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Group 7-day waking average?

It's Thursday morning, Rotten and 1.9 when I awoke about 2 hours ago and then passed out. Managed to get some biscuits down me about 30 minutes ago and am now 2.4 but feeling very wobbly and keep making typing errors but am getting on track now. Need more carbs which I am eating as I type. Yes Alan, I purchased 5 litres of water but it is now back on. I still can't see very well but am trying my best..
 
Hazel said:
Hmn, 6.9 this morning

Must not eat fruit cake, I rather over indulged yesterday. But I loved it
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Reverse for me Hazel 9.6. Not best food choices for me last night either
 
Michael12420 said:
It's Thursday morning, Rotten and 1.9 when I awoke about 2 hours ago and then passed out. Managed to get some biscuits down me about 30 minutes ago and am now 2.4 but feeling very wobbly and keep making typing errors but am getting on track now. Need more carbs which I am eating as I type. Yes Alan, I purchased 5 litres of water but it is now back on. I still can't see very well but am trying my best..
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Hope BG comes up soon and you feel better
 
KookyCat said:
also if the hippy dude is wearing Birkenstocks ask him where he got them from there seems to be a shortage in these parts and my last pair have after ten years of service given up the ghost :D
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I contacted the manufacturers, nice German guy told me "Zey vill be birk en stock next month!!" 😛
 
Michael12420 said:
It's Thursday morning, Rotten and 1.9 when I awoke about 2 hours ago and then passed out. Managed to get some biscuits down me about 30 minutes ago and am now 2.4 but feeling very wobbly and keep making typing errors but am getting on track now. Need more carbs which I am eating as I type. Yes Alan, I purchased 5 litres of water but it is now back on. I still can't see very well but am trying my best..
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Oh Michael! You do worry me :( Very sorry to hear that you have dropped so low - 1.9 equals my lowest ever recorded hypo 😱 Might I ask when you inject you bolus insulin in relation to your bedtime? It's possible that it is still active well after you have gone to bed, and dropping your levels, rather than it being the basal insulin. You do need to discuss this with your DSN if you can. Is there any possibility of you using a Libre, if only for a month?

I hope you feel better soon - remember that having such an extreme hypo will put you at risk of more hypos in the next 24 hours as it's likely your liver's stocks of glucose have also been depleted.
 
Good morning folks!

Was an absolute scorcher yesterday, spent most of the day without a t-shirt on till my grandad came for tea, only put a vest top on and was absolutely dripping :(

6.9 for me this morning 🙂

@rebrascora eliquid is vape liquid, I switched to vaping in 2017 (I cant give up nicotine yet as I gave up a lot when I was diagnosed so I still need that lol) shop bought eliquid can be expensive, a 120ml bottle I’ve seen as expensive as £20! whereas I could make a litre of one of Bruce’s favourites for just over £10 so its far cheaper to mix my own and also a lot of the “premium” ones are stuffed full of sucralose and I cant stand the aftertaste of sucralose so with mixing my own I don’t use any

Have a great day folks!! :D
xx
 
Good morning 8.8 and no hypo last night woohoo! 🙂

Eye clinic today, I’ve worn a track to the place including collisions with lamp posts and signposts. Today I will endeavour to negotiate an incident free exit, Watch this space - that’s what I’ll be trying to do! 😉🙂
 
Flower said:
Good morning 8.8 and no hypo last night woohoo! 🙂

Eye clinic today, I’ve worn a track to the place including collisions with lamp posts and signposts. Today I will endeavour to negotiate an incident free exit, Watch this space - that’s what I’ll be trying to do! 😉🙂
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Good luck! Did your shiny new crutches arrive?
xx
 
Morning all on a very wet Thursday! Went to bed on 7.2 after a meal out, not too carby honest guv! A couple of glasses of “pop” so much so we left the car and walked home, only problem is we now have to walk back for it in this weather. Waking reading at 7.30 a very high, for me, 7.9. Pre bolused for one slice of Burgen ( 3 units) went in the shower and at 8 checked my BGs again incase of mucky digit. 8.8! In the words of the great Toyah Wilcox, “ Ith’s a Mythstery”. Have a terrific Thursday. 🙂
 
I inject Novorapid at about 5.45 pm. Last night my readings were 4.3, I injected 3 units and had sandwiches as it is too hot to eat a cooked meal. The sandwiches were quite substantial - about 3 slices of a normal UK loaf. My basal is injected at 7 pm and I go to bed at 7.30 as I get so tired. I reduced my basal to 16. Chest, abdomen and left arm very grazed after the fall. Just done another reading and it is 10. Don't have a DSN. Nearest specialist consultant is a 100km round trip and I do not feel safe driving at the moment. In any case there is a 6 month waiting list.
 
