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Aug 18, 2012

meltow 78 posts

Topic: General Discussion / What did you have to eat yesterday?

Hmmmmmmmm

Breakfast - 1oz porridge oats [cold] with gooseberries, blackberries, dates and semi skimmed
Lunch - 2 sticks of celery, 2 satsumas, pear and banana
Tea - Tuna steak with ratatouile of onion, mushroom, garlic, broad beans and green pepper. Melon, ginger and LF yoghurt

Laughing

...and because it was Friday, a couple of glasses of wine!

Aug 17, 2012

JayBee 587 posts

Topic: General Discussion / What did you have to eat yesterday?

Nice idea. Very Happy

Oooo don't feel bad about your food choices - that is just one day! ^_^
Let me think... :-.

Breakfast: Lemon yoghurt (112g) and some porridge oats (27g).
Lunch: Cheese on toast (2 slices) and some dried apple bits (50g).
Dinner: Hash browns (2), chicken goujons (4), some lettuce, some celery and a Magnum ice cream.

Oh, and plenty of tea drinking. All very yummy! ^_^

Aug 17, 2012

mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / What did you have to eat yesterday?

Seen this somewhere else on the internet and thought it would be good to start a topic on here too.

It can be helpful sometimes to know what sort of things people are eating, as it might give others some ideas for a more varied diet. So, here's mine for yesterday:

Breakfast - cheese on toast (2 x rnds)

Lunch - tuna & mayo sandwich (2 x rnds)
cup soup

Evening meal - Poole's meat & potato pie

Embarassed

not the healthiest things i know!

Aug 17, 2012

DianeW 115 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Thai food

I find it impossible to try and judge the CPs in this. For starter I had prawn toast (small triangle), mini chicken leg, mini spring roll, and mini dim sum. And I mean mini. Then we had 3 courses between both of us and a portion of rice and noodles between us. The rice and noodles does not amount to an average portion you get say in a tray from a Chinese/Indian.. I totally miscalculated and ended up at 16. I presume it is the sweet sauces that this food is in that does it because most of it is meat and veg.

Aug 17, 2012

JayBee 587 posts

Topic: General Discussion / NHS Medication Changes: Are you affected?

Thanks for your replies. Smile

I think you have a very good point marke. I only just started using the machine this week and it's been so far so good (with prescription and machine use). I'm so glad it came with a testing solution - I had a hypo the other night where I did not seem to have any symptoms at all. Sad

I must of tested it about 5 times to make sure while putting wine gums in my mouth... &gt;_&gt;;;; It seemed to be telling the truth...

marke said:
Yes the test strips do seem to be a lot cheaper, but why ? Being naturally suspicious I would question the motivation both of you doctors and the company that makes the meters/strips in singapore. What happened to freedom of choice in the NHS ?

Sadly, what my DAFNE nurse said is how it is - &quot;Some surgeries are changing patients to these meters as the strips are cheaper than most others on the market but are just as reliable/easy to use&quot;. One of the diabetic nurses at my GP also confirmed this. It does seem to be something they're just moving people on to. Personally, I guess I'm okay as long as I can still get stocked. So far I have done so I'm not overly alarmed yet. I just need to use it for testing.

On that note, even my pharmacy (they're in the same building as the GP surgery) commented about my prescription being another one asking for iCare strips... and that it seems to be a good machine... obviously they weren't made aware either but they had the strips in stock. :/

marke said:
So will they put in place the infrastructure to support this equipment, rather than the current very basic website with no support and only one phone number for the UK. What happens if you lose or have problems with the meter ?

I'm not sure what to say on this one. I've never ever had to call for a replacement machine - not that I think it won't ever happen. If it did, I'd be more inclined to speak to my diabetes teams than the company itself in case they had one spare handy.

marke said:
Do all the chemists in your area stock these test strips and can they get supplies easily. You would hope that the PCT/consortium would have put all that in place before forcing you to use the meter, but have they ?

How do we find out about the PCT/consortium? Is that public information? I hope so - makes sense to be considering it's primarily a public company...

Edit: I signed up to their forum today - http://icareadvanced.com/forum. It seems to be quite a broken website. A thread I posted did not appear and I was told that I did not have permission to access "this page". I have PM'd the admin... let's see if they do anything...

Edit: It looks like it's fixed!

Aug 16, 2012

Carolin 83 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Which Olympic athlete are you? -- For fun!

