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May 25, 2011
Simon
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Topic: General Discussion / OneTouch users beware My normal meter is a OneTouch ultra... After putting in my prescription a week ago, and a couple of visits to the pharmacy, Boots told me this evening that there's a national supply problem with the OneTouch strips - I'm wondering if there any other users out there who've found this, or if Boots are fobbing me off.Also if this is the case I thought I'd warn others as they may need to make other plans - I was down to 2 strips so had to press the doctors for a spare meter, which they did give me, only to get home and find the strips expired in January 2009! Back to the pharmacy then... |
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May 25, 2011
AllanR
15 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Jacket Potato I tend to be boring with the tatties actually, just cheese. And yes am talking about a lunch at 12 or 12.30 and having BG's in the 7's and it being in the low 3's by 3pm (so 3 to 3.5hr's later)...but again only on the Jacket Potato's so it does seem to be digestion causing it.Think I'll probably just carry on using an exception to my ratio for it. Least that way I avoid the hypo and any raises can be picked up at dinner any how or simply burnt off during the day due to how long it's taking. Thanks for the advice. |
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May 25, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: General Discussion / Hello thats good your into the swing of things already.........i dont know if as a member, you can use the blood glucose dairy on here, try and see if you can through the DAFNE Tools tab at the top, you can then input some results if you want to ask questions on them...........How are you with recording your blood glucose, and can you change doses comfortably.......? |
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May 25, 2011
Daniel Leone
8 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Hello G'day helenI know i should make it my priority  its just been hard at the moment being self employed,ill try harder,nice supprise meeting a fellow Aussie. |
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May 25, 2011
Daniel Leone
8 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Hello Thanx novorapid,no i dont expect to learn the whole curriculum on this forum ive beind doing pretty good so far ive got my Hb1c down from 11.8 % to 8.6 % in that short time,i would like to learn some tips from people who have completed a Dafne course, im carb counting at the moment and doing pretty well,sometimes i miss calculate,but im getting used to it,i use Novo rapid and Levemir. |
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May 25, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: General Discussion / Paper Diary Think you have to either get them from your DSN or buy them, from who I dont know, but I think the diary you are provided with has information on the back.........I personally use a home made spreadsheet, printed out onto A4, 6 days on each A4 sheet, 12 spaces for BG results.......which suits me better as I test a lot, maybe too much............ 
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May 25, 2011
HelenP
218 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Hello G'day Daniel,I'm from Australia also. Welcome to this forum. I believe your priority ought to be to find a Dafne course. It is worth making the time. The carb counting etc is most useful in the context of Dafne, Once I did Dafne things began to fall into place. Helen |
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May 25, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: General Discussion / Hello Hi Daniel, and welcome to the forum...............If you have any specific questions then fire away, dont think anyone who uses the forum could go through the whole curriculum though......... There is a free online carb counting course offered by Bournemouth Diabetes and Endocrine Center HERE..........that can get you up to speed with the main points, and then if you want you can come back and ask some more specific questions about your control you can.......... Being only 10 months diagnosed your pancreas may still be producing some insulin, so keep that in mind, you may only need small doses........... What insulin regime are you on and what are your doses................. 
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May 25, 2011
muz
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Topic: General Discussion / Paper Diary hellodoes anybody know how i can get my hands on some paper copies of the DAFNE diaries? thanks |
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May 25, 2011
Daniel Leone
8 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Hello Hi Im Daniel and in new to this forum,Im From Australia and im Glad that i found Dafne online,in the near distance future if time allows,im going to try and attend a Dafne cousre,if not i would like to learn as much as i can from this forum coz i heard great things about Dafne. Ive had D for 10 months now and need to learn more about carb counting and insulin ratios etc etc,so any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanx. Cheers.
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May 25, 2011
novorapidboi26
1,819 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Jacket Potato A jacket potatoe would generally take longer to digest, also the digestion depends on what topping you have, a cheese and beans one would take even longer...........When is your hypo...........? I would expect to see your insulin drop you low maybe 1.5-2.5 hours post meal............its really a case of trying to match up your insulin action to the digestive action.......... At lunch time I inject 30 -40 minutes before eating, this is because the digestion is faster than my insulin, so I need the insulin in and working long before I start eating, with your situation and for others where the food is either starchy, high in fat, or both its sometimes worth splitting your meal time injection, say 50% before you eat and 50% after you eat.............. This 50:50 split can be experimented with, maybe changing to 60:40 and so on, and also the time of the after meal dose can be moved to 30, 60, 90, 120 minutes, its all about experimenting and testing to see how it effects you personally......... Good luck with it................
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May 25, 2011
AllanR
15 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Jacket Potato Ok, I did the counting only last week and still armed with the books...all good on paper. BUT every time I have a jacket tattie for lunch, I can guarantee a hypo...even by under valuing the CP's slightly on it. Anything else, pretty much isn't an issue, but a jacket potato never seems to come out on the same 1:1 ratio I'm on using the carb values from the books.This got me thinking, does a jacket tattie take quiet a while to break down? and thus it's over a longer period of time and as such the QA has already lowered the BG far to fast for the potato to balance? Otherwise it makes no sense at all that I would need a 1:1 ratio for all food, except a jacket potato which would have it's own 1:0.3 ratio. 
