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[Diabetes] General Chat and Support Thread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭colrow


    Yea, they make a killing on the strips


    Have a look on www.diabetes.co.uk, they often have meters to give away.

    I've got an optium exceed, and a seperate old clicker pricker. Those new yokes where they automatically give a new pricker each time, are just for the manufactorers benefit, no matter what they say.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,438 ✭✭✭5live


    banie01 wrote: »
    Silly question, but how does one go about getting their hands on this meter?
    My Diabetes team seem to have a surfeit of One touch and Bayer Contour meters and whenever I ask for this model I am fobbed off.
    The last time i was with my Doctor i asked her if i could get one and her secretary handed me one on the way out, with a change on my prescription for the strips.
    colrow wrote: »
    Yea, they make a killing on the strips


    Have a look on www.diabetes.co.uk, they often have meters to give away.

    I've got an optium exceed, and a seperate old clicker pricker. Those new yokes where they automatically give a new pricker each time, are just for the manufactorers benefit, no matter what they say.
    For me, the benefit is in not having to put in new strips each time. I have difficulty getting the strips out of the container with my thick fingers.

    And there is no losing the pricker in a bag/car when we go for a day away as they are all in one. I think its the best tester i have had as there is no messy strips left after testing and up to 2 weeks of strips in the machine.

    What suits one may not suit another.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,278 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    colrow wrote: »
    Yea, they make a killing on the strips


    Have a look on www.diabetes.co.uk, they often have meters to give away.

    I've got an optium exceed, and a seperate old clicker pricker. Those new yokes where they automatically give a new pricker each time, are just for the manufactorers benefit, no matter what they say.

    At the moment they're hosting a promotion for Verio IQ Meters.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    Started pumping today! Only saline at the moment, seems grand, not too confusing, waiting really to start it for real to see the difference!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    4 years diabetic today. thank god for my doctor. thank god in general i can get up every day without too much trouble.


  • Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭maudgone




  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    maudgone wrote: »
    You have to be a resident of the UK to be eligible for free offers. I can't enter my address as it tells me I have no valid post code.:mad::mad:

    You can try one of two things, e-mail their reps directly if your hospital won't get them in (hit or miss, they may be nice, they may not) or set up a parcel motel account and use that as your address. It will cost you 3.50euro if you get it. You do have to initially lodge 10euro (I would recommend 10.50 so you have exactly 3 deliveries), so you can use it for two more deliveries from the UK for other online sites that offer free delivery to the UK only.

    My brother got the USB next free of charge (from Contour handing them out at the Athlone IT rag week ?!?) after I paid 30euro for it online :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,141 ✭✭✭colrow


    I got an optium exceed from abbot healthcare i think, they class the uk and ireland together. They even send ne free batteries when mine go flat, and free software


  • Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭Dick Dastardly


    Started pumping today! Only saline at the moment, seems grand, not too confusing, waiting really to start it for real to see the difference!

    Let us know how you get on eurovision mad - I signed up last week for a pump - just waiting for delivery. Little bit apprehensive - 31 years on injections and works fine but reckon a pump will force me to get even tighter and manage exercise better.

    Asked for one with CGM - got pushed straight back (response was need to have evidenced problems to qualify for that etc....) but they've agreed to get a cgm compatible one. We'll have that discussion again...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 16,338 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Took the advice of a few posters here and rang Accu-Chek last Friday.
    They took my details and sent me a new Mobile meter via DHL, delivered on Monday!
    The meter itself blows my one touch ultra away in terms of convenience!
    Simple and easy to use, my GP has already swapped my script over for the new consumables.
    My holy grail however would be a meter that integrates with a decent mobile phone app to allow easy record keeping and on the viewing of your records without resorting to digging out the diary or plugging in a data cable ;)

    That said....Accu Chek Mobile, is a fantastic bit of kit.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    banie01 wrote: »
    Took the advice of a few posters here and rang Accu-Chek last Friday.
    They took my details and sent me a new Mobile meter via DHL, delivered on Monday!
    The meter itself blows my one touch ultra away in terms of convenience!
    Simple and easy to use, my GP has already swapped my script over for the new consumables.
    My holy grail however would be a meter that integrates with a decent mobile phone app to allow easy record keeping and on the viewing of your records without resorting to digging out the diary or plugging in a data cable ;)

    That said....Accu Chek Mobile, is a fantastic bit of kit.

