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Sep 30, 2009

Karen Westwood 38 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ?

Excellent news David. At least you will be able to do all the tests needed now!

Good luck

Karen x

Sep 30, 2009

DavidJ 23 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ?

Good News. I saw the Practise Nurse and she was as helpful as I could have wished. The test strips are now on my repeat. I only wish I'd seen someone sooner instead of 3 months of frustration trying to eke out my test strips until the next repeat. She issued me with a new Autopen as well. Whoopee!!!

Sep 28, 2009

DavidJ 23 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ?

I'm going on Wednesday so I should have news by Thursday. I've printed out the posts on this forum plus I'll take my Dafne course notes. They might respond positively when I explain my position and the reasons that I need more.

Sep 27, 2009

John Roscoe 11 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Watch out - Corn on the cob!

Hi Folks,
I was interested to read your notes on corn on the cob. Like Karen I used to count it but since DAFNE I haven't and I don't get high blood sugars as a result. Strange how different people react in different ways. Cheers John

Sep 27, 2009

john day 54 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / BG Diary at Clinic

Hello all..

One additional thought re getting a paperless diary to others to view.

a- set up & open an empty Word document

b- call up the dafne printable diary format to screen

c- Use CNTRL_A to highlight all the diary then Cntr_C to Copy it

d- go to the open Word document and Cntrl_V to paste the diary to this document.

e- Save the document

f- Create mail to the intended recipient and attach the diary document and send.

A bit convoluted perhaps but can be emailed to anyone, whether or not they are registered on Dafne online, just as long as you have their email!

Hope this helps, John.

Sep 26, 2009

Simon 574 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / BG Diary at Clinic

Hi Sue,

This functionality is now available, see my posts on this forum thread for more information on how to do it.

Thanks,

Simon

Sep 26, 2009

suebriggs 2 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / BG Diary at Clinic

On teh DAFNE course it was particularly helpful having the discussions about readings one by one, as you got to hear other people's ideas wbout what you should do. Simon you say that the option of sharing your diary with nominated users is not yet available. To have this facility would be very helpful if it were posible to set up.

Sep 26, 2009

suebriggs 2 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / post menopause

This was a problem for me, as I was post menopause when I was diagnosed in Feb 2008.
I was very scared of the hypos at first having ended up straight back in hospital just days after diagnosis, adn gettign hot was my first sign, but I already had my own 'central heating' activated without warning before dignosis. Very confusing
I found no way round it. I just tested. Very sore fingers in the early days but now I am more confident about deciding the times that I am very unlikely to be hypo (just after meals/snack). That usually works and if I was wrong I soon know from the other signs.

Sep 25, 2009

marke 643 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ?

David, Please keep us posted on what happens. I am fortunate enough to not have had any problems myself, I just write to my GP make my demands and she does as she is told ;-) But seriously in my guise as a DAFNE User Action Group member this is an issue we would be interested to hear about. If DAFNE Graduates cannot get the test strips they need to function then something needs to be done about it. Sadly some people in the medical profession believe short term savings are good. However if you cannot test properly have a hypo and need hospital treatment all those savings go flying out the window. Sometimes they need this explaining to them :-)

Sep 25, 2009

Aidan 2 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ?

Hi David,I've just completed a DAFNE course today. We here in Ireland get all our Long Term Illness medication free so if you use a Freestyle Lite BG meter let me know and I'll send you some.

Sep 24, 2009

GLS 12 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Watch out - Corn on the cob!

well....

three hours on I am 5.1! (was 5.6 before dinner). So it seems to have been ok. I am pretty sure I counted the rest of my meal correctly.

So I guess the packet was right really. I haven't gone drastically low so its round about correct at 3.5 CP's for the normal size corn on the cob.
As its bed time though Ill have 1 CP I think!

Sep 24, 2009

Neil Sanderson 1 post

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Glucotabs: Where they can be found?

Hello You can buy Glucotabs from bbihealthcare.com hope this helps..

