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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning beautiful citizens of the forum 🙂

5.8 for me today. Delighted with that.

Now that my pre-meal values are looking steady, started monitoring my post meal levels starting with lunch yesterday and found a rise of 3.0 mm/L so happy with that. It's the turn of my breakfast today. I'm a creature of habit as regards breakfast and lunch so I really only feel I need to do this sort of test once in a while. Dinners are probably going to be more of a challenge.

New lesson to learn from today is to NOT wait until just before my next meal to start exercising. That's causing me to have hypos. Some may think I'm deliberately doing that so I can indulge in my tasty glucose tablets (the Classic Dextrose is like sucking on heavenly pearls of nectar) but that's only partly true 😉. So, I need to exercise in the interval of 30 mins to 2.5 hours after food. Because I've increased my exercise to 6km of indoor cycling and 3 to 4 miles walking spread evenly throughout the day, I have tried dropping my insulin ratio to 1:8 from 1:7. Will see if all that helps.

Also, I have muscles in my legs again!!!!!! I'm not at the stage where I can crack walnuts with my thigh muscles but there are muscles there all right. And now I need to warm them up as they are throbbing. Headphones - check. DAB radio - check. Magic Mellow classics playing stirring music - check. Painful crotch from sitting on a saddle for the first time since 1989 - check.

Have a lovely day folks.
 
:D😎 Budge up everyone on the 5.4 step to make room for me too: 09:04 BS 5.4! 😉 BUT, we all get beaten by @Robin ‘s House Special; boo hoo, are us! :D😉 I’m feeling pretty sunny about mine actually: to finally have BS back to a decent figure! 🙂

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day!😉
 
Bloden said:
My mum puts her green tomatoes in a drawer (anywhere dark’ll do) to ripen @eggyg. Works a treat. 🙂

Morning all.🙂 3.8 here.

Good for you @SueEK - I kept my mouth shut at my last job and just stewed instead of complaining...not good. I hope they act on the wake-up call you gave them.o_O
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Got some in the house in a cupboard! They are turning red, slowly. The problem is we wouldn’t have enough drawers for all the tomatoes!
 
@pm133 I feel you, my legs weren't so bad but my arms looked like twigs, they were the same width all the way from hand to shoulder! xx
 
I’ve let the side down with my 5.8 this morning. I’ll do better tomorrow!

Tomorrow I’m heading into the office. First time I’ve been in an office since all this started. I’m not quite sure what to expect but I’m be equipped with fresh masks and a gallon of sanitiser just to be in the safe side. I’ll also have lunch with me as I’ve a friend coming over for supper tonight so I’m making low-carb chilli and cornbread and a low carb Black Forest gateau - it’s simple recipes and I fancy some retro food 🙂
 
Robin said:
. . . . 'your parcel was left in your garage' I’d like to see anyone get a car in there!
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Maybe they mistook your porch for a Porsche :D

Dez
 
After my 7.4 yesterday I was back in the low(ish) 6's today with a 6.4

It seems I'm pretty stable in the low sixes both waking and two hours post prandial
 
Good morning 4.3 on a so far sunny day, will have to decrease my evening Basal
sailing close to hypo territory.🙂 Bought some Lift/Dextrose tablets yesterday on
offer at the pharmacy, three tubes for £2 so I bought a dozen.🙂 😎

Rant away @SueEK say It like it is.🙂

Give you that HS @Robin.😎

@HenryBennett most of us would be very happy with your result, gives you moving space.🙂

@Ditto please don`t mention wind I don`t need to go outside just stay close to bathroom.😱:D

Enjoy your day folks take care stay safe.🙂
 
Right ladies and gentlemen. Your predictions have come true. Saturday afternoon took Missy for a walk and got home feeling fine just before 4pm. Went upstairs to change and that is the last thing I can remember. Once I woke up on the floor it took me 30 minutes to climb in to bed and spent an hour getting warm. I must have taken off my boots and shirt because that is all I was wearing, after that who knows what happened.

Put it down to just a glitch.

On Tuesday morning my doctor 'phoned to say that he was doing all that he could to get me a sooner rather than later appointment with the opthalmologist but made no reference to the ambulance not arriving on October 2nd.

Took Missy for a walk at 3.15 having first taken a reading - which was 6.1. Decided tha t I didn't want a JB as the walk was very short.