    The best thing in the future could be the Dario meter, where you plug it into your phone, but it's minuscule in comparison to the iBGstar, and everything's stored in a cigarette lighter sized box, so you'd get over the individual test strips! But there's been so much hype & talk from them without anything concrete I'm just not sure it'll ever happen. Having said that anyway at the moment, even if it is a bit bigger compared to the Accu-chek Mobile, I'm quite taken with my Bayer Contour Link cause it wirelessly sends all my readings straight to my pump, convenient! I'm still using the Acuu-Chek mobile pricker cause feel the Bayer one seems to do something weird, it doesn't clot as fast when I use that in comparison, it can be a bit messy if I don't notice!
    Let us know how you get on eurovision mad - I signed up last week for a pump - just waiting for delivery. Little bit apprehensive - 31 years on injections and works fine but reckon a pump will force me to get even tighter and manage exercise better.

    Asked for one with CGM - got pushed straight back (response was need to have evidenced problems to qualify for that etc....) but they've agreed to get a cgm compatible one. We'll have that discussion again...

    I haven't really discussed CGM with them yet, I want to see how pumping in general goes first, as I say right now it's just a very expensive prop attached to me, but I did have my first night sleep with it attached last night and it wasn't very awkward at all!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭Mad4simmental


    Hi guys, my partner has type 1 for the past 15 years. She dose her 24hre every day and the usuall one after meals ect. She allways finds it hard to get the bloods right and it upsets her as you can imagine. Hard subject to bring up still as she dosnt really want to talk about it, I can see where she is coming from.
    Just wondering if any people on here know about any advancements on type one in the past few years? Ie pumps ect, they ust to be very big. Any time I try to research on the net it's type two that coms up. Also any good clinics ect around Laois or north tipp as we are just back from a few years in OZ.
    thanks.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Hi guys, my partner has type 1 for the past 15 years. She dose her 24hre every day and the usuall one after meals ect. She allways finds it hard to get the bloods right and it upsets her as you can imagine. Hard subject to bring up still as she dosnt really want to talk about it, I can see where she is coming from.
    Just wondering if any people on here know about any advancements on type one in the past few years? Ie pumps ect, they ust to be very big. Any time I try to research on the net it's type two that coms up. Also any good clinics ect around Laois or north tipp as we are just back from a few years in OZ.
    thanks.

    Hate to ask the obvious but when was the last time she was at a Diabetic nurse specialist? It would be worth trying to get an appointment ASAP. What are the issues with her control? Has she worked out her ratios? Does she Carb count? What insulin is she on (there are more on the market if its been along time since she seen a doctor/nurse specialist) but in the basis that you have a 24 hour dose (you will see it referenced as a basal dose) I don't imagine it has been too long. How often is she testing? Sorry for all the questions but there could be a 100 different reasons her control is poor, some maybe her fault, some maybe not but if you went into a bit more detail, you might get some useful info here.

    As well as this, you could try and see can she get herself signed upto one of the DAFNE courses or the cheaper hospital run ones (possibly called CODE or something in St. James) which seem to be very beneficial to both new and old hand diabetics.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭Mad4simmental


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Hate to ask the obvious but when was the last time she was at a Diabetic nurse specialist? It would be worth trying to get an appointment ASAP. What are the issues with her control? Has she worked out her ratios? Does she Carb count? What insulin is she on (there are more on the market if its been along time since she seen a doctor/nurse specialist) but in the basis that you have a 24 hour dose (you will see it referenced as a basal dose) I don't imagine it has been too long. How often is she testing? Sorry for all the questions but there could be a 100 different reasons her control is poor, some maybe her fault, some maybe not but if you went into a bit more detail, you might get some useful info here.

