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Group 7-day waking average?

Love the new pic, @Stitch147.😛

Morning all.🙂 10.1 here, after a meal out last night - but a flatter fish than usual, so must have got the Tresiba right.🙂

You’ve got Caroline and we’ve got Ana - hang on to your hats and wrap up warm.:D
 
khskel said:
Morning all 6.5 on the libre which I suspect would be somewhere in the mid 5s on a finger prick.
Going to stock up on supplies for us and our feathered friends today. Winter is definitely having a fling.
Have a good, warm and level day everyone.
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I spent a fortune on the foxes and the dickers yesterday! 🙄 I feel so sorry for them struggling in this cold.

Morning all. 7.1 @ 7.36 am after a very good sleep, straight through from 1 till 7 yay!
 
Flower said:
Good morning 🙂 5.2 before bed, 5.2 this morning. House spesh bookends with a slightly sagging washing line in between!

Have a good weekend all. I'm braving town ~ early there, early back. Thinking of putting flashing fairy lights on my crutches to give people the option of not walking into me 😉
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Congratulations on the double House Special @Flower! Hope your trip out goes well, without any pedestrian encumbrances 🙂

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Morning folks on this cold one. A 7.3 for me and I expected better.
Yesterday I was lower after breakfast than on waking and lower after lunch than before. My diabetes has gone inside out and backwards first! 🙄

Nithering here apparently but I’m still under the duvet 🙂
 
Good morming all, 4.7 after waking up at 5am with a 3.3, levels are all over the place, was 11.8 on the train after eating a very low carb meal on the last train home. I think I took too much insulin after that but as nothing is working as normal right now, it's hard to know what to do!
I wish you all a good Saturday and keep warm.
 
Flower said:
Good morning 🙂 5.2 before bed, 5.2 this morning. House spesh bookends with a slightly sagging washing line in between!

Have a good weekend all. I'm braving town ~ early there, early back. Thinking of putting flashing fairy lights on my crutches to give people the option of not walking into me 😉
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Congrats on HS and flashing fairy lights sounds a good idea, hope your journey to town is successful. :D
 
Good morning everyone. 2.9 at 6am.
 
Morning all (just). Emerging from hibernation after a virus insinuated itself into my system on Thursday evening, blood glucose, interestingly, remained stubbornly and consistently around the 9.0 mark for two days, irrespective of the huge doses of insulin I was throwing at it. It finally started behaving a couple of hours ago, I must be on the mend.
 
Robin said:
Morning all (just). Emerging from hibernation after a virus insinuated itself into my system on Thursday evening, blood glucose, interestingly, remained stubbornly and consistently around the 9.0 mark for two days, irrespective of the huge doses of insulin I was throwing at it. It finally started behaving a couple of hours ago, I must be on the mend.
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Glad to hear you seem to be over the worst 🙂 Soooo unpredictable when ill, and when recovering too, I find :(
 
Northerner said:
Glad to hear you seem to be over the worst 🙂 Soooo unpredictable when ill, and when recovering too, I find :(
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Certainly is, I just did 5 units for lunch, allowing an extra couple of units for the lurgy, and it's shot up to 14.5! 😱 ( and I currently have 50% more basal in)

(Have you checked on the DF's whereabouts lately, is she still safely buried?)
 
Robin said:
Certainly is, I just did 5 units for lunch, allowing an extra couple of units for the lurgy, and it's shot up to 14.5! 😱 ( and I currently have 50% more basal in)

(Have you checked on the DF's whereabouts lately, is she still safely buried?)
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You have a point, she went out for some milk three days ago and hasn't come back! 😱 (I dug her up because of the cats wailing at night, I think it might have been their toilet) 😱 🙂
 
Good Morning/Night/Morning Everyone.
From Shanghai.
Off to Hangzhou this morning, welll that's the plan.
Hope everyone is ready for Santa coming.

