Return of the night spikes.

11 March 2010
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The great thing about being pregnant most of last year was that the dreaded overnight BG spikes I was struggling with (which lead me to getting on the pump in the first place) disappeared. I’m not sure it was a complete win, because with all of the other pregnancy stuff all of the rest of your blood sugars go haywire… but I have to say – there is something doubly frustrating about going to bed with a perfect BG and waking up in the morning with a sky-high one. It just seems really unfair. During the day if you have a crazy spike you often blame it on food, exercise or stress (rightly or wrongly) – but I just get…

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By Nic on 11 March 2010 at 6.44 am
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Interesting research re insulin pumps, multiple injections, CGMS.

5 March 2010
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I’ve just come across two interesting pieces of research.

One:

A trial done in Norway between 1995 to 2004, involving 80 kids and adolescents using both multiple daily injections (MDI) and insulin pumps. The trial was set up to study the difference in HbA1c; incidence of hospitalisation for ketoacidosis and severe hypoglycaemia; and patient preference.

It was shown that the HbA1c levels of the patients decreased over time, which also coincided with the adoption of insulin pump therapy (76% of the patients were on pumps by the end of the ten years – unfortunately it doesn’t say what percentage were using them at the start). However, the adoption of insulin pumps didn’t seem to have an effect on the number…

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By Nic on 5 March 2010 at 8.43 am
Posted in CGMS, Hypos & Hypers, Insulin Pumps, Kids & Teens, Science & Research
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Rules are there for…. following. Harrummph.

3 March 2010
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Woah, woah, woah. Yesterday (Tuesday) was a T1 day I’m ready to forget, what a nightmare!

I knew I had a really busy Tuesday ahead of me, so after getting back from pilates on Monday night, I set about getting everything ready in advance. Clothes laid out in the bathroom, sandwich made, wrapped and stowed in the fridge, baby toys and feeding stuff all clean and set up…. and, being a complete nerd I had even written a ‘run sheet’ of the things I needed to do, at what time.

Basically, I wanted to fit in an exercise class (BuggyTone) up the road at 10am because a friend of mine has just started it and I wanted to support her…

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By Nic on 3 March 2010 at 7.04 pm
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Aaron: How much info is too much?

1 March 2010
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Hi all!

New week, new month, new season!

Pardon my absence for the last  couple of weeks – I’ve been a bit crook and have been coming home from work completely knackered and quite incapable of doing much other than going straight to bed! Nic has been cranking out some awesome content though so I’m sure that you have hardly noticed

Having been sick, the last couple of weeks have been a struggle in terms of BGs and not just fatigue with, unsurprisingly, lots of fluctuations and heaps of hypos and highs as I’ve been trying to get the levels back under control. For a couple of weeks I thought I was just working too hard and not getting…

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By Aaron on 1 March 2010 at 6.57 pm
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What’s that lady doing?

1 March 2010
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I had a very strange client at one of the agencies I worked for in London. I became quite fond of this man because, although he was EXTREMELY hard work, he was just so far out of the norm, you’d never really know what you were going to get, so you had to be on your A game every time you met him.

Examples of his strangeness:

1. The first time I had a meeting with him I asked him for his mobile number so I could contact him about something while he was out and about that afternoon. Like a nine year old schoolboy he recited this number as FAST as he possibly could, then looked at me waiting…

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By Nic on 1 March 2010 at 7.02 am
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