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Oct 1, 2009

Simon 574 posts

Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries

Hi Stew,

I did a quick search of our database against your user ID and bg readings of 7.6 and the only one that came up was of type 'Before Breakfast' (although it was saved at 2300) - are you sure the offending entry is saved as type 'Before Bed'?

Note you can change the type by clicking on the entry time in your diary - you'll get an update form.

Thanks,

Simon

Oct 1, 2009

Stew B 123 posts

Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries

Hi Simon
I use "standard" DAFNE targets, and I've just noticed that a BG entry of 7.6 at bedtime has shown up red (i.e. above target) in my on-line diary. My hard-copy DAFNE Diary shows bedtime target as 6.5 - 8.0. Is this a glitch or have I missed something (entirely possible!!).

Stew

Oct 1, 2009

John Roscoe 11 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / CP value of Stoneless Dates

Hi, Can anyone tell me what the CP value of stoneless dates is (my wife is using the ones from Julian Graves to add to her home made museli)I think it may be 75g/100g but I'm not certain so any info would be really helpful.
Thanks.
John

Oct 1, 2009

Sarah 1 post

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / CP value of maize flour

My Carb counting book says 78g CHO per 100g of maize flour!

Oct 1, 2009

john day 54 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Introductions

Hello Marke..

Thanks for the update re Carb Counter. I have indeed previously added a few items myself but only one immediate query : how the heck do you list your own entries only; I tried a search and just canâ€™t see a button!

Assuming you can solve that one for me, the problems I see in using the Counter as you suggest are:

-Clutter & confusion for users with many â€˜duplicateâ€™ added entries merely to enable use of personal preferred usual portion size.

-The personalized A5 ingredient list I use has selected official entries together with my own entries, all alphabetically sequenced .. could this be arranged online for all users? My total list is about 80 items at present and will probably top out at 100.

If you can provide the tech solution in a practical manner then I agree this approach would be good and the CP info benefit all members. Might even cause me to ask for a smart phone for xmas!

Cheers, John

Oct 1, 2009

marke 655 posts

Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ?

David, thanks for sharing this experience with everyone, hopefully it shows others that it IS possible to make sure your get the tools you need to manage your diabetes properly. If anyone has been unable to get test strips please post and let us know. With the growing membership here AND the User Group now running we should be looking to resolve any issues with PCT's and Doctor practices that are not 'enlightened'. If they refuse to be 'enlightened' then we will send the boys round !!

Oct 1, 2009

marke 655 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Introductions

John, and others, the A5 list sounds interesting but just to point out you can do this with the online carb counting pages. Its possible to add your own entries and display just your own entries on the pages. This coupled with the fact its available on mobile phones (if you have a phone that can do it) means you could save a tree ;-) Well you could have a back up for your
A5 paper copy anyway.

Its also always interesting to read other peoples experiences, one of the great things about the DAFNE course is a week of sharing experiences with other Diabetics, hopefully this site helps extend that sharing experience :-)

Sep 30, 2009

john day 54 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Introductions

Hello All ...

I was diagnosed T1 in August 1988 at QMC in Nottingham .. and still remember their offer for me to try out injecting an orange first to get the idea!

Did DAFNE August 2009 .. only 21 years later but well worth waiting for as gave a clear formal structure to the way I have always tried to control levels but historically with considerable guesswork and only moderate success.

Also, DAFNE advised so many other basic points in the 'why wasn't I told this before?' category. Many thanks to Debbie and Fumi our educators!

My QA is currently Novorapid, appx 30 per day, and BI Levemir 25 at breakfast and 5 at bedtime each day and it was really interesting to see how each dafne attendee had a quite different regime.

Have just used the Dafne glucose diary graph results for the first time since the course and 30day/7day comparison shows average declines of 13% lunch, 23% dinner and 33% bed but no change at breakfast. Shows a) the system works b) my bed readings were bad pre-dafne, deliberately so as I â€˜ran highâ€™ overnight to avoid the need for my partner to call out the paramedics as she had to 4 times in 2008! Now, of course, the dafne inspired Glucopen is to hand!

Future % reductions will no doubt be less but Dafne has certainly given confidence to tackle the problem areas.

My diabetic oddity is perhaps that still prefer using a syringe as a) smaller than pen b) unlikely to fail mechanically c) single mixed injections are possible.

Also, I feel most people eat a limited range of meals regularily and so have designed a simple A5 form which can be clipped in the front of the Dafne Dairy and hand filled at meal times to calculate the total CP of a meal from the ingredient CPs & portion sizes. From this form a simple personalized A5 reference list of regular meal total CPs can be drawn up and also kept in the diary. Saves me lots of hassle & time while still learning to estimate CPs accurately.

If anybody wants to try the form themselves I am happy to email the underlying excel spreadsheet for printing out. Contact me on [email protected] to request this.

I also am slowly building an A5 sized CP portion list for my individual ingredients, using portion units in the way I see them, and which is also fixed in the diary. This is much easier to use than the full CP list booklet. I would recommend all T1â€™s draw up their own personal list, both as an aid to learning the CPs and also speeding the mealside CP calculation.

Thatâ€™s it for now .. hope the above is moderately interesting and perhaps useful to others also. Cheers, John.

