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Jul 20, 2012
apple
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Topic: General Discussion / Weight loss ? Hi! Before the DAFNE course, if I had a hypo I would massively overdose on chocolate, biscuits, etc. which was obviously the completely wrong hypo treatment. At my DAFNE course, I was told that because I now treat a hypo with just a fast acting carbohydrate, that my weight would become lower due to not overeating every time I had a hypo.I have noticed a small weight loss since the DAFNE course - probably because of the new, more effective way of treating hypos. Could this possibly be the same as with you? |
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Jul 20, 2012
John H
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Topic: General Discussion / Medical Bracelet Hi, I had a set of dog tags made (although slightly primitive) they totalled less than £5 on Ebay, and they have a sink plug type chain which is virtually unbreakable. They are great and worth a try. |
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Jul 20, 2012
Snirabhartaigh
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Topic: General Discussion / Exercise and high BG Thanks so much for these posts! I'd forgotten all about that as I did the DAFNE course about 5 years ago and haven't really exercised much since. I hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary happening after a bit of a run and sone gym work, but this evening I did a high intensity workout, combining weights, cardio and abs work, and my BG levels shot up. I was worried about it but I feel reassured after reading those posts! |
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Jul 20, 2012
slb23
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Topic: General Discussion / Medical Bracelet Hi, I've got a Medic Alert tag, which I put on a prettier chain I found in a jewellers so it doesn't look like anything other than a normal bracelet. Theirs are quite clever, because you can register all your details with them (right down to insulin quantities), and the tag itself gives the phone number, your personal ID, and the condition in question (ie. Insulin Dependent Diabetes in my case). I would go for something with the snake symbol as apparently paramedics are more alert to looking for this for clues in an emergency.Sarah |
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Jul 20, 2012
Heather B
20 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Before Dinner Reading Thanks for that. I can't think of anything that I'm doing differently on the days that I'm higher at dinner time, my days are pretty routine with each day at work being really similar in terms of physical activity (in that I sit at a desk all day). I have noticed that my BG rises when I feel stressed at work but I can't see any real pattern with that either- unless I'm maybe actually more stressed than I realise some days. |
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Jul 20, 2012
JayBee
587 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Before Dinner Reading Is there anything you particularly do before each random BG incident, or are most days the same/routine?Glad to see you're almost there though with the doses. Well done. 
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Jul 20, 2012
Heather B
20 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Before Dinner Reading Hello,I'd be grateful for some advice. I'm generally pretty pleased with the ratios that I use for my QA throughout the day but I can't seem to get my before dinner readings sorted, I am often too high at dinner time but can also be randomly pretty low or ok so find it hard to work out a pattern or to be confident in increasing my lunch time ratio. My night time readings are also randomly too high, low or ok after I have corrected for my higher pre dinner readings (despite me using the same ratios each time for the corrections). My diabetes clinic suggested that I try splitting my BI dose (and taking half at lunchtimes) as maybe it is running out by dinner time but this wouldn't help with the randomness of the ok and lower readings that I can also get at this time (also, my BI is really small at 5 units as it is). Can anyone think what I'm doing wrong, I'd love to be able to get the dinner time readings right. Thanks. |
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Jul 20, 2012
slb23
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Topic: Site Development / Graphs of all values vs time, rather than trends Hi,I know this may go against the “DAFNE Principles†of dividing the day into sections by mealtime & bed, however would it be possible to have graphs that displayed all tests throughout the day by time recorded, rather than by meal time? This could either be by a scatter graph, or showing lines linking results from each day. Ie. x = time, 24 hour; y = BG Multiple days can then be overlapped to show when seemingling random highs or lows correlate - particularly between meals – making it clearer if ratios for certain meals need to be adjusted. The current graphs are great for showing general trends, but take the presumption that my BGs follow a lovely straight line between each meal; whilst I would love for this to be true, I know it’s not! My first consultant after I was diagnosed (a diabetes-specialist paediatrician from South Africa, based in North Yorkshire, who was absolutely brilliant) used to generate scatter graphs based on the readings downloaded from my meter over the past month(s), and it showed so many things that you wouldn’t notice from a list of results. I’ve tried this myself using results exported into Excel, and it does work, but is a bit more time consuming. Would love to know what others think of this idea? Sarah |
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Jul 20, 2012
Phil Maskell
194 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right
I found my targets of 5.5 to 7.5 it was aiming at 6.5 which is fine, but I was 12.3 and 2:1 would normally correct @ 3Units, but it suggested 2 as needed to drop 5.8 to get to 6.5, changed target range - 5.5 to 7 it calc'd 3 correction then. I would lower some of the upper targets or the 50% target range, maybe 40% Phil |
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Jul 20, 2012
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right Its working now, I just changed one thing at a time, exited, then returned and it was saved, thanks......I was 8.2 before lunch, yet it didn't offer a correction, which for me would be 1, as it falls under 10mmol/l and therefore 1 unit drops by 2.5mmol/l. The calculation process shows that I need to come down by 2.4 to reach my target, so less than my correction will drop me. Is this why its not giving me a correction? Would I need to adjust my target.......... P.S. I did adjust Range target to 40% instead of 50%, and it gave me my unit........ I'm happy....... 
