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Group 7-day waking average?

am64 said:
good morning ...can i join in ? now i have a meter thanks to my lovely DSN I am 7.2
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The more the merrier 🙂.

For me this morning 5.4.
 
6.2 for me this morning !🙂....ok i got up late 🙄
 
6.4 this morning, and I had to fight to get the nurse to tell me that. Not as high as I was expecting given that my medications are being handled by the nursing staff and I don't trust them.
 
8.5 - 22:42pm - bedtime
- rich tea biscuits eaten after bedtime test
11.0 - 07:45am - fasting

lantus decreases:
Tue 29.10 from 24u to 22u
Sat 02.10 from 22u to 20u
Tue 6.11 from 20u to 18u
Wed 20.11 from 18u to 16u
 
AlisonM said:
6.4 this morning, and I had to fight to get the nurse to tell me that. Not as high as I was expecting given that my medications are being handled by the nursing staff and I don't trust them.
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I'd hate that, why aren't they letting you look after yourself? Particularly annoying if they won't give up your numbers without a fight 😡 Have you seen any of the hospital diabetes team? I went to a talk once where they told us that we should always ask to see the hospital diabetes team if we were ever admitted. Mind you, might be different at your hospital.

Decent reading though! 🙂
 
whiskysmum said:
8.5 - 22:42pm - bedtime
- rich tea biscuits eaten after bedtime test
11.0 - 07:45am - fasting

lantus decreases:
Tue 29.10 from 24u to 22u
Sat 02.10 from 22u to 20u
Tue 6.11 from 20u to 18u
Wed 20.11 from 18u to 16u
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How many biscuits/carbs? 🙂 (bet it's like being at school this, isn't it? 😉)
 
Northerner said:
I'd hate that, why aren't they letting you look after yourself? Particularly annoying if they won't give up your numbers without a fight 😡 Have you seen any of the hospital diabetes team? I went to a talk once where they told us that we should always ask to see the hospital diabetes team if we were ever admitted. Mind you, might be different at your hospital.

Decent reading though! 🙂
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I did that last time I was in and it's only the one jobsworth I'm having trouble with. I threatened her with the consultant and she now gives me the results, with a sulk thrown in but she does it. I'm apparently too ill to be allowed to control my meds myself!
 
AlisonM said:
I did that last time I was in and it's only the one jobsworth I'm having trouble with. I threatened her with the consultant and she now gives me the results, with a sulk thrown in but she does it. I'm apparently too ill to be allowed to control my meds myself!
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Or to know the 'secrets of the meter' too it seems! 🙄 Are they pricking your finger for you also? I seem to remember them stabbing it right in the centre of the pad with what felt like a rusty nail for me! 😱
 
Northerner said:
Or to know the 'secrets of the meter' too it seems! 🙄 Are they pricking your finger for you also? I seem to remember them stabbing it right in the centre of the pad with what felt like a rusty nail for me! 😱
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She tried, but I grabbed it from her. :D I am NOT a nice docile patient.
 
whiskysmum said:
8.5 - 22:42pm - bedtime
- rich tea biscuits eaten after bedtime test
11.0 - 07:45am - fasting

lantus decreases:
Tue 29.10 from 24u to 22u
Sat 02.10 from 22u to 20u
Tue 6.11 from 20u to 18u
Wed 20.11 from 18u to 16u
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Northerner said:
How many biscuits/carbs? 🙂 (bet it's like being at school this, isn't it? 😉)
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Ermmm right well ermmm I had rich tea x 8 - 5.6g cho ech = 44.8!! 😱 but at the time they were just sooo nice 🙂
 
whiskysmum said:
Ermmm right well ermmm I had rich tea x 8 - 5.6g cho ech = 44.8!! 😱 but at the time they were just sooo nice 🙂
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Hmm... I mainly ask because the amount of carbs eaten will give some indication of where you stand with your lantus - whether it's too high or too low. 45g is an awful lot of carbs to be eating without any bolus insulin, yet your levels only rose by 2.5 mmol/l. It suggests that your lantus is still too high for your basal requirements and you probably had quite a spike from the biscuits which then fell overnight. It's a shame you don't have a CGM to show what is actually happening!
 
Northerner said:
Hmm... I mainly ask because the amount of carbs eaten will give some indication of where you stand with your lantus - whether it's too high or too low. 45g is an awful lot of carbs to be eating without any bolus insulin, yet your levels only rose by 2.5 mmol/l. It suggests that your lantus is still too high for your basal requirements and you probably had quite a spike from the biscuits which then fell overnight. It's a shame you don't have a CGM to show what is actually happening!
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Never mind the CGM, a dose of common sense would be handy 🙄
How in heavens name can you sort your basal out if you eat the equivilent of a meal without a bolus? 😱
Has anyone actually explained to you Gill what the idea of basal bolus is? IE, basal (lantus) is just that it covers your 24 hour needs. So this means that you must bolus for the food you eat.

For your own safety and to prevent complications you really do need to sort things out.🙂
 
Good morning everyone. 4.4 for me.
 
5.4 this morning. Very pleased with this as I didn't get up until almost 9 😱 instead of my normal 6.30.
 
10.7 this morning, the last week or so, since it's got cold, my levels have been consistently sneaking up overnight, probably time to eek up my basal. Damn winter!
 
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