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.

 

[Jodee]

Good Morning I survived the 31C degrees and am so glad of the cooler temperature today 24C high, its so pleasant to feel cool air on the skin. Currently its cooler outside than inside for me 26C I shall try to do 3 walks today, its been a difficult few days.

 

[paultrose]

I cant believe on monday it was 34 and not a cloud in the sky.....2 days later its 14 and not a bit of blue sky

Im in the middle of my walk and its steady drizzle!

You can tell its summer cos the rain is warmer

 

[Jodee]

I cant believe on monday it was 34 and not a cloud in the sky.....2 days later its 14 and not a bit of blue sky

Im in the middle of my walk and its steady drizzle!

You can tell its summer cos the rain is warmer

That would be Bliss for me right now, enjoy

 

[SB2015]

I cant believe on monday it was 34 and not a cloud in the sky.....2 days later its 14 and not a bit of blue sky

Im in the middle of my walk and its steady drizzle!

You can tell its summer cos the rain is warmer

The rain sounds much more preferable than 34!

 

[silver minion]

It's not too bad in winter: I'm a Londoner and I cope. Apparently it used to be too cold for soft southern sassenach sissies years ago, though, before global warming.

One of the nicest warm summers I remember as a child was in Aberdeen where we lived for a year. I think it was around 1969 or 1970.

 

[paultrose]

The rain sounds much more preferable than 34!

Definatly

Its now ****istantly raining so ive retired to a coffee shop for a cappachino treat (decaf no sugar of course) watching others get wet lol

 

[helli]

it's still warm and sunny here.
A tad cooler than the start of the week but definitely no need to retire to the coffee shop. I had my lunch in the park on the way back from a hospital appointment.
My home office in the attic still needs the blinds down to see my computer screen but I am not a puddle any more.

 

[Leadinglights]

it's still warm and sunny here.
A tad cooler than the start of the week but definitely no need to retire to the coffee shop. I had my lunch in the park on the way back from a hospital appointment.
My home office in the attic still needs the blinds down to see my computer screen but I am not a puddle any more.

We have a loft room as a office but recently had our roof replaced as it needed doing but we had spray insulation which not only helped in the winter cold but kept the heat out in the summer so we are realising the unforseen consequences of replacing the roof.
Luckily we have an air source heat pump in my glass workshop aka garage which acts both for heating in winter and an aircon in summer.

 

[CliffH]

I cant believe on monday it was 34 and not a cloud in the sky.....2 days later its 14 and not a bit of blue sky

Im in the middle of my walk and its steady drizzle!

You can tell its summer cos the rain is warmer

Raining hard here in central Scotland for the whole of my 40-mile bike ride this morning. It was warm rain though: like a spa treatment.

 

[paultrose]

: like a spa treatment.

Sorry but riding a bike for 40 miles is not my idea of going to a spa! 😉

 

[CliffH]

Sorry but riding a bike for 40 miles is not my idea of going to a spa! 😉

In that case, perhaps I'm turning from a soft sassenach South London sissy into a real tough Scottish person

 

[helli]

Sorry but riding a bike for 40 miles is not my idea of going to a spa! 😉

Depends how hard the warm rain was falling.
Maybe if it was giving me a gentle massage as I pedalled, I could see some appeal.
I find a conventional spa a tad dull and always end up in the gym or doing lengths in the pool.

There again. the spa-ness of the ride probably depends upon the gradient of the ride. Forty miles sounds perfectly acceptable until it becomes 40 miles uphill.
@CliffH Maybe that's why I am definitely a soft Suverner

 

[CliffH]

Depends how hard the warm rain was falling.
Maybe if it was giving me a gentle massage as I pedalled, I could see some appeal.
I find a conventional spa a tad dull and always end up in the gym or doing lengths in the pool.

There again. the spa-ness of the ride probably depends upon the gradient of the ride. Forty miles sounds perfectly acceptable until it becomes 40 miles uphill.
@CliffH Maybe that's why I am definitely a soft Suverner

Well my partner (who's Scottish) was worried about how I'd cope with the climate when I agreed to move to Scotland but global warming has come to my rescue.

 

[Alan44]

It's going to be a pleasant 23 degrees here tomorrow, me happy, dogs happy.
Friday will be 26 degrees, me happy, dogs not so happy