Fingerprick tests, possibly a silly question...

[Copepod]

Any further advice will have to be conducted strictly by PM ! 😉

Rob

I must point out that a solar powered duck door opening device means neither my partner nor I have to go outside to let them out, and can carry out health checks, and add food and water later.

 

[schmeezle]

I wake, shower, and poke before brkfst - prefer to have a reading closer to meal-time.....say, 15-30 minutes prior. If eating out on weekend, could be 1 1/2 hr before first poke. Some days I see DP and others I don't.

 

[Copepod]

Poke must mean something a bit different in USA than in UK? 😱

 

[Robster65]

I must point out that a solar powered duck door opening device means neither my partner nor I have to go outside to let them out, and can carry out health checks, and add food and water later.

Birdy let out comes after breakfast and ablutions.

The bigger ones have feed and water overnight now, so we can take some time for ourselves before we need worry.🙂

Rob

 

[Lady Willpower]

Honestly, you guys crack me up I am also off to the park to get some ducks tomorrow but hope a male Sarah comes with them!!! I do think that telling us that you 'consume your wife' at breakfast time is a little TMI rofl

 

[schmeezle]

Poke must mean something a bit different in USA than in UK? 😱

Was afraid of that.....perhaps test would've been better......I call my meter my "poker"......

 

[Robster65]

Honestly, you guys crack me up I am also off to the park to get some ducks tomorrow but hope a male Sarah comes with them!!! I do think that telling us that you 'consume your wife' at breakfast time is a little TMI rofl

😎 It's all in the mind of the reader LW. 🙄

Rob

 

[Robster65]

Was afraid of that.....perhaps test would've been better......I call my meter my "poker"......

I like your name for it. Makes it less clinical and would certainly turn a few heads if referred to in public.

Rob

 

[Monkey]

I'm another 'test and inject first thing'-er. Do all that, get toddler up and dressed, make breakfast and tea for us (well, no tea for him!) then it's usually about 30mins since humalog so I eat. I've found that's a fairly useful way to stop a massive post-breakfast high. Sometimes, anyway!

 

[Robster65]

I'm another 'test and inject first thing'-er. Do all that, get toddler up and dressed, make breakfast and tea for us (well, no tea for him!) then it's usually about 30mins since humalog so I eat. I've found that's a fairly useful way to stop a massive post-breakfast high. Sometimes, anyway!

Need to be careful if a crisis intervenes. Easy to forget the time and end up having to grab something sugary and sit still while chaos reigns all around !

But can see that you don't always have time to schedule in a break between jab and eat.

Rob

 

[heasandford]

Think I must get up later than most, lack of paid work means I can often rise after 8.15am, thus beating the dreaded cortisol? I inject about 15 minutes after getting out of bed and immediately before cereal and tea - not usually a problem (other than when it is - but will it be a hypo or a high, that's the question!)

 

[Copepod]

Honestly, you guys crack me up I am also off to the park to get some ducks tomorrow but hope a male Sarah comes with them!!! I do think that telling us that you 'consume your wife' at breakfast time is a little TMI rofl

Just in case you want a vaguely sensible answer, Lady Willpower, park probably has mallard ducks, which aren't the most suited to garden life. I'd suggest muscovies or khaki campbells like we've got (2 Muscovies, 5 K-Cs, plus an old male Aylesbury) - clip their wing feathers on one side so they can't fly off; provide with an ex-plastic sand pit filled with water and house, food trough covered from rain, plus bowl of water. Muscovies are best for hatching eggs, K-Cs for laying them (all over the place!) We got our K-Cs as eggs (arrived in polystyrene box through the post) and put them under a broody Muscovy.

 

[lauraw1983]

Sorry guys I am just getting back to this, have been feeling really rough lately - the Byetta The sickness and nausea is horrendous.

Anyway, I asked this because I mostly always get up, get ready and try to get 2 small children ready, drop them off at childminder/school then get to work on a work day, or home if not, and THEN I eat breakfast.

I have never been able to eat as soon as I get up, too early. Plus half the time I have no time to do anything other than get us all out the house! 😱

My morning numbers are always higher than the rest of the day. I wondered if the above had anything to do with that or not I suppose...or if it should make no difference?

I'm still waiting for the GAD and c-peptide results to come back. Le sigh.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Would be interesting to see if your levels were different straight after getting up. Could be a little dawn phenomenon maybe? Some find their levels continue to rise from the liver until they eat something.

Hope your nausea passes soon.

 

[lauraw1983]

Tomorrow I shall try to remember to check it first thing....hmmm. I'm not working. I will maybe take my little meter upstairs so I can do it before I even get up, would be curious to know too but never have it near me then - don't like to leave things like that at child height so it's normally away up high on a shelf downstairs!