Recent Posts - DAFNE Online

Jun 22, 2010

Simon 574 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists!

Hi Anil,

Great work - these look really good, I especially like the last one you did (Redesign 3). Do you think there could be a smaller version (say half the height, same width) that we could use in the top navigation bar?

Cheers,

Simon

Jun 22, 2010

Simon 574 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Chinese Takeaway.

Hi Oldtulip, as the guys have already mentioned - your diary is a bit off as you seem to have the incorrect times. When inputting your diary entries the idea is to use the time that you took your BG/Insulin/CPs rather than the time you are recording the results. This will give you a better view of trends during the day, and possibly allow others to help you spot the trends too.

Simon

Jun 22, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,818 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Insulin Pens

Hi kestle,

It sound to me that your memory might be a bit shaky..........

The way DAFNE works to me is you inject anytime you have a meal or large snack, this means ideally five minutes before this meal or snack.

I think you might need to be a bit more vigilant with your injecting.

On the other hand there is a pen available, dont know about Australia though, that actually records your last injection time and amounts and displays them to you on a digital display. Its called the Humapen Memoir (Memoir referring to the ability to stor info in its memory).

http://medgadget.com/archives/2007/02/huma-pen_memoir.html

This is the first document on google.........

Maybe you can investigate and see if something similar is availoable were you are...

Good Luck

Jun 22, 2010

kestle 3 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Insulin Pens

Hi All
If there is one thing that irks me with the insulin pens is that there is no real way to tell weather or not you have taken your insulin just by looking at it and btw i dont suffer from short term memory loss. IN my experience the only real bad hypos ive had stem from me doubling up on my insulin dose, this doesnt happen very often but often enough that its a worry. To my way of thinking surely the development gurus could work on a pen that would indicate when its been used, maybe by some kind of color code. I would be interested to hear if anyone else has experienced any problems in this are or its just me lol. It would also be helpful to hear from anyone who knows if there is any work being done in this area

Jun 21, 2010

Karl 83 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Chinese Takeaway.

as for the chinese - if you always go hypo - there is probably not as much CP's as you think. Reduce your QA next time and keep testing and learning :-)

Jun 21, 2010

Karl 83 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Chinese Takeaway.

Hi

A couple of things

Can you update with the correct times - your snacks could be too soon to give a correction - both food and insulin may have not finished working.

Your correction doses look wrong - what are you working on 2-3 / QA - today you gave - 4 and Thurs with a BG of 6.5 you gave a +4 !

and this is for 8 CP at a ratio of 2:1 which should be 16 QA you gave 6+4

Jun 21, 2010

Anil 39 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Rationale - Please read

I dont have an Iphone, but I do have a Android Powered Mobile, You can write applications in Java for these (If you know how to), Im no good with programming apart from web based programming. But I'd love to see an android application (Once written, they will work across ALL android platforms and phones).. But I hopefully will be buying an iPhone eventually so love to see an iphone app to!

Jun 21, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,818 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Chinese Takeaway.

Hi there........

Only a graduate but it seems to me that your ratios at lunch/snack time should be considered for change, maybe down to 1.5:1.

I think your not as resistant to insulin in the afternoon as you think you are..

But you mught also want to consider your activity in the afternoons......you could be quite busy and active after lunch moving around alot.

A few thing I noticed:

In the mornings you have not been correcting for 7 - 8 readings. Why is that?

Thursday at 15:16pm you had 8 CPs but only took 6units of QA (when your ratio is 2:1) plus 4 corrective units (which were not neccesary as you were on target).

I also think some of the times are wrong too....

This makes it difficult to see how long insulin is working for and when your eating, which is crucial information needed for dafne.

I say redo the diary entries and repost

Jun 21, 2010

oldtulip 2 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Chinese Takeaway.

Even though rice and sauces you get with Chinese food is high in cp's and you have qa's to match how come I always seem to to have hypo's afterwards?

Jun 21, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,818 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How good is dafne

I am noticing alot of graduates are losing weight.....I have not actually wieghed myself but my gut and man boobs look the same to me.......

Also alot of people who have done dafne, both on here and the others in my classroom have normal good control (in terms of haemaglobin), which confused me to why they were on the course.

I realiased that people need help to control the condition in both directions.....

My pre dafne HbA1c test was 11.8, 0.2 below the maximum allowed, everyone else was below 8, how was everyone elses pre dafne tests, was I the only truly badly controlled one out there.....

My last test was 8.0, Happy Days..........

Jun 20, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,818 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Anyone on more than 3:1 ratio?

My protocol with the higher blood readings (over 12 mmol/l), is to correct normally but add 1 unit of insulin on to that.

