Recent Posts - DAFNE Online

Oct 21, 2016

luisafontana 9 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Graphs recording snack entries as 0 BG

Hi there, I've started using the app this week and am looking at what it can do. I've been recording snacks as diary entries for the CPs, but they're appearing on my graphs as a reading of zero, when actually there was no reading given at all. Logically, they shouldn't be included as a data point. Am I missing something? It looks like I've died several times this week and it's only Thursday ;)

Oct 17, 2016

Alan 49 284 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Evaluating the Health and Self-Management In Diabetes questionnaire

Peter, I followed your link to the ScHARR website and it wanted a User name and a Password, but it offered no way of setting these up, so I was unable to take part in the survey.

Oct 16, 2016

Peter 109 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Evaluating the Health and Self-Management In Diabetes questionnaire

The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield are conducting some research to explore how important it is to people with diabetes that they can manage their diabetes well. They have designed a questionnaire to measure how managing diabetes impacts upon people and are looking for volunteers to complete the questionnaire. It takes about 10 minutes and can be found here. The link contains further details of the research and the process being followed. To quote one of the researchers "studies like this are important as knowing information like this can help policy-makers and clinicians to decide how best to allocate health care, and provide better health services for people with diabetes."

Anyone with diabetes living in the UK can complete the survey, and for each 50 participants there is the chance to win Â£50 in shopping vouchers.

Thanks for your help.

Oct 16, 2016

luisafontana 9 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Low GI bread

In most supermarkets they sell Burgen linseed bread, it's low GI from what I'm told and it's 11g a slice. It's really nice.

Oct 15, 2016

JayBee 587 posts

Topic: Site Development / Diary problems on my phone

What app version are you using? The iPhone version is the only one that only gets updates at this time. I personally use the Android version so cannot help with the iPhone one.

Are your BGs set up to automatic upload in the settings, and are your login details correct?

There are sometimes times where the servers that they upload the diary results to don't work, but that is not common.
I think you will lose the BG results if you do not get them uploaded to the DAFNE Online server before removing the app.

The main time I've found when the app changes the date is when it's getting close to midnight and I want to add an entry that was earlier in the day so sometimes I have to correct it back to the correct date after I posted the entry so it's right. The other reason it might happen is because the DAFNE Online servers are in an American time zone and sometimes the server gets conflicted so fails to upload. They can be uploaded at a later time though (I usually upload them in the morning with my waking BG result).

If it continues to be a problem, it may be worth sticking to the mobile website to upload diary entries on the go (if you have a net connection though your phone on the go).

Best wishes.

Oct 15, 2016

Alan 49 284 posts

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Newbie

You should discuss this with your diabetes nurse or doctor. When you go on the DAFNE course, you are assigned a ratio of quick-acting insulin to carbohydrates (expressed in 10 gram potions). My ratio is 1.5 units of insulin to 1 10g portion. So if the meal contains 60g of carbs, I inject 9 units of my quick-acting insulin. Other ratios may be assigned - Like 1:1 or 2:1
.
CP stands for Carbohydrate Portions, QA stands for Quick-Acting (insulin), BI is Backgroung Insulin (like Lantus). BG is Blood Glucose

You should press your GP to get you on to a DAFNE course, where everything (including carb counting) is explained properly.

Oct 15, 2016

Borsalin0 1 post

Topic: General Discussion / New vaccine! Should we get our hopes up?

Might be good news for youngsters further down the road, but I imagine it'll take a lot of years to research side effects of fiddling with the immune system. At my age, 57, there would be no advantages and too much risk. My cousins are excited about the miracle cure headlines, and since we've got it in the family I can see why, but I'd rather have them all enrol in a DAFNE course and take charge for themselves while the boffins do their thing. Quick fix notions tend to divert people's attention from what's really needed.

Oct 14, 2016

xemzx87 1 post

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Newbie

Ok, so ive never done a dafne course but am interested in carbohydrate counting. Im currently on novorapid and lantus of an evening. I heard that you inject 1 unit per 2 carbohydrates is that correct?

Also can people explain what the abbreviations are in the forums, eg cp... thank you.

Sorry if i sound uneducated. I want to better myself but putting it off for so long

Oct 14, 2016

Hannah80 1 post

Topic: Site Development / Diary problems on my phone

Hi, my DAFNE app on my phone isn't working properly, never had this problem before? It isn't loading my bgs and won't except new ones, or if it does it changes it to a different date? I've checked to see if it needs an update, but nothing shows up?
If I delete and reload the app will I loose all my previous bgs? (As I don't want to loose them)
Any ideas??