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Jul 20, 2012
RichFreed
51 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right Yep Nova, same thing for me originally, it seems to save from the second time onwards. Same thing happens when adding custom foods, it seems to fail to save the initial creation detail. |
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Jul 20, 2012
Simon
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right Hmm it seems I should've given the app to you guys to break before releasing on the app store Seriously though, thanks for reporting the issues, I'll try and fix them over the weekend. It seems I've made it a bit over zealous with the amount of times it recalculates things so will reduce that too. On the topic of storing default ratios, as you've already said you can enter these on the settings tab. These are linked to the entry types, so you can specify different ratios for each of your meals. When you create/update an entry, the ratio is looked up from the entry type. This lookup happens when you first add an entry and also whenever you update the entry type, so if you manually enter a ratio then change the type this might overwrite your first ratio. Hope this helps clear things up. |
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Jul 20, 2012
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right Going back to the remembering of ratios etc, when you go into settings>specify targets in order to change your BG targets and mealtime ratios, you hit done when finished and exit back out, when I go back in my previous changes are gone.....Anyone else.....? |
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Jul 20, 2012
derekh1965
95 posts
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / Long Acting Insulin Hi,I have a question for an HCP. When I was diagnosed type 1 in 1994 I was put on a Humilin Soluble/isophane mix twice a day. Then in 1996 I was put on this great new quick acting insulin which gives greater control, Humalog. Told to take that before every meal and to only take my long acting, Humilin Isophane (BI) at dinnertime. Which I have done for the past 16 years. Now after doing the DAFNE Course I am told to take my BI twice a day, why? If QA lasts 2 - 5 hrs why do I still need BI for during the day? Regards Derek |
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Jul 20, 2012
RichFreed
51 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right BugOn save of the diary entry QA is recalculated even after a manual override of the QA figures. Eg when we edit to round the .5s, on save, that edit is lost. |
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Jul 20, 2012
RichFreed
51 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right Bug..If you have a correction auto calc'd and then edit the QA:CP ratio on the diary entry it recalculates the QA (brilliant) but it also seems to recalc the correction as well but forgets to remove the old calculated correction. So you could end up with, as an example, QA 5+6+6+6+6. In the app it appears to actually fix itself a few milliseconds after saving but that fix is not reflected in the database here. |
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Jul 19, 2012
RichFreed
51 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right Getting back to the number of decimals. The correction calc I wanted to use this morning was 1:0.65, forced to use 1:0.6 correction would put at the very bottom of the target range & if I used 1:0.7 there would be difference sufficient enough to put me at the top end of the target range. I realise I could change the range target % to fix this instance but surely that's not the intended function of the range target % setting.I can live with it of course since the issue really only comes about for the larger than normal highs and the difference between 1 tenth in the ratio results in a multiple of units diference. Also, any plans to make it do negative adjustments? |
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Jul 19, 2012
RichFreed
51 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right Maybe bug?I'm a ozDAFNE T1 and our rule was corrections were done only at meal times & bed. The auto correction calc is kicking in on all 'types'. Is the UK program different? |
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Jul 19, 2012
RichFreed
51 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right +1 on the .5 rounding. Don't forget to track the rounding on the auto correction value to or you could end up with a net rounding of +/-1.0 |
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Jul 19, 2012
Phil Maskell
194 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right
+1 for the rounding, with auto calc it could even be clever and round up or down based on your current BG over mid point in target range round up below mid point in target range round down. Or so the 0.5 calc is not lost from the user perspective, round up or down as a +- type correction so it is obvious why a 5CP @ 1.5:1 is 7.5+0.5 not just 8, thoughts? Simon, bet you hate smart arsed user comments like these, at work I do Phil |
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Jul 19, 2012
Podarcis
14 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right As I have an Android phone I can't use the improved version yet . Please let me know as soon as I can get hold of it, as I'd love to give it a workout.I agree with Novorapid that the app should round to the nearest 0.5 unit or 1 unit (user-selectable). I have found this a nuisance in the current version (as I have said previously), which gives (say) 5 CPs x 1.5 QA:CP = 7.5 units, which I would prefer the app to round to 8 rather than me having to edit the calculated figure manually. |
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Jul 19, 2012
RichFreed
51 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Printing - Meals alligned +1 to this request. Had a little go myself exporting to MS access to try and cobble together something myself. Utterly failed. I could see that I'd have to create a custom vba app to dynamically do it. And probably too difficult for me.Maybe an interim 'almost' solution would be to allow for us to filter which types we want displayed. Eg for a report to take into my specialist I would want just meals, hypos && bed. |
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Jul 19, 2012
novorapidboi26
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right No, I think Rich is right, you can set your QA:CP ratios in settings under the specify targets button, so you can set your BG targets, and then your ratio.....When adding to the diary, it should look at the time and choose the correct ratio......  Try it out......
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Jul 19, 2012
Phil Maskell
194 posts
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Topic: Site Development / Auto calculate QA from BG - let's get it right
Cool, didn't know it was hidden here, thanks Bug with it recalc after save still stands though |