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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all my weekly reading is 5.8 here hope you have a better weekend weather wise then we have here in Cumbria
 
A shocking 8.3 today, not sure where that’s come from although I did have a banana yesterday which I dont often have, who knows :confused: . Hubby had Covid test, very quick and efficient, no queuing which was good. Made some chillis for the freezer and did other boring stuff. More cleaning instore today.
Have a good day x
 
Morning all from a damp North Devon. 6.8 on the Richter scale today. Don’t have a clue what my BGs were at bedtime as I didn’t bother testing as I was in bed two hours after my tea! Long drive down yesterday and we were shattered! Today we are going to the UK’s only place with an exclamation mark in it’s name. Westward Ho!, a Victorian seaside town. That was weird putting a comma after an exclamation mark, the grammar police in me struggled with that one. 😉 Have a super Saturday.🙂
 
Morning good peeps. 🙂 A whopping 10.2 for me - I need a half-unit Tresiba pen!

Hi there @Michael12421. Sorry to see you’re still high - at least you’re not low!

Yesterday, Ted worked out that your correction factor is: 1 unit insulin drops your glucose by 2 mmol/L (or 36 mg/dL in Spanish!). That’s a really useful piece of info - I’d be writing it down in a dedicated My Diabetes notebook, but that’s just me. (I have no idea what my correction factor is, btw).
Have a look at Mike’s link to Sick Day Rules. 🙂
 
Do type 1’s have just one correction factor all day? I ask because mine changes throughout the day as my resistance changes: most resistant to start & getting less resistant; then, starts climbing again in the late night! But, I have a fair idea now, due to experience & testing, what my corrections are at certain times: AND it’s not really to do with the time, per se, but, how long I’ve been awake; took me much longer to notice THAT; FINALLY made sense when I did! But, resistance seems to much more of a problem for type 2’s than type 1’s? 🙄
 
@Bloden get straight on to asking for the Echo and Tresiba cartridges if you aren't already using cartridges, I've got red for my Tresiba and blue for my Novorapid, I do much prefer the red! LOL

@Lanny no, at least I and many others don't have 1 correction factor all day and our meal ratios can also highly differ from breakfast to tea
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You’re right, I should get round to changing pens @Kaylz but with the current situation I don’t want to waste my GP’s time. I have to ring her and tell her my weight (eh?) in a couple of weeks, so I’ll ask her then. 🙂
 
Bloden said:
You’re right, I should get round to changing pens @Kaylz but with the current situation I don’t want to waste my GP’s time. I have to ring her and tell her my weight (eh?) in a couple of weeks, so I’ll ask her then. 🙂
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The GPs are all saying that “normal” things are not stressing them and that they’d rather know anything sooner than later as normal. So contact them and ask!!
 
Very tired after a tough week and a 6.0 with a note saying “must try harder” this morning.
 
I’m always telling my GP’s stuff, mostly changing insulin doses, in the any other info box in the online prescription ordering form: have been known to just order test strips, can never have too many & used eventually, just so I can let them know something I think they ought to know; can’t send the form if I haven’t ordered anything! Sometimes I get call backs on the phone, mostly by practice nurse about my jumps in insulin doses but, less now even though she still doesn’t like the big jumps she’s come to see I’m not reckless about doing them & keep a very close eye by extra testing when I do!
 
Oh! I get the odd typed note from my GP’s with my prescription items either giving me extra instructions, answers to my questions or telling me to come in for blood tests: rarely a phone call unless urgent; still 2 way communication! 🙂 I think it’s vital in these times since CV hit!
 
Meant to add to my morning post, think my meter got a tad stuck yesterday! LOL xx
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Morning all
7.2 for me on a cold and grey morning here in Hampshire. Just back from the school run (I know it's Saturday but he goes in until lunchtime).
 
Morning all. 4.2 for me after an overnight correction as it went up to 12.6!! Must have been all the lovely food and red wine i had last night. Oh well it was worth it as we are away for the weekend. Two nights of being cooked for and relaxation.
Enjoy your weekend everyone x
 
adrian1der said:
Morning all
7.2 for me on a cold and grey morning here in Hampshire. Just back from the school run (I know it's Saturday but he goes in until lunchtime).
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Oooh that reminds me of Winchester a number of years ago when we went walking behind the cathedral and met all these kids in uniforms going to school on a Saturday morning. It was the first I'd heard of it outside of France I think.
No idea how widespread Saturday schooling is.
 
Lanny said:
Do type 1’s have just one correction factor all day? I ask because mine changes throughout the day as my resistance changes: most resistant to start & getting less resistant; then, starts climbing again in the late night! But, I have a fair idea now, due to experience & testing, what my corrections are at certain times: AND it’s not really to do with the time, per se, but, how long I’ve been awake; took me much longer to notice THAT; FINALLY made sense when I did! But, resistance seems to much more of a problem for type 2’s than type 1’s? 🙄
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At the moment, I'm still in that early phase where I'm not having to do much in the way of corrections because my bolus injections are about right. For now it's all either 1:7 or 1:8 ratio per meal. When I do correct, I would use 2 units of insulin if my number at night was over 12, 1 if below that and wouldn't correct at all below 9.

I expect that will all change with time though.
 
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