Oct 13, 2016

moonbeam01 1 post

Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Maths Test

Can anyone give me the calculation (in easy terms) of working out the carbs in any food by weighing them, I did have this calculation when I did the DAPHNE course but I have misplaced it. Many thanks Janice Cotgrove Laughing

Oct 13, 2016

Phil Maskell 194 posts

Topic: General Discussion / NICE Guidance on Diabetes

As a child (in early 90s, so hopefully better now?) I broke my arm, rushed to hospital as expected. With stress and cortisol etc... my BG was 17, first thing nurses and docs did was put me on a glucose drip! They couldn't get my BG down after that for ages!

Oct 4, 2016

pmason 11 posts

Topic: Site Development / Online Diary.........

Hi Simon,
You may have already had this request but is it possible to display the online diary entries from most current date down to oldest date i.e. in reverse order.
OR if it is possible now, how can I do it............Thanks Peter

Oct 4, 2016

JennyMBarnwell 7 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Add favourites to the mobile app.

Just to confirm, I have an Android phone. Jenny

Oct 3, 2016

Simon 578 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Add favourites to the mobile app.

Hi Jenny, are you using the Android version of the app? I'd assumed it was the iOS version... if it's the android one then I'll have to check as I don't have that installed Very Happy

Oct 3, 2016

JennyMBarnwell 7 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Add favourites to the mobile app.

Thanks again Simon. I'm sorry but I can't see the plus sign. I'm not sure what you mean by the "list of Carbs". Is it the "Food Groups" category? Jenny

Oct 3, 2016

Simon 578 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Add favourites to the mobile app.

Ah, sorry I got the wrong end of the stick; when looking at the list of Carbs you'll see a plus sign in the top right hand corner - you can use this to add a Carb entry of your own.

Oct 2, 2016

Alan Shepherd 5 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / Changed from Lantus to Tresiba

Hi Peter, thanks for that. I agree that the extra insight from a CGM would be invaluable. I have been looking at a few CGM devices recently and my diabetes nurse also recommended the Libre - I am, however, a die-hard iOS fan!! Oh the struggles we diabetics have to endure.

Oct 2, 2016

Peter 109 posts

Topic: Questions for HCPs / Changed from Lantus to Tresiba

Hi Alan, Agree that the 3am alarm calls are a drag. You could invest in a Libre to get a picture of exactly what's happening overnight. Yes it is expensive but the addition visibility you obtain makes it worthwhile (in my opinion). At least cost has been reduced a little if you have a recent Android phone which supports NFC communications in which case the separate reader is no longer mandatory. IOS version is due next year.

Oct 2, 2016

JennyMBarnwell 7 posts

Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Add favourites to the mobile app.

Many thanks Simon. I am a new DAFNE graduate after 32 years of being a type 1 diabetic. The course was amazing and I cannot praise it too highly. Regarding my question on favourites, I am looking for a place to store my customised favourites (ie certain meals with multiple food items that I eat on a regular basis). Is there any way of doing this in the app? Kind regards, Jenny

Sep 29, 2016

pmason 11 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Multiple Page Entries Rejecting

Hi Simon,
I have been able to repeat my error and have worked out my problem.

I can now see the error message at the top of the page which reads
"Errors found in row 4: Entry time and date are invalid lengths"

Firstly I did not enter a date. I leave all dates as blank if they are the same day as the first date entered. The system in fact entered the date/s when the error was displayed. However, It does not seem to be an invalid length but that's ok.

Secondly, I see I have been entering the time in the same format as it gets displayed on the diary e.g. I have been entering 3:00 for 3am (which is accepted) and 10:15 for 1015am. Obviously the field length is 4 digits only hence the error on line 4 where I entered the time as 10:15.
I have now overcome this problem by entering the time correctly i.e. as 1015

Thank you for your help and I look forward to learning more with your DAFNE Online system. It is great

Cheers......Peter

Sep 28, 2016

pmason 11 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Multiple Page Entries Rejecting

Ok. I'll go back to using Multiple page entry and take a copy if/when it happens again
Thanks .........Peter

Sep 28, 2016

Simon 578 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Multiple Page Entries Rejecting

Hi pmason,

You should see an error message in the highlighted row and also at the top of the screen, are you not seeing this? If so can you send me a screenshot to [email protected] ?