Dede Camara (Guinea) - women's 100m breaststroke.
But to be honest I don't think they could find an olympic athlete heavy enough to match me! Laughing

Aug 16, 2012

chrisinbrum 41 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake.

Lantus doesn't take 24 hours to 'kick-in': http://www.dafneonline.co.uk/hbook_topics/202

It should start working within a couple of hours according to the DAFNE handbook (I don't use Lantus) and has a length of action of up to 24 hours...so keep an eye on your BG levels during the day today and you should be relax a bit more later on.

Jayno said:
So far so good! Woke up with BG of 3.6 but doesn't lantus take 24 hrs to kick in so I'm guessing from 6pm onwards today I'll get the problems?
I have the timeinsliun pen top which I was using and then I got moved to lantus and they don't do one of that make!

Aug 16, 2012

Jayno 3 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake.

Thanks phil for the info. That must have been a new addition. Have just ordered it!! Hopefully no more silly mistakes for me!!

Aug 16, 2012

Carolin 83 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / time change of BI

Hi Anna,

The advice in DAFNE is to take your BI at bedtime and as you get up in the morning; this is particularly important with an 'isophane' insulin such as Humulin I which as you rightly say peaks around 4-6hrs after injection, but then tails off.

The added problem in the morning is the Dawn Phenomenon, where your body releases strong hormones as you wake, resulting in a rising BG. If you have taken your Humulin I too early (e.g. at evening meal-time), its action has pretty much worn off by then and doesn't counteract the hormones, so the later you can take it at night the better.

You might find you need an increased dose though, but don't forget to do 3am BG tests before and after you make increases to your bedtime BI to make sure you have the leeway to increase it (i.e. that it's not causing your BG to drop below 4.5mmol/l at its peak).

Good luck,

Carolin

Aug 16, 2012

Phil Maskell 194 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake.

Hi,

Which pen/lantus are you on? I'm on Levemir so no idea about it, but just looked on the Timesulin site and they do a lid for the Lantus Solostar pen (http://timesulin.com/how-it-works/pens).

Phil

Aug 16, 2012

Jayno 3 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake.

So far so good! Woke up with BG of 3.6 but doesn't lantus take 24 hrs to kick in so I'm guessing from 6pm onwards today I'll get the problems?
I have the timeinsliun pen top which I was using and then I got moved to lantus and they don't do one of that make!

Aug 16, 2012

Phil Maskell 194 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake.

How did it go?

Not the only one. I messed up once before, I gave 20 unit of QA instead of Background, plenty of snacks that day Very Happy

If you often forget (I often have to think hard) there is a lid called Timesulin (http://timesulin.com) that remembers the time you last injected so you can check. Novo have also done the same with the new NovoPen 5 which even tells you how much.

Hope this helps and not too many hypos.

Phil

Aug 16, 2012

JayBee 587 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake.

Initially I would be extra aware of potential hypos... perhaps set an alarm every hour or something to monitor yourself and eat as and when you think it's best to.

Considering the timing of the original post, I hope everything worked out okay. Sad

Aug 15, 2012

Jayno 3 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake.

Has anyone double dosed on their BI?
I was sure I'd forgotten to inject earlier and just gave myself a full dose(22 of lantus) at 11pm then my daughter informs me I already did it earlier at 6pm and I
Must have forgotten!

can anyone help as to what I should do!

Aug 15, 2012

Guy Kramer 12 posts

Topic: Site Development / Data Analysis

Hi Phil,

Yeah is being used for all for monitoring earthquakes and equipment on commercial airplanes to deep packet inspection or a bridge head to have multiple platforms / applications / sources.

I was thinking combining DAFNE and Glucofacts, maybe then using some script to upload the entries from Glucofacts to DAFNE. I wonder if ther is already a Python script to upload and download with DAFNE?

I guess I find the tables / graphs / sparkllines etc makes more sense to me. Sorry, what do you mean CGM data?

I will let you know and get screenshots etc

Cheers
Guy

Aug 15, 2012

Phil Maskell 194 posts

Topic: Site Development / Data Analysis

Guy,

I've looked at Splunk, looks cool from a techy point of view to analyse website traffic from log files or live data from a car engine or something.

I don't see how putting your DAFNE results into it will give you much more than the graph section of the website? Not sure unless you blood test loads there will be enough data unless you had CGM data, this might help then Very Happy

Fun to play with though, let us know how it goes and if you find it useful, possibly some screen shots?

