Give her a call on the pretext that you need to check how to use the new meter?
Andy (Agony Uncle ... but for other reasons .... just ask my nephews and nieces) HB
p.s. A very, very late welcome to the forum by the way! 🙂
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Give her a call on the pretext that you need to check how to use the new meter?
Andy (Agony Uncle ... but for other reasons .... just ask my nephews and nieces) HB
p.s. A very, very late welcome to the forum by the way! 🙂
stargatefan
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and show off my injection sites too, yeah?!
thanks for the welcome.
already been made to feel at home buy the gang!
trophywench
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A bum is a bum. We all have one (as opposed to bellies where some of us have at least 2 if not more) and the word is much quicker to both type and say than the other eg Does my gluteus maximus look big in this?
Re DVLA - you've had the gypsies warning mate and you need to take heed. If you don't have hypo warnings, then you ARE unsafe to drive whatever you might think and if a medic who knows this about you doesn't tell the DVLA then they are risking knowing that and your having an accident where you maim or kill somebody else. Frankly I think she's bent the rules by not telling them anyway and I have no sympathy for people who know this and still drive. I know there are others on this board who feel the same as I do. May seem harsh, am not trying to fall out, but that's the facts.
So like it or lump it and I'll certainly still try and help where I think I can, and I'm sure evrone else will too - as long as you take it on board and treat this as seriously as you ought.
Don't drive under 5, wait for 45 mins after you get up to 5 before you get in the car. If you are in the car, then take the keys out and sit in the passenger seat if you can't get out and go sit somewhere else for 45 mins. Test at least 2 hourly, pref more frequently in your case at the moment and be prepared to have your meter taken off you to provide evidence of testing, should you be involved in an accident.
If you lose your licence, it's 12 months until you can re-apply by which time there better be irrefutable medical evidence that this little glitch is cured, otherwise you are wasting your time. And it could take months and months and months before the DVLA let you know one way ot the other.
Right then, now read this http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/info/?page_id=120 and then having done the basal testing and got that right, move on to carb counting training and the BDEC website you've already had a link to http://213.106.147.101/bdec2/index.shtml click on e-Learning on the RHS.
By the time you get on that carb counting course - you should be an expert !
Good luck.
Re DVLA - you've had the gypsies warning mate and you need to take heed. If you don't have hypo warnings, then you ARE unsafe to drive whatever you might think and if a medic who knows this about you doesn't tell the DVLA then they are risking knowing that and your having an accident where you maim or kill somebody else. Frankly I think she's bent the rules by not telling them anyway and I have no sympathy for people who know this and still drive. I know there are others on this board who feel the same as I do. May seem harsh, am not trying to fall out, but that's the facts.
So like it or lump it and I'll certainly still try and help where I think I can, and I'm sure evrone else will too - as long as you take it on board and treat this as seriously as you ought.
Don't drive under 5, wait for 45 mins after you get up to 5 before you get in the car. If you are in the car, then take the keys out and sit in the passenger seat if you can't get out and go sit somewhere else for 45 mins. Test at least 2 hourly, pref more frequently in your case at the moment and be prepared to have your meter taken off you to provide evidence of testing, should you be involved in an accident.
If you lose your licence, it's 12 months until you can re-apply by which time there better be irrefutable medical evidence that this little glitch is cured, otherwise you are wasting your time. And it could take months and months and months before the DVLA let you know one way ot the other.
Right then, now read this http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/info/?page_id=120 and then having done the basal testing and got that right, move on to carb counting training and the BDEC website you've already had a link to http://213.106.147.101/bdec2/index.shtml click on e-Learning on the RHS.
By the time you get on that carb counting course - you should be an expert !
Good luck.
trophywench
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PS Two things - I'd like to know how well the Insulinx works in practice, I haven't seen a review of it yet on here or my other forum. However in theory it's similar to the Accu-Chek Expert which I and other Roche pumpers get anyway as part of the package, and also various other forum members use the Expert with MDI. And it has it's little idiosyncracies and it ain't a mind-reader, but it's great all in all.
Like it didn't guess this morning I was having a reactive hyper when I got up (11.7) and neither did I at the time! - so it told me correct as well as cover my breakfast. I did that and subsequently went hypo. Breakfast had gone straight to Mr Liver to replace it's stores. Never touched the sides of my overall BG.
Be aware that if you have iffy sites - and I can promise you you will have some! and the insulin you put in em from time to time which didn't appear to have worked very well at the time, hasn't already decided to come out and work already, it can hang round there for up to 12 years. And then suddenly hit you ......
If anyone ever told you diabetes wasn't complicated, then they were lying .......
Like it didn't guess this morning I was having a reactive hyper when I got up (11.7) and neither did I at the time! - so it told me correct as well as cover my breakfast. I did that and subsequently went hypo. Breakfast had gone straight to Mr Liver to replace it's stores. Never touched the sides of my overall BG.
Be aware that if you have iffy sites - and I can promise you you will have some! and the insulin you put in em from time to time which didn't appear to have worked very well at the time, hasn't already decided to come out and work already, it can hang round there for up to 12 years. And then suddenly hit you ......
If anyone ever told you diabetes wasn't complicated, then they were lying .......
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but can insulin really last 12 years in an injection site?!
Andy 🙂
stargatefan
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trust me, no one is taking this more seriously than me.
i always test before getting in a car i have a bag of jelly babes in the car all the time (they go out of date before i need them but they are always there).
i dont drive much at all maybe once or twice a week (im redundant at the moment).
so as im out of work with time on my hands i can for the first time in 14 years sort out my diabetes.
i had surgery a couple of years ago and they needed skin grafts which they took from my stomach so i do my jabs above and below the scars from belly button to love handle. this is because a friend of mine, who has been type1 since age 6, said that he has build ups of tougher skin where he injected regularly as a child because it was less painful.
i dont want that. and so manage to keep the injection zones well apart.
your warning concerning the DVLA is well heeded.
but seriously, nobody is more concerned about this as i am. i am not your run-of-the-mill cowboy diabetic. its just my dry sense of humour gives the impression that i dont take things seriously....
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