This is purely because the normal porportions of insulin to sugar decrease does not apply, this may be because I am overweigght!!

I t works good for me.......

Jun 20, 2010

Anil 39 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists!

Hey
I just put the little man and the heart to kind of promote "Healthiness" if you will, The space above the DAFNE and to the Right of the Teardrop was a bit to empty I thought,
I could remove it, but it looked a little to empty, So just put it there to promote "Healthiness" and "Well Being". And to put another colour into it, as oppose to being ALL orange.
I'll work on it a bit more tomorrow if i get a chance, I'll see what else I can come up with.

Thanks!

Jun 20, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,818 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists!

The last one is really good, dont know about the heart and the wee man,

Is there any medical backgound to that element.......

Jun 20, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,818 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Dawn Phenomonon

I agree totallym the earlier the better..........

I am alaways between 10 - 15 at 6.30 am, I correct and then take my breakfast insulin (3:1).

Before dafne I never had anything to eat that early but I have now got myself into the routine as the large amounts of insulin bring me down to 4.9 - 5.7 by 12.00 for lunch..

Jun 20, 2010

Anil 39 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists!

Here's an Update of the above logo's.
Few Minor changes between them, I'm running out of idea's of what to add or remove!! Any idea's will be appreciated!!

Redesign 1

Redesign 2

Redesign 3

Again, let us know what you think, Im all out of ideas!... I wanted to go for a "Web 2.0" Look. The water drop kind of resembles a blood glucose droplet (Kind of) and everything else is as is.

Thanks!
Anil

Jun 19, 2010

Anil 39 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists!

Personally... I like logos 2, 6, & 8.

I wanted to include the message of "Freedom" to eat what you want, but didn't know exactly where to put it or how to fit it in. How about for Logo 4... "Freedom to Eat what you like"..?

Any idea's, comments or suggestion's will be appreciated!!

--EDIT--
Here's some ideas for a iPhone App Icon I whipped up, just a rough idea:

iPhone Logo's

(P.S: I'll work on the resolution quality, to make sure its optimized for the iPhone)

-- Another Edit --
Added a "Web 2.0 look" (Glossy)

Getting Tired! I'll call it a night for today.. Let us know your thoughts!

Things to do for tomorrow... (For my reference only)
- Include a Pattern within the logo to make it more friendly on the eye
- Perhaps include a pattern for iPhone? (Test)
- Include a pattern in the DAFNE text for the Logo.
- Change the Orange colour to a slightly darker colour to keep in line with DAFNE Online. (#ee8043) / Web Colour (#ff9933)
- Add "Online" to the logo to change to "DAFNE Online"
- Make a new favicon for the site.
- await for responses and suggestions!!

Thanks!
Anil! Very Happy

Jun 19, 2010

Anil 39 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists!

Well... I'm not an artist, but I do enjoy creating images for the Web. So here you go!...

Here are 8 Logo's I created, They have small variations between them, Let us know what you like (and Don't like) and I can edit them accordingly!

OR... post a rough idea of what you would like, and I'll do my best to create it!...

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Logo 1

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Logo 2

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Logo 3

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Logo 4

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Logo 5

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Logo 6

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Logo 7

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Logo 8

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Thanks!
Anil

Jun 19, 2010

laur2702 1 post

Topic: General Discussion / Dawn Phenomonon

Hi,

I am the same, can have normal blood sugar eg 5 at 7am and 10 or more by 8am. I test as soon as I get up and if blood sugar within normal range I take 2 units (I am on humalog), if slightly high do the required correction. Then do normal ratio come breakfast time and this seems to have been working for the last while. For me the key seems to be getting some insulin into my system early.

I have only suffered the effects of dawn phenomenon since DAFNE as previously I had a lantus dose that was too big and always had a bedtime snack with no insulin.

Have been told a pump would help but I'm not keen!

Jun 19, 2010

Simon 574 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists!

Hi again, here's an idea we've had from Mossitizer - let us know your thoughts!

Jun 18, 2010

Simon 574 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists!

As Mark and I are IT people, we are pretty artistically challenged, so need your help to design a new logo for DAFNE Online. The logo should be in keeping with DAFNE themes, and will appear in the upcoming DAFNE Online iPhone app as well as the site.

If you do have an idea in mind then share it with us here, or email [email protected] - you help is much appreciated!

Simon

Jun 18, 2010

Emma OToole 4 posts

Topic: General Discussion / chocoholic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi Jayne!

Nope I'm with you as a chocoholic!! I assure you. Before I started DAFNE I would eat a lot of chocolate if I was Hypo. This happen quite a lot and I gained a lot of weight. But that didn't stop me. Now that I have completed DAFNE I know I can still have my chocolate without the hypo and still be happy and not gain weight as I now exercise quite a lot now that I did years ago.

