Finding the chase and cutting to it

Breaking the 80% Ceiling of current diabetes technology. For decades, the clinical approach to insulin replacement has treated the human body as a predictable, linear machine. Standard “Total Daily Dose” (TDD) and “Basal/Bolus” ratios operate on the assumption that if a specific amount of insulin is delivered, a predictable result will follow. While early insulin […]

insulin, for giving it to me…? Yesterday was World Diabetes Day (14th November), held during Diabetes Awareness month (November). The reason for the 14th November is because (Dr Fred) Banting was born on the 14th November. (For all those who write raw HTML, be in awe of my dedication to not para-phrase that to save […]

This has been inspired by https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222001201 . Having funded a pump myself, I appreciate that the pump itself is an expensive piece of kit, but that isn’t where the costs lie. Let me take you through this. Examination of cost of buying and running a pump. Item Frequency of payment Cost over life time. Pump […]

This may seem like an odd thing to say, given my posts are all about what I/we have done as a family to lower our carbon footprint, but I am a very private person. Being type 1 diabetic, I don’t feel that that is something I can do easily. It’s a relatively obscure condition for […]

I had one of “those mornings” where a high blood glucose reading had settled in a refused to budge. It’s hard to work out if it’s the tail end of my infection, or the fact I actually managed to do an hour’s walk/hike to our local park and back home through the cemetry and it’s […]

My son believes I work too hard. I love my day job, so it doesn’t feel like work to me but my fitness app is of the same opinion “try to optimise rest today”. Economically, I’m very much of the belief that hard work pays dividends, gets rewarded, etc. But only 10% of effort is […]

Weight-watchers has been a trope in many middle aged romcom books over its 62 year history – but it has recently been facing stiff competition from app led regimes such as Noom, and finally from a simple medication that achieves weight loss by curbing appetite. There is a hitch though… You’re kidding me, I would […]

Can I be absolutely frank with you: having type 1 diabetes is frightening. Anyone with type 1 feels this from time to time, from the first hypo you have, to the first hyper that won’t respond to insulin, to the first screening you have for retinal defects (diabetic retinopathy and maculopathy). This is, like the […]

I’m type 1 diabetic: that means my natural state is hyperglycemia or having blood sugar above 7mmol/l when fasting above 11mmol/l two hours after eating. For days when nothing else is happening, I generally manage to keep to those limits, which gives me a long term measure of glycated hemoglobin of between 5.2% and 6.5%. […]

You can control what you eat and exercise levels is the statement often touted on facebook and linkedIn. Unless you have an immune condition that means you are manually providing the means to control your sugar and potassium levels – things are a bit more complicated when you do that. I have resisted a high […]