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Feb 28, 2011

Karl 83 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors

If you give me the connection info that you have I could have a look at the Carbs / Insulin - VB has a serial port built in it again unlike the first VB.net

Feb 28, 2011

Karl 83 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors

If you give me the connection info that you have I could have a look at the Carbs / Insulin - VB has a serial port built in it again unlike the first VB.net

Feb 28, 2011

NiVZ 82 posts

Topic: Site Development / New Meter Upload Development

Hello,

Seems there is renewed intrerest in this little project. I will try and get some more coding done.

I'm in two minds whether to try and get the old one that was so close to working finished so that people can use it right now, or continue with the very clean re-write.

NiVZ

Feb 28, 2011

NiVZ 82 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors

Thanks Karl, I'll keep that in mind. AutoIT script is very like VB and I pikced it up very quickly. I ruled VB out as I couldn't find an easy way to access the COM port (there is an ActiveX component but it looked tricky) Also you can't compile VB code so the source would be in plain text.

I did have one version of the program that worked completely for the BG and uploaded them to the site, but it didn't do any error checking and if the Comms got out of sync you ended up with incorrect BG readings. I've now got the CRC functions calculating correctly so need to add the checks in every time something is sent and received. The biggest piece of work to do is getting the Insulin and Carb data out as I've not even looked at that yet.

NiVZ

Feb 28, 2011

sphillips 24 posts

Topic: General Discussion / local meetings

Thanks for all of your comments. It's nice to see that there is some interest and I'm not barking up the wrong tree, some great ideas I though perhaps a pub skittles night or something would work so that people have an activity that they can chat over. If I could make a suggestion? If there are people out there who would be happy to take the lead on organising something, if you were to contact your local DAFNE centre with some details they should hopefully be able to send out emails and possibly letters to the other local graduates to let them know.

Feb 28, 2011

novorapidboi26 1,819 posts

Topic: General Discussion / DAFNE Diabetes Blogs

I don't keep a blog either, although I do enjoy reading other peoples diabetic experiences, so I suppose there would be demand for one..

I expect you would need to be reasonably pro active in your treatment in order to make it an interesting read for other and to also have strong opinions on certain aspects of the condition, who knows, I personally wouldn't give a blog the attention it would deserve....

Feb 28, 2011

Karl 83 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors

I would like to help - if i can - more use to Visual Basic - but work in electronics so may be able to help with the checksum etc - or even a port to VB - its also free

Feb 27, 2011

NiVZ 82 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors

Hello,

I'm using a scripting language called AutoIT from http://www.autoitscript.com

I use it a lot at work and find it's good for quickly creating Windows applications.

NiVZ

Feb 27, 2011

graham burton 14 posts

Topic: Site Development / New Meter Upload Development

great news that you have re started this

it looks like i may have to gewt a ultra scan unless you can than do it for the other metres but i think the ultra scan does the carb counting as well

Feb 27, 2011

JayBee 587 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Old habits die hard...

Sounds like you've both come a long way since doing DAFNE already... keep your chin up even when faced with highs! I went through that too but never forget that once you've sussed those highs, you'll have much better results at the end. Keep up the good work - you will get there!

Sorry to hear you're not feeling well at the moment grandma carol. How have you found the sick day rules in response to your chest infection? Is this the first time you've been ill since DAFNE? Pre-DAFNE, I don't think I would've done anything like the sick day rules DAFNE teaches!

Take care all!

Feb 27, 2011

grandma carol 61 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Old habits die hard...

I was the same and keeped over corecting and then went on Dafne last SEP. and thought that it was not right for me as I was realy unwell with doing things that different from what I had been doing for years. From SEP. I have had very high reading I allways thought that I was ok before as I never had high readings like I was getting. But things have started to get better now and even though its not right yet I am a lot better and feel it and I dont have the hypos like I did before and my HbA1c has come down from 9.8 to7.6 so gess this must me doing me good then.
Bloods are back down in the 6.0 and 7.0 well most of the time except this week as I have a chest infection and they have gone up agen butgetting there.
Wanted to go back to what I was doing before but not now think this carb-countings a lot better for me.

Feb 27, 2011

michellem 23 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Old habits die hard...

