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Group 7-day waking average?

High all night AGAIN despite another increase in evening Levemir and 1.5 correction units at bedtime for 12.1.
Woke at 6.30am on 10.2 Jabbed 3 units of Fiasp (which would normally be too much) and went back to sleep.
Woke at 7am on 8.7. Jabbed 25 units of Levemir (that's another extra unit). Still felt tired so dosed off again and woke at 8.55am on a very nice 5.1 which seems to be a popular number this morning. Not sure which reading I am claiming as my actual waking reading but if any of them had been 5.2 I would have been out of bed like a shot and taking a photo of my meter!!

@eggyg Hope you have a smooth crossing and a very enjoyable stay.

@Nayshiftin Did you double check that reading? Sometimes a tiny bit of something on your finger can compromise the reading or even a duff test strip or maybe you woke up after a stressful dream. Regardless, with diabetes you have to try not to get too hung up on individual readings but look at longer term trends. You are doing all the right things and generally heading in the right direction, so just keep at it and don't let a duff reading derail you mentally. Have a lovely weekend and hope you manage to fit in another walk.
 
Maca44 said:
4.6 for me out in garden until rain arrives.
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It was sunny and just getting warm when I started power washing the paving along the side of the house. Then it started alternately raining and hailing. But as they say on Mastermind, “I’ve started so I’ll finish.”
The words “drowned” and “rat” come to mind.
 
ColinUK said:
7.4 this morning. And my parents are coming into town later so we’re going to have a bite to eat outside somewhere.

And they’ll tell me I’m fat and too thin and don’t eat enough and that they love me and that I’m a disappointment to them and that they love my home but they’d never live here because it’s too big/small, central/isolated etc.

I do love them of course and they love me but it can be a complex relationship at times.
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I have had to deal with similar things in the past but when the balance of negative things from the relationship outweighed the positive things, I had to introduce a bit of distance. A lot of distance in fact. Started doing it gradually many years ago and now I barely see them. It's better that way for me and my family. Negative people are just such a drain. They never change and they never admit they are the problem. The fact that they are family doesn't give them a free pass with me.

As a parent, I'd be horrified if my kids dreaded me coming round or found out that they were wearily tolerating me.
 
rebrascora said:
High all night AGAIN despite another increase in evening Levemir and 1.5 correction units at bedtime for 12.1.
Woke at 6.30am on 10.2 Jabbed 3 units of Fiasp (which would normally be too much) and went back to sleep.
Woke at 7am on 8.7. Jabbed 25 units of Levemir (that's another extra unit). Still felt tired so dosed off again and woke at 8.55am on a very nice 5.1 which seems to be a popular number this morning. Not sure which reading I am claiming as my actual waking reading but if any of them had been 5.2 I would have been out of bed like a shot and taking a photo of my meter!!

@eggyg Hope you have a smooth crossing and a very enjoyable stay.

@Nayshiftin Did you double check that reading? Sometimes a tiny bit of something on your finger can compromise the reading or even a duff test strip or maybe you woke up after a stressful dream. Regardless, with diabetes you have to try not to get too hung up on individual readings but look at longer term trends. You are doing all the right things and generally heading in the right direction, so just keep at it and don't let a duff reading derail you mentally. Have a lovely weekend and hope you manage to fit in another walk.
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Thank you for the lovely comment of encouragement. Yes I need to move on . Why can’t it be eat that and you’ll be fine . Too dimples. I had an egg salad lunch time and it raised it 4 points . I was so pleased at 5.1 before a salad to go up to 9 mmols. Mentally I think I am in a bad place today so going to write today off.
 
@Nayshiftin. Some days you just can't win. No matter what you do, what you inject or what tablets you take, what food you eat, exercise you take everything seems to go arse up. I have days like that as I am sure we all do. Writing the day off as you put it seems the logical step - tomorrow is another, and hopefully better, day.
 
I hope so . Thanks
 
HenryBennett said:
It was sunny and just getting warm when I started power washing the paving along the side of the house. Then it started alternately raining and hailing. But as they say on Mastermind, “I’ve started so I’ll finish.”
The words “drowned” and “rat” come to mind.
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Well only just finished a very simple garden job which involved digging a big deep whole next to the wood arch I put up to grow climbers. Raised sleeper bed was easy but 1ft down I hit concrete then remembered that I was on the site where I built the kids a play area and attached the swing onto these 2ft x 2ft concrete blocks right where I needed to dig down and I make strong concrete so just finished chopping it out, I'm knackered 🙂.
 
Maca44 said:
Well only just finished a very simple garden job which involved digging a big deep whole next to the wood arch I put up to grow climbers. Raised sleeper bed was easy but 1ft down I hit concrete then remembered that I was on the site where I built the kids a play area and attached the swing onto these 2ft x 2ft concrete blocks right where I needed to dig down and I make strong concrete so just finished chopping it out, I'm knackered 🙂.
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Gardening is easy - no one ever said!
 
pm133 said:
I have had to deal with similar things in the past but when the balance of negative things from the relationship outweighed the positive things, I had to introduce a bit of distance. A lot of distance in fact. Started doing it gradually many years ago and now I barely see them. It's better that way for me and my family. Negative people are just such a drain. They never change and they never admit they are the problem. The fact that they are family doesn't give them a free pass with me.

