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Morning everyone. 5.0 for me this morning. Off to do a weekly shop today. Have a good day folks x
 
5.0 for me.

Off to the opticians this morning. No, not an eye check or anything like that but I have broken the frame of my relatively new glasses. How? Taking off my face mask, my glasses got caught in the face mask straps and off they went, landing in a concrete path. Optician's receptionist told me they are getting quite a lot of business due to this. So take care all you glasses wearing face makers!
 
eggyg said:
Morning. 6 today. Woke to a message to say my auntie died last night. :(
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Oh dear @eggyg , a tough time for you and the wider family at the moment ((virtual hugs))
 
eggyg said:
Morning. 6 today. Woke to a message to say my auntie died last night. :(
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Couldn't bring myself to 'like' your post. Am so sorry to hear about your auntie, sending hugs and kind wishes your way :(
 
New-journey said:
I hate it when they do that, it affects my time in target and makes me not respond to hypos as I know it is a lie! But as you say so much better than finger pricks. I have never had one which is higher than blood, have you?
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No, most of them tend to read low, which is why I was surprised when the last one was almost entirely in line with blood readings throughout! As you say, a sensor reading low when you already have good control gives a lot of false hypos and messes up your statistics :( I have just had a 14 day stretch with zero hypos on the old sensor, and already 1 on the new one! I don't use basal insulin, so any overnight 'hypos' are incorrect. You ought to be able to calibrate a sensor by taking blood readings on the reader, and also discard any readings from sensors that are completely inaccurate and get replaced 🙂
 
After two days of 5.8s I knew it couldn't last. Although still very pleased with a 5.9 at 07:03

Better morning here in West Berks. Walking across the garden to let the chickens out in my dressing gown was awful yesterday morning. Much more pleasant today
 
My condolences to you @eggyg and your family.
Dez
 
Oohh! Just got a text reminder from the hospital for my upcoming appointment with the cardiologist on Monday 02/11/20 but, it’s now by phone instead & it’s written in bold capitals DO NOT ATTEND THE HOSPITAL! 🙄 Good thing they sent the text or I would have gone! Even better as I was thinking it’s going to be VERY expensive to take 6 taxi journeys in a week: 24 hour heart monitor to get & return on 10&11/11/20; was looking up Uslterbus & NI Railways journey planners on their Translink website but, was VERY apprehensive about public transport! o_O A bit of relief for another week then before I HAVE to venture out for the heart monitor the following week!

Purse strings are just that bit tighter after buying a new iPhone but, got it a bit sooner than intended for NI’s equivalent of the NHS Covid app, that one doesn’t work for NI & there’s another one for us here, that needs at least ios 13 AND it’s coming up to my 49th. Birthday at the end of November; a better treat than chocolate cake which I don’t really fancy this year!🙄

With upcoming appointments etc that I’m expecting as things get seen to, I’ll need to leave the house a bit more & that app is a wee bit of a confidence boosting morale that helps a wee bit! There’s only so much that can be done by phone!🙄
 
@Kaylz Shove up, cos I'm joining you on the 9.0 step this morning. It is some small consolation that I am in good company but still pretty chewed off.
You would think I was injecting water instead of insulin the last couple of days. Upped my basal last night by 2 units to 5 but still went up to a BG of 14 in the early hours!
Shot myself 4.5 units of Fiasp this morning with my 16 units of Levemir and it took an hour and a quarter to come down to 5.9 with a downward slanted arrow when I ate my regular weighed breakfast (30g carbs) then just skimmed 4.0 before the carbs started to kick in and now back up to 11.1 and still rising and not had any lunch. I have just used 3 correction units as the 2units I kept giving myself throughout the day yesterday had little impact.
So pleased these chaotic readings are happening after my recent HbA1c result, but still pretty frustrated. Just trying to keep in mind that "we need as much insulin as we need" although I feel that I am resisting the obvious course of action which is to increase my daytime basal. Have been steady on 16 units during the day for nearly a year and therefore really reluctant to increase that for some stupid reason. Promising myself here that I'll make it 18 tomorrow if I don't see any change for the rest of today. I know it makes sense and I need to be logical about it..... Sometimes writing it down helps to highlight when you are being unreasonably pig headed.

@eggyg Sending my deepest sympathies. It really is an absolutely heartbreaking situation but I hope your cousin will soon turn the corner in her battle with it and she and her husband will both recover well. It really brings it home to you how serious the situation is when you read of such sad stories happening to real, ordinary people.

@khskel Congrats on your HS and also making some great music.

@Michael12421 please be careful and aim to be a little higher with your readings. Would much rather you were posting 8s and 9s than 3s, particularly at the moment.
 
@eggyg i'm so sorry to hear your news. Theres nothing anyone can say to make things better so just know we are all here for you and our thoughts go out to your wider family x
 
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