Hi
I'm the same and guilty of over correcting, especially after hypos, need to key an eye on that now (only did the course last week!) I also wasn't testing much and have done loads more since the course started last week. I sadly feel that at the moment by control is loads worse but really I think it's because I'm testing more!!
I haven't changed my BI but my amounts I take of QA are much more varied now. I used to have an amount I took then I took a bit less or more depending on what I was eating/doing. Now I have no idea of a set amount and it's just worked out on the foods I'm eating, feels very odd and hope I can carry on doing it once I'm back to work.
Michelle

Feb 27, 2011

Karl 83 posts

Topic: Site Development / New Meter Upload Development

Found my lead - is there a link to the software

Feb 27, 2011

Stew B 125 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Blog: "DIY DAFNE" - An Diabetic Outsider's View

There are lots of positives about DAFNE above and beyond developing good carb counting expertise. The key thing is that it has helped ME to deal with MY diabetes, the point being that it isn't a one-size-fits-all methodology. I spent a (brilliant) week learning about the "engine" which is my body and the impact which diabetes can have. The week, given my new understanding, then gave me a "toolkit" to use to keep my body in good running order and to effect any corrections when things change or go wrong. DAFNE completely changed my relationship with my consultant and my diabetes team; they are now very much true "consultants" in supporting me with managing the impact of my diabetes. DAFNE empowers its users - empowers us to manage our condition effectively rather than being ruled by it, and empowers us in our relationships with the clinicians who support us.

I couldn't agree more about positive experiences during the DAFNE course - discussing our personal diabetes experiences with fellow students for the first time, the awakening to a real understanding of why we have those weird and often previously unpredictable symptom,s and some light-bulb moments about my own condition are things I can still recall clearly. But again, DAFNE is about so much more than those five days. Four years after I did my course I am still using the knowledge gained every day and can't envisage a time when I won't be.

Feb 26, 2011

Karl 83 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors

Hi

What are you programming in ?

Karl

Feb 26, 2011

JayBee 587 posts

Topic: General Discussion / local meetings

My JPH forum is very very quiet, but if anyone needs any inspiration for their forum bit, here's my post:

Local meets thread

Obviously, interest needs to be gauged before people take the time to make the arrangements, so I ask:

~ How interested are we in having a local meetup each calendar quarter?
~ What is our preferred day and place?
~ What sort of activities would we like to do?
~ Do we encourage partners, friends or relatives to come along?

Personally, I am interested and I'm even happy to try and make a meet happen.

My best days for doing a meet during the day are Saturday and Sunday. I am a Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm worker.
Depending on where we plan the place, I can do evening meets. My preferred places are Great Yarmouth area but I can take a trip out to places like Norwich if demand is there.

The sort of activities that I think would be nice to do as a group is things like bowling (to help build a team feeling perhaps? ) or meeting at a cafe for a discussion (discussion suggestions are welcome! We could start by introducing ourselves and then the next meet, talk about our memories of our first days of diagnosis... that sort of thing!).

I'm not quite as enthusiastic about cinema because people cannot necessarily chat and er "bond" quite as well... also, depending on the range of ages coming along, may cause the group to break up which would be defeating the point.

I'd love to have a bike ride out with a group of diabetics, but obviously, motorbiking interest needs to be clarified!

I know one of my DAFNE educators and my boyfriend are Park Run participants.... would we be interested in doing an activity like this together?

I think bringing along anyone you've had through your time as a diabetic is a very good thing. I know I'd love to give my boyfriend an opportunity to talk to someone else going through what he's been through (with dealing with the pain the bum that is JWo the T1diabetic!).... I think my parents would also love to come along!

So what do we think? Love to hear your thoughts!

We're welcome to post ideas and thoughts here too of course. Smile

Feb 26, 2011

JayBee 587 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Old habits die hard...

On some occasions, I really need to work on my overnight testing to make sure it's not a hypo occurring.
Don't you hate it when you have to wake up more than two days in a row to check at 3am?

Feb 26, 2011

NiVZ 82 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors

Hi Graham,

I'm the one that was having a go at writing the meter upload software. As Marke said I've not had the time to progress it as much as I'd have liked to, but I know it will work with the Lifescan OneTouch UltraEASY and Lifescan OneTouch UltraSMART.

At the moment, the Lifescan OneTouch UltraSMART is the ONLY meter I know of that lets you record Insulin and Carb intake as well as your BG. I am hoping to get back to it at some point (not easy with 2 young children and moving house), but I would be happy to share the project with anyone that wants to lend a hand with coding and testing.

NiVZ

Feb 26, 2011

JayBee 587 posts

Topic: General Discussion / DAFNE Diabetes Blogs

Do you keep a diabetes related blog?

Now you're a DAFNE graduate, do you use it to help promote DAFNE to other diabetics and show the benefits (or perhaps lack of?) you have gained from the course? On a related note to this question, do you tend to write for yourself or for others?

Feel free to post your blog links here - we'd love to read your stories! Smile

I unfortunately do not write a diabetes blog, though I do touch from time to time in my private and personal general-life blog. I have thought about it though - I'm just not sure how interesting I would be able to keep it!