As a parent, I'd be horrified if my kids dreaded me coming round or found out that they were wearily tolerating me.
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I love them to bits and it’s mutual. It’s just that sometimes it’s hard knowing what to say to them and what to hold back.
Partly it’s acknowledging their ages and not wanting to cause them any distress or worry.
They loved my home and it’s the first time they’ve seen it in person.
And we strolled to a very local Italian caffe I love and they can see exactly why it’s so popular as it’s obvious everything is cooked with heart.
All in all it was a lovely time 🙂
 
Maca44 said:
Well only just finished a very simple garden job which involved digging a big deep whole next to the wood arch I put up to grow climbers. Raised sleeper bed was easy but 1ft down I hit concrete then remembered that I was on the site where I built the kids a play area and attached the swing onto these 2ft x 2ft concrete blocks right where I needed to dig down and I make strong concrete so just finished chopping it out, I'm knackered 🙂.
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In my last house the neighbour had large trees blocking the light out into the garden, so I done a deal
with them, I`ll pay to have them cut down and I`ll put a new fence up. Had the trees cut down enough
to give us light that cost a thousand pound, had to wait two weeks because a wood pigeon had young`s
so waited for them to fledge.

Then the fence🙄 took me two months to dig out the roots from the trees, couldn`t get a digger in there
so by hand it was,😡 understand how you feel @Maca44 but what a feeling when its completed.
 
ColinUK said:
I love them to bits and it’s mutual. It’s just that sometimes it’s hard knowing what to say to them and what to hold back.
Partly it’s acknowledging their ages and not wanting to cause them any distress or worry.
They loved my home and it’s the first time they’ve seen it in person.
And we strolled to a very local Italian caffe I love and they can see exactly why it’s so popular as it’s obvious everything is cooked with heart.
All in all it was a lovely time 🙂
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What does Italian coffee with heart taste like Colin? o_O

So happy you had a lovely day mate I`m sure you did everything you needed to do, well done.
 
4.0 up at 5am after 4 1/2 hrs sleep but feel ready for the day in garden the morning dreams wake me up, this morning I was in a scuffle and kicked some guy in the balls but woke to find I had kicked the radiator now me foot hurts, weird.
 
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04:56 BS 12.6 2 Hours & 46 minutes after eating! Actually got up around 00:30 for call of nature & couldn’t get back to sleep so, cooked pasta bolognese, don’t eat that often but, fancied some, & forgot to test! 😳 Only remembered when sitting down to eat by which time, with DP, it was 02:10 BS 9.1. I then bloused extra +12 for a combo of naughty things:- pasta, bolognese & a glass of coke. Then sat down to eat! The problem was I found the sauce, Dolmio Smooth, to be SO intense in taste I couldn’t eat all of it: forced down about a third of it & no more; chucked the rest & downed the coke! Incredibly sweeter than usual after the intensity of the bolognese but, I knew I had WAY too much bolus in my system. Then, made 2 slices of bread & butter spread with about a tsp of honey on top of each slice & ate that too: oddly I could hardly taste the honey at all as it’s definitely less sweet than coke; by which time it was just about 40 minutes after the NR had gone in. I opened another can of coke & have been zipping it about every 30 minutes or so to keep hypos at bay to feed the bolus when I feel my heart start to race. It’s been a bit of hopping on my toes session for the last few hours but, the end is in sight as I come towards the end of active NR. There’s a small amount of coke left that I might not need now as BS is ok for a while sitting at 12.6 but, then again, being liquid it’ll go up fast & come back down fast as well! More testing now to keep a closer eye on things! This whole year my taste buds have changed a lot & it’s not the first phase of intensity that I’ve had as my taste buds tend to go weird when hypo in the past anyway but, the CV virus, since getting back in May 2020, has made that go up quite a few notches to an even more extreme level of intensity!😱 Definitely NO bolognese for me then for another while!🙄

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

Just a bit more hopping on my toes for a bit to test & keep a close eye on things & I’ll delay 6am LR for a bit until all the NR is out of my system, I test & see where I’m at? o_O🙄
 
6.6 here at 5:30am on a bright Sunday morning, after which I returned to bed with breakfast whilst it’s quiet and on the cool side
 
Phew! :D With a little drop of sweat over one eye for a Phew! emoji! :D 06:24 BS 5.2 just after 4 hours 15 minutes or so of active NR & LR just went in too! I can’t claim the HS, though, but, awfully relieved now! I knew it! That coke sure webt back down again pretty fast! 😱 I’ll just chuck that last bit of coke at the bottom of the glass, then!🙄
 
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