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[Diabetes] General Chat and Support Thread
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They did mention about the risks of DKA being far higher on the pump when I was starting off, on shots you have got 24 hours plus of "some" insulin running around your body depending on what brand of basal you are on. If the pump stops working then you are out of insulin within a couple of hours.
I've not yet had any issues with canulas going in wrong, well not that I didn't spot as I was doing it and just fit another one. I have found it much simpler to correct any highs on the pump, but that comes down to spotting it soon enough. The worst I had was a couple of weeks ago with the BG running at 19+ most of the night and not seeming to correct itself, but I was waking up and despite feeling awful was able to do something about it. Would have been in a bad way the next day if I'd not woken up during the night.
How did you eventually spot the canula as being the issue?
Thanks Robin,
I woke up at 25 and took a bolus of about 6 and watched my sugars every 30 mins there was little to no change in them after an hour and a half so i pulled the set out. I then took an injection just to be 100% sure I was getting the insulin. When I pulled the set the canula was in a V shape with the bottom of the V piercing the skin but the top part outside it. Meaning I was not getting any insulin. I changed the set about 10 the night before and 11 the following morning I was throwing up.
I tested ketones with a stick and it turned the darkest purple. I managed to get them back down about 4pm and had some dinner at 8pm and all was fine. Although I kept my background at 120% until the following morning. I woke up at 7.3 so obviously needed it!
Im really fed up with this happening and think its down to a design flaw with the medtronic insertion kit.
On a separate note im trying a low carb diet for a little while, im only 24 hours in and my bloods are really good, I also did a weights session in the gym last night had about 15g of carb after and no hypo woke up with blood sugar of 6.5. Fingers crossed this help me get the HbA1c down!0 -
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Apart from when I ended up in hospital at diagnosis I'm lucky I've never been that bad. <dislike> :eek:I changed the set about 10 the night before and 11 the following morning I was throwing up.
I think this is the reason that they told us to change sets in the morning when we did our pump training. Then you are awake and more likely to notice things going wrong than if you're asleep and the bloods just keep on rising.0 -
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Hiya I always shop around online, take out my policy, then phone them to tell them I have diabetes. I only do this because there is rarely a box for diabetes on the online forms. But they never increase the quote when I tell them.
Iv never had trouble, but my Dad was refused by AA before for diabetes. They are the only company I have heard of that refused to take diabetics.
Im with AXA now and have been with FBD, Quinn and Itsforwomen with no trouble or loading from any of them.
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I overheard a Type 2 diabeties conversation this Nurse was having with a woman today, the nurse is part of a GP practice, she does the bloods and stuff the GP doesn't need to be there for.
The woman was in for blood sugar checkups, the Nurse was telling her that a person is born with all the Insulin they will need for a lifetime but some people just eat to much sugar when they are young, use it all up and end up on Glucophage/Insulin as a result.
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Sweet jesus, how did she get a job as a nurse?:-\Hal Emmerich wrote: »I overheard a Type 2 diabeties conversation this Nurse was having with a woman today, the nurse is part of a GP practice, she does the bloods and stuff the GP doesn't need to be there for.
The woman was in for blood sugar checkups, the Nurse was telling her that a person is born with all the Insulin they will need for a lifetime but some people just eat to much sugar when they are young, use it all up and end up on Glucophage/Insulin as a result.0 -
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I would have lost my license almost 52 times in the past year. That said, how would they check.severe hypos, which it defines as those which need the help of another person to deal with.
Scrap that I am fine, my sever hypos have only needed intervention once in the last year, by my partner, who i don't think will dob me in. All she done was sit me down as I was creating to much of a mess as I tried to make toast and eat black pudding coated in sugar
Sure I would have been fine.0 -
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-25.7 surely? A hypo is low not high and I've never sweated on a high only a mega low (I nearly miss having them so I can raid the biscuit tin in the middle of the night)
I know yeah, but if you don't treat a hypo, your body metabolizes...stuff...organs or fat or something to produce sugar. You'll come round eventually
Something I didn't know is that if this happens, you're not supposed to treat the high because the body reclaims the sugar by itself. I don't claim to know how this works
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-25.7 surely? A hypo is low not high and I've never sweated on a high only a mega low (I nearly miss having them so I can raid the biscuit tin in the middle of the night)
Nurses generally refer to it as a rebound, surprised you have never been told that unexplained highs are generally unnoticed hypos if they are found in the morning.
Like TBH I have been told not to treat it but I do because it makes you feel better quicker, just have to be careful not to relapse.
Also don't count on it to wake you up, sometimes it will but you don't want to test the theory where possible, unfortunately in some cases, we don't wake up 0 -
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-25.7 surely? A hypo is low not high and I've never sweated on a high only a mega low (I nearly miss having them so I can raid the biscuit tin in the middle of the night)I know yeah, but if you don't treat a hypo, your body metabolizes...stuff...organs or fat or something to produce sugar. You'll come round eventually
Something I didn't know is that if this happens, you're not supposed to treat the high because the body reclaims the sugar by itself. I don't claim to know how this works
That's pretty much it. We still have alpha islet cells so our bodies just dump a ton of glucagon into our bloodstreams and wait for whatever glycogen stores we have to up the sugar. If that's not sufficient we'll move on to gluconeogenesis.
I always treat them too to make me feel better.0 -
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-25.7 surely? A hypo is low not high and I've never sweated on a high only a mega low (I nearly miss having them so I can raid the biscuit tin in the middle of the night)I know yeah, but if you don't treat a hypo, your body metabolizes...stuff...organs or fat or something to produce sugar. You'll come round eventually
Something I didn't know is that if this happens, you're not supposed to treat the high because the body reclaims the sugar by itself. I don't claim to know how this works
That's pretty much it. We still have alpha islet cells so our bodies just dump a ton of glucagon into our bloodstreams and wait for whatever glycogen stores we have to up the sugar. If that's not sufficient we'll move on to gluconeogenesis.
I always treat them too to make me feel better.0 -
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Bit of diabetes and ulcerative colitis* never got in the way of winning a handful of gold medals:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/sports_personality/16246808.stm
I thought they had given him some achievement award already, but I do think he is a good example for diabetics out there that it doesn't need to stop you doing anything.
I think my chances of Olympic gold have already passed me by though.
* Didn't actually know about him having that condition before.0 -
Carsinian Thau wrote: »That's pretty much it. We still have alpha islet cells so our bodies just dump a ton of glucagon into our bloodstreams and wait for whatever glycogen stores we have to up the sugar. If that's not sufficient we'll move on to gluconeogenesis.
I always treat them too to make me feel better.
The reason it does not always work is that Type 1 Diabetes lose what is known as Counter Glucagon Secretion Regulation where the secretion kicks in when you become hypoglycaemic, while our alpha cells are still there and functioning, they do not respond as they should for a variety of reasons including interactions (or lack thereof) with the pancreatic beta cells (Zn2+ , Insulin, Ca2+, depends who you ask and what animal you are).
Finally a conversation about alpha cells, my PhD is not in vein 0 -
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Wooooooooo
Just went for my first proper bit of climbing of the year on the bike, I can already feel my insulin sensitivity spike (well technically I feel lots of hypoing on the way), no more novorapid until tomorrow it'll be like being a real boy again, all the food I want and no consequences, since I am ramping up training, it will probably be the last time this year I get away with it 0 -
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