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Jun 23, 2010

meltow 78 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How good is dafne

First post - here goes!
Type 1 diabetes from January 2000; DAFNE in November 2008.
For me the most enlightening part of DAFNE was actually being able to put a bit of practical maths behind the amount of Novarapid I took with my meal. Before being educated with DAFNE, I had reasonable control, but looking back, it was luck rather than anything else. Knowing my ratio and how to count carbohydrates within any foods I choose to eat, is a complete revelation, and one which does work for me. Although like anyone, I can sometimes have a snack which doesn't always get accounted for! We are only human....
I had never encountered "adjustment" doses of insulin prior to DAFNE, so again, that is a useful tool to have in my locker. I also felt DAFNE was a complete revision course about the condition, which is no bad thing. Plus I like to be responsible for my own health and well-being so far as I can, and DAFNE has allowed me to do that.
So far, so good, and would happily recommend the course to anyone

Jun 23, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,819 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Ratio for first insulin of the day

I think the ratios refer to resistance levels to insulin at those three or four main times in the day........

Mostly everyone is more so in the monrning as the body wants glucose to start off the day.....

Stick to the times of day

Jun 23, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,819 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Weight wanted

I have been diabetic for 11 years and wee brother has been for 24 years.

He is stick thin and I am 15 stone (6foot).

He eats collosol amounts of food yet does not put on weight, he does not follow the dafne principles and is on 2 jags a day. It really puzzles me.

The only time I was skinny, or at a healthy weight, was just before diagnosis and a few years back when I didnt bother with my diabetes (wasting away).

So why now when my bloods are good do I retain so much fat, I excercise moderately.

Is insulin involved with the production of fat cells?

Jun 23, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,819 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Exercise and high BG

I have also started some moderate escercise every night.

I always new that if your blood was over a certain level, for me 12 is the maximum, then I will not excercise till my blood has came down, this has always ensured that my blood drops instead of risings as the glucose is used from my blood then muscles.

And I also beleive that following said rules will ensure that the excercise I am doing is effectvie, in terms of building muscle.

If my blood sugar rises, it means your muscles essentially start eating themselves to provide the energy they need as there is no insulin present to open the cell doors to the wating glucose. So that would be pointless.

If anyone thinks this is wrong or has any more advice please respond......

Jun 23, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,819 posts

Topic: General Discussion / New Job

L McPhillips describing the Dawn Phenomonon..........

Jun 23, 2010

novorapidboi26 1,819 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Eporting Diary XML Code

I would quite like to do this so I can email my results to my Nurses.

Previously I have made up my own spreadsheets but I really cant be bothered.

Does anyone know what to do with the xml code?

Jun 22, 2010

EMS 15 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Holidays and Insulin

Hi there,
I've had type 1 for eight years now. I've never had any big problems with security checks, but i always make sure to put everything into the plastic bag. the only time i've ever been questioned was on a recent trip to new york (extra security checks before getting on the plane) and, although i didn't have the doctor's letter, my explaination was accepted without too much trouble.
as to temperature issues, i wouldn't worry too much; we take a couple of sun holidays every year and it's never occured to me to get a cold bag for travelling, so far i haven't noticed any problems keeping the insulin in my beach bag or in the hotel room.
Enjoy your holiday!
Elli

Jun 22, 2010

Anil 39 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists!

Hi Simon,

I can edit the size as you wish, but any ideas of the dimension you want it to be? (In pixels).
If you give us approx dimensions of how big you want it, I will scale them down accordingly.
also, I will have to check this, but i suspect the Logo will not contrast well with the navigation bar at the top, is the navigation bar background a repeated image? Looking at the source code I cant tell, but maybe I could create a repeat image to place in the background of the navigation bar to contrast better with the Logo.

I'll also include a Favi-icon (For bookmarking) and anything else you need, just let us know.
A little busy at the moment, but i'll work on this ASAP, hopefully within the next few days.

