Type one diabetic

[Marnie83]

Hi I'm marnie and I've had diabetes for nearly 27 years since the age of 6 I took up to 8 injections a day but for the past two years I've been on an insulin pump I have two kids with illnesses my daughter who's 2 has laryngomalacia and had an operation last year to help her breathing my son is 6 and 3 days ago was diagnosed with lupus I have other health problems mostly to do with diabetes

[oceantragic]

Hi Marnie, Kev here, father to a 15yo who has Type 1, also on an insulin pump and often using DexcomG4 CGM....and Nightscout

[Marnie83 in reply to oceantragic]

Hi key I'm not sure what this is? I hope your son is well

[oceantragic in reply to Marnie83]

Hi Marnie, my daughter is doing pretty well thanks. Which bit would you like me to explain?

[Marnie83 in reply to oceantragic]

Hi kev thw DexComg4 and nightscout? I'm confused what that is sorry

[oceantragic in reply to Marnie83]

Dexcom G4 is a CGM, a continuous glucose monitor which gives a reading of her glucose level every 5 minutes.

The Nightscout bit takes her CGM reading and send it to The Cloud so I can get alarms on my watch if she is going hypo or hyper throughout the night. It makes her sleep easier knowing she's safe

[Marnie83 in reply to oceantragic]

Yeah I was told when I went on the pump I could pay to have this into my pump but they didn't say what it was called that's a great idea I wish they had this when I was diagnosed at age 6 as I didn't get much sleep get you get this from the nhs?

[oceantragic in reply to Marnie83]

We self fund our cgm, unlike some others we don't get it from the NHS

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to oceantragic]

How long has your daughter been using the DEXCOM G4 system? I've had my G4 for almost 7 months. I had to get a new transmitter sent by DEXCOM. It was time to replace the old one.

[oceantragic in reply to Activity2004]

She's used it since June 2014, not all the time as we can't afford that, even though we get at least 2 or 3 weeks out of a sensor. Or last transmitter lasted 14 months.

We've been using Nightscout with a home built xDrip since January 2015

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to oceantragic]

What is a home built x drip?

[oceantragic in reply to Activity2004]

Hopefully this blog article of mine might explain it bit.ly/xdripkev

[Activity2004 Administrator in reply to oceantragic]

I'm going to check the website very soon. Thank you for posting it.

[HOBIEONE]

Hello Marnie83. Well done for your 27 years ! I am a nutter with numbers & I own a 1983 car. Astra GTE, from new. I like my insulin pump too.