Holly Dwyer

Strong, independent, successful woman 💖: Anorexia survivor, T1 Diabetic, Ypsomed closed loop Libre 3 user. 💙 Fur mum 🐾🐱

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GbdocTChost @AlexHaggett1 I’ll have to miss this one with my 5:30am start but wanted to shared my HbA1c result received today - 48 🥳 down from 57 in January. So pleased @theGBDOC @ypsomed

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@katboreuxwells Oh how annoying! MDI will only make things worse.

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@katboreuxwells Get well soon lots of love ❤️

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@WhomtheBell6 @GbdocTChost Good thanks! Hope all good with you?

[GBDoc Tweetchat Host @GbdocTChost]

Tonight @HollyRoss3 is back and talking about Bad Habits!
A topic with lots to discuss... surely we all have a few right?

Join Holly here at 9pm tonight!

#GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

I also was on a call with DSN earlier this week who thought i was in the gym before 7am so I could eat more and “enjoy my food”. As if I wouldn’t eat if I didn’t exercise! NOT a healthy attitude. 2 examples of dangerous attitudes. Thanks for reading the rant @GbdocTChost #GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GbdocTChost thought a lot about last nights chat today! Remembered a GP who prescribed me Metformin to “improve my control without putting on weight” 13 years ago! I was 22 with a BMI of no more than 22 - more body fat than now but healthy all the same.

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

Ended up in hospital a few months later with severe dehydration & tachycardia. Paramedics & docs went ballistic I was immediately taken off the pills. They also really hurt my stomach & digestive system. #GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GbdocTChost What would be interesting to hear is how women have managed in pregnancy with weight gain and weight loss after having their baby. #GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GbdocTChost A1 Ive fluctuated over the years but usually not due to diabetes since I’ve had stable control for the last 8 years+ - medications Ive taken for depression & contraceptives have made me gain weight but as soon as I’ve stopped taking them I’ve always lost it without trying. #GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GbdocTChost A5 - on a bad day with multiple hypos, feeling as if I have to constantly eat when I really don’t want to. I struggle on those days. #GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GbdocTChost Anyone else using Ypso ever use boost? If so under what circumstances? #GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GbdocTChost Carbs input directly from food packet readings, bolus taken 15 minutes before eating both times… so what did I do wrong? Any ideas? (I did use the boost function on my HCL for 45 minutes to get myself below 15 after the sandwich - so it may have been that) #GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GbdocTChost A3a - somewhere in between depending on too many factors Including time of day, if I’ve exercised that day, what kind of exercise I did if I did any, whether I’ve got sore muscles from the gym, whether I had 2+ drinks the day before, how much sleep I had the night before… #GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GBDocInfo My DSN asked me to put 1 of my carb ratios up to 1:10 to stop my pump having to work hard. Doing that today and yesterday has resulted in having to shovel loads of jelly babies before the gym and still having a post-gym hypo. I even used a reduced basal pre-gym today to no avail!

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@Kscott1066 I seem to have accepted one a day as the price of good control. Maybe I should be less accepting! It is such hard work.

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

I wondered whether any of you ever feel very drowsy can’t stay awake tired after too many hypos? I’ve had three today and was struggling by 9:30pm! How many do people think is too many in one day - interested to hear views?! (I think more than one a day is too much) #GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GbdocTChost A3: ignorant comments also! I just wonder how it’s possible in 2024 that people still ask whether I should be eating something because I have T1. And that people ask if I ate a lot of sweets when I was younger hence getting T1. Seriously. #GBDoc

[Holly Dwyer @HollyRoss3]

@GbdocTChost A6 - I’d just like to see stuff being posted on any channel being consistently accurate! I still think there are a lot of incorrect/stigma-based views out there. There’s a way to go. #GBDoc