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Group 7-day waking average?

5.4 for me to day, so a big improvement, healthy eating plan and cutting back down on carbs starts again today in an effort to lose this last stone. Back at work today, soat least the routine helps.
 
5.3 for me today. 🙂
Nearly all back to normal now.
Only remains for me to un-deck the halls! 🙄
Might not wait till Twelfth Night. 😱

Have a good day everybody

Dez
 
Good morning everyone. 9.2 today. Fracture clinic today to see what’s happening to my foot five months after I broke it.
 
Morning everyone, 6.7 for me today. Keep forgetting to take my tablets in the evening, doh! Have given the house a good bottoming over the last few days, apart from the kitchen which I may tackle today, what fun!
@eggyg what a scare for you all, they go down so quickly don’t they but usually come back up again quite quickly. Hope all is ok and she is home very soon x
@AJLang good luck today and hope you have some good news x
 
Well a disappointing 9.2 for me this morning but I was less restrained yesterday than I have been since diagnosis and had a Yorkshire pud (first in nearly a year), a roastie and 3 roast parsnips as well as a tiny sliver of chocolate cheesecake (which was sheer heaven) plus cheese and a tiny bit of fruit afterwards..... all bolussed for but even with extra corrections I was 9.1 going to bed. At least I can be reasonably sure my night time Levemir is right.
Looks like my ratios have changed and I just need to be a bit heavier handed with my bolus doses for the time being.

@Kaylz Thanks. Yes I am aware that needles "should" be changed after each use but my sites are all good and I rotate them. I air shot each time and can really see no benefit in changing them so frequently. It just appears that my ratios have changed, like they did in the summer, which I assumed was the end of my honeymoon period, but maybe my pancreas is slowly shutting down in phases. For some reason it really worries me that I need more insulin and I seem to be mentally resistant to that change, rather than just accepting that I need whatever I need.

Does anyone find that they need more in the winter and less in the summer? I would like to think that this might be a reversible step rather than a possibly progressive need for more year on year.
 
Hello campers, Happy campers 2020 to everyone.

Not been posting for a couple of weeks or so, as numbers up, eaten my own weight in mince pies, Christmas puddings and shortbread, each one a diabetics worst nightmare, but God,, they sooo delicious

Numbers, well let's just say say they were understandably poor!

So here I am, back eating sensibly, with not a great start, but better.

8.8 this morning - must do better.

Still waiting for head MRI results and appt for head CT scan.

Hoping you each had an equally indulgent time
 
@Kaylz Thanks. Yes I am aware that needles "should" be changed after each use but my sites are all good and I rotate them. I air shot each time and can really see no benefit in changing them so frequently. It just appears that my ratios have changed, like they did in the summer, which I assumed was the end of my honeymoon period, but maybe my pancreas is slowly shutting down in phases. For some reason it really worries me that I need more insulin and I seem to be mentally resistant to that change, rather than just accepting that I need whatever I need.
Some people carry the staphylococcal bacteria on their skin so there is more risk of getting an infection from reusing needles that have already pierced the skin previously

I too suffered mentally with insulin and adjustments along with other things related to diabetes so I understand completely how you feel but you will get there in accepting you need what you need

Yes many people find they require less insulin with warmer weather but as is with diabetes others will require less in the colder weather, it can even change for you during the season even though its the same season, you'll come to realise what you need to do the more you go through the seasons as a Type 1
xx
 
Morning, yawning! A much better 6.4 this morning. My New Year didn’t get off to a good start. Unfortunately our, just turned two, granddaughter was taken to hospital yesterday. She had what we thought was a virus, snotty nose, raised temperature, lethargy, no appetite and so on but she hadn’t slept at all the night before and her lips and hands were blue and she was shaking, my daughter called 111 and they sent an ambulance for her. When the paramedics arrived they found her temperature was 40.2, her heart beat was 180 and her blood sugars were 3.2. They gave her some glucose from a tube my daughter said, and Calpol and took her to hospital. To cut a long story short, after many tests, including a flu swab it was found she has a UTI. They’ve kept her in overnight as even with Calpol and Ibuprofen her temperature was still only dropping to 38 and they want to make sure she takes her antibiotics. I was at the hospital with them for 4 hours, Mr Eggy had the other two as my son-in-law was at work. When he got back I came home. The other two stayed over at ours. Hence why I’m up early, woke up and my mind automatically went to the little one, I’m sure she’ll be fine once the antibiotics kick in but she looked so ill yesterday. What a worry. Luckily one of my other daughters only lives five minutes from the hospital and supplied her sister with PJs etc last night as she lives a 40 mile round trip away. Touch wood she’ll be home today and on the road to recovery. Again much to thank the NHS for. 🙂
Hope your grand daughter recovers soon Eggyg - not the best start to 2020
 
5.8 this morning. Which I admit is fine, but I'm a bit disappointed in it for some weird reason 🙂 I guess I'm just trying to stay around the 5.0 mark because it looks aesthetically better than the random numbers I get 🙂
you really got to go easy on yourself, you wouldn't want to be spending too much time at the lower end of the scale as an insulin user as this comes of increased risk of loosing hypo awareness which isn't good and I've been there myself xx
 
@rebrascora I know it can be very tempting to keep re-using the needles but, just like other diabetic problems, re-using the needles can cause problems with your injection sites that you don’t know about until it’s too late to reverse them. I really would encourage you to use a new needle for each injection.
 
Hello peeps, up early for an 8am GP appt - stupid time.

5.3 today - pleased with that

Hope all goes well for you today
 
Morning Folks

Reporting a reading of 7.4 for this morning

nice morning on doggie walk

off to the office shortly but it’s the weekend already - these two day weeks are superb..
 
it's an 8.0 from me this morning
 
Morning folks.🙂 4.9 here.😛

Another day at the electronic workface, tippy-tapping on my llaptop (that’s laptop in Welsh🙄). Only 2000 words to go - I just hope what I’m writing makes sense! :D
 
Morning 🙂

4.5 for me, if you believe the sensor I put on yesterday though I was in the 2's 🙄 I hope it picks up soon as these are going to take a bit of explaining to the consultant on the 21st, definitely think Tresiba is going to have to be reduced as twice this week I've needed to have a glucose chew 3 hours after bolusing for my tea which I couldn't have done without the Libre

Have a great Friday folks
xx
 
Morning all and 6.8 for me.

First job this morning pack bag to Ryanair standards for Gigs in Manchester and Dublin, on the road carb estimating here we come.

Have a good day everyone.
 
Morning all, 7.6 for me today. Valentine's chocolate and Easter items are slowly starting to appear at work!
 
Morning all, a bit late for me but sometimes everything just catches up on you. A 6.9 today. Pleased to say the little one is home, still a bit peely wally and sleepy but touchwood the antibiotics will have the required outcome. No Friday babysitting duties as mummy is staying home with her. So a free day! We have started the “undecking” @MeeTooTeeTwo one tree down one to go. It’s a b***ache! Have a good day all, it’s nearly back to normal time. Soon be spring!🙂
 
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