Group 7-day waking average?

[ColinUK]

It's been a lovely morning here so far, made even better by the bin men not showing up until 7, which is when I get up anyway. Makes a change from them roaring up the road at their usual 6:30 and then chucking everyone's recycling boxes and food caddies around.

Electrician on site today, along with the plumber and tiler, so it's a bit noisy with three of them up there in the bathroom. Hope my wife and our eldest, both working from home, can cope.

Strange post-prandial result after Pasta Bolognese last night. My food diary tells me that I average 6.2 for that meal, with results ranging from 5.4 to 6.9, but it was a 4.8 on the meter this time. Switched fingers and did a second test - 5.1, so it seems I was that low. Complete mystery. More used to getting something like that on waking.

Highlight of the day for me is a trip to the recycling centre after lunch to dump the wood from our broken fence and various other bits and pieces, including three old laptops (minus their hard drives, which I will dispose of separately once I've smashed them up a bit with a hammer).

Have a good day, everyone.

Martin

Drill through the hard drives. Make a few holes straight through the casing and the drive itself. You can then shove glue in the hole if you really want to make sure they’re unrecoverable. And it’s kind of satisfying!

 

[pm133]

Another beautiful day in the Kingdom of Fife.
Woke up to a plump and magnificently well rounded 6.0.

Had another hypo yesterday after walking the dog before dinner. Was feeling a bit rough but didn't check my levels and thought my BG was probably a little high. Nope. Half way round the walk and I started to realise my vision was a bit weird and then I thought "I think I'm going to face plant any second". After another minute I thought "DEXTROSE". So, I had a sniffing dog in one hand (head down, ass in the air, ears closed) and a bag of poo in the other and my muddled brain trying to work out how to get to the Dextrose. Ended up eating the entire packet. Got home and tested 4.2 was must have been very low. Never really recovered from the headache and lethargy for the rest of the day. Another lesson learned.

 

[KARNAK]

Good morning 6.3 on an overcast day 21.C inside at the moment.🙂
Phoned medical Insurance yesterday about my gall bladder they`re
contacting the consultant to see if its urgent.😎

Glad you`re feeling better @Lanny.🙂

Inclined to agree with @Robin @adrian1der a bit of DP crept in.🙄

Hope the meeting goes well @SueEK 🙂 sometimes employers only realise
what an asset they had until they lose them.

Speak with you later folks have a good day, take care stay safe.🙂

 

[miguel81]

Michael please consider what we've been suggesting, also set an alarm for through the night to check your levels, this can't go on and each one puts you more in danger of more serious consequences, it isn't safe at all and you really must look at your insulin management xx

Thank you. I am really trying the best that I can. My prescribed dosage of basal is now down from 18 to 12. I am equally spartan with my NR. I count the carbs in my meal. I usually wake in the earrly hours of the morning and eat a few more carbs just to be on the safe side. Everthing that I eat and the amount of insulin that I inject is now calculated rather than guessed. It worries me too.

 

[pm133]

M

Thank you. I am really trying the best that I can. My prescribed dosage of basal is now down from 18 to 12. I am equally spartan with my NR. I count the carbs in my meal. I usually wake in the earrly hours of the morning and eat a few more carbs just to be on the safe side. Everthing that I eat and the amount of insulin that I inject is now calculated rather than guessed. It worries me too.

Roughly how many carbs are you eating a day?
And what type? Pasta?

 

[eggyg]

Thanks for the reminder @eggyg. Him indoors usually goes to bed early, so hopefully I’ll have GBBO all to myself. 😛

Mr Eggy was always at Camera Club on a Tuesday so could watch in peace, that’s not obviously happening at the moment but they have it via Zoom so he’s in another room. Last week he pootled back through at 8.45, it had finished early! He nattered that much that I knocked it off, hence why watching it today. Hope Zoom meeting longer tonight or he can go to bed!

 

[miguel81]

M


Roughly how many carbs are you eating a day?
And what type? Pasta?

It is usually between 170g and 220g, it depends of course on what I choose to eat - which isn't very much. As for exercise,which I take into account, I usually walk about 4km a day with my dog.

 

[Kaylz]

@Michael12421 I really do worry about you, you say you are eating 170-220g carbs a day but then go on to say that you don't eat very much so I don't understand where all of those carbs are coming from, can you run through a few things of what you might eat in a day please? xx

 

[Lanny]

12:06 BS 6.7🙂 Pretty happy with that! Dithered a bit about midday Levemir, stuck in the usual 60 & then accessed in my mind how I felt & if I needed all of the extra 6 units I had the last couple of days, pushed in 2, thought again, then another 2, thought of the JB’s in my top bedside dresser drawer & how much more lousy I felt when BS was higher earlier in the week & almost heavily sleeping past alarms & pushed in the last 2 so, 66 it is! It strikes me as a bit funny but, JB’s make me feel braver!🙄😉

Speaking of which, I hope you got those little JB’s well chewed & down you quick @Michael12421🙄😉

 

[ColinUK]

12:06 BS 6.7🙂 Pretty happy with that! Dithered a bit about midday Levemir, stuck in the usual 60 & then accessed in my mind how I felt & if I needed all of the extra 6 units I had the last couple of days, pushed in 2, thought again, then another 2, thought of the JB’s in my top bedside dresser drawer & how much more lousy I felt when BS was higher earlier in the week & almost heavily sleeping past alarms & pushed in the last 2 so, 66 it is! It strikes me as a bit funny but, JB’s make me feel braver!🙄😉

Speaking of which, I hope you got those little JB’s well chewed & down you quick @Michael12421🙄😉

@Lanny just sent you a private message😎

 

[miguel81]

Sure. I am having low readings in the morning so I have to have something to eat. It is usually a couple of chocolate chip biscuits or toast and marmalade. My dinner is usually pasta with meat and a sauce. If not it is something with rice or potatoes, a curry with the rice or meat with potatoes and other vegetables. Sometimes it is just a sandwich with soup. I always have 2 Magdalenas with honey afterwards as they are easy to eat and digest.

