[Diabetes] General Chat and Support Thread

Diabetes Ireland are having a free webinar this evening from 7-8pm on Emotional Wellness and Diabetes. It looks interesting and helpful to me so I'm just posting the details. For the registration link contact Diabetes Ireland. "The focus of this webinar is dealing with mental health and emotional wellbeing. Some may feel they cope well with their emotional and mental wellbeing, which is great, while others may feel differently and in need of support from time to time.

This webinar will discuss in-depth the important topic of how to maintain emotional wellbeing and resilience when living with diabetes.

If this is something that may interest you or someone you know,why not register today.

We are delighted to be joined by special guest speaker Dr Mark Davies, who is the Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Belfast City Hospital."

That's interesting, as I've been now told that 780G and guardian 4 is not approved for use in Ireland. I spoke to Medtronic directly on Friday and they confirmed that guardian 4 is not approved in Ireland. Although she was slightly confused by that, and told me she would send me an email when she got more info.

I'll update this thread with all further info. There's no way in hell I'm getting a Guardian 3 when G4 is here. Pump is currently out of warranty now, so I might be forced to get Tandem and Dexcom.

Back from Newcastle on Thursday, after getting my next 6 months of Noctura 400 masks.

Scans again show no changes, which is good. Over 3 years since my last bleed.

Just one thing in case anybody is going to an optician, ask them to check for ingrowing eyelashes. I had to get a few plucked out on Wednesday.

Glad to read some people are getting the T-slim with the dexcom. I had my latest endo appointment on Thursday and have said I'd like to move onto this from mdi. My control is very good but I'm hoping the close loop will help reduce nighttime lows. I'm exhausted with the dexcom going off at night.

Is anyone here encountering neuralgia/neuropathy either due to or incidental to their diabetes and struggling to manage the pain?

I have an ongoing issue that stems originally from a thrombosed varicocele and that lead to ilioinguinal and other nerves being impinged as well causing renal colic, phlebitis and congestion.

No surgical fix for it as yet and the usual course of action involves high strength anti-inflammatories. Unfortunately Diabetes rules those out for me outside of hospital. Currently struggling to manage on a combo of Gapabentine and opioids. I am having amitriptyline added into the mix next week in an effort to at least give me some longer periods without opioids.

I've heard good things re the Gabapentin & Amitriptyline combo for neuralgia, so fingers crossed.

If anyone here has similar difficulty in managing neuralgia/neuropathy that could well be helped by anti-inflammatory meds and has found a way to manage it? I'd love hear the story.

Do you not get your review done in a hospital?

Feck that I wouldnt be paying for a review. I certainly wouldn't trust a GP to do it.

I was referred immediately when I diagnosed a long time ago. Now I am close to a hospital with a dedicated diabetic unit so that may be why.

Some hope…

https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/news/liverpool-businessman-steve-morgan-donates-ps50-million-to-help-find-cure-for-diabetes-3667103

The multiple units in use don't make it easy to know what's bad but, 7%, 54mmol/MoL, 158mg/dl, 8.7mmol/L are all in and around the same glucose concentration.

My Endo varies between reporting in mmol/MoL & or %. The target for keeping healthy as long as possible is 54mmol or better. The damage is cumulative, high levels long term damage the small blood vessels. The higher the hba1c, the faster the damage accrues but, any elevated hba1c long term will have a detrimental effect.

Rookie question here (12 years as a diabetic!). When carb counting do I count the total carbs or the sugars only?

I have been told this years ago but over the years have slipped into guestimating the amount of carbs I am eating and I have forgotten the basics. I cant seem to get any dose correct these days. I had a bowl of porridge this morning, weighed it out on the scales, allowed for some milk but shot down low about 2.5 hours later. I went with the full carb total as per the pack.

Does anyone else have a problem with delayed absorption of carbs causing a drop soon after dosing but returning with an almighty high a few hours later when the insulin has largely worn off? I have this a lot with different types of food and it is very hard to does correctly for.

I should be due an upgrade around now but I had a plastic ring crack where the insulin vial sits into the pump about a year ago. They replaced the full pump immediately so they say my pump is now only 1 year old so not ready for an upgrade for 3 years!

The clinic. I might look into it. They have not been much help with it.

Not flown with it yet myself either, but Dexcom say it's grand.

Turns out I have almost a year before I am due for an upgrade. The lady in Medtronic said the replacement pump does not count so at least that is something. Apparently there is a backlog of people waiting for pump upgrades due to covid and now probably Putin causing a shortage of raw materials so even if I was due one now I would not be able to get one straight away anyway. Booked in with the dietician anyway to get a bit of a refresher on carb counting and dietary advice, its been a while since I went over things.

you should you have no problem getting more strips from the pharmacist on the prescription you. There is a limit on the amount of strips dispensed to Type 2 diabetics but there is no limits for Type 1s.

Well done. 45 good result but should be below 40.

We are still evolving and no one knows for sure if there any benefits, but new studies suggests that there are certain benefits to keep your a1c as low as possible. Reduce; inflammation, harmful viruses, including covid, cancer.