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Feb 27, 2014

youone 102 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / reliable metre readings

Vickyp said:
Thanks youone, hopefully they will figure out what's going on!

I was tweeted on the 20/02/14 that an issue had been raised by Abbott regarding the omnipod meter and test strips
The link is here
thebloodsugarwhisperer.WordPress.com/2014/02/20/omnipod-freestyle-users-test
IWas in touch with my support team today who have sent me a confirmation letter from Abbott which I'll post up when I'm next to a PC

Feb 27, 2014

SueA 9 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Tresiba

I have just, this week, been switched to Tresiba by my consultant. Brian could I ask how do the doses compare to your old BI? Hope that makes sense Thanks SueA

Feb 26, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results

Warwick said:
Excellent Rafa. Well done. That is a huge improvement and a great step towards avoiding the long term complications.

Many thanks. Gave me a great boost. Just have to keep working at it now. After DAFNE i will certainly never go back to how i treated diabetes before.

Feb 26, 2014

Garry 328 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Possible cure for newly diagnosed type 1s

Antitrypsin.
Another word added to the clutter in my aging brain.
I'll have to ask my youngest son of his thoughts.
Not much good for us old f*rts though.
Thanks again Warwick. You come up with some good info.
Regards
Garry

Feb 26, 2014

Garry 328 posts

Topic: General Discussion / mihaelas

Welcome to the forum mihaela Smile

Anything we can try to help you with?
The data you provide shows an unusual BI scheme. Are you working shifts?
Must admit I try to check ketones every time I'm above a BG of 15.0...but the DAFNE recommendation is:
if consistently over 13.0 mmol/l and check every time >17.0.
Let us know your needs and the great body of support in here can try and assist.
Regards
Garry

Feb 25, 2014

Warwick 425 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Possible cure for newly diagnosed type 1s

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0214/Type_1_diabetes_cure.php3#.Uw0rBoV0azH

The article mentions a possible (although expensive) cure for type 1 diabetes, although it only seems to be effective for T1s who have been diagnosed for less than 6 months.

Feb 25, 2014

Warwick 425 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / adjusting insulin for an operation

Hey Yogababe,

If it was me, I'd be going with what I thought was best rather than some nurse who has much less understanding of how my BGs respond to stress, insulin etc.

You sound like you have a good idea of how to dose yourself beforehand. It sounds like they want you to avoid hypos during the operation, so I suggest that you dose so that it is near impossible to have a hypo during the operation, but in a way that that you won't be too high after the operation. If you are fasting before the operation, then you would only need to worry about your BI, in which case dropping it by a unit or two should avoid any hypos.

I'd also recommend giving spare insulin and spare meter to whoever is going to be your first visitor as a backup. There have been horror stories on these forums of insulin being confiscated by medical staff because they thought that they knew better than we do how to dose us. If you know you have some spare insulin available, then you won't need to worry about that happening.

It could be worth having a quick chat to your endo too as they will have lots of experience in answering this question. Perhaps you could have a quick phone call to them?

Feb 25, 2014

Warwick 425 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results

Excellent Rafa. Well done. That is a huge improvement and a great step towards avoiding the long term complications.

Feb 25, 2014

David Rimmer 7 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Android App time picker

Thanks Peter,
I'm with you, I also don't find things difficult to use if I don't use them. Razz

I tend to use the app differently to you, I generally put in all my entries once a day and use it for review and to look for trends.
This is not a big issue, I just thought I'd put it up there in case someone is thinking of updating the look and feel of the app.

Feb 25, 2014

David Rimmer 7 posts

Topic: Site Development / CSV export

This is not necessarily a hard fix. The current dafne stats and graphs must have these readings separated to do the calculations.
I would hope that they are already held separately in the database. It would be bad database design to hold figures to be used in calculations in text fields with special characters.
If they are held in separate fields, it should be easy to add them to the export.