Thanks

Jun 22, 2010

Simon 578 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 578 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 1,819 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 1,819 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 1,819 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 1,819 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 1,819 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 1,819 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 23, 2010 meltow 78 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How good is dafne First post - here goes! Type 1 diabetes from January 2000; DAFNE in November 2008. For me the most enlightening part of DAFNE was actually being able to put a bit of practical maths behind the amount of Novarapid I took with my meal. Before being educated with DAFNE, I had reasonable control, but looking back, it was luck rather than anything else. Knowing my ratio and how to count carbohydrates within any foods I choose to eat, is a complete revelation, and one which does work for me. Although like anyone, I can sometimes have a snack which doesn't always get accounted for! We are only human.... I had never encountered "adjustment" doses of insulin prior to DAFNE, so again, that is a useful tool to have in my locker. I also felt DAFNE was a complete revision course about the condition, which is no bad thing. Plus I like to be responsible for my own health and well-being so far as I can, and DAFNE has allowed me to do that. So far, so good, and would happily recommend the course to anyone

Jun 23, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,819 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Ratio for first insulin of the day I think the ratios refer to resistance levels to insulin at those three or four main times in the day........ Mostly everyone is more so in the monrning as the body wants glucose to start off the day..... Stick to the times of day

Jun 23, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,819 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Weight wanted I have been diabetic for 11 years and wee brother has been for 24 years. He is stick thin and I am 15 stone (6foot). He eats collosol amounts of food yet does not put on weight, he does not follow the dafne principles and is on 2 jags a day. It really puzzles me. The only time I was skinny, or at a healthy weight, was just before diagnosis and a few years back when I didnt bother with my diabetes (wasting away). So why now when my bloods are good do I retain so much fat, I excercise moderately. Is insulin involved with the production of fat cells?

Jun 23, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,819 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Exercise and high BG I have also started some moderate escercise every night. I always new that if your blood was over a certain level, for me 12 is the maximum, then I will not excercise till my blood has came down, this has always ensured that my blood drops instead of risings as the glucose is used from my blood then muscles. And I also beleive that following said rules will ensure that the excercise I am doing is effectvie, in terms of building muscle. If my blood sugar rises, it means your muscles essentially start eating themselves to provide the energy they need as there is no insulin present to open the cell doors to the wating glucose. So that would be pointless. If anyone thinks this is wrong or has any more advice please respond......

Jun 23, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,819 posts	Topic: General Discussion / New Job L McPhillips describing the Dawn Phenomonon..........

Jun 23, 2010 novorapidboi26 1,819 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Eporting Diary XML Code I would quite like to do this so I can email my results to my Nurses. Previously I have made up my own spreadsheets but I really cant be bothered. Does anyone know what to do with the xml code?

Jun 22, 2010 EMS 15 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Holidays and Insulin Hi there, I've had type 1 for eight years now. I've never had any big problems with security checks, but i always make sure to put everything into the plastic bag. the only time i've ever been questioned was on a recent trip to new york (extra security checks before getting on the plane) and, although i didn't have the doctor's letter, my explaination was accepted without too much trouble. as to temperature issues, i wouldn't worry too much; we take a couple of sun holidays every year and it's never occured to me to get a cold bag for travelling, so far i haven't noticed any problems keeping the insulin in my beach bag or in the hotel room. Enjoy your holiday! Elli

Jun 22, 2010 Anil 39 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Calling all budding artists! Hi Simon, I can edit the size as you wish, but any ideas of the dimension you want it to be? (In pixels). If you give us approx dimensions of how big you want it, I will scale them down accordingly. also, I will have to check this, but i suspect the Logo will not contrast well with the navigation bar at the top, is the navigation bar background a repeated image? Looking at the source code I cant tell, but maybe I could create a repeat image to place in the background of the navigation bar to contrast better with the Logo. I'll also include a Favi-icon (For bookmarking) and anything else you need, just let us know. A little busy at the moment, but i'll work on this ASAP, hopefully within the next few days. Thanks

Jun 22, 2010 Simon 578 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 578 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 1,819 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 1,819 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 1,819 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 1,819 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 1,819 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 1,819 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