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Group 7-day waking average?

Grannylorraine said:
Thant is the thing, I thought I will keep struggling through until I can see docs on Tuesday. But after these discussions I have decided to stop it until I have seen doc. If only pharmacy had kept to one brand I would have been ok. Did you doc put you on slow release version or take you off them altogether, if you don't mind me asking?
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Immediately switched to the slow release version.
 
Can’t remember if I posted the wake up levels today 5.99.
Just checked now and it’s 4.9

Yesterday wasn’ta good day at all. Was my birthday and I felt utterly miserable and ate exactly what I used to eat - sort of out of a really badly thought out protest against something. So I had french bread, crisps, cream cake, pizza, tiramisu.

This morning I was 102 kg. I’m currently back down to 99.5kg and I’ve fasted all day (because I’ve not been hungry) - tonight I’m roasting some cauliflower and mackerel and I’ll have some raspberries and blueberries with a dash of cream for dessert.

I’ve got repeat blood tests coming up Monday morning so will fast leading up to that.
 
@ColinUK
Belated Happy Birthday! Sorry you felt miserable but try not to feel guilty about your pig out...... it is the nature of the beast that we all fall off the wagon, either by design or fate, from time to time and just like Christmas, your birthday only comes once a year, so not a huge issue if you have a bit of a blow out as long as you get back to being good asap. If it is any consolation, I was naughty yesterday and ate some sweets (when I wasn't hypo) and didn't inject for them as they were just tiny little Skittle type sweets that I bought to treat hypos) and I only intended to have 2 or 3 but I kept going back and having 2 or 3 more and before I knew it my BG was 22 and I had to give myself 4 corrective units of insulin pronto. I feel really bad about that because it was so not necessary and not even my birthday yet. I think I probably ate them for comfort because there was a storm and the wind was howling. It certainly reminded me very sharply of the seriousness of my condition and that without insulin I would not survive and that I can no longer revert to my old ways of eating rubbish, so I am treating it as an experiment and a spur to keep me on the straight and narrow(ish)!
Don't lose sight of the fact that you are doing really well. It was a minor blip that's all.
 
ColinUK said:
Can’t remember if I posted the wake up levels today 5.99.
Just checked now and it’s 4.9

Yesterday wasn’ta good day at all. Was my birthday and I felt utterly miserable and ate exactly what I used to eat - sort of out of a really badly thought out protest against something. So I had french bread, crisps, cream cake, pizza, tiramisu.

This morning I was 102 kg. I’m currently back down to 99.5kg and I’ve fasted all day (because I’ve not been hungry) - tonight I’m roasting some cauliflower and mackerel and I’ll have some raspberries and blueberries with a dash of cream for dessert.

I’ve got repeat blood tests coming up Monday morning so will fast leading up to that.
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Sorry I missed your birthday @ColinUK! 😱 Happy belated birthday! 🙂

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@ColinUK Happy Birthday for yesterday. Sorry you were feeling low, sadly we all get like that on occasions but as is often stated “tomorrow is another day”. X
@Grannylorraine Completely agree with the others about stopping the metformin, that’s no way to have to live and you are seeing the dr soon. I hope your mood lifts soon and I’m sad your employers weren’t a little more understanding. Wishing you well and virtual hugs winging their way to you xx
 
5.7 this morning.
 
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White rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits
 
Grannylorraine said:
Thank you, the voice of reason as always. I won't take anymore after today, as that is only 3 days of not taking them. I just find it frustrating that on one brand I am generally ok, but not this particular one. As I said to my husband I currently feel like I am incontinent.
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@Grannylorraine .I am really sorry to hear you are having such problems with that brand of Metformin. I too agree with not taking them. If you Gp or nurse prescribes a named brand then that is what the pharmacy has to supply , if no brand is on the prescription then the pharmacy will issue whatever is cheapest or what is available
 
@ColinUK . Please don’t beat yourself up about falling off the wagon because you were feeling so low .
I hope you are feeling much better now.

Happy belated Birthday.
 
Good morning folks . Wh3n I woke up earlier scan said 5.4 I am adding 2.0 to that as it’s turned into a right little fibber. In it’s dotage lol. Had a nice flatfish with a tiny , I mean a really tiny blimp in the middle .
I hope you all have a good day b
 
Either 4.1 or 4.7 depending on which meter is more accurate this morning

I was upgraded from the soon to be phased out one touch select plus to the AgaMatrix yesterday so have been testing with both as a matter of interest. One touch gave me the 4.1 and the AgaMatrix gave me the 4.7 this morning. Closer than last nights readings!
 
merrymunky said:
Either 4.1 or 4.7 depending on which meter is more accurate this morning
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I saw your other thread, in both cases the exact same meter could produce the same results with the same drop of blood just a few seconds apart so its nothing to be concerned about as it's such a small difference
 
Morning

6.2 for me today, I've been ditched for darts the whole weekend (and yea feeling pretty down about it due to my struggles this week) and as its blowing an absolute gale out there I'm just going to cuddle up on the sofa, probably with Bubbles as hes being very clingy and wait on the 6 nations starting this afternoon

Have a nice weekend folks
Xx
 
Kaylz said:
I saw your other thread, in both cases the exact same meter could produce the same results with the same drop of blood just a few seconds apart so its nothing to be concerned about as it's such a small difference
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After the difference in results I immediately did another one on my old meter last night and got that consistent 5.9 although I have seen videos on YouTube where a person got massively differing results seconds apart with the same meter.
 
Morning , it's a 6.6 from me today with an average for the week of 6.4 . hope everyone has the best day then can today
 
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