    As well as this, you could try and see can she get herself signed upto one of the DAFNE courses or the cheaper hospital run ones (possibly called CODE or something in St. James) which seem to be very beneficial to both new and old hand diabetics.

    To be honist it's probably more her fault. She has good days and bad ones. It's been a while since into a specialist but that's the next thing on the list. Ill look up the dafne courses, cheers.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    To be honist it's probably more her fault. She has good days and bad ones. It's been a while since into a specialist but that's the next thing on the list. Ill look up the dafne courses, cheers.

    I had a couple of bad years of no specialist and not really looking at myself to rigourously, happens to alot of us, nothing to feel bad about. I am in the clinic today but I just remembered the course I found really good was called BERGER, being run in St. James. Similar to DAFNE AFAIK.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    colrow wrote: »
    Anyone here who might have cause for concern ?

    Looks like it's rare enough not too get pulled.

    On a good news story, specialist nurse was so happy with my improvements again that I am now approved for the pump. It will be attached to me by the end of the summer. Happy times.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Looks like it's rare enough not too get pulled.

    On a good news story, specialist nurse was so happy with my improvements again that I am now approved for the pump. It will be attached to me by the end of the summer. Happy times.

    I thought you already were on one??


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    I thought you already were on one??

    Nope, every time I was put on the list the consultant changed and their requirements also changed. So I went on and off the list.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Nope, every time I was put on the list the consultant changed and their requirements also changed. So I went on and off the list.

    Oh right, must've been another person I was thinking of! What hospital are you in if you don't mind me asking?


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Oh right, must've been another person I was thinking of! What hospital are you in if you don't mind me asking?

    St. James, great nursing team and their new head consultant is a rock of sense, the last one had some odd ideas IMO and made fulfilling the requirements difficult if not dangerous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭Mad4simmental


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Looks like it's rare enough not too get pulled.

    On a good news story, specialist nurse was so happy with my improvements again that I am now approved for the pump. It will be attached to me by the end of the summer. Happy times.

    Have the pumps got much smaller over the years? It must be 10 years since the boss woman looked into them but they wer huge back then!


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Have the pumps got much smaller over the years? It must be 10 years since the boss woman looked into them but they wer huge back then!

    The ones I have seen look like beepers size wise.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Have the pumps got much smaller over the years? It must be 10 years since the boss woman looked into them but they wer huge back then!
    CramCycle wrote: »
    The ones I have seen look like beepers size wise.

    Yep, the one my daughter wears (Animas Vibe) fits in a pouch which isn't much bigger than a large change purse. I'm fairly sure the image here http://www.animascorp.co.uk/animasVibe is the real size. She has to wear hers around her waist (with the cannula in her bum) due to her age and size, but an adult has much more choice as to where to place the cannula (and consequently, where to carry the pump).


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭Eurovisionmad


    Yakuza wrote: »
    Yep, the one my daughter wears (Animas Vibe) fits in a pouch which isn't much bigger than a large change purse. I'm fairly sure the image here http://www.animascorp.co.uk/animasVibe is the real size. She has to wear hers around her waist (with the cannula in her bum) due to her age and size, but an adult has much more choice as to where to place the cannula (and consequently, where to carry the pump).


    Yeah I have my Medtronic in my pocket, the tubing going into my pocket could easily be headphone wires, nothing conspicuous about it at all!


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,337 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Just had the clinic onto me looking for my LTI number for the pump, no messing around this time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


    Have the pumps got much smaller over the years? It must be 10 years since the boss woman looked into them but they wer huge back then!

    Hi there, Pumps are now the size of a beeper or a thick smart phone. I have one and find it great.

    It sounds like your partner is trying to manage her diabetes all by herself and that's a tough way to go. There are so many diabetes support groups around now where both of you can find people who are going through the same experiences. Plus, there are type1 educations courses now available in some of the clinics (DAFNE being one). People have found these course great. I've attached a list of all the groups I know.

    I would also second that maybe she tries to meet with her Diabetes Nurse Specialist and a diabetes dietitian (not the same as regular dietitian).


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  • Registered Users Posts: 499 ✭✭graflynn


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