Sep 24, 2009

Karen Westwood 38 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Watch out - Corn on the cob!

I would be interested to know how you got on with counting your corn on the cob. I have always counted sweetcorn pre DAFNE because like you say there is quite a lot of carbohydrate in it. I was surprised to find from my DAFNE course that you do not need to count either peas or sweetcorn because of how these are digested by the body. I haven't counted them since and don't seem to have any problems.

Look forward to seeing whether you was affected by counting it as 3.5 CPs.

Karen x

Sep 24, 2009

GLS 12 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Mobile Feature Requests

Thanks for your reply.

Yes I have seen the save password feature pop up in google chrome.... but I am also reluctant to do this for any site!

With the carb counter on my phone, it is readable but what happens is the carb value drops to the next line, rather than being on the same line as the other details (I hope this makes sense!) But its no big problem - its still usable and so good when you are on the go!

thanks
Gem

Sep 24, 2009

GLS 12 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Watch out - Corn on the cob!

Corn on Cob - did you know?.....

Just thought i'd share this after I had a corn on the cob for dinner!

I wasnt going to bother checking/counting this as DAFNE says not to worry too much about vegetables etc!! But I glanced at the nutrition info and it said 100g of cob (cooked) was 19.6g!

I had a 185g piece (standard sort of size from shop - but double the sort of one you get at the harvester!) and so it worked out 3.5 CP's.

I was surprised by this! I went with it, and I guess ill see later whether its right!
Gems

Sep 24, 2009

DavidJ 23 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ?

Thanks for replying. I'll see how I do next week before I unleash my Dafne educator.

Sep 23, 2009

Karen Westwood 38 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ?

Hi, I too received a letter from my DAFNE educator which explained that I would be needing extra test strips following the course. I have had no problems in obtaining the strips from my GP. I think that to make DAFNE work you really do need to be able to do at least 4 tests a day so if I was you I would make an appointment with your GP and try to explain this to him/her face to face. If this doesn't work then maybe you could ask your DAFNE contact to get in touch with your GP (as Mandy suggested) and explain how important this is.

Good luck.

Karen

Sep 23, 2009

mandyrobertson9 10 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ?

Have you talked to your GP about it. I'm quite fortunate in that my GP has always been okay about ordering anything I need. I sometimes do up to 8 tests a day so can easily get through 50 strips a week. My DAFNE educator wrote to my practice explaining what we would need to follow the DAFNE course. Maybe you should contact them and see if they will speak to your GP/Consultant on your behalf.

Sep 23, 2009

marke 643 posts

Topic: General Discussion / DAFNE BG Diaries

If you have run out of BG Diaries and need some more there are two ways of getting them.

1) Contact your DAFNE Educator who should have some as they are sent them by DAFNE Central for distribution to graduates.

2) Go to this page and select what you want to order on the forms and they will send you some.

We would like to give you the option of printing it out from this site, however the electronic version is in a format for the 'printing' company and will not easily print on a home printer. We will continue to work on this and if/when its online we will let you know.

Sep 23, 2009

DavidJ 23 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ?

Hi. I graduated from the Dafne Course in June and have had reasonable success in applying it. However, I cannot get enough test strips to do even the minimum number of blood tests that Dafne recommends (4 per day), never mind testing before exercise, when you feel hypo or when you're about to drive. The consultant told me yesterday not to bother trying just do a couple a day. I'm going to see my practise nurse next week. Has anyone else experienced this?

Sep 22, 2009

john day 54 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Simple Form to assist Meal CP Calculation

On the basis that most people probably eat a limited range of meals fairly regularily I have designed a simple A5 form which can be stapled in the front of your Dafne Diary and filled by hand at meal times to assist manual calculation of these meal CPs from the portion sizes & ingredient CPs.

As well as providing the immediate meal CP, an organised record is built up so that you can subsequently look up for example '(My) Fish and chips' and see (say) 12 CP directly, rather than hunting for the scrap of paper you used for the meal calculation!

