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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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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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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Guest blog: The all powerful HbA1c – Part Two

6 November 2008
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Hi guys,

You may or may not remember a post back in September which I wrote called ‘The all powerful HbA1c’ in which I talked about HbA1c a little and how despite it being an important tool for gauaging how our BGs are overall, it isn’t necessarily a definitive tool. Specifically, this is because it is possible to ignore fluctuations in glycemic control because the figure is an average and therefore, can hide large variability.

Anyway, I made mention in that post of some articles that I was hoping to get some references for because some research had come out indicating that fluctuations in glycemic control may be just as harmful as consistently evelated BG. It has taken…

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By Aaron on 6 November 2008 at 8.43 am
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Guest Blog: Confessions of a naughty diabetic

4 November 2008
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While we may not tell our doctors all the tricks that we have up our sleeves to hoodwink them, our families and our healthcare teams; it remains to be the case that I (for one) had quite an arsenal of cunning activities to at worst hide and at best improve (or perhaps vice versa) my results when the doctor asks, “so how are you going?”.

While none of us can claim a ‘clean record’, I think I may have been worse than most. It’s not a list that I would EVER put to use at the moment but I’m telling you about it because I realised today every single last one of us has been there to varying degrees. A…

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By Aaron on 4 November 2008 at 8.41 pm
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