28 degrees

[Diabolized]

PS that reading is not 31 but 3.1.
Brain still in a bit of a hypo fog.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

My HCL is doing okay but I did get a few extra lows and needed some top up at the early warnings (Thanks @everydayupsanddowns for the changes to alerts and alarms - so much better)

Glad it’s working well for you.

Interestingly I’ve had a few times recently where my low alarm sounding at a sensor glucose of 4.8 has only gone off when capillary blood glucose is already 3.x

Checking because of warning signs seeing a result the 3s, then checking the pump to find that the “low alert” goes off during that process.

On the MM780G you can’t set a low alert any higher than 5, so I’ve now switched ‘Alert before low’ back on for my daytime settings, which is giving me an extra nudge in the low 5s.

I’ll have to see how much alarm fatigue that creates.

Sensor lag is a bloomin nuisance at time. Especially when my BG decides to adopt a ‘square wave’ profile of nothing, nothing, nothing, DROP 🙄 😱

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Anyone else had difficulties with Smartguard during the hot waether?

Are you keeping hydrated @Diabolized ?

Yours sounds like a pretty significant calibration requirement that feels like the sensor was just way off, but I’m also finding the sensor glucose values are seeming pretty laggy in the hot weather, and for me that can quite often be made worse if I’m not well hydrated - I assume because the interstitial fluid gets a bit sluggish?

I find it helps to do a fingerprick cross-check relatively early-on in a sensor’s life, just to make sure it’s started up OK. i don’t always remember to do it, but I have had a sensor start up reading way higher than my capillary readings in the past.

 

[SimonP]

Interestingly my current sensor started (~8 days ago) reading low (by 4mmol/l, but non-linear and very close at low BG so could be calibrated with just a gradient change), then moved to reading a bit high (~1.5mmol/l - again calibration fine), and is now back to reading low (2.5mmol/l - but can't be completely fixed with calibration as it's an offset offset, i.e. the line has been shifted completely.)

Unusual, they either stay on one side, or eventually head back to being roughly correct. Maybe it's to do with the weather, who knows.

What I was getting around to saying, is that certainly for me and with the libre(1/2/2+) I do finger prick calibration checks every day to make sure I don't end up running high for extended periods by trusting the CGM (high because - you'd notice if actual BG is lower than the sensor and they just almost always tend to read lower than actual BG in my experience.)

 

[Jodee]

Recommended not to exercise in extreme heat, better in the cool of early mornings. I am trying to keep my short walks in this heat, to before 9am and after 9pm. I guess exercise ok inside if you have air conditioning though 🙂

Its not just the heat the lungs and body has to deal with apparently the excess heat with exhaust / air pollutions makes the air far more toxic, so definitely not a good idea to exercise in this situation. Then there is the pollen.....ZZZZ

It was 30C here yesterday - even hotter in London I believe.