Morning all, such a hot and sticky night last night, overcast at present but hopefully will brighten up. 6.4 for me this morning which I’m surprised at as was very naughty yesterday and had 2 bacon butties for tea which were delicious. Going to ring DN today to see if I can have an HbA1c to see how I am getting on and query tingling feet, is this a problem - no idea? Hot flushes today, damn things have been and gone twice over the years but seem to be coming back for a third visit and they’re not welcome, hey ho!!
Have a good day all x
 
08:16 BS 8.5. Almost expected with the new exercise last night: hard work; could have put up midnight Levemir but, too lazy to test, & kept it at 20. Well, it’ll get easier & the BS will come back down so, not unduly worried! 🙄

Boy, did I FREEZE going to the little girl’s room just now for a call of nature! I’m sitting back in bed with the heater on for a bit until I warm up! Shivering, covered in icicles emoji! 😱

A nice hot of cup of tea with brekkie will also go down nicely! 😛

Then it’s the opening round of the golf I qualified for & I have 2 days to play 18 holes: 3rd tournament now & see if I can get to the weekend round. 🙄

Then, next week I’m be glued to the TV watching the real thing: The Open at Royal Portrush; incidently directly opposite Kellys the biggest, & some say the most imfamous, nightclub in NI, I think in the whole of Ireland, where there are coach loads of mostly teens & young twenty year olds, go every Saturday night! It WAS the little night club at the back of the former Golf Links Hotel that golfers visiting stayed there to play the course opposite: NI even during the troubles was known, not so well as now of course, as a weekend golfer’s haven with all the beautiful courses along The Causeway Coast. But, that little nightclub outgrew it’s boundaries, as it were, & has taken over the entire hotel as visitors dried up as the violence, this was before the peace of The Good Friday Agreement, escalated & the hotel is no more! Locals who play there don’t need a hotel! Kellys is now huge as it's now the whole building! It’s known as a hotbed of vice etc. at the weekend with people coming from all over Ireland, down south too! So, the pro golfers can have a handy party after they finish, if they’re up for it, across the road from the course! 😱😛:D🙄

Incidentally,, good girl me, has never been there except once as a young child dad took me, my other two younger siblings & mum there for Sunday lunch when it was still The Golf Links Hotel. My younger brother was a party animal & went practically every weekend while he was still here at school before becoming a Londoner after he went off to uni! 🙄:D Nightclubs were never my thing even in my hey day of my teenage years: was into Classical music & not pop & certainly not at ear splitting volumes! 😱:D

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
 
Good morning everyone🙂

4.6 for me this morning, which crawled up to 4.9 as I crawled out of bed. Still, all’s well with the world. My new computer is all wired up and running. Trouble is, in the data transfer a lot of programs have disappeared, so it’s a bit of a pain reloading stuff.:(

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It’s a bit of a beast - you can turn all the lights off if you want - and in addition to all the usual fans, it’s water cooled, so when I’m hammering beasties it won’t get too warm. All built to my specs by a company half a mile away.

I won’t be playing on it today much, England are playing Australia in the cricket World Cup semifinal. The old enemy. What fun:D

The Tesco delivery arrived this morning, so I’ll have an agonising decision to make this evening - what to eat? :confused: Decisions, decisions...

Anyway, have a good day folks. I will, for sure🙂
 
Anitram said:
Morning everyone. For the first time in 3 weeks I've crossed the border into sixland with a 6.5 this morning. How come, I keep asking myself, especially after a 5.0 post-prandial last night.

Sometimes it all seems such a mystery.

Martin
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Delayed effect of the chips quite possibly xx
 
5.7 for me this morning which I will very happily accept. It has gone up to 8.7 now and all I had for breakfast was some lettuce and cheese coleslaw and then some celery and mushrooms with sour cream, onion and chive dips later, so shouldn't have needed any bolus but at least it is still under 10 and will hopefully go down with a bit of work in the garden.... goodness knows the garden needs it!

@Kaylz Thanks for the explanation. I thought it might be something to do with vaping but didn't realise you could mix your own... the modern equivalent of a roll your own cigarette I guess. Thankfully smoking was something that I was never tempted to try.....wish I could say the same for chocolate or perhaps I wouldn't be here on this forum!

@Hazel You just do that every once in a while to make the rest of us feel better don't you?
Wow, fruitloaf!!!.... I wouldn't dare! Was it a special occasion? Curious to know what your reading was after eating it.... ie. did it put you into double figures??
 
No not double figures just higher than normal.
Not a special occasion as such, just something at the church, with home baking.
Fruit cake, I cannot resist, it was gorgeous and I had to have seconds. The Baker gave me some to bring home. Oh but I did enjoy it
 
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