Feb 25, 2014

yogababe 4 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / adjusting insulin for an operation

I'm scheduled for a shoulder operation which will require a full anaesthetic. I went for my pre-assessment appointment today and was really annoyed at the ignorant and nonsensical information I was given regarding adjusting my insulin for the operation. The nurse clearly had no real understanding or type 1 diabetes and wasn't listening to what I was saying. I'm on a twice daily Levemir injection and then novorapid when I eat according to the carb count of those meals. I was given a printed sheet that made no sense what so ever and the nurse just picked a random sentence off it that didn't correspond to my insulin regime (which I don't think is that unusual for a type 1 diabetic) and wrote on my form "halve usual dose of novorapid". I have no confidence in this information as it sounds utter nonsense.

Am I correct in assuming that I should continue my basal injections as normal and then when I can eat after the op, give myself my normal dose of novorapid? I anticipate my sugars will run high after the operation so will probably have to make some corrections with either my basal or fast acting insulin - or both. What would you recommend?

Feb 25, 2014

mihaela 7 posts

Topic: General Discussion / mihaelas

weight 59 kg
height 168 cm

Feb 25, 2014

marke 686 posts

Topic: Site Development / CSV export

Hi, Phil is correct I'm not sure it would be simple to process the field as part of the export because of the 'free form' entry of the data. However as you say manipulation in excel is possible. One tip that will stop excel 'interpreting' the file is to rename it so it ends in '.txt' rather than '.csv', why ? well as Phil noticed excel tries to be clever because it thinks it understands csv files, if you rename the file as a txt file and then open it in excel you can then tell it to interpret the file data as csv, however it also allows you to define what is in each field i.e tell it the QA is a text field NOT a date field or a value field. Once you have the QA field as text there are a number of text manipulation functions that allow you to split the data assuming you have been consistent in using no spaces between the '-' and '+' or have always used spaces between them. I will have a think about the best formulas to use in excel and post them here if I can come up with something that works Smile

Feb 25, 2014

Rafa 99 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results

I had my first clinic appointment this morning since doing DAFNE last July and my HB1AC is down from 84 to 55.

Feb 24, 2014

Phil Maskell 194 posts

Topic: Site Development / CSV export

Doubt this is any easy fix in the export as I'm guessing due to the nature of corrections QA/BI/CP will just be text/String/VARCHAR in the system.

It would need a bit of parsing / regex to extract the correction, but as you could type anything what would you parse on? I know the norm is to put 12+1 or 12-1, but what if someone put 12 - 1 or hit a typo and put 12=1 (- and = are next to each other, = and + same key).

I'm guessing a whiz with excel might have more joy?

EDIT: Just done a quite export of my results to check what I said wasn't rubbish, excel trys to be too clever which doesn't help, I had a QA of 4-1, it had this as 04-Jan which confused me for a bit!

Phil

Feb 24, 2014

Garry 328 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / Help With Evening BI

I find that the Show Summary View hyperlink at the top of your diary helps you spot data errors.
Your BI total for that week would have been out compared to normal weeks.
Stick with your changes for 3+ days to be sure about outcome..especially when altering BIs.
Regards
Garry

Feb 23, 2014

Peter 109 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Android App time picker

Can't say I've had too much of a problem with the time picker as it defaults to current time for me, and so it is only on rare occasions that I've needed to use the picker. Whilst it is a little cumbersome to use in those circumstances, I wouldn't see it as a priority item for change.
NB. I'm using a Samsung SIII running Android 4.3.

Feb 23, 2014

mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / My Recent BGs - comments wanted please

In my comments < is for when I've rounded up & > is for when I've rounded down

Feb 23, 2014

mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / My Recent BGs - comments wanted please

Comments wanted on the above please - 15.02.14 - 23.02.14

Went to my diabetic drop in clinic on Thu 06.02.12 - most targets are not in range:
4 - 7 for breakfast, lunch & teatime
8 - 12 for bedtime

also

DSN wondered if I'm counting carbs correctly

Since then I'm trying hard to get carbs counting correct & concentrating hard on rounding them up or down to the nearest 5 depending on where I am in my target range. Round down if BG is around 4 - 5 ish then up if BG is 6 - 7 ish or over.