If anybody wants to try this form, I am happy to email one for you to print out. Contact me via the message facility, including giving me your email address, to request a form as a return email attachment.

Sep 30, 2009 Karen Westwood 38 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ? Excellent news David. At least you will be able to do all the tests needed now! Good luck Karen x

Sep 30, 2009 DavidJ 23 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ? Good News. I saw the Practise Nurse and she was as helpful as I could have wished. The test strips are now on my repeat. I only wish I'd seen someone sooner instead of 3 months of frustration trying to eke out my test strips until the next repeat. She issued me with a new Autopen as well. Whoopee!!!

Sep 28, 2009 DavidJ 23 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ? I'm going on Wednesday so I should have news by Thursday. I've printed out the posts on this forum plus I'll take my Dafne course notes. They might respond positively when I explain my position and the reasons that I need more.

Sep 27, 2009 John Roscoe 11 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Watch out - Corn on the cob! Hi Folks, I was interested to read your notes on corn on the cob. Like Karen I used to count it but since DAFNE I haven't and I don't get high blood sugars as a result. Strange how different people react in different ways. Cheers John

Sep 27, 2009 john day 54 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / BG Diary at Clinic Hello all.. One additional thought re getting a paperless diary to others to view. a- set up & open an empty Word document b- call up the dafne printable diary format to screen c- Use CNTRL_A to highlight all the diary then Cntr_C to Copy it d- go to the open Word document and Cntrl_V to paste the diary to this document. e- Save the document f- Create mail to the intended recipient and attach the diary document and send. A bit convoluted perhaps but can be emailed to anyone, whether or not they are registered on Dafne online, just as long as you have their email! Hope this helps, John.

Sep 26, 2009 Simon 574 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / BG Diary at Clinic Hi Sue, This functionality is now available, see my posts on this forum thread for more information on how to do it. Thanks, Simon

Sep 26, 2009 suebriggs 2 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / BG Diary at Clinic On teh DAFNE course it was particularly helpful having the discussions about readings one by one, as you got to hear other people's ideas wbout what you should do. Simon you say that the option of sharing your diary with nominated users is not yet available. To have this facility would be very helpful if it were posible to set up.

Sep 26, 2009 suebriggs 2 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / post menopause This was a problem for me, as I was post menopause when I was diagnosed in Feb 2008. I was very scared of the hypos at first having ended up straight back in hospital just days after diagnosis, adn gettign hot was my first sign, but I already had my own 'central heating' activated without warning before dignosis. Very confusing I found no way round it. I just tested. Very sore fingers in the early days but now I am more confident about deciding the times that I am very unlikely to be hypo (just after meals/snack). That usually works and if I was wrong I soon know from the other signs.

Sep 25, 2009 marke 643 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ? David, Please keep us posted on what happens. I am fortunate enough to not have had any problems myself, I just write to my GP make my demands and she does as she is told ;-) But seriously in my guise as a DAFNE User Action Group member this is an issue we would be interested to hear about. If DAFNE Graduates cannot get the test strips they need to function then something needs to be done about it. Sadly some people in the medical profession believe short term savings are good. However if you cannot test properly have a hypo and need hospital treatment all those savings go flying out the window. Sometimes they need this explaining to them :-)

Sep 25, 2009 Aidan 2 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ? Hi David,I've just completed a DAFNE course today. We here in Ireland get all our Long Term Illness medication free so if you use a Freestyle Lite BG meter let me know and I'll send you some.

Sep 24, 2009 GLS 12 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Watch out - Corn on the cob! well.... three hours on I am 5.1! (was 5.6 before dinner). So it seems to have been ok. I am pretty sure I counted the rest of my meal correctly. So I guess the packet was right really. I haven't gone drastically low so its round about correct at 3.5 CP's for the normal size corn on the cob. As its bed time though Ill have 1 CP I think!

Sep 24, 2009 Neil Sanderson 1 post	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Glucotabs: Where they can be found? Hello You can buy Glucotabs from bbihealthcare.com hope this helps..

