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Thank you everydayupsanddowns
I'm always grateful for the info. it's good to see things from another perspective.
I guess the more people I meet in the group the better, as I can learn a lot. Its great to meet you too.
How many other people are there in the group?
 
Proud to be erratic said:
Hello again Paul, seen your reply. How are you doing right now? Are you temporarily using carbohydrate control to help your body cope at present? Plenty of help and advice on that if needed from many forum members, using slightly different techniques. Exercise and activity is also a great help, along with weight control should you need that. Has anyone explained anything about carb counting? This will be fundamental for you no matter what your final diagnosis becomes.

[Incidentally, my non-medical opinion is that T3c is inevitable and with that diagnosis other, better, treatment options and medical support will become available to you].
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I'm doing ok now, but I've still got a lot to learn. I will probably make a lot of mistakes when I go out food shopping and
will continue to learn how to get it right. I love potatoes, but now Ive been told I can't eat them as often as I used to.
I never realised that the starch in the potatoes turn into sugar. Really gutted about that.
 
thank you for that. I may yet decide to do a non driving job, when I feel ready. Whatever I decide, I will think it over very carefully.
 
Busdriver60 said:
How many other people are there in the group?
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There are well over 35,000 registered members, but what makes this community special is the high number of active and committed contributors, who engage with the conversations and threads from newbies and established contributors alike 🙂
 
Good morning everyone! 🙂
 
Good morning! How are things with you today?
 
Morning Barbara, I just had the best glucose testing result, since I started, 9.0, under 10 for the first time!
Feeling pretty pleased about that! 🙂
how are you this morning?
 
Many congratulations. I remember when I got my first single digit reading too and how delighted and relieved I was. Then the next milestone was getting a fasting reading below 7. It makes you feel like you are starting to gain some control over the situation.

I had a really good night thanks with a relatively flat, horizontal overnight graph (I have a Libre CGM.... see graph attached) This almost never happens to me as my overnight levels are really sensitive to exercise, so I have to adjust my long acting insulin doses on an almost daily basis and I often end up hypp overnight or occasionally above 10. Last night I increased my dose by half a unit and clearly got it absolutely spot on!!..... although breakfast is now taking me into orbit but my mealtime insulin should kick in and turn that around soon..... and indeed it has, I have now levelled out at 9.4 and will start coming back down soon. Delighted with that!
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Hope you have a good day.
 
Thats great Martin, well done! Its amazing what you can achieve if one is careful and to do the right thing, though its not always easy.
 
Busdriver60 said:
Morning Barbara, I just had the best glucose testing result, since I started, 9.0, under 10 for the first time!
Feeling pretty pleased about that! 🙂
how are you this morning?
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I can still remember how pleased I was to get my first under-10 (9.2) after coming down from 20.5, so well done. 4 is the floor and 10 is the ceiling is an expression you'll often come across.
 
yes thank you and you too have a good day.
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
There are well over 35,000 registered members, but what makes this community special is the high number of active and committed contributors, who engage with the conversations and threads from newbies and established contributors alike 🙂
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WOW! that's fantastic! I'm so glad to be part of it and contribute to it.
 
oops! sorry I meant you Barbara, please do forgive me...
 
Martin.A said:
I can still remember how pleased I was to get my first under-10 (9.2) after coming down from 20.5, so well done. 4 is the floor and 10 is the ceiling is an expression you'll often come across.
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Well done Martin! and thank you.
 
Busdriver60 said:
oops! sorry I meant you Barbara, please do forgive me...
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No worries. It takes a bit to get used to the forum and how the reply system works as well as obviously making new virtual friends and learning who is who, especially when people have real names but often different usernames. 🙄
 
Inka said:
I have a needle phobia @Busdriver60 It was hard when I was first diagnosed, but I have ways to deal with it now. I still struggle with other people doing injections (eg vaccinations) and having blood taken is a challenge, but with the diabetes I’m in control doing the injection and it’s ok. Also, the needles for insulin are very tiny and very very thin. They’re nothing like the whacking great needles at the GPs. They’re more like the thinnest of hairs. They’re very different from the syringes I used when I was first diagnosed more than 30 years ago, and most of the time they hardly bother me now.

One thing to say - do ask about injection sites. It might be easier for you to start of using a body area you’re happier about using. For me, that’s my thighs.
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Morning Inka, yes I can definitely empathize with you on that. I look away every time, always holding a stress ball in my hand, to reassure me, gritting my teeth at the same time. I find that helps get through it. Everyone has their own way of dealing with it.
 
Good afternoon @Busdriver60, good to see your first in range reading (4-10); so pleased for you.

You tell us that you are taking metformin and 8 units of insulin. Could I ask exactly which insulin. It would be useful to know if it's a slow acting or long lasting basal (=background) insulin or a mixed basal / bolus (= faster acting response) insulin. The answer to this question could (almost certainly will) affect suggestions people might make if you should ask a future question about managing your BG.
 
Proud to be erratic said:
Good afternoon @Busdriver60, good to see your first in range reading (4-10); so pleased for you.

You tell us that you are taking metformin and 8 units of insulin. Could I ask exactly which insulin. It would be useful to know if it's a slow acting or long lasting basal (=background) insulin or a mixed basal / bolus (= faster acting response) insulin. The answer to this question could (almost certainly will) affect suggestions people might make if you should ask a future question about managing your BG.
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I have been prescribed Toujeo Solo Star (300 units/ml) 8 units very morning after breakfast, using a Lantus pen requested by my local hospital nurse.
 
That is interesting. I had heard that Toujeo was stronger than Lantus but didn't realise that it was u300. I could understand starting insulin resistant Type 2s on Toujeo but seems odd to start Type 1s or Type 3cs on it, especially when you can often need to adjust doses quite cautiously and sometimes by a half unit in the early honeymoon phase.
 
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