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Group 7-day waking average?

A 5.5 this morning and with no TBR finally.

No idea what was giong on over the last two week. It has been bonkers.
The UTI tests cam back negative. I have slept for a good few extra hours each day.
Maybe I was just exhausted and my body just needed some time off.
Perhaps there is no point in spending any more energy on working it out.

Cloudy but warm here.

Have a good day
 
Good morning troops🙂

I woke up on 5.9, which is a relief. I've been basal fiddling.

That's perfectly legal, by the way. I had a call from the Diabetes clinic a couple of days ago, the've been spying on my BG scores and noting a persistent late afternoon BG drop, often sufficient to require Jelly babying. So we decided to do a basal test. (They've got Librelink and I've given them permission)

So, woke up on Tuesday on 6.2, getting up and caffeined up lifted that to 8.2. I took a 23% reduced dose of Levemir, and waited. Nothing happened for hours, stuck on 8.2. Then, lo and behold, late afternoon there was that drop again. Treated with jam, this time. Now I was thinking that the reduced Levemir was right, because I had been rock steady until that late afternoon dip. And not a drip of Humalog had entered my skin, nor had any carbs passed my lips. Hadn't exerted myself at all. Painting is not exertion. Hadn't done any heavy thinking. So what is going on? Phantom insulin?

Is my body angling for a pump so I can reduce basal late afternoon? I know if I reduce morning Levemir any more, I'll get a high BG day with an afternoon dip into normality. I'll be grateful for anyone else who has late afternoon dips to let me know how to cure it. Don't say have a snack, yesterday I had three custard creams with my afternoon half pint of tea, and still went hypo. So much for heading it off at the pass.🙄

Anyway, we're currently cat sitting while daughter and family have taken their bubble to Bowness for a lakeside break. I'm sure Bella the Cat loves it here. It must be hell for a peaceful house cat with a 5 year old and 6 month old pestering. She's claiming asylum.😎

Have a good day, folks, and think of me at 4.30 eating sweeties. Which reminds me, good news- Tunnock's are back in full production. One Tunnock's Teacake = 2 jelly babies.
 
It was 6.8 this morning after a pub lunch yesterday
Today I’m out with my wife for a cream tea, I’m dreading tonight and tomorrow’s readings but looking forward to the afternoons food
1 more sleep and I get a haircut!!!!!
 
Good morning 7.7 surprised its not higher after yesterdays run around.🙄
Taxi to Paignton hospital to have feet checked, took off moon boot and trainer off of the
right foot she took one look at poor ole lefty and fetched the head Podiatrist. Took photos of
lefty cut my nails and between the three of them decided back to A&E at Torbay another Taxi.

On arriving at A&E you can`t just walk in there`s a marquee out side with a HCP taking your details,
they then take all your details and write it on a form which you can then enter the hospital and pass the
form to the receptionist only one other patient in A&E. Called in Immediately🙂 even before I had chance
to leave the reception counter,😎 long story cut short jabs in foot to numb it two male nurses trying to
straighten toes out then off for x-ray. Back to casualty on looking at the x-rays he says what colour plaster
do you want?😱:D so now sporting a very nice blue plaster cast attached to lefty.🙂

Here endeth the lesson, sorry @Lanny didn`t mean to write so much.

Congratulations on HS @Kaylz, missed @Bloden yesterday well done to you also.🙂

Take care folks stay safe.🙂
 
KARNAK said:
Good morning 7.7 surprised its not higher after yesterdays run around.🙄
Taxi to Paignton hospital to have feet checked, took off moon boot and trainer off of the
right foot she took one look at poor ole lefty and fetched the head Podiatrist. Took photos of
lefty cut my nails and between the three of them decided back to A&E at Torbay another Taxi.

