Good morning Paul
@Busdriver60 and
@Silvershoes.
I was wondering how each of you are getting on. You've each had a few days to get a little more used to some of this D malarkey with the potential deluge of information from your Libre 2s.
@Silvershoes60 I have a cousin who's been T1 for many years and I quite unashamedly tapped into his knowledge and experience. I was very "needy" at first, particularly because Covid lock down was intruding into everything and distracting everyone! Mostly though I didn't have CGM and was simply lost; all quite frightening really. So a T1 niece who is also a dietitian is a dream scenario! It sounds as though your Libre 2 is now established as a fixture on your repeat prescriptions and if it is not "shake" whatever tree you can find to make it so. You are entitled and no HCP should be allowed to even think that being T3c somehow undermines that entitlement.
Paul, pleased to see that you are getting reassurance that your karate can continue. I happen to live very close to Bracknell and now just back from a bit of travel to Paris, I would be happy to meet you and enjoy a coffee somewhere locally. If you think this might be a help please "PM" me using the envelope on the top right of your screen and we can look for a convenient date/time. Please don't feel you are now obligated to do this. Entirely your choice.
Both of you, in his book "Think Like a Pancreas" the author Gary Scheiner states "Diabetes is Complicated, Confusing and Contradictory". He is spot on as far as I'm concerned. I don't want to burst any bubbles but at least help to manage your expectations. Don't expect to have this D stuff cracked and see lovely flat graphs each day; my glycaemic variability (erraticness or brittleness) is consistent: always plenty of peaks and troughs. However I do now have some understanding about why and feel very much less vulnerable when things go wrong.
In closing for now and while mentioning things going wrong ... this morning I took my normal basal of 8.5 units, calculated my bolus for 6.5 units (part food, part correction from my overnight high) then dosed myself with a further 6.5 basal !! Wrong pen, beautifully decorated with a gold star and multi-coloured bands to make my basal pen very different from my plain bolus pen. So now my 350 daily decisions for managing the 42 factors that are known to affect our blood glucose have just got more complicated. This morning I've taken my real bolus of 6.5 and know I've got a lot more basal insulin on board that will start playing later today and (because it is the very long lasting Tresiba) will still be playing tomorrow and Friday probably. Nobody said this would be easy! Incidentally insulin is just insulin. Our body doesn't know that bolus is supposed to be rapid or basal slow ... its just insulin, there with its keys to unlock the doors and allow glucose to move from our blood to our cells and thus provide nourishment. So how, during the next 48+ hours the excess of insulin on board will affect me is my unknown BG factor.