Feb 22, 2014

David Rimmer 7 posts

Topic: Site Development / CSV export

Hi,

Would it be possible to get a CSV export with the QA and CP corrections removed from the QA/CP column and put in their own separate columns?
Currently when data is exported, any reading with a correction is non-numeric and therefore can't be tallied/manipulated as numeric values.

Thanks

Feb 22, 2014

David Rimmer 7 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Android App time picker

Hi, I'm new to dafne and an in the middle of doing the dafne course although I've had T1 for 42 years.
Firstly, I'd like to thank the contributors for putting in the time and effort to produce these apps and maintain the BG diary, fantastic job.
I do how ever find 1 thing in the android app that annoys me each time I use it, the time picker control !
The 24 hour format is a pain to use and it can take up 12 touches just to enter the time.
Is there any chance of getting it updated to something a bit more user friendly?

Something like the alarm time picker in kitkat would be great, 3-4 touches to enter the time.
I've also seen this datetime picker used in a few apps. https://github.com/flavienlaurent/datetimepicker

Thanks

Feb 21, 2014

derekh1965 95 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / Help With Evening BI

yes, Garry, just noticed that.

BI is a lot better with taking it before bed.

Feb 21, 2014

Garry 328 posts

Topic: General Discussion / some help please

You can add injection sites for QA and BI which may help you understand absoption rates for different parts of the body better. I also use it to discipline myself about moving injection sites around to help avoid 'blocked' insulin absorption.
As you mentioned, mobile it for convenience and then when you have the time...and memory...which sometimes fails me! you can add the detail to individual entries by edit, clicking the blue time entry which underlines as a hyperlink when hovered over with the cursor.
Regards
Garry

Feb 21, 2014

Garry 328 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / Help With Evening BI

Have you just missed a 2 off your Mon 17/02 07:02 BI?
Regards
Garry

Feb 21, 2014

novorapidboi26 1,819 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / Help With Evening BI

looks not bad overnight..........

you have been having some carbs at bedtime due to you either being low or being lower than you would like and this may be having unpredictable effects on the morning readings, but that's OK, as long as you test overnight and see a steady hold your pretty much there.......

after your happy you can go on and test your daytime BI dose...... Smile

Feb 27, 2014 youone 102 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / reliable metre readings Vickyp said: Thanks youone, hopefully they will figure out what's going on! I was tweeted on the 20/02/14 that an issue had been raised by Abbott regarding the omnipod meter and test strips The link is here thebloodsugarwhisperer.WordPress.com/2014/02/20/omnipod-freestyle-users-test IWas in touch with my support team today who have sent me a confirmation letter from Abbott which I'll post up when I'm next to a PC

Feb 27, 2014 SueA 9 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Tresiba I have just, this week, been switched to Tresiba by my consultant. Brian could I ask how do the doses compare to your old BI? Hope that makes sense Thanks SueA

Feb 26, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results Warwick said: Excellent Rafa. Well done. That is a huge improvement and a great step towards avoiding the long term complications. Many thanks. Gave me a great boost. Just have to keep working at it now. After DAFNE i will certainly never go back to how i treated diabetes before.

Feb 26, 2014 Garry 328 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Possible cure for newly diagnosed type 1s Antitrypsin. Another word added to the clutter in my aging brain. I'll have to ask my youngest son of his thoughts. Not much good for us old f*rts though. Thanks again Warwick. You come up with some good info. Regards Garry

Feb 26, 2014 Garry 328 posts	Topic: General Discussion / mihaelas Welcome to the forum mihaela Anything we can try to help you with? The data you provide shows an unusual BI scheme. Are you working shifts? Must admit I try to check ketones every time I'm above a BG of 15.0...but the DAFNE recommendation is: if consistently over 13.0 mmol/l and check every time >17.0. Let us know your needs and the great body of support in here can try and assist. Regards Garry

Feb 25, 2014 Warwick 425 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Possible cure for newly diagnosed type 1s http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0214/Type_1_diabetes_cure.php3#.Uw0rBoV0azH The article mentions a possible (although expensive) cure for type 1 diabetes, although it only seems to be effective for T1s who have been diagnosed for less than 6 months.

