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Group 7-day waking average?

4.5 today... 🙂
 
This is yeesterdays as my birthday decided to do a spot check due to number of cakes consumed at work the previous day.

7.1 so not to bad my levels do tend to be higher most dyas when I check.
 
SimplesL said:
This is yeesterdays as my birthday decided to do a spot check due to number of cakes consumed at work the previous day.

7.1 so not to bad my levels do tend to be higher most dyas when I check.
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Pretty good post-cakes! Happy belated birthday! 🙂
 
7.1 for me (6.1 at 3am)
 
6.3 for me this morning.
Something weird happened last night tho!
Went to bed, tested on my usual machine...3.2
How I felt didn't reflect this so I tested again. 3.2
So i tested on my other meter, 4.1.

Surely I should have been feeling at least a litte shaky/hypoey?
I had a biscuit, and went to sleep!
 
Doddy said:
6.3 for me this morning.
Something weird happened last night tho!
Went to bed, tested on my usual machine...3.2
How I felt didn't reflect this so I tested again. 3.2
So i tested on my other meter, 4.1.

Surely I should have been feeling at least a litte shaky/hypoey?
I had a biscuit, and went to sleep!
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It can happen if your levels have fallen very steadily and slowly, which is probably the case as you were winding down before bedtime and at the very end of your evening meal's insulin action. Symptoms are much more pronounced when you are dropping fast - I usually find that such hypos happen within 2-3 hours of injecting and it usually means I've got the dose wrong. 🙄 I've been as low as 2.3 before I've started noticing things - other times I notice at the low 4s/upper 3s!
 
So I shouldn't be overly concerned then 🙂 I was worrying I was losing hypo awareness!! I worry too much I think!!!
 
Doddy said:
So I shouldn't be overly concerned then 🙂 I was worrying I was losing hypo awareness!! I worry too much I think!!!
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No. It's natural to worry about things, especially when you are experiencing things for the first time, but it's good to be alert to them and question them. Hypo awareness is most often lost when you spend most of your time with low numbers - your body gets used to the much lower numbers and so the symptoms come on when you are even lower (as a rule). You're not at that stage. Your hypos last night might better be described as 'slowpos' 🙂
 
Northerner said:
No. It's natural to worry about things, especially when you are experiencing things for the first time, but it's good to be alert to them and question them. Hypo awareness is most often lost when you spend most of your time with low numbers - your body gets used to the much lower numbers and so the symptoms come on when you are even lower (as a rule). You're not at that stage. Your hypos last night might better be described as 'slowpos' 🙂
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OOOh I like that word!!!
Thanks for putting my mind at ease..as usual!
 
and a 6.8 for me this morning 😉
 
Things looking better today

8am 6.2 🙂
1pm 12.1 😱
6pm 7.2
11pm 7.0 🙂 hope it continues tommrow
 
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