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Angie replied to the topic Potential Thread Necromancy ahead: Apps for Data...
Ohhh…I’ve been coveting the mysugr app for a while, but unfortunately I’m one of those Android types, and they still don’t have it available yet *waits not-so-patiently*
View ArticleMike replied to the topic Potential Thread Necromancy ahead: Apps for Data...
Drop Frederik a line Angie (a T1 himself). He might be able to put you on the ‘beta tester’ team for the ‘droid version if you are able to provide feedback on bugs etc.
View ArticleMike replied to the topic Potential Thread Necromancy ahead: Apps for Data...
I tend to either run non-pro or just use the weekly ‘challenges’ to a) keep me going and b) give me a possible 6-9 days of ‘Pro’ every week. For many though I guess the Pro payment would just be easier...
View ArticleHilary replied to the topic Can I have some medical advice? in the forum...
Not sure if this will be useful for you super-cycling heroic types, but I found a good website that suggests how to adjust extra carbs/insulin reductions for exercise: http://www.excarbs.com/...
View ArticleDonald Thomson posted an update: Downloaded my pump and meter readings this...
Downloaded my pump and meter readings this morning and it’s very encouraging. On MDI I struggled to get an HBA1C of below 8.0 and stay on target for more than 50% of the time. Now it’s 6.9% and 72% on...
View ArticleLesley commented on the post, Learnings of a diabetic mum
In my (smug?) non-motherhood, this made me laugh out loud! Or was it supposed to? Seems like everything involved in motherhood is a pre-runner to a hypo. You seem to be coping very well. x
View ArticleAlison commented on the post, Learnings of a diabetic mum
“everything involved in motherhood is a pre-runner to a hypo” That’s a pretty fair summary Lesley! Its good fun though. Worryingly we’re now at 6 months and the only bit of that post that’s no longer...
View Articletim swinburn replied to the topic My Change to Basal Bolus. in the forum...
Bit of a result in recent weeks….. Been doing a course called InSight which is run by the OCDEM in Oxfordshire. It’s a similar plan to DAFNE but is completed over the course of 6 weeks, the idea being...
View Articlelizz replied to the topic Pump battery in the forum Living with type one
Doesn’t happen with mine – so it must be you. Perhaps (Oh, god, I hate this typeface, can you do anything about that?) you have that condition that means all electrical items hate you and in the end...
View ArticleAlison replied to the topic Pump battery in the forum Living with type one
Yes, just you im afraid. Mine doesn’t do that. To answer your other question, babies come from planets where sleep is for wimps, poo is a plaything and everything is fair game to be eaten.
View Articlelizz replied to the topic Pump battery in the forum Living with type one
Hi Alison! Yes, Tim, the reply comment typeface – it’s vile!
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Alison replied to the topic Pump battery in the forum Living with type one
“I thought babies came from storks …” I clearly overestimated your intelligence when I agreed to run a blog with you Hi Liz Posted from my phone too. They’re taking over the world
View ArticleAlison replied to the topic Potential Thread Necromancy ahead: Apps for Data...
I’ve heard lots of good things about mysugr. Not enough to lure me into actually maintaining diabetes records, but if I was going to be sensible and do that I’d probably start with mysugr. I’ll be...
View ArticleAlison wrote a new post, Additional diabetes junk trauma
I’ve always hated diabetes junk. Never mind limbs rotting off and kidneys drowning in a sea of glucose. Oh no, my number one diabetes whinge, out of all proportion to the gravity of the problem, is...
View ArticleAnnette A commented on the post, Additional diabetes junk trauma
I think this new version of the forum is out to get me. It first posted my comment onto a long ago post (Tims a Criminal or something) and then seems to have deleted it altogether!
View ArticleAnnette A commented on the post, Additional diabetes junk trauma
Ah yes, child-proofing. Not my own, but a time when I had my niece staying with me for a few days. My kit was all left on my bedside cabinet (where it usually lives). I walked in to find her carefully...
View ArticleMike commented on the post, Additional diabetes junk trauma
Slight irony in my memory of arriving home once to find my wife and toddler daughter assembling some IKEA flatpack. Daughter beamed and said that she and mummy had been ‘playing with sharp things’
View ArticleMike replied to the topic Pump battery in the forum Living with type one
I think you must have a special one @Alison – While perhaps not as properly wibbly wobbly as @Tim‘s my Veo also likes to decide to go down to one bar after about a week of use, then have a bit of a...
View ArticleAlison replied to the topic Pump battery in the forum Living with type one
Always pleased to hear I’m special mike!
View ArticleAlison commented on the post, Additional diabetes junk trauma
I’m in awe of your wife attempting flatpack with toddler. That sounds like something you’d need a good helping of gin to get through
View Articlelizz commented on the post, Additional diabetes junk trauma
Oh, I love assembling Ikea stuff! (Tim, this is a much nicer font, but too small for my eyes to see!) My daughter learned to walk the day she was 9 months old. She’d been crawling and standing since […]
View Articlelizz commented on the post, Additional diabetes junk trauma
Replying to myself here – the font size once posted is massive – just while writing it is titchy. In case anyone thinks I must be blind!
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Alison wrote a new post, Got a kid with diabetes? DUK care events...
The deepest, darkest days of January are the perfect time to be planning holidays. And by sheer coincidence Diabetes UK have just launched their 2014 programme of care events for families and young...