 

[rebrascora]

Very happy to report a 5.6 this morning with no corrections needed through the night, after increasing my basal by one unit.
Good to hear you are feeling a bit better @Lanny. I like the idea that Jelly Babies give you courage! Little super heros of the bedside cabinet.

 

[Kaylz]

@Michael12421 as we've said, your chosen treatments aren't fast enough especially to trear readings in the 2's, your allowing yourself to spend far too long at those levels by using biscuits or toast, use just spoonfulls of marmalade or jam or honey seen as you have them in anyway seen as you seem to have issues finding sweets although I've been assured glucose tabs can be obtained over there so might be worth investing in a few packs, as for carb wise even toast and marmalade is only going to be around 45g carbs, I don't have a clue about magdalena but honey is around 12g carbs per 15g tablsepoon, how much pasta are you eating? Whats in your sauces? Are you weighing food and calculating carbs correctly? what method are you using to do it? xx

 

[miguel81]

@Kaylz. First of all I now have JB's so that's no longer a problem. I eat more pasta than potatoes. I weigh it dry and then cook it. It is usually 150g although, if I consider that I have not had enough carbs in the day, ie. no biscuits or marmalade in the morning then I will increase this to 200g. The sauces differ, mostly tomato based but sometimes a more creamy sauce with cheese. Tonight for example it will be a creamy sauce with the addition of tuna. I will have 200g of spaghetti. Each Magdalena is 8.2g of carbs and then on top is the honey, 1 tsp on each half so 4 tsp in total.

 

[pm133]

It is usually between 170g and 220g, it depends of course on what I choose to eat - which isn't very much. As for exercise,which I take into account, I usually walk about 4km a day with my dog.

This is roughly what I am taking in as well as regards carbs. So it's not a lack of carbs which is causing your problem by the looks of it.

 

[pm133]

@Kaylz. First of all I now have JB's so that's no longer a problem. I eat more pasta than potatoes. I weigh it dry and then cook it. It is usually 150g although, if I consider that I have not had enough carbs in the day, ie. no biscuits or marmalade in the morning then I will increase this to 200g. The sauces differ, mostly tomato based but sometimes a more creamy sauce with cheese. Tonight for example it will be a creamy sauce with the addition of tuna. I will have 200g of spaghetti. Each Magdalena is 8.2g of carbs and then on top is the honey, 1 tsp on each half so 4 tsp in total.

Ah OK. So it's looking like the vast majority of your carbs are coming in a single meal. I wonder if spreading them out a bit more over the day would help? My carbs are usually about 50g in the morning, About 80g to 100g at lunch and then another 50g to 80g at night. As for pasta, I usually weigh out 50g of dry pasta for lunch and again for dinner. I'm still eating 100g but it's spread out over two meals. Maybe this sort of thing wouldn't work for you though?

 

[Kaylz]

@pm133 We've already suggested a more structured day of food but it doesn't suit Michael and he goes solely on just 1 meal also lack of carbs doesn't matter as a Type 1 who can adjust insulin to suit, there are many Type 1's that choose to follow a low carb diet because their levels are better when doing that xx

 

[Lanny]

Ah! Things are moving very fast! Just got a call from the hosp. diabetes doctor, my phone review recently, about coming into the hosp. for bloodtests & ECG about my elevated heart rate next week. I asked if I could get them done at my own Health Centre? She asked if they had the machines to do ECG’s & I said I’ve had them done there before so, she’ll try & get that organised with my health centre so, I don’t need to travel up & down to the hospital! 🙂

 

[freesia]

Noooooo!! After 3 solid days of being 100% in target, i got to work this morning to be told by message that i had the class for the morning and for some time this afternoon!! Although everything was ready my stress level shot up as i need time to look at planning etc and there wasn't much time before the kids came in. By lunchtime, levels were just on my correction level with stress but i thought, no don't correct as you'll be active this afternoon and they'll come down. Did they? Only just back in target by the time i left. No more 100%, was doing so well.

@SueEK i hope your meeting went ok and your day was less stressful

 

[Bexlee]

Noooooo!! After 3 solid days of being 100% in target, i got to work this morning to be told by message that i had the class for the morning and for some time this afternoon!! Although everything was ready my stress level shot up as i need time to look at planning etc and there wasn't much time before the kids came in. By lunchtime, levels were just on my correction level with stress but i thought, no don't correct as you'll be active this afternoon and they'll come down. Did they? Only just back in target by the time i left. No more 100%, was doing so well.

@SueEK i hope your meeting went ok and your day was less stressful

@freesia .....Oh no! Hope they were little humans and not little aliens ! We had wind and rain today combined with no heating and more that 1/2 turned into aliens!