Thanks,

Simon

Oct 21, 2016 luisafontana 9 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Graphs recording snack entries as 0 BG Hi there, I've started using the app this week and am looking at what it can do. I've been recording snacks as diary entries for the CPs, but they're appearing on my graphs as a reading of zero, when actually there was no reading given at all. Logically, they shouldn't be included as a data point. Am I missing something? It looks like I've died several times this week and it's only Thursday ;)

Oct 17, 2016 Alan 49 284 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Evaluating the Health and Self-Management In Diabetes questionnaire Peter, I followed your link to the ScHARR website and it wanted a User name and a Password, but it offered no way of setting these up, so I was unable to take part in the survey.

Oct 16, 2016 Peter 109 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Evaluating the Health and Self-Management In Diabetes questionnaire The School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield are conducting some research to explore how important it is to people with diabetes that they can manage their diabetes well. They have designed a questionnaire to measure how managing diabetes impacts upon people and are looking for volunteers to complete the questionnaire. It takes about 10 minutes and can be found here. The link contains further details of the research and the process being followed. To quote one of the researchers "studies like this are important as knowing information like this can help policy-makers and clinicians to decide how best to allocate health care, and provide better health services for people with diabetes." Anyone with diabetes living in the UK can complete the survey, and for each 50 participants there is the chance to win Â£50 in shopping vouchers. Thanks for your help.

Oct 16, 2016 luisafontana 9 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Low GI bread In most supermarkets they sell Burgen linseed bread, it's low GI from what I'm told and it's 11g a slice. It's really nice.

Oct 15, 2016 JayBee 587 posts	Topic: Site Development / Diary problems on my phone What app version are you using? The iPhone version is the only one that only gets updates at this time. I personally use the Android version so cannot help with the iPhone one. Are your BGs set up to automatic upload in the settings, and are your login details correct? There are sometimes times where the servers that they upload the diary results to don't work, but that is not common. I think you will lose the BG results if you do not get them uploaded to the DAFNE Online server before removing the app. The main time I've found when the app changes the date is when it's getting close to midnight and I want to add an entry that was earlier in the day so sometimes I have to correct it back to the correct date after I posted the entry so it's right. The other reason it might happen is because the DAFNE Online servers are in an American time zone and sometimes the server gets conflicted so fails to upload. They can be uploaded at a later time though (I usually upload them in the morning with my waking BG result). If it continues to be a problem, it may be worth sticking to the mobile website to upload diary entries on the go (if you have a net connection though your phone on the go). Best wishes.

Oct 15, 2016 Alan 49 284 posts	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Newbie You should discuss this with your diabetes nurse or doctor. When you go on the DAFNE course, you are assigned a ratio of quick-acting insulin to carbohydrates (expressed in 10 gram potions). My ratio is 1.5 units of insulin to 1 10g portion. So if the meal contains 60g of carbs, I inject 9 units of my quick-acting insulin. Other ratios may be assigned - Like 1:1 or 2:1 . CP stands for Carbohydrate Portions, QA stands for Quick-Acting (insulin), BI is Backgroung Insulin (like Lantus). BG is Blood Glucose You should press your GP to get you on to a DAFNE course, where everything (including carb counting) is explained properly.

Oct 15, 2016 Borsalin0 1 post	Topic: General Discussion / New vaccine! Should we get our hopes up? Might be good news for youngsters further down the road, but I imagine it'll take a lot of years to research side effects of fiddling with the immune system. At my age, 57, there would be no advantages and too much risk. My cousins are excited about the miracle cure headlines, and since we've got it in the family I can see why, but I'd rather have them all enrol in a DAFNE course and take charge for themselves while the boffins do their thing. Quick fix notions tend to divert people's attention from what's really needed.

Oct 14, 2016 xemzx87 1 post	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Newbie Ok, so ive never done a dafne course but am interested in carbohydrate counting. Im currently on novorapid and lantus of an evening. I heard that you inject 1 unit per 2 carbohydrates is that correct? Also can people explain what the abbreviations are in the forums, eg cp... thank you. Sorry if i sound uneducated. I want to better myself but putting it off for so long

Oct 14, 2016 Hannah80 1 post	Topic: Site Development / Diary problems on my phone Hi, my DAFNE app on my phone isn't working properly, never had this problem before? It isn't loading my bgs and won't except new ones, or if it does it changes it to a different date? I've checked to see if it needs an update, but nothing shows up? If I delete and reload the app will I loose all my previous bgs? (As I don't want to loose them) Any ideas??