Feb 25, 2014 Warwick 425 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / adjusting insulin for an operation Hey Yogababe, If it was me, I'd be going with what I thought was best rather than some nurse who has much less understanding of how my BGs respond to stress, insulin etc. You sound like you have a good idea of how to dose yourself beforehand. It sounds like they want you to avoid hypos during the operation, so I suggest that you dose so that it is near impossible to have a hypo during the operation, but in a way that that you won't be too high after the operation. If you are fasting before the operation, then you would only need to worry about your BI, in which case dropping it by a unit or two should avoid any hypos. I'd also recommend giving spare insulin and spare meter to whoever is going to be your first visitor as a backup. There have been horror stories on these forums of insulin being confiscated by medical staff because they thought that they knew better than we do how to dose us. If you know you have some spare insulin available, then you won't need to worry about that happening. It could be worth having a quick chat to your endo too as they will have lots of experience in answering this question. Perhaps you could have a quick phone call to them?

Feb 25, 2014 Warwick 425 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results Excellent Rafa. Well done. That is a huge improvement and a great step towards avoiding the long term complications.

Feb 25, 2014 David Rimmer 7 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Android App time picker Thanks Peter, I'm with you, I also don't find things difficult to use if I don't use them. I tend to use the app differently to you, I generally put in all my entries once a day and use it for review and to look for trends. This is not a big issue, I just thought I'd put it up there in case someone is thinking of updating the look and feel of the app.

Feb 25, 2014 David Rimmer 7 posts	Topic: Site Development / CSV export This is not necessarily a hard fix. The current dafne stats and graphs must have these readings separated to do the calculations. I would hope that they are already held separately in the database. It would be bad database design to hold figures to be used in calculations in text fields with special characters. If they are held in separate fields, it should be easy to add them to the export.

Feb 25, 2014 yogababe 4 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / adjusting insulin for an operation I'm scheduled for a shoulder operation which will require a full anaesthetic. I went for my pre-assessment appointment today and was really annoyed at the ignorant and nonsensical information I was given regarding adjusting my insulin for the operation. The nurse clearly had no real understanding or type 1 diabetes and wasn't listening to what I was saying. I'm on a twice daily Levemir injection and then novorapid when I eat according to the carb count of those meals. I was given a printed sheet that made no sense what so ever and the nurse just picked a random sentence off it that didn't correspond to my insulin regime (which I don't think is that unusual for a type 1 diabetic) and wrote on my form "halve usual dose of novorapid". I have no confidence in this information as it sounds utter nonsense. Am I correct in assuming that I should continue my basal injections as normal and then when I can eat after the op, give myself my normal dose of novorapid? I anticipate my sugars will run high after the operation so will probably have to make some corrections with either my basal or fast acting insulin - or both. What would you recommend?

Feb 25, 2014 mihaela 7 posts	Topic: General Discussion / mihaelas weight 59 kg height 168 cm

Feb 25, 2014 marke 686 posts	Topic: Site Development / CSV export Hi, Phil is correct I'm not sure it would be simple to process the field as part of the export because of the 'free form' entry of the data. However as you say manipulation in excel is possible. One tip that will stop excel 'interpreting' the file is to rename it so it ends in '.txt' rather than '.csv', why ? well as Phil noticed excel tries to be clever because it thinks it understands csv files, if you rename the file as a txt file and then open it in excel you can then tell it to interpret the file data as csv, however it also allows you to define what is in each field i.e tell it the QA is a text field NOT a date field or a value field. Once you have the QA field as text there are a number of text manipulation functions that allow you to split the data assuming you have been consistent in using no spaces between the '-' and '+' or have always used spaces between them. I will have a think about the best formulas to use in excel and post them here if I can come up with something that works

Feb 25, 2014 Rafa 99 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Differing hBa1c results I had my first clinic appointment this morning since doing DAFNE last July and my HB1AC is down from 84 to 55.

