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Group 7-day waking average?

Good morning folks🙂

I woke (for the second time) on 4.7. Rats, I thought. I’d woken earlier with hip pain on 5.6, a gradual drift down, so I was hoping for a 5.2. The best laid schemes o’mice an men gang aft agley, as the great man wrote.

Talking of schemes going agley....

Yesterday’s interaction with the neurologist was a bit unsatisfactory. The consultant was Asian, so I expected the usual warm friendly welcome. I forgot he’d learned to be a neurologist. Anyway, he wittered on about the tremor, which doesn’t bother me, and more or less ignored my interruptions to that effect, and eventually got on the the muscle weakness and spasticity. I think some of this was evasiveness, because he kept asking what they had told me in Scotland. A motor neuropathy. He didn’t want to say motor neurone disease. (the Prof in Scotland was less inhibited, suggesting that diagnosis almost as an aside). Anyway, he managed to light on the most important investigation, EMGs. That’s when they attach leads to your muscles - bit like Libre sensors, but with needles. Then they pass electrical signals through and watch you twitch while they measure the rate of signal transfer. It’s quite uncomfortable, but not particularly painful.:confused:

The patient transfer service worked like a dream. Next time, it’ll be Preston, so I’ll get PTSD. That’s where Mrs B wasn’t expected to live after the brain haemorrhage. She’s just making me a cup of tea.🙂

To cap it all, Rovers lost at Swansea. Scored first, too. Oh well, they don’t usually succeed on these foreign trips🙄
 
mikeyB said:
Next time, it’ll be Preston, so I’ll get PTSD
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Just from the hospital or from the city as a whole? (cue the joke, 'and what a whole Preston is') It’s also inhabited by dozens of my in-laws, my OH was the only one who made a break for freedom.
 
Northerner said:
Good morning 🙂 Eyes streaming, sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, headache...I could be wrong, but I think I've come down with a cold :(
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Sorry to hear that, I am currently feeling head achy, achy and swollen glands so I think I am in for it as well, anyway 8.2 for me, still can't shrug off this low mood that is making my crave carbs, so I am stuck in the ever decreasing vicious circle at the moment.
 
Good morning 8.1 on a nice sunny day. Sorry to hear you`ve got the lurgy Northie :( and hope it doesn't last long. I`m with Robin with the like, thought about it but a nice smiley face to start with persuaded me 🙂. I got an MRI scan on head & spine tomorrow hope I don`t snore in the tunnel :D.

Have a good day all.
 
KARNAK said:
Good morning 8.1 on a nice sunny day. Sorry to hear you`ve got the lurgy Northie :( and hope it doesn't last long. I`m with Robin with the like, thought about it but a nice smiley face to start with persuaded me 🙂. I got an MRI scan on head & spine tomorrow hope I don`t snore in the tunnel :D.

Have a good day all.
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Good luck with the MRI, Ted!

4.7 this morning. My little road trip went pretty well BG-wise, unlike the last time. Succumbed to the dubious lure of an airport bagel + cream cheese, which did me little good but no lasting harm, and after that there was plenty of salad & fish to be had.
 
16.6 for me and seem to have lost 3lb in weight (don’t want that) since starting gliclazide on Tuesday. BG during day higher as well. Think I am odd. Again plus, only up once during night
 
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Morning all, 7.2 here.
Gliclazide works by stimulating your beta cells to churn out insulin all the time, @Carolg .but if you ain’t got enough beta cells left for it to work on, no way is it going to help!
 
Carolg said:
16.6 for me and seem to have lost 3lb in weight (don’t mood that) since starting gliclazide on Tuesday. BG during day higher as well. Think I am odd. Again plus, only up once during night
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Time for the magic touch of insulin, Carol, I think. Discuss with your doc.🙂
 
Good morning all🙂

I woke with 6.2 this morning, with a lovely straight line overnight. It’s 9.4 now after fighting my way out of bed with a Trammie hangover and just breathing high calorie Lancashire air. A morning dose of Levemir and a whiff of Humalog should rein that in.🙂

Bit grey and drizzly this morning, but the weather isn’t too bad:D
 
Eddy Edson said:
Good luck with the MRI, Ted!
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Thanks Eddy.

Good morning a HS on this glorious day 🙂. Washing machine is working away get it all done before MRI scan. Still in shorts & T shirt 20.c on outside balcony, might get a bit of sunbathing in before scan.
 
Morning all, a 9.3 for me today. UTI symptoms seen better today, hopefully the antibiotics are doing the trick.
 
mikeyB said:
Time for the magic touch of insulin, Carol, I think. Discuss with your doc.🙂
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Never see a doctor, was discussed with nurse, seemed to be going to happen, then reversed, Been put on sitagliptin, still high BG, now gliclazide instead of pioglitazone. Nurse will call a week on Monday. I asked about c-peptide test as they are saying pancreas maybe not producing insulin. Don’t do it in fife, but I can’t understand mikeyb how they give you a drug - gliclazide to get pancreas to produce insulin but say on other hand it’s maybe not producing any. Am I dense or wot. Also maybe saw other post, don’t prescribes sticks and monitor for me, but know I self test, so been asked to test a couple of times a day. Think I just prick with a safety pin, and hold finger up to air???
 
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