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Calibrating BG meters
Replied Sep 14
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You are correct it cannot give you the information on a single test. A lot of T2 only test once a day or less and look at the state they end up in.
A T2 has options when they are high; they can exercise (a walk can do wonders), or they can adjust...
If the two meters give roughly the same result I wouldn't bother. One or the other might fail but the chance of both failing at the same time is small.
I cheat and have a topical steroid my dermatologist prescribed. Usually clears it in about a week.
I manage risk for a living and am also a Lantus user so when this came out I looked through the results to see if this was a risk I needed to avoid. Lets just say I wouldn't be stopping Lantus any time soon. Of the four studies the German study, w...
I tried three meters against each other, Precision Xtra, Freestyle Lite, and Ultramini on my last endo visit. The mini was low (~12% under), the xtra was closest (~3% under), and the freestyle was high (~17% over). It may be that you get less lows...
The obvious one for maltose is beer. Your body makes maltose as well when it breaks down starch so unless you are main-lining the stuff I'm not to worried. This shows the danger of using consumer meters in a hospital setting.
Most of your arguments seem to point towards a single payer system. The bigger the pool of members the better the risks average out so the more predictable things are. The logical conclusion of this is a single pool.
In single payer countries lik...
I'll settle for a temporary measure if it means I can get off insulin and back to a normal life! You are right, on it's own it isn't a cure but it would convert Type 1 to something you could medicate for rather than the current BG mess. If they ev...
I had all the symptoms which I had been studiously ignoring on the principle that if I didn't look it would go away. Well it didn't and I got to a blood sugar of 558, HbA1c of 15.2, and enough ketones to fell an ox before getting frogmarched off t...
I wouldn't worry to much about brain damage. The most likely way to get brain damage would be as an injury from the seizure rather than the seizure itself. The brain is still getting oxygen as long as your heart is beating and it's oxygen deprivat...
I think Dex4 is called Glucotabs in the UK and I'm not wild about the taste. The Dextro Energy orange flavour I could eat all day but you cannot get those in the US. Over here I prefer the Duane Reade own brand tablets with RP stamped on them - th...
The conversion factor is 18. Divide the US number to get the UK number, multiply the UK number to get the US number. Or, depending on how often you get back to the UK and how friendly your GP is, stock up with stripes for your UK meter while you a...
There might be something in that. I wonder if the rush to a shorter wait time has reduced the accuracy and if so by how much?
Join this group if you have diabetes and you live somewhere in the UK (Admin: Ross)
That sounds like a TENS unit. They are used to treat pain although the effectiveness varies quite widely from person to person. Neuropathic pain treatment is one of it's uses. There is close relation, the EMS unit, which works the same way but is ...
I think like a lot of medical matters it's a bit of a lottery and depends on the character of the consultant in charge. The endo in Shrewsbury (where I was) seems pretty dynamic and has developed a whole centre there and a support structure in the...
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Date diagnosed
- June 19, 2009
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Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 7:49am on July 3, 2009,
Marie B said… - Tribbles, welcome here! I see you are recently diagnosed - how is everything going? We just got back from NYC. We go three or four times a year.
- At 1:16am on July 3, 2009,
Gerri said… - Hi Tribbles,
Welcome to the community! Wonderful that you found us so soon after being diagnosed. Great people here to learn from & share with.
I live in VA now, but I'm from NYC.
- At 9:04pm on July 2, 2009,
Christina said… - Welcome to tudiabetes =]
- At 8:41pm on July 2, 2009,
Linda Gauvin-Miller said…
Welcome to the family Tribbles...you've only JUST been diagnosed!!! How's it all going? Take a peek at some of the groups, and see if you can upload a photo when you get a chance!
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