Feb 28, 2011 Karl 83 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors If you give me the connection info that you have I could have a look at the Carbs / Insulin - VB has a serial port built in it again unlike the first VB.net

Feb 28, 2011 Karl 83 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors If you give me the connection info that you have I could have a look at the Carbs / Insulin - VB has a serial port built in it again unlike the first VB.net

Feb 28, 2011 NiVZ 82 posts	Topic: Site Development / New Meter Upload Development Hello, Seems there is renewed intrerest in this little project. I will try and get some more coding done. I'm in two minds whether to try and get the old one that was so close to working finished so that people can use it right now, or continue with the very clean re-write. NiVZ

Feb 28, 2011 NiVZ 82 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors Thanks Karl, I'll keep that in mind. AutoIT script is very like VB and I pikced it up very quickly. I ruled VB out as I couldn't find an easy way to access the COM port (there is an ActiveX component but it looked tricky) Also you can't compile VB code so the source would be in plain text. I did have one version of the program that worked completely for the BG and uploaded them to the site, but it didn't do any error checking and if the Comms got out of sync you ended up with incorrect BG readings. I've now got the CRC functions calculating correctly so need to add the checks in every time something is sent and received. The biggest piece of work to do is getting the Insulin and Carb data out as I've not even looked at that yet. NiVZ

Feb 28, 2011 sphillips 24 posts	Topic: General Discussion / local meetings Thanks for all of your comments. It's nice to see that there is some interest and I'm not barking up the wrong tree, some great ideas I though perhaps a pub skittles night or something would work so that people have an activity that they can chat over. If I could make a suggestion? If there are people out there who would be happy to take the lead on organising something, if you were to contact your local DAFNE centre with some details they should hopefully be able to send out emails and possibly letters to the other local graduates to let them know.

Feb 28, 2011 novorapidboi26 1,819 posts	Topic: General Discussion / DAFNE Diabetes Blogs I don't keep a blog either, although I do enjoy reading other peoples diabetic experiences, so I suppose there would be demand for one.. I expect you would need to be reasonably pro active in your treatment in order to make it an interesting read for other and to also have strong opinions on certain aspects of the condition, who knows, I personally wouldn't give a blog the attention it would deserve....

Feb 28, 2011 Karl 83 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors I would like to help - if i can - more use to Visual Basic - but work in electronics so may be able to help with the checksum etc - or even a port to VB - its also free

Feb 27, 2011 NiVZ 82 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors Hello, I'm using a scripting language called AutoIT from http://www.autoitscript.com I use it a lot at work and find it's good for quickly creating Windows applications. NiVZ

Feb 27, 2011 graham burton 14 posts	Topic: Site Development / New Meter Upload Development great news that you have re started this it looks like i may have to gewt a ultra scan unless you can than do it for the other metres but i think the ultra scan does the carb counting as well

Feb 27, 2011 JayBee 587 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Old habits die hard... Sounds like you've both come a long way since doing DAFNE already... keep your chin up even when faced with highs! I went through that too but never forget that once you've sussed those highs, you'll have much better results at the end. Keep up the good work - you will get there! Sorry to hear you're not feeling well at the moment grandma carol. How have you found the sick day rules in response to your chest infection? Is this the first time you've been ill since DAFNE? Pre-DAFNE, I don't think I would've done anything like the sick day rules DAFNE teaches! Take care all!

Feb 27, 2011 grandma carol 61 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Old habits die hard... I was the same and keeped over corecting and then went on Dafne last SEP. and thought that it was not right for me as I was realy unwell with doing things that different from what I had been doing for years. From SEP. I have had very high reading I allways thought that I was ok before as I never had high readings like I was getting. But things have started to get better now and even though its not right yet I am a lot better and feel it and I dont have the hypos like I did before and my HbA1c has come down from 9.8 to7.6 so gess this must me doing me good then. Bloods are back down in the 6.0 and 7.0 well most of the time except this week as I have a chest infection and they have gone up agen butgetting there. Wanted to go back to what I was doing before but not now think this carb-countings a lot better for me.

