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Group 7-day waking average?

Am I the only one?

Am I the only one who does not have a blood glucose meter? (more on that in a moment.)
My test urine test this morning was negative.
Northerner said:
How about for a bit of fun if people who test in the mornings post their waking levels? I think it would be interesting to see what the average works out at after a week 🙂

I'll start with mine - I was 6.0 when I woke up this morning 🙂

(please don't let me be the only person to enter one! 😉)
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4.9 yday ....9.0 this morning, hmmmph!
 
4.4 for me accompanied by shakes and banging headache. Didn't have to do anything tho as standing up and going the loo put me to 6.5.
 
pgcity said:
4.4 for me accompanied by shakes and banging headache. Didn't have to do anything tho as standing up and going the loo put me to 6.5.
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Are you sure you didn't hypo and were rising from a liver dump? That would explain the headache and the rapid rise.
 
Northerner said:
There will be variations day-to-day, this morning I was 6.3 but yesterday 5.4. The day before that I was 6.3 and the day before I was 5.4 again! 🙂 You're in single figures at last, which is good 🙂 I can't remember, do you have an appointment to discuss MDI yet?
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I have got an appointment next Wednesday..the GP emailed me and asked me to make an appointment after I sent her a report of all my readings. I am praying it's to discuss MDI...plus she has the results of the GAD test I had done done.....😱
 
good morning everyone :D

well done you lot with nice low readings 🙂

8.2 for me this morning 😱 better than yesterday..... but I really want to get back down to the 7s like last week (that is my July goal)
 
Doddy said:
I have got an appointment next Wednesday..the GP emailed me and asked me to make an appointment after I sent her a report of all my readings. I am praying it's to discuss MDI...plus she has the results of the GAD test I had done done.....😱
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Ah, it will be interesting to see what the GAD results are 🙂 If they suggest you are Type 2 and the GP wants to take you off the insulin, do not let her - you struggled for long enough without it and it's clearly necessary, if not a total success as things stand. MDI is perfectly appropriate whatever your type, many of our T2 and T1 (and T1.5!) members are on it 🙂 Good luck!
 
Northerner said:
Ah, it will be interesting to see what the GAD results are 🙂 If they suggest you are Type 2 and the GP wants to take you off the insulin, do not let her - you struggled for long enough without it and it's clearly necessary, if not a total success as things stand. MDI is perfectly appropriate whatever your type, many of our T2 and T1 (and T1.5!) members are on it 🙂 Good luck!
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Do you think she might suggest I come off it. She was pretty keen for me to start it in the first place after trying gliclazide and glimipiride and it having no effect. This week, I have been taking 40u, and i have to say, if I don't eat, I have normal readings...well, anywhere between 5 and 7...I forget what normal is! It's when I eat, no matter what I eat, that it goes up :(
 
Doddy said:
Do you think she might suggest I come off it. She was pretty keen for me to start it in the first place after trying gliclazide and glimipiride and it having no effect. This week, I have been taking 40u, and i have to say, if I don't eat, I have normal readings...well, anywhere between 5 and 7...I forget what normal is! It's when I eat, no matter what I eat, that it goes up :(
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I would very much doubt she would take you off it then 🙂 I think that the problems with your levels going up after eating are probably a lot to do with the peak of the food not coinciding with the insulin peaks of the mixed insulin. MDI would certainly give you much better control over this as it becomes more (but not entirely!) predictable 🙂

Great that you are getting normal levels otherwise, but don't let it stop you from eating! 🙂
 
Good morning, 11.4 today. I can see an increase in the insulin on the horizon...... I feel like Mystic Meg now! :D
 
Emmaathome said:
Good morning, 11.4 today. I can see an increase in the insulin on the horizon...... I feel like Mystic Meg now! :D
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oooh Mystic Emm 😎
 
5.4 today, now let's keep it there!
 
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