Phil

Aug 14, 2012

Guy Kramer 12 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Port mobile app to desktop?

and may be able to one day import data from meters directly in to our DAFNE accounts Very Happy

Aug 14, 2012

Guy Kramer 12 posts

Topic: Site Development / Data Analysis

Hi Marke,

Thanks for the reply, I will send an email now.

Thanks
Guy

Aug 14, 2012

Guy Kramer 12 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Port mobile app to desktop?

Simon,

I guess at least to be able to add new and view entries, don't really need CP guides etc. Offline would be an advantage. Sometimes its just easier opening something from the system tray and quickly and entering you BG and however many units taken, then loging in to a website etc

Aug 14, 2012

Phil Maskell 194 posts

Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right

Annette Bell said:

I have my before driving target set to between 7 & 10 so that it doesn't suggest corrections (unless I'm outside of this range obviously!)

Nice idea, never thought of that Confused

Aug 14, 2012

Phil Maskell 194 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Pasta!

Thanks for feedback, like the idea of testing (eating more Very Happy

)

Shame pasta also needs a nice glass of white which would scupper testing Mad

Aug 14, 2012

novorapidboi26 1,819 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Pasta!

I would also recommend splitting the dose to accommodate for slower/delayed digestion............

you will need to test though, a bit of trial and error to see what kinds of pasta dishes do what... Very Happy

Aug 14, 2012

Annette Bell 72 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Pasta!

I have a similar problem when I eat curry & rice. I have half the necessary QA before I eat, & then the other half at bedtime, even if my BG is slightly low, and this seems to work so far! Hope this helps. (Haven't noticed a problem with pasta though!)

Aug 14, 2012

Annette Bell 72 posts

Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right

Phil Maskell said:
Hi,

With the new calculations, everything works fine, but an enhancement for me would be to have settings such as Hypo or Background with no ratio set, if it sees this it doesn't try to correct. DAFNE states between meals we shouldn't keep correcting so if I do a Before driving BG and am 10ish is suggests to correct, but I then have to clear this.

Just an idea, hopes its an easy win, just allow null in ratios and check not null before calc, pseudo coding is soo easy

Phil

I have my before driving target set to between 7 & 10 so that it doesn't suggest corrections (unless I'm outside of this range obviously!) Idea

Aug 18, 2012 meltow 78 posts	Topic: General Discussion / What did you have to eat yesterday? Hmmmmmmmm Breakfast - 1oz porridge oats [cold] with gooseberries, blackberries, dates and semi skimmed Lunch - 2 sticks of celery, 2 satsumas, pear and banana Tea - Tuna steak with ratatouile of onion, mushroom, garlic, broad beans and green pepper. Melon, ginger and LF yoghurt ...and because it was Friday, a couple of glasses of wine!

Aug 17, 2012 JayBee 587 posts	Topic: General Discussion / What did you have to eat yesterday? Nice idea. Oooo don't feel bad about your food choices - that is just one day! ^_^ Let me think... :-. Breakfast: Lemon yoghurt (112g) and some porridge oats (27g). Lunch: Cheese on toast (2 slices) and some dried apple bits (50g). Dinner: Hash browns (2), chicken goujons (4), some lettuce, some celery and a Magnum ice cream. Oh, and plenty of tea drinking. All very yummy! ^_^

Aug 17, 2012 mum2westiesGill 502 posts	Topic: General Discussion / What did you have to eat yesterday? Seen this somewhere else on the internet and thought it would be good to start a topic on here too. It can be helpful sometimes to know what sort of things people are eating, as it might give others some ideas for a more varied diet. So, here's mine for yesterday: Breakfast - cheese on toast (2 x rnds) Lunch - tuna & mayo sandwich (2 x rnds) cup soup Evening meal - Poole's meat & potato pie not the healthiest things i know!

Aug 17, 2012 DianeW 115 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Thai food I find it impossible to try and judge the CPs in this. For starter I had prawn toast (small triangle), mini chicken leg, mini spring roll, and mini dim sum. And I mean mini. Then we had 3 courses between both of us and a portion of rice and noodles between us. The rice and noodles does not amount to an average portion you get say in a tray from a Chinese/Indian.. I totally miscalculated and ended up at 16. I presume it is the sweet sauces that this food is in that does it because most of it is meat and veg.