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 ? / 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 ? / 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 ? / 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 ? / 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 655 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

Oct 1, 2009 Simon 574 posts	Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries Hi Stew, I did a quick search of our database against your user ID and bg readings of 7.6 and the only one that came up was of type 'Before Breakfast' (although it was saved at 2300) - are you sure the offending entry is saved as type 'Before Bed'? Note you can change the type by clicking on the entry time in your diary - you'll get an update form. Thanks, Simon

Oct 1, 2009 Stew B 123 posts	Topic: Site Development / Online BG Diaries Hi Simon I use "standard" DAFNE targets, and I've just noticed that a BG entry of 7.6 at bedtime has shown up red (i.e. above target) in my on-line diary. My hard-copy DAFNE Diary shows bedtime target as 6.5 - 8.0. Is this a glitch or have I missed something (entirely possible!!). Stew

Oct 1, 2009 John Roscoe 11 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / CP value of Stoneless Dates Hi, Can anyone tell me what the CP value of stoneless dates is (my wife is using the ones from Julian Graves to add to her home made museli)I think it may be 75g/100g but I'm not certain so any info would be really helpful. Thanks. John

Oct 1, 2009 Sarah 1 post	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / CP value of maize flour My Carb counting book says 78g CHO per 100g of maize flour!

Oct 1, 2009 john day 54 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Introductions Hello Marke.. Thanks for the update re Carb Counter. I have indeed previously added a few items myself but only one immediate query : how the heck do you list your own entries only; I tried a search and just canâ€™t see a button! Assuming you can solve that one for me, the problems I see in using the Counter as you suggest are: -Clutter & confusion for users with many â€˜duplicateâ€™ added entries merely to enable use of personal preferred usual portion size. -The personalized A5 ingredient list I use has selected official entries together with my own entries, all alphabetically sequenced .. could this be arranged online for all users? My total list is about 80 items at present and will probably top out at 100. If you can provide the tech solution in a practical manner then I agree this approach would be good and the CP info benefit all members. Might even cause me to ask for a smart phone for xmas! Cheers, John

Oct 1, 2009 marke 655 posts	Topic: General Discussion / How many Test Strips ? David, thanks for sharing this experience with everyone, hopefully it shows others that it IS possible to make sure your get the tools you need to manage your diabetes properly. If anyone has been unable to get test strips please post and let us know. With the growing membership here AND the User Group now running we should be looking to resolve any issues with PCT's and Doctor practices that are not 'enlightened'. If they refuse to be 'enlightened' then we will send the boys round !!

Oct 1, 2009 marke 655 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Introductions John, and others, the A5 list sounds interesting but just to point out you can do this with the online carb counting pages. Its possible to add your own entries and display just your own entries on the pages. This coupled with the fact its available on mobile phones (if you have a phone that can do it) means you could save a tree ;-) Well you could have a back up for your A5 paper copy anyway. Its also always interesting to read other peoples experiences, one of the great things about the DAFNE course is a week of sharing experiences with other Diabetics, hopefully this site helps extend that sharing experience :-)

Sep 30, 2009 john day 54 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Introductions Hello All ... I was diagnosed T1 in August 1988 at QMC in Nottingham .. and still remember their offer for me to try out injecting an orange first to get the idea! Did DAFNE August 2009 .. only 21 years later but well worth waiting for as gave a clear formal structure to the way I have always tried to control levels but historically with considerable guesswork and only moderate success. Also, DAFNE advised so many other basic points in the 'why wasn't I told this before?' category. Many thanks to Debbie and Fumi our educators! My QA is currently Novorapid, appx 30 per day, and BI Levemir 25 at breakfast and 5 at bedtime each day and it was really interesting to see how each dafne attendee had a quite different regime. Have just used the Dafne glucose diary graph results for the first time since the course and 30day/7day comparison shows average declines of 13% lunch, 23% dinner and 33% bed but no change at breakfast. Shows a) the system works b) my bed readings were bad pre-dafne, deliberately so as I â€˜ran highâ€™ overnight to avoid the need for my partner to call out the paramedics as she had to 4 times in 2008! Now, of course, the dafne inspired Glucopen is to hand! Future % reductions will no doubt be less but Dafne has certainly given confidence to tackle the problem areas. My diabetic oddity is perhaps that still prefer using a syringe as a) smaller than pen b) unlikely to fail mechanically c) single mixed injections are possible. Also, I feel most people eat a limited range of meals regularily and so have designed a simple A5 form which can be clipped in the front of the Dafne Dairy and hand filled at meal times to calculate the total CP of a meal from the ingredient CPs & portion sizes. From this form a simple personalized A5 reference list of regular meal total CPs can be drawn up and also kept in the diary. Saves me lots of hassle & time while still learning to estimate CPs accurately. If anybody wants to try the form themselves I am happy to email the underlying excel spreadsheet for printing out. Contact me on [email protected] to request this. I also am slowly building an A5 sized CP portion list for my individual ingredients, using portion units in the way I see them, and which is also fixed in the diary. This is much easier to use than the full CP list booklet. I would recommend all T1â€™s draw up their own personal list, both as an aid to learning the CPs and also speeding the mealside CP calculation. Thatâ€™s it for now .. hope the above is moderately interesting and perhaps useful to others also. Cheers, John.

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 ? / 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 ? / 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 ? / 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 ? / 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 655 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