15 minutes into the walk I felt a little uneasy so tried to get a JB down me but they had all melded together and I could not get one.

Next thing I knew was being aware that I was on my back on the dirt track with a man bending over me and Missy sitting at my shoulder. Very soon the bush telegraph worked its magic and there were 10 or 12 people gathered around me. Lapsed again and when I woke up there was an ambulance, driver and 2 paramedics leaning over me and a couple of cars with passengers had turned up. They got 2 bystanders to hold drip bags up and Enrique was inserting needles into my arms. One of them must have contained glucose or something like it because I became fully awake and felt much better. Then a Guardia Civil car came and an officer asked me for my ID which I did not have on me. Enrique gave him his assurance that I was a resident and that I was his patient so he left.

Enrique told me that I must go to hospital as my left hand was very badly injured and there was a nasty gash near my left eye. I was stretchered into the ambulance and Missy was reluctant to do so but the other paramedic managed to grab her and plonked her on my stomach. The ambulance drove as near to my house as was possible and put Missy inside.

I was taken to the hospital in Ubeda and was seen in A&E, which was heaving, at 9pm the doctor patched me up and said that I could go home in about 5 hours after they had done several tests and then I was taken to an observation ward.

About an hour after I was trundled into a bed I had a massive hypo, 5 people holding me down. I was told later that I was shoutinng 'sugar'. I knew then that going home that night was out of the question.

Had a very restless night, I had 3 drips in plus an automatic blood pressure machine which went off every half an hour. The nurses did finger pricks every 40 minutes or so so I didn't get much sleep. Doctor saw me in the early morning and said that he would arrange for an ambulance to take me home asap. All of the bandages and dressings were removed and replaced and I was moved down to the ambulance station and I was dropped off as near to my house as was possible at 1pm.

I was told that I must not go into the campo alone as there are very few people in there and I was very lucky that a man found me, especially at that time becaause it was lunch and siesta time.

There we are, a bit lengthy I know, but as we share experiences I thought that I would post.

I'm very sore and tired and have to wear the bandages on both hands until Thursday when Enrique will remove them. I'll stink like a pig.
 
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@Michael12421 I'm so sorry that this happened and our predictions were right, this is exactly the kind of incident we were trying to stop, I admit before I was harsh but sometimes that's the only way to get through and while others may not agree (which I know 1 certainly doesn't) the way I put it to you was exactly the way PROFESSIONALS put it to me, those were words I'd heard myself from my DSN and Consultant, that I could end up on a slab and they didn't want that to be their next phone call, I wish you a speedy recovery and now really is the time to take control and practice the things we have suggested, please take care of yourself and you know my inbox is always open, sending very gentle hugs to you and Missy
xx
 
One more thing, I just did a reading and it was 15.7 now what do you suggest I do? My initial thiught was that I would avoid any dinner tonight and not do a correction NR. If it is the glucose drip that caused this reading then it might not be long lasting - but I really don't know. I was given no Toujeo this morning. So I will wait and see what tomorrow morning brings.
 
@Michael12421 sorry to read all that. I hope you recover speedily. Thinking of you. Henry
 
@Michael12421 this isn't medical advice, this is personally what I would do, I would eat low carb and not take any novorapid at all, you aren't really supposed to correct after a hypo as hypo's breed hypo's and you'll end up yo yoing, please take some food in though, chicken, fish, eggs if you have them in, I know you won't feel like doing anything but you must eat something please xx
 
Michael12421 said:
OK I will have some scrambled eggs with no toast. Thank you.
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Please keep yourself well hydrated too and also please set alarms for through the night to test xx
 
Oh @Michael12421 what a shock to read that. You’re a very lucky fella indeed. Just take everyday slowly and please be careful. I’ve had a thought, I know worrying eh, you’ve mentioned you haven’t a large appetite and I hope you don’t mind me asking this, are you quite slim maybe? I once read on here about needing less insulin if you were slim. Can someone help me out here? If you’re not skinny I do apologise but without knowing you, we only have our own experiences etc to go on. I’m never confident enough to give folks advise about insulin dosages etc as we are all so different but it doesn’t mean I don’t worry about you because along with @KARNAK and @Flower and you, you’ve got me grey! Take care. X
 
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