[adrianconnelly]

A big HI to everyone from me in Sydney Australia.

I'm a T2 very new to this so please be gentle. I've had a few diabetes-related health issues recently which I won't bore you with. Suffice to say I'm now, after 11 years of this awful disease, on one daily Lantus injection (60 units) together with 1000mg of Diamicron each morning and 1000mg of Metformin at each meal. Wouldn't be at all surprised if my insides rattled before long. And no: it doesn't make me nauseous or give me diarrhoea.

The posts that I've read are really helpful, so thanks to you all: I've learned heaps in just a short while.

The great news is that my BG readings have been within the normal non-diabetic range for over a week now! I've struggled with them for over 18 months, so I'm puffing out my chest and grinning with self satisfaction. I am determined to keep them that way, because life is just so beautiful - even with all its faults and its difficulties. It's the struggle that makes you feel it's all so worthwhile and there are plenty of people worse off than me.

I confess I'm still a bit confused about some aspects of the GB app e.g. the dates are in mmddyyyy format whereas we use ddmmyyyy. ("9/11" refers to the 9th of November, not September 11, we drive on the left-hand side of the road, use metric measurement, have Christmas in high summer and it's already tomorrow down here! But that's what happens when you're permanently upside-down. LOL)

Others on the forum have suggested a selectable date format as well as event-based graphs and Excel-compatible data log exports, so I won't say more than they have my enthusiastic support and I look forward to each enhancement.

Also, my BG meter (AccuCheck Go) only records in mmol/L rather than mg/dl and I'm not good at arithmetic so when people talk about their BG being 115, I have to do some mental calcs to know if that's good or not. Not easy at my age.

Anyway, hang in there my friends.

Regards
Adrian

[dano]

adrianconnelly;

Good for you on loosing the weight! I have basically the same problem as you on the conversions. When someone throws a mmol/L reading at me, I have to run to the conversion program.

I bet that your water closet flushes counter-clockwise as well.