Thank you, oh i wish you better. Go back if that chest infection persists but hopefully you are on the mend . Not nice . It will be good if you have a lovely day for the wedding . Fingers crossed.Morning all - pretty uniformly grey, though nowhere near as horrid as yesterday, which was all day drenching drizzle leading into fairly heavy rain late afternoon. Hope it picks up for Saturday as we are due to go to a wedding that's being held on a farm.
6.3 this morning, quite pleasing considering I hit 15.3 yesterday after dinner.
Got an appointment with the nurse yesterday afternoon as I was coughing up so much stuff. She listened to my lungs and said I don't have a chest infection, I have an upper respiratory infection and they don't prescribe ABs for that. So just have lots of hot drinks & take the cough lozenges. Albeit they are sugar free, but 97g carb per 100g they don't seem to affect BG thank goodness.
Doing nothing much today, except maybe making apple and ginger jam if I can beg some empty jars off neighbours as I don't have enough.
@Nayshiftin, honestly you have no need to fret as much over your numbers. I'm not suggesting you should ignore them, but stress will push them up, not to mention Dawn Phenomenon and Foot on the Floor syndrome. HUGS.
@Martin.A congratulations - that is some house Colin has given you!
Have a good day all...
It's not a case of more Tresiba or more Novo, it's a case of you need what you need. As a rule of thumb, most people fall somewhe 60/40 range or 40/60, but your basal should hold you steady when you are not eating i.e. when all bolus insulin is out of your system. You really need to do a basal test to find out what that level of Tresiba is. See attachedI think I DO know the answer to that! I couldn’t maintain the hospital’s carefully worked out routine, that’s why they were injecting an hour after eating to see what was needed & I did that too at times, on 88 tresiba as it meant tea & biscuits every hour in between meals! 😱 Now, with this routine I can eat if I want to & not eat if I don’t want to &, hopefully, never HAVE to eat because I MUST!🙂
Thank you so much for the encouragement. Yes I have got it way down from where it was5.5 for me this morning and I am caught up with the thread I think. Congrats to @Martin.A and @Gwynn on your House Specials today and congrats to @Nayshiftin on getting a reading in the 6s today. That is an achievement worthy of a gold star for you at your stage in the journey. You were in the teens a couple of weeks ago, so that is huge progress. It might take another few weeks or possibly months to get down into the 5s but don't lose sight of the tremendous progress you have made. It is also important to bear in mind that it takes consistent effort at your diabetes management to get regular readings in the 5s in order to be in with a chance of getting a House Special and if they were easy and frequent (@ColinUK's recent run aside) they simply wouldn't be... well... "special".
You have made fantastic progress so far but that progress will slow down as you get more into range, so you have to become more patient. Why would you consider throwing that away and stopping the regime which is working well for you and given you massive improvement, simply because you aren't getting perfect results after 2 weeks. It takes time and patience and steady commitment to it. @Martin.A and @ColinUK and @Gwynn have been working at this for years, not just weeks. Keep going! You are doing great and today's result is a reflection of that! But don't be despairing again if tomorrow is a 7. The important thing is that you got a reading in the 6s today and maybe 2 or 3 6s next week.
Rome was not built in a day! .
Thank you5.8 a long time ago this morning when I woke. Not bad after an impromptu Chinese takeaway last night which meant I spent most of the night hovering round 12. In contrast I managed to keep a lovely flat line around 6 for the day (after the breakfast spike).
Managed to catch up on this thread whilst waiting for my NR bolus to start taking effect then I’ll have some dinner, I’m at risk of snacking so best to eat a proper meal.
Congratulations @Martin.A on your HS today.
@Nayshiftin, you’ve got lots of support here on this group and are doing really well. I think we all sometimes expect the body to behave more like a machine and react instantly to any changes. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately?) it doesn’t and it will take time to bring your BG readings down, but they will come down as you continue on your journey, don’t get despondent.
Hope everyone has had / is having a good day!
Yes, everyone has been ace, I could not ask for more, people are so so kind and I will say I do not know how I'd have done these last couple of weeks.@Nayshiftin[/USER], you’ve got lots of support here on this group "
hello my Diabetic friendsGood morning 7.0 today
just been to see GP Hba1c was 50 so that’s good, one of the results to do with my liver was abnormal
so will repeat that part of blood test in 6 weeks time (as he said it could be abnormal following the surgery I recently had)
we spoke about my blood pressure, which I monitor myself
and as it’s much lower than previously,he recommended stopping one of the two blood pressure meds I take daily
congratula on the HS @Martin.A