Feb 24, 2014 Phil Maskell 194 posts	Topic: Site Development / CSV export Doubt this is any easy fix in the export as I'm guessing due to the nature of corrections QA/BI/CP will just be text/String/VARCHAR in the system. It would need a bit of parsing / regex to extract the correction, but as you could type anything what would you parse on? I know the norm is to put 12+1 or 12-1, but what if someone put 12 - 1 or hit a typo and put 12=1 (- and = are next to each other, = and + same key). I'm guessing a whiz with excel might have more joy? EDIT: Just done a quite export of my results to check what I said wasn't rubbish, excel trys to be too clever which doesn't help, I had a QA of 4-1, it had this as 04-Jan which confused me for a bit! Phil

Feb 24, 2014 Garry 328 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / Help With Evening BI I find that the Show Summary View hyperlink at the top of your diary helps you spot data errors. Your BI total for that week would have been out compared to normal weeks. Stick with your changes for 3+ days to be sure about outcome..especially when altering BIs. Regards Garry

Feb 23, 2014 Peter 109 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Android App time picker Can't say I've had too much of a problem with the time picker as it defaults to current time for me, and so it is only on rare occasions that I've needed to use the picker. Whilst it is a little cumbersome to use in those circumstances, I wouldn't see it as a priority item for change. NB. I'm using a Samsung SIII running Android 4.3.

Feb 23, 2014 mum2westiesGill 502 posts	Topic: General Discussion / My Recent BGs - comments wanted please In my comments < is for when I've rounded up & > is for when I've rounded down

Feb 23, 2014 mum2westiesGill 502 posts	Topic: General Discussion / My Recent BGs - comments wanted please Comments wanted on the above please - 15.02.14 - 23.02.14 Went to my diabetic drop in clinic on Thu 06.02.12 - most targets are not in range: 4 - 7 for breakfast, lunch & teatime 8 - 12 for bedtime also DSN wondered if I'm counting carbs correctly Since then I'm trying hard to get carbs counting correct & concentrating hard on rounding them up or down to the nearest 5 depending on where I am in my target range. Round down if BG is around 4 - 5 ish then up if BG is 6 - 7 ish or over.

Feb 22, 2014 David Rimmer 7 posts	Topic: Site Development / CSV export Hi, Would it be possible to get a CSV export with the QA and CP corrections removed from the QA/CP column and put in their own separate columns? Currently when data is exported, any reading with a correction is non-numeric and therefore can't be tallied/manipulated as numeric values. Thanks

Feb 22, 2014 David Rimmer 7 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Android App time picker Hi, I'm new to dafne and an in the middle of doing the dafne course although I've had T1 for 42 years. Firstly, I'd like to thank the contributors for putting in the time and effort to produce these apps and maintain the BG diary, fantastic job. I do how ever find 1 thing in the android app that annoys me each time I use it, the time picker control ! The 24 hour format is a pain to use and it can take up 12 touches just to enter the time. Is there any chance of getting it updated to something a bit more user friendly? Something like the alarm time picker in kitkat would be great, 3-4 touches to enter the time. I've also seen this datetime picker used in a few apps. https://github.com/flavienlaurent/datetimepicker Thanks

Feb 21, 2014 derekh1965 95 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / Help With Evening BI yes, Garry, just noticed that. BI is a lot better with taking it before bed.

Feb 21, 2014 Garry 328 posts	Topic: General Discussion / some help please You can add injection sites for QA and BI which may help you understand absoption rates for different parts of the body better. I also use it to discipline myself about moving injection sites around to help avoid 'blocked' insulin absorption. As you mentioned, mobile it for convenience and then when you have the time...and memory...which sometimes fails me! you can add the detail to individual entries by edit, clicking the blue time entry which underlines as a hyperlink when hovered over with the cursor. Regards Garry

Feb 21, 2014 Garry 328 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / Help With Evening BI Have you just missed a 2 off your Mon 17/02 07:02 BI? Regards Garry

Feb 21, 2014 novorapidboi26 1,819 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / Help With Evening BI looks not bad overnight.......... you have been having some carbs at bedtime due to you either being low or being lower than you would like and this may be having unpredictable effects on the morning readings, but that's OK, as long as you test overnight and see a steady hold your pretty much there....... after your happy you can go on and test your daytime BI dose......