.6 fotf 10mins later 6.1
 
Eternal422 said:
That’s interesting. On a couple of hypos I’ve had (including one this morning!) I get a small blinking “blob” in the centre of my vision - sort of like a migraine thing. For me this happens when my BG is low 3s on the Libre. Once the BG rises again the blinking goes away.
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Mine starts with my peripheral vision going a bit blurry. That is probably my first early sign of hypo and something that I regularly assess when I am out walking to check that I am not hypo without having to rummage in pockets and scan, although, now that I have Libre 2 with alarms, it will be less necessary I guess. If I get too low 3s my vision can become a bit "flashy" If I get down to mid 2s, when I blink, there is a notable pause of blackness before I see again. I don't think I blink slower, but my brain takes time to form the picture from what my eyes see. Ordinarily you don't notice a blink and what you see remains throughout the blink, but once I get very low, there is blackness each time I blink before I see again. Obviously by then my heart is pounding and legs wobbly and I feel the hypo in lots of other ways, but losing your vision completely even if only for a fraction of a second every time you blink is very disconcerting. It is quite a long time since I dropped that low, but it is something you don't forget and it has happened on a few occasions for me, so it's clearly the way my brain copes when it is getting low on fuel.
 
Pattidevans said:
Morning all - TinaD I think we must be neighbours (though I know we're not) as we seem to be sharing the same weather. Cold, misty mizzle yesterday and today blue skies and sun.

6.2 this morning with a decent overnight line that went up a bit, but not over range at any time.


@Wannie so glad to see you and hear you now have hot water!
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Thank you, me too! Insurance insisted on same company coming out and sent a supervisor engineer/technician out as well, all agreed that the original engineer was incompetent or idle and they spent 5.5 hours rebuilding boiler, refunded money I'd already paid out after deciding parts had been damaged by original engineer replaced them at no cost to me! so although I was cold and had no hot water am glad I didn't say I'd buy another boiler! Such a luxury to have hot water again :D
 
eggyg said:
What the heck is that you’re palming off on me? Is that your outside loo!:rofl:
Or is it a Hobbit House. :confused: I’ve not read or watched Lord of the Rings, so pardon my ignorance.🙄
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It’s in Norway and it’s basically their equivalent of the RIBA house of the year!
 
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