>Aside: what do you .NET folks use nowadays? Winforms lol, it just works and I don't have to spend most of my time trying to work out xaml stuff. Just add the components to the window, set up some event handlers, done
A sensible decision indeed
Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
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#62Interesting read. My wife is T1D, moved to a closed loop last year. It has been life changing for her - this is not an understatement. Her mental health has massively improved because she isn't having up to 3-4 hypos a day. One thing not mentioned in the intro, hormones hugely affect T1D. She's started perimenopause and everything went out of the window. Closed loop has made this much more manageable.
The mental and physical benefits of improved glucose management cannot be overstated
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#63>You should also lose weight, when you started coming here you had 80kg, now you’re a centurion. Like seriously, WTF. OK cool bye, see you in 3 months!”
a centurion? an officer of the roman army?
I do not understand the phrase, is the author fat or not?
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#64>You should also lose weight, when you started coming here you had 80kg, now you’re a centurion. Like seriously, WTF. OK cool bye, see you in 3 months!” a centurion? an officer of the roman army? I do not understand the phrase, is the author fat or not?
100kg+. It's a joke :)
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#65I'm a T1D and I mostly agree with the author. I think this simulation is very interesting. I disagree with the author however on the following point: "injecting insulin ~15min before you start eating would do wonders for neutralizing the BG spike, the issue is, nobody does it, because what if you then get a smaller serving at the restaurant or it gets delayed?" My doc told me the same, which I think is insane. "Here…
You're definitely making me reconsider it, thanks! Along with the person in another thread saying walks after meals help as well. With a fully remote work these risky "oops I injected but there's no food yet" situations should not happen as often, considering the time-to-fridge is like 10 seconds.
Re: Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
#66>You should also lose weight, when you started coming here you had 80kg, now you’re a centurion. Like seriously, WTF. OK cool bye, see you in 3 months!” a centurion? an officer of the roman army? I do not understand the phrase, is the author fat or not?
100kg+. It's a joke :)
I see. And won't weight loss help in even Type 1? Is it not a valid argument?
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#67The fat thing mentioned in the post: fat seems to slow down absorption in my experience, though not to the extreme that some self-described “body hackers” (who don’t have DM) seem to think. I basically consider my malfunctioning pancreas to have been replaced/augmented by my brain, assisted by a cgm. My diet is rather boring but keeps me alive and keeps the BG in a pretty tight range. My biggest problems are hypo (us…
See, that's the thing. I've had T1D for 26 years now and I have stubbornly refused to accept that it's not a smart idea to eat anything I want. I am not going to give up hash browns until I lose a leg.
Interesting; as a non-diabetic, there are lots of (nice) things I don't eat regularly (pretty rarely in reality) for general health reasons. Hash browns aren't a particular thing for me, but they'd definitely be on my 'not regularly' list (deep fried, comparatively simple carbs, lots of salt, etc.)
Genuine question, not trying to 'gotcha': do you think your stubbornness in this regard was somehow accentuated by having T1D? Is this perhaps a recognised phenomenon amongst diabetics? (An old friend with T1D was similarly [maybe even more extremely] stubborn, being perhaps the most badly-behaved and impulsive of our friend group at that time.)
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#69For those of you on the cusp of diabetes, immediately start working out intensely and reduce your sugar intake. There is still time! It’s not inevitable
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#70I'm a T1D and I mostly agree with the author. I think this simulation is very interesting. I disagree with the author however on the following point: "injecting insulin ~15min before you start eating would do wonders for neutralizing the BG spike, the issue is, nobody does it, because what if you then get a smaller serving at the restaurant or it gets delayed?" My doc told me the same, which I think is insane. "Here…
You're definitely making me reconsider it, thanks! Along with the person in another thread saying walks after meals help as well. With a fully remote work these risky "oops I injected but there's no food yet" situations should not happen as often, considering the time-to-fridge is like 10 seconds.
Knowing little about the subject. If Insulin is a 20 minute lag, and eating is a 20 minute lag. Shouldn't you just dose immediately before eating so they hit at the same time?