Helloooo all

[megga]

Hello to everyone, not new to diabeties, as i have been blessed for 8 years too long. Joining a forum as i am fed up with getting it wrong and sometimes, its good to know that your not the only one who gets it wrong. But i doo feel that the best experts are the ones who live with things every day, and so, like a vampire, i wish to feed from you lol
Type 1 on the pump

 

[Northerner]

Hi megga, welcome to the forum 🙂 You'll find lots of friendly folk here, so please feel free to join in whenever and wherever you want! Quite a few pumpers - what pump do you have? Is there anything in particular that you have problems with?

 

[trophywench]

Morning Megga

I can never recall where the quote comes from, but anyway - "To err is human" - and I think you'll find the majority of us are human here.

I think actually you are our first vampire. (Though we most likely get our fair share of trolls!)

What you having probs with? All of it or just bits?

 

[Steff]

megga hi and a warm welcome to the forum

 

[megga]

Thanks for the welcome's I have an accucheck pump. The problems are being a diabetic lol
Food is the main problem, i carb count and understand the GI and the effects of fats turning in to carbs, but it never goes right, when i talk to my doctor/nurse, i think they go from a book, "this says that and there fore its this"

Example i work Monday to Friday, i have the same thing for breakfast, 1 slice of wholemeal toast with just marge, 15 grams of carbs, by lunch time my blood can be around 5 or up to 15, and theres no pattern. This is the same at night times. I understand about exercise, and the next day it still has an effect on my b/s. The same with if i have a drink, i know the next day it will effect my b/s.
But to be honest, its getting me down a bit, with a hba1c of 9, i know the long term it can do me damage, but i cant seem to get it down any more. at the moment i am on a low carb diet.
Oh i know to winge lol

 

[gail2]

welcome to the forum feel free to ask any questions

 

[Northerner]

Thanks for the welcome's I have an accucheck pump. The problems are being a diabetic lol
Food is the main problem, i carb count and understand the GI and the effects of fats turning in to carbs, but it never goes right, when i talk to my doctor/nurse, i think they go from a book, "this says that and there fore its this"

Example i work Monday to Friday, i have the same thing for breakfast, 1 slice of wholemeal toast with just marge, 15 grams of carbs, by lunch time my blood can be around 5 or up to 15, and theres no pattern. This is the same at night times. I understand about exercise, and the next day it still has an effect on my b/s. The same with if i have a drink, i know the next day it will effect my b/s.
But to be honest, its getting me down a bit, with a hba1c of 9, i know the long term it can do me damage, but i cant seem to get it down any more. at the moment i am on a low carb diet.
Oh i know to winge lol

Have you ever enquired about borrowing a CGMS (Continuous Glucose Monitor) from your DSN? Might shed some light on what is happening 🙂

 

[Mark T]

Welcome to the forum megga 🙂

 

[megga]

Have you ever enquired about borrowing a CGMS (Continuous Glucose Monitor) from your DSN? Might shed some light on what is happening 🙂

I have asked, but they just say "we will see how you get on"
The part that alarmed me is when i last had my appointment, i did the old fasting, so bedtime my bg was 9.8 but instead sof taking a corection, i thought check through the night (as i had the next day of work) checking through out the night every two hour, my blood was constant. When i let my diabetic nurse see the results, she told me to "Up my dosage through out the night" WTF?? i said but if my blood is at 6, that will reduce it and i will hypo, she was insistant. So i just went away dazed

 

[Northerner]

I have asked, but they just say "we will see how you get on"
The part that alarmed me is when i last had my appointment, i did the old fasting, so bedtime my bg was 9.8 but instead sof taking a corection, i thought check through the night (as i had the next day of work) checking through out the night every two hour, my blood was constant. When i let my diabetic nurse see the results, she told me to "Up my dosage through out the night" WTF?? i said but if my blood is at 6, that will reduce it and i will hypo, she was insistant. So i just went away dazed

Not surprised - I wouldn't be increasing my basal if I was at 6 and steady through the night, I don't see the logic in that

 

[megga]

In the nurses defence, they used to be very good, take time to listen, but i think they have to many patients now and they always look rushed of there feet.