A bit of escapism - some fun

Just for a few minutes taking our minds off the unexplained high's and low's and what the carbs per 100g are for this or that ......

Just wondered how a Secretary of State gets DAFNE'd !

Or someone with that position has to miss out.

I read reference to two injections a day - Isn't that how it was in the old days. So not only would one miss out on DAFNE - also on new regime of multiple injections for meals. May be the mention of 2 injections a day was just conjecture by a journalist !!

I wonder.

May be an assistant will get DAFNE'd !

We heard that too. Wondered if it was early on and something to do with the 'honeymoon period'?

Saw the resident GP on BBC breakfast talking a load of tosh after the "news" about the Secretary of State came out...

Have to be careful with what we say - last thing anyone want is a libel action...

My Diabetes nurse at my GP surgery was surprised I was on two types of insulin. Thought I had some specific problem to warrant that !...

I do not think education WITHIN the health service is working and it definitely is not reaching the people who must be educated or maybe communication is made but the assumption is that it is read and understood,.

I was on 2 shots of basal insulin (Humalin) for the first 14 months after my diagnosis. It wasn't flexible, but I managed HbA1cs of around 6.5 with it by cutting out any high GI foods and exercising regularly. I think it works while the honeymoon period is present, but after that a switch to a mixture of BI and QA works better and gives much more flexibility.

I hope that the recent publicity will help to highlight LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults) as it is frequently overlooked and poorly understood.

It seems as if when a person above a certain age presents with diabetes associated symptoms they are automatically assumed to have type 2. If LADA was better understood, care could be more tailored to the person's needs more quickly.

I appreciate that the majority of mature people presenting with diabetes do indeed have type 2, but if there is a doubt a test would find type 1 tendencies. This would save years of unnecessary drugs, rising HBA1c levels and associated health problems. I speak from experience here.

On the Theresa May story, I was reading this article from Nursing In Practice today:

http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/diabetes-come-what-may

There are a lot of things in the article I would love to discuss with the author, but when the article moved to discuss fasting I was somewhat surprised by the following sentence:

It is important for patients to check their blood sugars, and where very low (< 3.9mmol/l) or very high (16.7mmol/l) they must eat.

davidcragg said:
I was somewhat surprised by the following sentence:

It is important for patients to check their blood sugars, and where very low (&lt; 3.9mmol/l) or very high (16.7mmol/l) they must eat.

Can someone explain to me why if my bg is a very precise 16.7mmol/L or more I must eat? I have never been told this and it seems contrary to everything I have been told.

Thanks

I suspect the reason for the preciseness is that it has been translated from American units of measurement where 16.7 mmol/L = 300 mg/dl which is a nice round number. However, almost certainly a whoops moment :-)

Warwick said:
I suspect the reason for the preciseness is that it has been translated from American units of measurement where 16.7 mmol/L = 300 mg/dl which is a nice round number. However, almost certainly a whoops moment :-)