Jun 22, 2010 Simon 574 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists! Hi Anil, Great work - these look really good, I especially like the last one you did (Redesign 3). Do you think there could be a smaller version (say half the height, same width) that we could use in the top navigation bar? Cheers, Simon

Jun 22, 2010 Simon 574 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Chinese Takeaway. Hi Oldtulip, as the guys have already mentioned - your diary is a bit off as you seem to have the incorrect times. When inputting your diary entries the idea is to use the time that you took your BG/Insulin/CPs rather than the time you are recording the results. This will give you a better view of trends during the day, and possibly allow others to help you spot the trends too. Simon

Jun 22, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,818 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Insulin Pens Hi kestle, It sound to me that your memory might be a bit shaky.......... The way DAFNE works to me is you inject anytime you have a meal or large snack, this means ideally five minutes before this meal or snack. I think you might need to be a bit more vigilant with your injecting. On the other hand there is a pen available, dont know about Australia though, that actually records your last injection time and amounts and displays them to you on a digital display. Its called the Humapen Memoir (Memoir referring to the ability to stor info in its memory). http://medgadget.com/archives/2007/02/huma-pen_memoir.html This is the first document on google......... Maybe you can investigate and see if something similar is availoable were you are... Good Luck

Jun 22, 2010 kestle 3 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Insulin Pens Hi All If there is one thing that irks me with the insulin pens is that there is no real way to tell weather or not you have taken your insulin just by looking at it and btw i dont suffer from short term memory loss. IN my experience the only real bad hypos ive had stem from me doubling up on my insulin dose, this doesnt happen very often but often enough that its a worry. To my way of thinking surely the development gurus could work on a pen that would indicate when its been used, maybe by some kind of color code. I would be interested to hear if anyone else has experienced any problems in this are or its just me lol. It would also be helpful to hear from anyone who knows if there is any work being done in this area

Jun 21, 2010 Karl 83 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Chinese Takeaway. as for the chinese - if you always go hypo - there is probably not as much CP's as you think. Reduce your QA next time and keep testing and learning :-)

Jun 21, 2010 Karl 83 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Chinese Takeaway. Hi A couple of things Can you update with the correct times - your snacks could be too soon to give a correction - both food and insulin may have not finished working. Your correction doses look wrong - what are you working on 2-3 / QA - today you gave - 4 and Thurs with a BG of 6.5 you gave a +4 ! and this is for 8 CP at a ratio of 2:1 which should be 16 QA you gave 6+4

Jun 21, 2010 Anil 39 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Rationale - Please read I dont have an Iphone, but I do have a Android Powered Mobile, You can write applications in Java for these (If you know how to), Im no good with programming apart from web based programming. But I'd love to see an android application (Once written, they will work across ALL android platforms and phones).. But I hopefully will be buying an iPhone eventually so love to see an iphone app to!

Jun 21, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,818 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Chinese Takeaway. Hi there........ Only a graduate but it seems to me that your ratios at lunch/snack time should be considered for change, maybe down to 1.5:1. I think your not as resistant to insulin in the afternoon as you think you are.. But you mught also want to consider your activity in the afternoons......you could be quite busy and active after lunch moving around alot. A few thing I noticed: In the mornings you have not been correcting for 7 - 8 readings. Why is that? Thursday at 15:16pm you had 8 CPs but only took 6units of QA (when your ratio is 2:1) plus 4 corrective units (which were not neccesary as you were on target). I also think some of the times are wrong too.... This makes it difficult to see how long insulin is working for and when your eating, which is crucial information needed for dafne. I say redo the diary entries and repost

Jun 21, 2010 oldtulip 2 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Chinese Takeaway. Even though rice and sauces you get with Chinese food is high in cp's and you have qa's to match how come I always seem to to have hypo's afterwards?

Jun 21, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,818 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How good is dafne I am noticing alot of graduates are losing weight.....I have not actually wieghed myself but my gut and man boobs look the same to me....... Also alot of people who have done dafne, both on here and the others in my classroom have normal good control (in terms of haemaglobin), which confused me to why they were on the course. I realiased that people need help to control the condition in both directions..... My pre dafne HbA1c test was 11.8, 0.2 below the maximum allowed, everyone else was below 8, how was everyone elses pre dafne tests, was I the only truly badly controlled one out there..... My last test was 8.0, Happy Days..........