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Dave replied to the topic Pump battery in the forum Living with type one
I had a dodgy batch of batteries once that lasted about a week. All straight again now. I’ll back @Mike and suggest he was being complimentary. @Tim don’t confuse him with your levels of insult
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Dave commented on the post, Got a kid with diabetes? DUK care events...
+1 for the wonderfullness of the care events. Any opportunity to mix with people your age who just sort of ‘get it’ has to be a good thing. And raging hormones for the teenaged events adds to the fun
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Alison replied to the topic Pump battery in the forum Living with type one
Did I ever mention I think you’re great Dave?
View ArticleDave replied to the topic Google creates glucose sensing contact lense in the...
I’m looking at the last two paragraphs. The way my hair is going, that might be the most useful!
View ArticleAlison replied to the topic Google creates glucose sensing contact lense in...
Darn that pesky dog. The bit that’s new though is google. And that’s interesting because I think non medical firms have a lot to bring to improving medical tech. Remember how great diabetes would be if...
View ArticleNeville the Newshound replied to the topic Google creates glucose sensing...
What can I say? I’m just great at sniffing out a news story. (See what I did there? Using the word “sniffing”, you see that’s what we dogs do, sniff. Clever as well as informative, eh?)
View ArticleMike replied to the topic Pump battery in the forum Living with type one
[Archaic punctuation reference alert] For clarity, if I had meant to be insulting I suppose I could have used a ‘sarcastrophe’, the written equivalent of doing those little wiggly-fingers-in-the-air...
View ArticleDave replied to the topic Google creates glucose sensing contact lense in the...
I’m imagining the lens would give me something like this http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/terminator_vision.jpg showing BG and a trend arrow. Can’t be that hard. Shirley?
View ArticleAlison started the topic Google creates glucose sensing contact lense in the...
Apply a suitable level of scepticism and caveats about it being very early days, lots more work to do etc. But its interesting to see a mainstream tech player meddling in the medical device market. How...
View ArticleDave replied to the topic Diabetes 'cure' to end misery of jabs in the forum...
<rant> Two things….. 1: 10 years – LOL. And lots of LOLs. Always 10 years. 2: “Cure” – that’s not a cure, it’s a new form of treatment (artificial pancreas) that is being developed around the...
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Dave replied to the topic Diabetes 'cure' to end misery of jabs in the forum...
Absolutely. But call it that. The parents of newly diagnosed kids will cling to headlines like this just like mine did three and a half cures ago! Artificial Pancreas is definitely realistically...
View ArticleAlison replied to the topic Diabetes 'cure' to end misery of jabs in the...
We should really post Tim’s excellent how to write a diabetic news story post on the Express website to save them the effort next time they decide to cure us. And it does make a change to be cured by...
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Dave replied to the topic Diabetes 'cure' to end misery of jabs in the forum...
As you asked so nicely (and so man times)...
View ArticleAlison commented on the post, Logging the tempestuous seas of diabetes
Brownie points for actually doing some logging. I’m still in my anti logging rebellious phase which has lasted since my mid teens. It appears that when i decide to rebel i focus on one thing and do it...
View Articlelizz commented on the post, Logging the tempestuous seas of diabetes
I have never logged. My pump should log for me now I have the sensor but my computer does not sync up well with the Medtronic stupid stupid stupid site, so after trying three times I am never going to...
View Articlelizz commented on the post, Logging the tempestuous seas of diabetes
Um… you have to log in to Medtronic, and use a system on their site, but my computer is a mac and they don’t make the software compatible.
View Articlelizz commented on the post, Logging the tempestuous seas of diabetes
Yes, and Java is part of the problem I seem to recall…
View ArticleAnnette A replied to the topic Dual wave boluses in the forum Living with...
I find that using the percentages the other way round works better – just a small amount (about 25%) as an immediate, followed by the rest over about an hour. It does depend on what I’m eating – the...
View ArticleMike replied to the topic Dual wave boluses in the forum Living with type one
I think you’ve got exactly the right idea, but infuriatingly you just need to endlessly experiment to see what works best. 75:25 over 1 hour is pretty much a ‘nothing going on here’ setting for me....
View ArticleDave commented on the post, Logging the tempestuous seas of diabetes
Sadly it’s a OS X 10.9 problem. 10.8 and below worked OK after ignoring the warnings and tweaking a few things but 10.9 has broken the dodges. Medtronic have told me the delay is that they have to pass...
View ArticleMike commented on the post, Logging the tempestuous seas of diabetes
I refuse to run Java any more since the less than enthusiastic approach to plugging the enormous security holes over the last year or so. I did do a bit of Veo downloading early on, but really disliked...
View Articlelizz commented on the post, Logging the tempestuous seas of diabetes
Any way of getting in on that beta testing? i so need to look at my records…
View ArticleMike commented on the post, Logging the tempestuous seas of diabetes
No need Lizz, as far as I know the droid version has launched in the Play store
View ArticleCaroline replied to the topic Dual wave boluses in the forum Living with type...
Hello strangers! I got pulled in by elephant insulin doses, and then stayed in because of dual boluses – one of my favourite things. I use a dual just for pasta. After quite a long period of...
View ArticleMike replied to the topic Doctor prescribed 'elephant' insulin dose at...
Of course, the trouble with diabetic elephants is that they are all terrified of diabetic mice and their now mythic capacity for getting cured.
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