Nic 0, Diabetes 2.

9 July 2008
No Comments

Yup, night two of three of my CGMS has been and gone and the high morning blood sugars I have four days out of five are nowhere to be seen. Last night resulted in a 2.30am low (3.1) and a blood sugar of 3.8 on waking. Without the low I’d be very pleased with that night! I have one night left for the overnight highs to come back so we can see what’s going on. Strange to wish for it when I’ve spent the last few weeks wishing for the opposite. But I’m starting to look like the boy who cried wolf.

Aside from that, I’m finding I’m getting used to being attached to a machine. Even after two nights…

Continue reading »


By Nic on 9 July 2008 at 7.25 am
Posted in General
Tagged as , , , , , ,
This post has No comments so far. Add yours here.

Not nice.

8 July 2008
No Comments

I was talking to a workmate yesterday and she mentioned this story of a woman in Illinois who had her toe bitten off by her dog. She didn’t feel it because of diabetes-related nerve damage. Awful – poor lady (although I can see why it’s made headlines around the world, who would ever guess such a thing would happen?).

I noticed an article come across today saying that every week 100 people in the UK have amputations due to poorly controlled diabetes. (see here). I don’t believe in wallowing in all the negatives of this condition but once in a while reminders like this make me all the more focussed on getting my…

Continue reading »


By Nic on 8 July 2008 at 12.45 pm
Posted in General
Tagged as ,
This post has No comments so far. Add yours here.

Wired up.

7 July 2008
No Comments

Well, I went to my appointment at 2pm today and walked out with a Minimed continuous glucose meter attached to my stomach and slung on my hip – nice.

Apparently this CGMS has been out for about ten years and while I’m very grateful to be able to use it for free, it’s starting to show its age. The fantastic staff member at North Shore diabetes clinic gave me the low down and inserted it for me then showed me the buttons. There are only a couple of buttons on it and the user interface seems pretty rudimentary.

I have to wear it for three days to get 48 hours’ worth of data, and it takes my blood sugar using…

Continue reading »


By Nic on 7 July 2008 at 8.42 pm
Posted in General
Tagged as , , , , , , ,
This post has No comments so far. Add yours here.

Continuous blood glucose monitoring.

5 July 2008
No Comments

One of the main things which finally got me to set up this blog is that I’m finally on the road to an insulin pump.

I’ve been having all sorts of problems overnight lately (quite possibly dawn phenomenon) – going to bed with perfect 6-ish blood sugars and then waking up with BMs as high as 16 (one morning recently it was 19.9). Totally ridiculous, and so frustrating, when I’ve been making a huge effort during the day – taking 10 or so finger prick tests and micro managing my injections (I’m on Lantus as a basal and Humalog as short acting).

My last HbA1c came in at 7.8 which I was really cross about, especially after all the work…

Continue reading »


By Nic on 5 July 2008 at 7.25 pm
Posted in General
Tagged as , , , , , ,
This post has No comments so far. Add yours here.

The very beginning.

5 July 2008
2 Comments

Hi all! Well I say that – I’m not planning to actually let anyone know this blog is up until there are a few posts to see, so at the moment I’m talking to an audience of zero. However, for those of you who are reading this in retrospect, I’ll give a bit of background about who I am and why I started this blog.

My name’s Nic, and I’m a 30 year old woman who’s had type one diabetes since 16 years of age. I was born in NZ and have lived here all but nine years of my life – two of them in Sydney and seven of them in London.

As I’ve got older (mainly from my…

Continue reading »


By Nic on 5 July 2008 at 7.21 pm
Posted in General
Tagged as , , , ,
This post has 2 comments so far. Add yours here.