Jun 20, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,818 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Anyone on more than 3:1 ratio? My protocol with the higher blood readings (over 12 mmol/l), is to correct normally but add 1 unit of insulin on to that. This is purely because the normal porportions of insulin to sugar decrease does not apply, this may be because I am overweigght!! I t works good for me.......

Jun 20, 2010 Anil 39 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists! Hey I just put the little man and the heart to kind of promote "Healthiness" if you will, The space above the DAFNE and to the Right of the Teardrop was a bit to empty I thought, I could remove it, but it looked a little to empty, So just put it there to promote "Healthiness" and "Well Being". And to put another colour into it, as oppose to being ALL orange. I'll work on it a bit more tomorrow if i get a chance, I'll see what else I can come up with. Thanks!

Jun 20, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,818 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists! The last one is really good, dont know about the heart and the wee man, Is there any medical backgound to that element.......

Jun 20, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,818 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Dawn Phenomonon I agree totallym the earlier the better.......... I am alaways between 10 - 15 at 6.30 am, I correct and then take my breakfast insulin (3:1). Before dafne I never had anything to eat that early but I have now got myself into the routine as the large amounts of insulin bring me down to 4.9 - 5.7 by 12.00 for lunch..

Jun 20, 2010 Anil 39 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists! Here's an Update of the above logo's. Few Minor changes between them, I'm running out of idea's of what to add or remove!! Any idea's will be appreciated!! Redesign 1 Redesign 2 Redesign 3 Again, let us know what you think, Im all out of ideas!... I wanted to go for a "Web 2.0" Look. The water drop kind of resembles a blood glucose droplet (Kind of) and everything else is as is. Thanks! Anil

Jun 19, 2010 Anil 39 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists! Personally... I like logos 2, 6, & 8. I wanted to include the message of "Freedom" to eat what you want, but didn't know exactly where to put it or how to fit it in. How about for Logo 4... "Freedom to Eat what you like"..? Any idea's, comments or suggestion's will be appreciated!! --EDIT-- Here's some ideas for a iPhone App Icon I whipped up, just a rough idea: iPhone Logo's (P.S: I'll work on the resolution quality, to make sure its optimized for the iPhone) -- Another Edit -- Added a "Web 2.0 look" (Glossy) Getting Tired! I'll call it a night for today.. Let us know your thoughts! Things to do for tomorrow... (For my reference only) - Include a Pattern within the logo to make it more friendly on the eye - Perhaps include a pattern for iPhone? (Test) - Include a pattern in the DAFNE text for the Logo. - Change the Orange colour to a slightly darker colour to keep in line with DAFNE Online. (#ee8043) / Web Colour (#ff9933) - Add "Online" to the logo to change to "DAFNE Online" - Make a new favicon for the site. - await for responses and suggestions!! Thanks! Anil!

Jun 19, 2010 Anil 39 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists! Well... I'm not an artist, but I do enjoy creating images for the Web. So here you go!... Here are 8 Logo's I created, They have small variations between them, Let us know what you like (and Don't like) and I can edit them accordingly! OR... post a rough idea of what you would like, and I'll do my best to create it!... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logo 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logo 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logo 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logo 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logo 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logo 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logo 7 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Logo 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks! Anil

Jun 19, 2010 laur2702 1 post	Topic: General Discussion / Dawn Phenomonon Hi, I am the same, can have normal blood sugar eg 5 at 7am and 10 or more by 8am. I test as soon as I get up and if blood sugar within normal range I take 2 units (I am on humalog), if slightly high do the required correction. Then do normal ratio come breakfast time and this seems to have been working for the last while. For me the key seems to be getting some insulin into my system early. I have only suffered the effects of dawn phenomenon since DAFNE as previously I had a lantus dose that was too big and always had a bedtime snack with no insulin. Have been told a pump would help but I'm not keen!

Jun 19, 2010 Simon 574 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists! Hi again, here's an idea we've had from Mossitizer - let us know your thoughts!

Jun 18, 2010 Simon 574 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists! As Mark and I are IT people, we are pretty artistically challenged, so need your help to design a new logo for DAFNE Online. The logo should be in keeping with DAFNE themes, and will appear in the upcoming DAFNE Online iPhone app as well as the site. If you do have an idea in mind then share it with us here, or email [email protected] - you help is much appreciated! Simon

Jun 18, 2010 Emma OToole 4 posts	Topic: General Discussion / chocoholic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hi Jayne! Nope I'm with you as a chocoholic!! I assure you. Before I started DAFNE I would eat a lot of chocolate if I was Hypo. This happen quite a lot and I gained a lot of weight. But that didn't stop me. Now that I have completed DAFNE I know I can still have my chocolate without the hypo and still be happy and not gain weight as I now exercise quite a lot now that I did years ago.