Aug 17, 2012 JayBee 587 posts	Topic: General Discussion / NHS Medication Changes: Are you affected? Thanks for your replies. I think you have a very good point marke. I only just started using the machine this week and it's been so far so good (with prescription and machine use). I'm so glad it came with a testing solution - I had a hypo the other night where I did not seem to have any symptoms at all. I must of tested it about 5 times to make sure while putting wine gums in my mouth... &gt;_&gt;;;; It seemed to be telling the truth... marke said: Yes the test strips do seem to be a lot cheaper, but why ? Being naturally suspicious I would question the motivation both of you doctors and the company that makes the meters/strips in singapore. What happened to freedom of choice in the NHS ? Sadly, what my DAFNE nurse said is how it is - &quot;Some surgeries are changing patients to these meters as the strips are cheaper than most others on the market but are just as reliable/easy to use&quot;. One of the diabetic nurses at my GP also confirmed this. It does seem to be something they're just moving people on to. Personally, I guess I'm okay as long as I can still get stocked. So far I have done so I'm not overly alarmed yet. I just need to use it for testing. On that note, even my pharmacy (they're in the same building as the GP surgery) commented about my prescription being another one asking for iCare strips... and that it seems to be a good machine... obviously they weren't made aware either but they had the strips in stock. :/ marke said: So will they put in place the infrastructure to support this equipment, rather than the current very basic website with no support and only one phone number for the UK. What happens if you lose or have problems with the meter ? I'm not sure what to say on this one. I've never ever had to call for a replacement machine - not that I think it won't ever happen. If it did, I'd be more inclined to speak to my diabetes teams than the company itself in case they had one spare handy. marke said: Do all the chemists in your area stock these test strips and can they get supplies easily. You would hope that the PCT/consortium would have put all that in place before forcing you to use the meter, but have they ? How do we find out about the PCT/consortium? Is that public information? I hope so - makes sense to be considering it's primarily a public company... Edit: I signed up to their forum today - http://icareadvanced.com/forum. It seems to be quite a broken website. A thread I posted did not appear and I was told that I did not have permission to access "this page". I have PM'd the admin... let's see if they do anything... Edit: It looks like it's fixed!

Aug 16, 2012 Carolin 83 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Which Olympic athlete are you? -- For fun! Dede Camara (Guinea) - women's 100m breaststroke. But to be honest I don't think they could find an olympic athlete heavy enough to match me!

Aug 16, 2012 chrisinbrum 41 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake. Lantus doesn't take 24 hours to 'kick-in': http://www.dafneonline.co.uk/hbook_topics/202 It should start working within a couple of hours according to the DAFNE handbook (I don't use Lantus) and has a length of action of up to 24 hours...so keep an eye on your BG levels during the day today and you should be relax a bit more later on. Jayno said: So far so good! Woke up with BG of 3.6 but doesn't lantus take 24 hrs to kick in so I'm guessing from 6pm onwards today I'll get the problems? I have the timeinsliun pen top which I was using and then I got moved to lantus and they don't do one of that make!

Aug 16, 2012 Jayno 3 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake. Thanks phil for the info. That must have been a new addition. Have just ordered it!! Hopefully no more silly mistakes for me!!

Aug 16, 2012 Carolin 83 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / time change of BI Hi Anna, The advice in DAFNE is to take your BI at bedtime and as you get up in the morning; this is particularly important with an 'isophane' insulin such as Humulin I which as you rightly say peaks around 4-6hrs after injection, but then tails off. The added problem in the morning is the Dawn Phenomenon, where your body releases strong hormones as you wake, resulting in a rising BG. If you have taken your Humulin I too early (e.g. at evening meal-time), its action has pretty much worn off by then and doesn't counteract the hormones, so the later you can take it at night the better. You might find you need an increased dose though, but don't forget to do 3am BG tests before and after you make increases to your bedtime BI to make sure you have the leeway to increase it (i.e. that it's not causing your BG to drop below 4.5mmol/l at its peak). Good luck, Carolin

Aug 16, 2012 Phil Maskell 194 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake. Hi, Which pen/lantus are you on? I'm on Levemir so no idea about it, but just looked on the Timesulin site and they do a lid for the Lantus Solostar pen (http://timesulin.com/how-it-works/pens). Phil

Aug 16, 2012 Jayno 3 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake. So far so good! Woke up with BG of 3.6 but doesn't lantus take 24 hrs to kick in so I'm guessing from 6pm onwards today I'll get the problems? I have the timeinsliun pen top which I was using and then I got moved to lantus and they don't do one of that make!

