chris_dh

Cheers for the replies lads. Would like more info Craig, be good to get summat local although I suspect it might be above my price range at the moment.

Sorry for the motorbike content but I'm sure theres a few people on here that ride both bike and motorbike trials. Used to ride a montesa 314r about 6 or 7 years ago but didn't even have the internet back then so never got into the forums etc. Now I'm wanting to get something fairly cheap but have no idea where to look or what to look for. Really wanting to go for cheap and easy to maintain. CC isn't really an issue but at least 125. Anyone got any pointers of bikes, places to try 2nd hand etc. Also if anyones selling anything that might interest me drop me a line. Cheers Chris

Yeah as I've said some people drop their insulin, I think its really a case of experimenting but I've found injecting for every other pint suits me.

Now I know theres a lot of riding with the quarries round Buxton, Burbage rocks, hathersage, Mam Tor, Wharncliffe craggs, Stanage edge etc. but there must be some equally good hidden away spots? Any reccomendations/ locals fancy hooking up? I'm bikeless at the moment so it'l be a month or so before I can get out, I've raced downhill for years but very much a trials virgin so not really sure of the local spots, most places I know are through DH/ climbing.

Alcohol can be a bad one. Generally the higher the content the less affect it will have so if your drinking shots etc. theres not usually much need to do anything. With beer, lager etc I inject for every other pint as its a faily high sugar content but so slow acting you don't want to be injecting for each drink as the insulin will act loads faster and you'l go low. Some people drop their background insulin but I've never found I needed to going out. Again with your insulin regieme its going to be impossible to work- same for food, if you were on the right insulin you wouldn't be missing anything you could be eating what you like when you like and just doing insulin for it- I'm sure most people on here will be the same, they don't miss anything because they can adjust insulin to allow for it.

I use 8mm but they're still microfine needles like yours. Never seen sugar free Redu Bull, Il have to have a look, would imagine its a lot of caffine, creatine etc.?

Thats shocking, deffinately contact your consultants, give them a slap while your at it aswell. I used to do that but back when insulin was in a bottle you had to mix and used fish sperm as the protien to make it slower release- sounds like you've never got far ahead of that which is really poor- I'm certain nobody at all will be better off on that regiem, certainly can't think of any obviouls examples other than needle phobia.

Was it just me or did it seem to finish about 2 minutes in? Went sooooo fast today I couldn't believe it was the end.

To be honest in my experience its rare for anyone to be on any form of mixtard alone now. I assume your eating has to be determined by your insulin still? How long have you been diagnosed, maybe your still in the moneymoon period by the sounds of things? (you still produce some of your own insulin?) Whatever you did you'd have to increase injections but you'd get better control. Maybe levermir (SP?) morning and evening and novorapid with meals or something would be better. Your obvioulsy on an insulin with a peak, if you can find a pattern in when your BM is high and when its low your nurse should be able to determin whats best insulin wise. Obvioulsy without knowing a bit more detail about your reigiem I can't offer much advice and I'm certainly not qualified to be making desicions for you- although it sounds like neither are the people who are doing. I'l have a look through some stuff for you at some point and get back to you. I'd strongly reccomend trying to get on a DAFNE course, ask your doctor for info, if they don't know anything about it get them to find out- sounds like they need it aswell.

Another pretty shocking thing to bear in mind, a hypo stop (now gluco gel) is only around .6 of a unit, so you actually need 2 to treat a hypo properly. How many times have you had a hypo and thought "maybe I shouldn't have taken a hypo stop for that"? Certainly took me by suprise, if I only had 2 jelly babies I'd still feel low but would've had more carbs than if I'd taken a hypo stop and I'dve felt fine... Shows how much physcology and your perception of being low comes into it... Another thing to bear in mind for those of you on 24 hour insulin, glargine isn't meant to peak but does. If you find your control is bad and take Glargine ask to try Humilin I twice a day. Many people (myself included) were just put on glargine when it came out as being this amazing insulin. To be blunt it isn't, most people need 2 injections a day on it really and if your doing 2 there are better insulins available anyway.

If you don't want to let your hands harden or they just won't if you have sensitive skin etc. boxing tape is pretty good. Any sports shop should be able to sort you out and its much cheaper than blister pads. Would've thought 2 pairs of gloves would just get annoying, they'l bunch up and give you pretty poor grip. (assuming you weren't joking)

I haven't read all of this but I've had diabetes since age 5 (now 19). I've ridden downhill, xc and 4x for around 5 years (although very on and off through long term injury) but anyway.... My control was pretty... well, non existant through my early teenage years, hormonal changes mean its a nightmare to keep on top of and you'l probably find you generally have better things to do than test your blood 4 times a day which won't help. I had problems with cramp especially because of it. One thing you can do is to take dhyroloite drinks, they won't help your diabetes but have no sugar or anything so won't cause problems but replace all the body salts and help towards fluids lost through sweat. As much as it sucks (and I'l admit I still don't always do it myself) the only thing to do is check your sugar before going out. If its high do insulin to bring it down to about 8, you don't want to bring it down to your normal target zone otherwise it will drop. A hypo should be treated with summat equivilent to 1 carbohydrate portion (CP), this is 10 grammes of carbs. equivilent to 100ml of lucozade (the fizzy stuff not the isotonic ones), 4 jelly babies, 250ml of fruit juice/ sugary pop. Over treating a hypo was another of my problems and I was very scepticl that any of those could treat a hypo, I still take a bit more but try and stay close to that- it stops any extreme jumps in sugar which is often worse than being a bit high or low. Feel free to PM me if you want any more help, I'm a british cycing coach, fairly experienced with diabetes and done a course in diabetes management so should be able to help with any specific questions.