Accu-Chek say 4.7
At 5.39 am
Wish everyone a peaceful night and exciting day tomorrow


Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau
 
Got my first appointment to see the Nurse at my GP's on January 2nd, at their request for my "1st review". My Son made the appointment for me.
I am going armed to the back teeth with my food diary, 3 months reading and weight spreadsheet records, my meter which shows the readings averaged over 4 different time periods and 1000 questions. I am going to request a fasting HbA1c blood test and then we will have a little conversation about what I, ME, want to do about MY health.
Although I apprecate I am taking 500mg Metformin daily, I have only once since Sept 29th drifted above the normal non-diabetic of 4-7.8 post prandial range and that was an 8.2 after a Burger King Aberdeen Angus. Yes, I had a wake up call I agree probably long overdue.
I want to come off the Metformin at the very least for a trial period and manage my condition by diet and exercise.
I have to say it again, I am much, much more knowledgeable now and wiser and that is totally down to this forum and it's members and nothing else. It is certainly not from any information or guidance I was given either by her or my GP during my 5 minutes of discussions with them on Sept 29th. I seriously could have been going down totally the wrong path and I am more than a little "upset" about that.
I fully intend to have that conversation with her and my GP when we meet.
 
Vince_UK said:
Got my first appointment to see the Nurse at my GP's on January 2nd, at their request for my "1st review". My Son made the appointment for me.
I am going armed to the back teeth with my food diary, 3 months reading and weight spreadsheet records, my meter which shows the readings averaged over 4 different time periods and 1000 questions. I am going to request a fasting HbA1c blood test and then we will have a little conversation about what I, ME, want to do about MY health.
Although I apprecate I am taking 500mg Metformin daily, I have only once since Sept 29th drifted above the normal non-diabetic of 4-7.8 post prandial range and that was an 8.2 after a Burger King Aberdeen Angus. Yes, I had a wake up call I agree probably long overdue.
I want to come off the Metformin at the very least for a trial period and manage my condition by diet and exercise.
I have to say it again, I am much, much more knowledgeable now and wiser and that is totally down to this forum and it's members and nothing else. It is certainly not from any information or guidance I was given either by her or my GP during my 5 minutes of discussions with them on Sept 29th. I seriously could have been going down totally the wrong path and I am more than a little "upset" about that.
I fully intend to have that conversation with her and my GP when we meet.
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Good for you Vince! You won’t need a fasting Hba1c test though because they measure the amount of glucose that’s basically stuck to the haemoglobin in your red blood cells over the past 10-12 weeks so what you ate overnight won’t make a difference.
The only time fasting seems to be suggested is for the lipid (cholesterol test) and even then only for the triglyceride levels.

I suspect he’ll take you off Metformin once the Hb comes back. I’d be surprised if it was much over 35 to be honest.

Have a good day in Hangzhou 🙂
 
Amigo said:
Good for you Vince! You won’t need a fasting Hba1c test though because they measure the amount of glucose that’s basically stuck to the haemoglobin in your red blood cells over the past 10-12 weeks so what you ate overnight won’t make a difference.
The only time fasting seems to be suggested is for the lipid (cholesterol test) and even then only for the triglyceride levels.

I suspect he’ll take you off Metformin once the Hb comes back. I’d be surprised if it was much over 35 to be honest.

Have a good day in Hangzhou 🙂
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@Amigo
Thanks Amigo, appreciate your support.
I have never even had a fasting test for cholestrol and yet I have been on statins for years and my last level was 3.4.
If I am wrong then I will accept it but I feel I do need to ask many questions. It worries me how many people out there with Diabetes both T2 and T1 are being given inadequate or totally the wrong information and guidance; it really does.
 
Good morning everyone 🙂 Thank you for the hugs and good luck yesterday Northerner 🙂 Unfortunately another 2.9 this morning and struggling to type this. It really worries me when I don't get symptoms until I'm as low as 2.9.
 
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