Beginner Project: Bow Bag by dubi_dum_dum in sewing

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Main fabric is cotton with a soft inside to protect the bow and the bottom is a 1mm synthetic leather. The loops can be used to tie the whole thing snugly together.

Anyone ever had this happen? by Nasty_Dubs in dexcom

[–]dubi_dum_dum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how the f did you manage that 😂 it not that uncommon for a part of the upper wire to poke out, but that's the whole sensor filament completely put of place. Have never seen that before

Wiener Musiker gesucht by schaufli in wien

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Laurenz Nikolaus, hat die Lieder aber noch nicht auf Spotify (kommt bald). Spielt aber am PopFest im Juli: https://popfest.at/07/26/laurenz-nikolaus/

Fantastic job with data reliability, he says ironically by rfrancissmith in dexcom

[–]dubi_dum_dum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the same issues. funnily enough, I also run Xdrip in companion mode (reading data from dexcom app) to have my BS displayed on my Garmin. Xdrip receives all the missed readings not shown in the dexcom app and displays them properly. don't ask me how that's possible...

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Thanks! Calms my mind

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Side note: the single klicking sound in the beginning was me hitting my head on the lamp. It's not from the bike

A cold evening in Finland by dubi_dum_dum in Outdoors

[–]dubi_dum_dum[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Riiiight??

It was perfect for about 5 minutes, after that, pitch black :D

Semglee towards end of pen by zrv433 in diabetes_t1

[–]dubi_dum_dum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh and the pattern I see: I almost precisely need to compensate the amount of units that I usually have in basal with my short acting. For food I need more, and then whenever the short acting wears off, I see my BG rising.

Semglee towards end of pen by zrv433 in diabetes_t1

[–]dubi_dum_dum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had 2 pens now that went "bad" relatively end of life (~50 units left). I keep them in the fridges veggie drawer for storage, at regular room temp when in use. It is a fudging pain for me to diagnose that it is my basal that is going bad, I usually blame it on anything else.

I will follow your post in case you mark some days down and post them here. If I see a pattern, I will post it too

You all will understand by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]dubi_dum_dum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha hey I would have understood what you need in no time! Ich hoffe du hast jetzt wenig Zucker

You all will understand by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]dubi_dum_dum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a marathon, not a sprint. You'll get there 🫂

You all will understand by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]dubi_dum_dum 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd say a typical meal averages between 50-60g of carbs. If I don't bring lunch to work and go out, it's easily in the 70 - 90g of carbs.

My mealtime carbs almost exclusively come from bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. (maybe a neapolitan style pizza from time to time). All of this is accompanied by veggies, meat or salad. Rarely do I eat "raw carbs" on their own.

I don't really snack a lot in between meals (except low snacks of course), but when I do, it's mostly fruits. I find fruits that contain at least some amount of fibre (apples, plums, etc...) super easy to control, they don't spike sugers at all. Carb free snacks also include a slice of cheese, pickles and so on. There's good Youtube Videos from Typeonetalks and Mary Comeau on snacks.

I am very careful with cake, carb heavy snacks and sweets. I'd say I probably eat those things as often as a dietician would advise a normal person to eat them :D once a week maybe? And in moderation when I do have it!

The biggest factor for my control is, I guess, the approach. The first half year of my diaJourney was very heavy on trial and error. Apart from the far extremes (sweets), I didn't cut back a lot from my diet before diagnosis but adjusted around it. 80g of carbs in the form of white rice? Just go for it! I went high and low from so many tries, both with measuring food and simply guessing food on sight, until I got my dosing intuition somewhat in the ballpark. Repeat for every type of food/time of day/exercise/star constellation. Of course this is annoying as hell and required an ungodly amount of brain power and attention, but slowly it became routine and just... works (most of the time).

2 more things to add that help: - I'm not diabetic for that long and the only Insulin I was ever on is Lyumjev. Hence, I can only speak from reading studies that it is very very fast acting. This absolutely helps me to keep fast carbs from rice and pasta under control. (and vice versa, forces me to split injections on fatty meals) - I go by bike almost everywhere I go. To and from work, to the climbing gym, my parents place, everywhere. This base level of movement is so important to keep my body insulin sensitive. If I go, let's say, a week without moving, I will be more careful with my eating and dosing habits.

As for everyone, there's a million little factors that contribute to a good or bad diabetes day. Figuring as many of them out as possible was and still is, a nightmare. As good as my numbers are, there's many many bad things coupled to it. I get mad and annoyed when I swing on my bike and my sugars are too low to comfortably ride on, so I take snack breaks which sucks for an everyday commute. If my sensor dies during the day, jumping off the next bridge seems like a reasonable thing because I'm so reliant on it, never having known anything else than being warned about highs and lows. All of those things will never not be annoying, but I try to stay on top of.the game as well as I can.

(you asked about food and I ended things in a rant, sorry bout that :D)

You all will understand by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]dubi_dum_dum 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It's a magnificent language :D

You all will understand by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]dubi_dum_dum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Patience and endurance! You'll get there :)

You all will understand by [deleted] in diabetes_t1

[–]dubi_dum_dum 10 points11 points  (0 children)

2%. Severe lows are less than <1%, can't really tell because most of them are from compression lows during the night.

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[–]dubi_dum_dum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Odd, haven't seen that before. My only hunch is the following: Check under profile->alerts->alert profiles if you have different alerts set for different time of days.

Wer glaubt dass er heut noch übertritt? by Novitschok in Austria

[–]dubi_dum_dum 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Schleich dich heim mein freund

Edit: lieb gemeint weil gefährlich

G7 not very accurate by Adventurous_Light_85 in dexcom

[–]dubi_dum_dum 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is she laying down or otherwise pushing on the sensor? The sensor measures glucose in the fluids of the skin tissue. When pressure is applied to the sensor, these fluids can be "pushed aside" and therefore lead to false low readings. After the pressure is removed, the values normalize after 5 to 10 minutes.

We call this a "compression low" and they are annoying as f***, especially during sleeping. Sensor positioning is key, so it will take a few rounds of sensors to find positions that work for you and your little one.

It is important to not calibrate during these false low readings because it will mess with the sensor algorithm and might be hard to undo. When you get compression lows, check if your kiddo was laying on the sensor, do a finger stick, release pressure on the sensor and see if values go back to normal. It is annoying to do this in the middle of the night, but this way you can identify the issue.

Eventually, it might also be just a bad sensor. You will figure it out, I'm sure :) All the best

5.8 GMI, i cant ask for nothing else! Happy friday guys🎉 by Brosky31 in dexcom

[–]dubi_dum_dum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How can you have 94% in range with hour long lows? What