Feb 27, 2011 michellem 23 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Old habits die hard... Hi I'm the same and guilty of over correcting, especially after hypos, need to key an eye on that now (only did the course last week!) I also wasn't testing much and have done loads more since the course started last week. I sadly feel that at the moment by control is loads worse but really I think it's because I'm testing more!! I haven't changed my BI but my amounts I take of QA are much more varied now. I used to have an amount I took then I took a bit less or more depending on what I was eating/doing. Now I have no idea of a set amount and it's just worked out on the foods I'm eating, feels very odd and hope I can carry on doing it once I'm back to work. Michelle

Feb 27, 2011 Karl 83 posts	Topic: Site Development / New Meter Upload Development Found my lead - is there a link to the software

Feb 27, 2011 Stew B 125 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Blog: "DIY DAFNE" - An Diabetic Outsider's View There are lots of positives about DAFNE above and beyond developing good carb counting expertise. The key thing is that it has helped ME to deal with MY diabetes, the point being that it isn't a one-size-fits-all methodology. I spent a (brilliant) week learning about the "engine" which is my body and the impact which diabetes can have. The week, given my new understanding, then gave me a "toolkit" to use to keep my body in good running order and to effect any corrections when things change or go wrong. DAFNE completely changed my relationship with my consultant and my diabetes team; they are now very much true "consultants" in supporting me with managing the impact of my diabetes. DAFNE empowers its users - empowers us to manage our condition effectively rather than being ruled by it, and empowers us in our relationships with the clinicians who support us. I couldn't agree more about positive experiences during the DAFNE course - discussing our personal diabetes experiences with fellow students for the first time, the awakening to a real understanding of why we have those weird and often previously unpredictable symptom,s and some light-bulb moments about my own condition are things I can still recall clearly. But again, DAFNE is about so much more than those five days. Four years after I did my course I am still using the knowledge gained every day and can't envisage a time when I won't be.

Feb 26, 2011 Karl 83 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors Hi What are you programming in ? Karl

Feb 26, 2011 JayBee 587 posts	Topic: General Discussion / local meetings My JPH forum is very very quiet, but if anyone needs any inspiration for their forum bit, here's my post: Local meets thread Obviously, interest needs to be gauged before people take the time to make the arrangements, so I ask: ~ How interested are we in having a local meetup each calendar quarter? ~ What is our preferred day and place? ~ What sort of activities would we like to do? ~ Do we encourage partners, friends or relatives to come along? Personally, I am interested and I'm even happy to try and make a meet happen. My best days for doing a meet during the day are Saturday and Sunday. I am a Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm worker. Depending on where we plan the place, I can do evening meets. My preferred places are Great Yarmouth area but I can take a trip out to places like Norwich if demand is there. The sort of activities that I think would be nice to do as a group is things like bowling (to help build a team feeling perhaps? ) or meeting at a cafe for a discussion (discussion suggestions are welcome! We could start by introducing ourselves and then the next meet, talk about our memories of our first days of diagnosis... that sort of thing!). I'm not quite as enthusiastic about cinema because people cannot necessarily chat and er "bond" quite as well... also, depending on the range of ages coming along, may cause the group to break up which would be defeating the point. I'd love to have a bike ride out with a group of diabetics, but obviously, motorbiking interest needs to be clarified! I know one of my DAFNE educators and my boyfriend are Park Run participants.... would we be interested in doing an activity like this together? I think bringing along anyone you've had through your time as a diabetic is a very good thing. I know I'd love to give my boyfriend an opportunity to talk to someone else going through what he's been through (with dealing with the pain the bum that is JWo the T1diabetic!).... I think my parents would also love to come along! So what do we think? Love to hear your thoughts! We're welcome to post ideas and thoughts here too of course.

Feb 26, 2011 JayBee 587 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Old habits die hard... On some occasions, I really need to work on my overnight testing to make sure it's not a hypo occurring. Don't you hate it when you have to wake up more than two days in a row to check at 3am?

Feb 26, 2011 NiVZ 82 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Blood monitors Hi Graham, I'm the one that was having a go at writing the meter upload software. As Marke said I've not had the time to progress it as much as I'd have liked to, but I know it will work with the Lifescan OneTouch UltraEASY and Lifescan OneTouch UltraSMART. At the moment, the Lifescan OneTouch UltraSMART is the ONLY meter I know of that lets you record Insulin and Carb intake as well as your BG. I am hoping to get back to it at some point (not easy with 2 young children and moving house), but I would be happy to share the project with anyone that wants to lend a hand with coding and testing. NiVZ

Feb 26, 2011 JayBee 587 posts	Topic: General Discussion / DAFNE Diabetes Blogs Do you keep a diabetes related blog? Now you're a DAFNE graduate, do you use it to help promote DAFNE to other diabetics and show the benefits (or perhaps lack of?) you have gained from the course? On a related note to this question, do you tend to write for yourself or for others? Feel free to post your blog links here - we'd love to read your stories! I unfortunately do not write a diabetes blog, though I do touch from time to time in my private and personal general-life blog. I have thought about it though - I'm just not sure how interesting I would be able to keep it!