Aug 16, 2012 Phil Maskell 194 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake. How did it go? Not the only one. I messed up once before, I gave 20 unit of QA instead of Background, plenty of snacks that day If you often forget (I often have to think hard) there is a lid called Timesulin (http://timesulin.com) that remembers the time you last injected so you can check. Novo have also done the same with the new NovoPen 5 which even tells you how much. Hope this helps and not too many hypos. Phil

Aug 16, 2012 JayBee 587 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake. Initially I would be extra aware of potential hypos... perhaps set an alarm every hour or something to monitor yourself and eat as and when you think it's best to. Considering the timing of the original post, I hope everything worked out okay.

Aug 15, 2012 Jayno 3 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dose mistake. Has anyone double dosed on their BI? I was sure I'd forgotten to inject earlier and just gave myself a full dose(22 of lantus) at 11pm then my daughter informs me I already did it earlier at 6pm and I Must have forgotten! can anyone help as to what I should do!

Aug 15, 2012 Guy Kramer 12 posts	Topic: Site Development / Data Analysis Hi Phil, Yeah is being used for all for monitoring earthquakes and equipment on commercial airplanes to deep packet inspection or a bridge head to have multiple platforms / applications / sources. I was thinking combining DAFNE and Glucofacts, maybe then using some script to upload the entries from Glucofacts to DAFNE. I wonder if ther is already a Python script to upload and download with DAFNE? I guess I find the tables / graphs / sparkllines etc makes more sense to me. Sorry, what do you mean CGM data? I will let you know and get screenshots etc Cheers Guy

Aug 15, 2012 Phil Maskell 194 posts	Topic: Site Development / Data Analysis Guy, I've looked at Splunk, looks cool from a techy point of view to analyse website traffic from log files or live data from a car engine or something. I don't see how putting your DAFNE results into it will give you much more than the graph section of the website? Not sure unless you blood test loads there will be enough data unless you had CGM data, this might help then Fun to play with though, let us know how it goes and if you find it useful, possibly some screen shots? Phil

Aug 14, 2012 Guy Kramer 12 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Port mobile app to desktop? and may be able to one day import data from meters directly in to our DAFNE accounts

Aug 14, 2012 Guy Kramer 12 posts	Topic: Site Development / Data Analysis Hi Marke, Thanks for the reply, I will send an email now. Thanks Guy

Aug 14, 2012 Guy Kramer 12 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Port mobile app to desktop? Simon, I guess at least to be able to add new and view entries, don't really need CP guides etc. Offline would be an advantage. Sometimes its just easier opening something from the system tray and quickly and entering you BG and however many units taken, then loging in to a website etc

Aug 14, 2012 Phil Maskell 194 posts	Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right Annette Bell said: I have my before driving target set to between 7 & 10 so that it doesn't suggest corrections (unless I'm outside of this range obviously!) Nice idea, never thought of that

Aug 14, 2012 Phil Maskell 194 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Pasta! Thanks for feedback, like the idea of testing (eating more ) Shame pasta also needs a nice glass of white which would scupper testing

Aug 14, 2012 novorapidboi26 1,819 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Pasta! I would also recommend splitting the dose to accommodate for slower/delayed digestion............ you will need to test though, a bit of trial and error to see what kinds of pasta dishes do what...

Aug 14, 2012 Annette Bell 72 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Pasta! I have a similar problem when I eat curry & rice. I have half the necessary QA before I eat, & then the other half at bedtime, even if my BG is slightly low, and this seems to work so far! Hope this helps. (Haven't noticed a problem with pasta though!)

Aug 14, 2012 Annette Bell 72 posts	Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right Phil Maskell said: Hi, With the new calculations, everything works fine, but an enhancement for me would be to have settings such as Hypo or Background with no ratio set, if it sees this it doesn't try to correct. DAFNE states between meals we shouldn't keep correcting so if I do a Before driving BG and am 10ish is suggests to correct, but I then have to clear this. Just an idea, hopes its an easy win, just allow null in ratios and check not null before calc, pseudo coding is soo easy Phil I have my before driving target set to between 7 & 10 so that it doesn't suggest corrections (unless I'm outside of this range obviously!)