Sep 24, 2009 Karen Westwood 38 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Watch out - Corn on the cob! I would be interested to know how you got on with counting your corn on the cob. I have always counted sweetcorn pre DAFNE because like you say there is quite a lot of carbohydrate in it. I was surprised to find from my DAFNE course that you do not need to count either peas or sweetcorn because of how these are digested by the body. I haven't counted them since and don't seem to have any problems. Look forward to seeing whether you was affected by counting it as 3.5 CPs. Karen x

Sep 24, 2009 GLS 12 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Mobile Feature Requests Thanks for your reply. Yes I have seen the save password feature pop up in google chrome.... but I am also reluctant to do this for any site! With the carb counter on my phone, it is readable but what happens is the carb value drops to the next line, rather than being on the same line as the other details (I hope this makes sense!) But its no big problem - its still usable and so good when you are on the go! thanks Gem

Sep 24, 2009 GLS 12 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Watch out - Corn on the cob! Corn on Cob - did you know?..... Just thought i'd share this after I had a corn on the cob for dinner! I wasnt going to bother checking/counting this as DAFNE says not to worry too much about vegetables etc!! But I glanced at the nutrition info and it said 100g of cob (cooked) was 19.6g! I had a 185g piece (standard sort of size from shop - but double the sort of one you get at the harvester!) and so it worked out 3.5 CP's. I was surprised by this! I went with it, and I guess ill see later whether its right! Gems

Sep 24, 2009 DavidJ 23 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ? Thanks for replying. I'll see how I do next week before I unleash my Dafne educator.

Sep 23, 2009 Karen Westwood 38 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ? Hi, I too received a letter from my DAFNE educator which explained that I would be needing extra test strips following the course. I have had no problems in obtaining the strips from my GP. I think that to make DAFNE work you really do need to be able to do at least 4 tests a day so if I was you I would make an appointment with your GP and try to explain this to him/her face to face. If this doesn't work then maybe you could ask your DAFNE contact to get in touch with your GP (as Mandy suggested) and explain how important this is. Good luck. Karen

Sep 23, 2009 mandyrobertson9 10 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ? Have you talked to your GP about it. I'm quite fortunate in that my GP has always been okay about ordering anything I need. I sometimes do up to 8 tests a day so can easily get through 50 strips a week. My DAFNE educator wrote to my practice explaining what we would need to follow the DAFNE course. Maybe you should contact them and see if they will speak to your GP/Consultant on your behalf.

Sep 23, 2009 marke 643 posts	Topic: General Discussion / DAFNE BG Diaries If you have run out of BG Diaries and need some more there are two ways of getting them. 1) Contact your DAFNE Educator who should have some as they are sent them by DAFNE Central for distribution to graduates. 2) Go to this page and select what you want to order on the forms and they will send you some. We would like to give you the option of printing it out from this site, however the electronic version is in a format for the 'printing' company and will not easily print on a home printer. We will continue to work on this and if/when its online we will let you know.

Sep 23, 2009 DavidJ 23 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ? Hi. I graduated from the Dafne Course in June and have had reasonable success in applying it. However, I cannot get enough test strips to do even the minimum number of blood tests that Dafne recommends (4 per day), never mind testing before exercise, when you feel hypo or when you're about to drive. The consultant told me yesterday not to bother trying just do a couple a day. I'm going to see my practise nurse next week. Has anyone else experienced this?

Sep 22, 2009 john day 54 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Simple Form to assist Meal CP Calculation On the basis that most people probably eat a limited range of meals fairly regularily I have designed a simple A5 form which can be stapled in the front of your Dafne Diary and filled by hand at meal times to assist manual calculation of these meal CPs from the portion sizes & ingredient CPs. As well as providing the immediate meal CP, an organised record is built up so that you can subsequently look up for example '(My) Fish and chips' and see (say) 12 CP directly, rather than hunting for the scrap of paper you used for the meal calculation! If anybody wants to try this form, I am happy to email one for you to print out. Contact me via the message facility, including giving me your email address, to request a form as a return email attachment.