Oct 13, 2016 moonbeam01 1 post	Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Maths Test Can anyone give me the calculation (in easy terms) of working out the carbs in any food by weighing them, I did have this calculation when I did the DAPHNE course but I have misplaced it. Many thanks Janice Cotgrove

Oct 13, 2016 Phil Maskell 194 posts	Topic: General Discussion / NICE Guidance on Diabetes As a child (in early 90s, so hopefully better now?) I broke my arm, rushed to hospital as expected. With stress and cortisol etc... my BG was 17, first thing nurses and docs did was put me on a glucose drip! They couldn't get my BG down after that for ages!

Oct 4, 2016 pmason 11 posts	Topic: Site Development / Online Diary......... Hi Simon, You may have already had this request but is it possible to display the online diary entries from most current date down to oldest date i.e. in reverse order. OR if it is possible now, how can I do it............Thanks Peter

Oct 4, 2016 JennyMBarnwell 7 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Add favourites to the mobile app. Just to confirm, I have an Android phone. Jenny

Oct 3, 2016 Simon 578 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Add favourites to the mobile app. Hi Jenny, are you using the Android version of the app? I'd assumed it was the iOS version... if it's the android one then I'll have to check as I don't have that installed

Oct 3, 2016 JennyMBarnwell 7 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Add favourites to the mobile app. Thanks again Simon. I'm sorry but I can't see the plus sign. I'm not sure what you mean by the "list of Carbs". Is it the "Food Groups" category? Jenny

Oct 3, 2016 Simon 578 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Add favourites to the mobile app. Ah, sorry I got the wrong end of the stick; when looking at the list of Carbs you'll see a plus sign in the top right hand corner - you can use this to add a Carb entry of your own.

Oct 2, 2016 Alan Shepherd 5 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / Changed from Lantus to Tresiba Hi Peter, thanks for that. I agree that the extra insight from a CGM would be invaluable. I have been looking at a few CGM devices recently and my diabetes nurse also recommended the Libre - I am, however, a die-hard iOS fan!! Oh the struggles we diabetics have to endure.

Oct 2, 2016 Peter 109 posts	Topic: Questions for HCPs / Changed from Lantus to Tresiba Hi Alan, Agree that the 3am alarm calls are a drag. You could invest in a Libre to get a picture of exactly what's happening overnight. Yes it is expensive but the addition visibility you obtain makes it worthwhile (in my opinion). At least cost has been reduced a little if you have a recent Android phone which supports NFC communications in which case the separate reader is no longer mandatory. IOS version is due next year.

Oct 2, 2016 JennyMBarnwell 7 posts	Topic: DAFNE Online Mobile / Add favourites to the mobile app. Many thanks Simon. I am a new DAFNE graduate after 32 years of being a type 1 diabetic. The course was amazing and I cannot praise it too highly. Regarding my question on favourites, I am looking for a place to store my customised favourites (ie certain meals with multiple food items that I eat on a regular basis). Is there any way of doing this in the app? Kind regards, Jenny

Sep 29, 2016 pmason 11 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Multiple Page Entries Rejecting Hi Simon, I have been able to repeat my error and have worked out my problem. I can now see the error message at the top of the page which reads "Errors found in row 4: Entry time and date are invalid lengths" Firstly I did not enter a date. I leave all dates as blank if they are the same day as the first date entered. The system in fact entered the date/s when the error was displayed. However, It does not seem to be an invalid length but that's ok. Secondly, I see I have been entering the time in the same format as it gets displayed on the diary e.g. I have been entering 3:00 for 3am (which is accepted) and 10:15 for 1015am. Obviously the field length is 4 digits only hence the error on line 4 where I entered the time as 10:15. I have now overcome this problem by entering the time correctly i.e. as 1015 Thank you for your help and I look forward to learning more with your DAFNE Online system. It is great Cheers......Peter

Sep 28, 2016 pmason 11 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Multiple Page Entries Rejecting Ok. I'll go back to using Multiple page entry and take a copy if/when it happens again Thanks .........Peter

Sep 28, 2016 Simon 578 posts	Topic: General Discussion / Multiple Page Entries Rejecting Hi pmason, You should see an error message in the highlighted row and also at the top of the screen, are you not seeing this? If so can you send me a screenshot to [email protected] ? Thanks, Simon