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May 25, 2011
novorapidboi26
1,819 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / BI back down? There have been a few people describing similar behaviors with there BGs and BI (Lantus).....If your having lots of hypos with the 17 units, then you need to put it down, however this means you may have to over compensate throughout the day with your QA insulin as this now lower dose, the 16, is not sufficient throughout the rest of the day......this can be managed with great difficulty......... It all boils down to the flexibility of Lantus, which for the majority of people is not enough. The next logical step would be to think about Levemir, and a split dose, you can establish a safe dose to keep you steady during the night, then you could give yourself a heavier, more accurate dose during the day to keep your numbers down and your ratios...... Have you tried Levemir.........? If you have and didn't get on with it, the Lantus can also be split, but changing doses and seeing an effect can take days, unlike Levemir..... |
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May 25, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: General Discussion / help Are you comfortable increasing your background insulin and testing through the night, its a pain in the ass, but once its sussed it makes life so much easier...Look forward to hearing how you get on.........
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May 25, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus I have had some success, I have found that getting single figures at 6:45 when I wake does depend on what food I have eaten as a before bed snack, delayed digestion seems to push numbers up, or it may even be too quick a digestion, pushing me down through the night then up in a response to the low.......for the most part it has been successful....... |
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May 25, 2011
saxman
28 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus yeah sounds like dawn phenomenon, I would look at reducing my evening BI maybe |
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May 25, 2011
MelissaF
56 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus Ahhh, good research. In that case it is dawn phenomenon then.Novorapidboi has been having some success treating his I think. He can probably give you some good advice. Good luck! M |
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May 24, 2011
Chazza
2 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / help they just sed it was trial and error and cud contact them as and when i wanted but they cannot for security reasons discuss it on a telephone. it wud be good to get them on the fone.ill try the breakfast thing and see wot that does thanx |
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May 24, 2011
michellem
23 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / BI back down? HiMy BI is Lantus and I've been on 16 units for ages. Every now and again I've put it up but had laods of hypos so put it down again. A couple of weeks ago I was running high all the time and was correcting at every meal so decided to up my Lantus to 18 again. Hypo'd all day for a couple of days so reduced to 17. I'm still having quite a few hypos and am really worried about having night hypos (my BIG fear) so am thinking about going back down to 16. Any thoughts? |
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May 24, 2011
AllanR
15 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Diabetic Survey Interesting questions. Think they missed off the biggy though "how would you feel if they got rid of all the pointy things" though
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May 24, 2011
novorapidboi26
1,819 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Diabetic Survey money money money.......
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May 24, 2011
novorapidboi26
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Topic: General Discussion / help WOW, thats a lot of information..............I think that your PM BI dose is nearly there as you have been holding steady, however your 4 am test suggests you drop first then come back up for 8:40...........so there may also be some dawn phenomenon taking place also..............some more carb free evenings then some 3, 4, 5 am tests to see exactly whats going on overnight, but as i say you might be neary there already................. When you get up you dont have any carbs/breakfast, yet your numbers rise, this would suggest you also need to increase your morning BI, you should only try and tackle this dose when your happy with your overnight dose.................when your BI doses are right, your insulin/carb ratio should fall into place..............I suffer from dawn phenomenon and I find that not having carbs for breakfast results in my numbers rising, as my liver continues to dump glucose, when i have carbs, this stops and my numbers go down till lunch, i know from personal experience that eating is the last thing on your mind when numbers are that high, but its definetly something to consider when your numbers come down....... what advice did the DAFNE folk give you when leaving................. |
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May 24, 2011
AllanR
15 posts
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Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Android app 2.2 here, and that was a fight of a lot of complaints fired at the network provider to ship it. Nice thing though is Ice Cream Sandwich which is Android 3.1 for phones (there's a joke in there about CP's) is going to supposedly regain control of this mess and most phone companies and providers have signed up to a unified shipping policy for "all" phones. Now that's going to be the big question as what they mean by "all" but guess we'll see when it appears around October ish.In the mean time till there is a DAFNE app, have been using OnTrack. Very nice lil app if not quite perfectly fitting to DAFNE. But handy none the less. |
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May 24, 2011
ClaireH
14 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus
Thanks Melissa I'm told split lantus should make no difference I'm doing 3, 4, 5 and 6 AM tests as Im off this week and can. I have learned i start to peak just before 7 and it rose from 6.2 at all those times and 06:30 to 12.4 at 7am and 13.5 at 07:30 ....... most odd I'm waiting to be seen next week now Claire x |
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May 24, 2011
Chazza
2 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / help im not sure where i am going wrong can anyone give some more advice i only did my course last week |