On arriving at A&E you can`t just walk in there`s a marquee out side with a HCP taking your details,
they then take all your details and write it on a form which you can then enter the hospital and pass the
form to the receptionist only one other patient in A&E. Called in Immediately🙂 even before I had chance
to leave the reception counter,😎 long story cut short jabs in foot to numb it two male nurses trying to
straighten toes out then off for x-ray. Back to casualty on looking at the x-rays he says what colour plaster
do you want?😱:D so now sporting a very nice blue plaster cast attached to lefty.🙂

Here endeth the lesson, sorry @Lanny didn`t mean to write so much.
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Well I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Ted, you don’t do things by halves. Sadly there is nothing we can do to help you except read your posts and truly wish you well again. Big virtual {{hugs}} to you and the gentlest of pats on your blue leftie xx
 
@mikeyB , do you take an evening Levemir? Maybe try increasing that a bit to tide you over to the morning past your breakfast & then, reduce your morning Levemir a bit more? 🙄 Saying “Umm” thinking emoji!
 
I do take an evening Levemir dose, half the morning dose. I'm reducing that to kill off early morning dips. That has worked well. These dips are a bit like playing Whack-a-Mole. I'll ask at the next phone call from the Thought Police. The answer is obvious. Gizza pump. Trouble is, my HbA1c is too good. Should qualify under the multiple hypo rules, mind. I need all the brain cells I've got left. :D
 
KARNAK said:
now sporting a very nice blue plaster cast attached to lefty
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Crikey @KARNAK I hope your toes behave themselves and settle down. Can you weight bear on your blue leg or are you hopping on crutches? Either way take the best care and hope things improve for you. The hospital system sounds very well organised.🙂
 
@mikeyB
I have the same situation with Levemir. A steady decline in BG approx. 6-10hrs after injecting both morning and evening. A high proportion of protein/fat at lunchtime will usually prevent the afternoon/evening dip.... like some eggs or nuts or today I had cream cheese and that stopped it but if I have had a good breakfast and no lunch, I quite enjoy the opportunity to have a bolus free snack in the afternoon. Like you I have a much smaller evening dose of Levemir than the morning one.... I'm currently using 5 at night and 16 during the day. If I eat late and have protein and fat I can sometimes get it reasonably level but most nights there is a steady decline regardless of how much I use or reduce it, so it is just a question of trying to find the right dose and BG to go to bed on that will get me a reasonable fasting reading in the morning. I can manage it for a few days and then I mess it up.
 
5.7 c’est le reading de sucre dans moi blood c’est matin.

Zoom call avec les lawyers at 1pm pour an hour or so et then focussing on a tax return for a dead homme. Literally, because je suis le executor and he didn’t do a tax return for the last 3 years and had multiple income streams.

Anyways, je suis hoping you all have un grand day!
 
Morning all,
A 6.1 this morning... interesting how things work out, I was talking with a friend yesterday morning discussing how so many appointments have been cancelled in recent times and then I get a txt from the surgery in the afternoon asking me to contact them for my HbA1c test! Spooky!
In other news and for those stowing away on my 'Silver Fox' virtual cruise we are on day 8 and back in Corfu town having completed the southerly loop of our 15 day cruise. The weather will be 31 degrees at mid-day and I think a shopping trip is due with perhaps a trip to Pontikonisi or 'Mouse Island' which is a lovely off the beaten track place to chill!
@ColinUK asked yesterday about the midnight buffet...
The answer is it's amazing!!! and totally carb free well 'virtually'
Enjoy the photos and don't eat too much, leave some for me!

Blessings Snowwy
 

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Morning all. A disappointing 9.2 here. Hoe, when i went to bed on 5.7, i don't know . Anyway folks its almost the weekend and i finish today for school summer hols
 
Morning all my reading for today is 5.7 hope you all have a good day
 
Guten Morgan. @ColinUK I’ll play Klop to your René! Are you rehearsing for ‘Ello ‘Ello? A very nice round sechs for me. I got a very mediocre O level in French but managed to translate your post, I enjoyed German more, got a quite good CSE in that! All those genders, Der Die Das etc. And nouns beginning with capital letters! Confused? Yep!
Not up to much today, a little bit shopping, I should have been getting a Tesco Click and Collect today but cancelled it to try and force myself to go into a big supermarket. It hasn’t happened yet, been in Aldi once or twice, CoOp and M&S. So I’ve ended up getting bits and bobs every few days. I’m regretting it now!
Have a fab Friday. Auf Wiedersehen! Pet!😛
 
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