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Group 7-day waking average?

@Bloden glad you are feeling better this morning
@HenryBennett congrats on the HS
@Michael12421 glad to see better readings.

6.6 today bit of a boring day yesterday, more cleaning ahead. Work have at long last advertised for 2-4 secretaries hoorah!!!
Have a good one x
 
Morning all 6.2 pleased with that as I’m sensor-less for now until a new transmitter arrives.

Nice HS work @Bloden & @HenryBennett🙂

I had Saturday school in the sixth form 8.30-12.30 hated going whilst my friends at other schools were off on Saturday to go to Chelsea Girl and Woolworths to buy singles!

The sun has just appeared this side of the Cotswolds @Robin I’ll send it over.
 
Flower said:
Morning all 6.2 pleased with that as I’m sensor-less for now until a new transmitter arrives.

Nice HS work @Bloden & @HenryBennett🙂

I had Saturday school in the sixth form 8.30-12.30 hated going whilst my friends at other schools were off on Saturday to go to Chelsea Girl and Woolworths to buy singles!

The sun has just appeared this side of the Cotswolds @Robin I’ll send it over.
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I worked in Chelsea girl in the late 70s/early 80s. All flares and mini kilts, of which I had both of course. Happy days. 🙂
 
Docb said:
5.6 for me this morning.

On the subject of Saturday education.... when I went to University we had, in the first year, four full days of lectures and half days on Wednesday and Saturday. All evenings and Sundays were needed to write stuff up, prepare reports and the like. When I hear about current students getting a few hours "face to face" a week contact it makes me wonder what they are getting into vast debt for.
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I've been to university twice now. Once in the 1986 as a kid and once again in 2008 when I was middle aged. On both occasions I had about 14 hours of contact time per week including lectures, labs and tutorials. There is a serious misunderstanding on the part of students that they therefore only have a 14 hour week. It's a 40 hour week for first year. The extra 26 hours are designed for independent self-study, reading books, lecture notes, online videos and a wide array of other resources. Those who fail to do this generally miss out no really grasping their subject. Sure, they'll pass exams but they'll struggle to do research or be really effective if they work in an associated field.

I wouldn't have enjoyed full days of lectures. Lectures are pretty much the most inefficient way for me to learn anything. Lectures themselves haven't changed much in my lifetime. 50 minutes of some guy droning away in warm lecture rooms. I would scrap them all if I was King.

Anyway, a lovely 6.9 for me this morning and ANOTHER blue sky in the Kingdom. At this rate I'm beginning to worry about sunburn!!
 
Ah @pm133, Videos? Wide range of other resources? I went to university in 1964 when none of those things existed. Pen, ink and textbooks was as good as it got then. Times have changed.
 
Good morning 4.8 on a mixed sky day, fire ball is glowing at the moment 🙂
but clouds moving in from the east.🙄 Didn`t make it yesterday too much to
do busy day Saturdays.:(

Congratulations on HS @Bloden & @HenryBennett.🙂

Your doing well @Michael12421 gradually does it.🙂

Have a good day folks take care stay safe. 🙂
 
Docb said:
Ah @pm133, Videos? Wide range of other resources? I went to university in 1964 when none of those things existed. Pen, ink and textbooks was as good as it got then. Times have changed.
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Yes they have but sadly many universities' attitudes towards teaching have not.

Textbooks are an interesting thing though.
I still like using relatively old textbooks myself. They tend to be much smaller, lighter and less "dumbed down". I'm looking at an Organic Chemistry textbook on my shelf from 2010 which is about A4 sized and contains 1300 pages of text with a font size of 8 or 10. It bends when I stand it on it's end on the shelf and I can't physically have it on my knee because it weighs several kilograms. To add final insult to injury, it uses shiny paper and ink which reflects any light in the room. It's a tortuous monstrosity. The entire thing could and should have been no more than 500 pages of A5 paper. This dumbing down and expansion of texts (with associated spiralling costs) seems to affect many areas of education.

So modern changes are not always for the best :-D
 
Good evening. It has not been a good day. I was really happy this morning with my 10. Went for a walk with Missy but decided to take precautions given the events of last week and ate 2 chocolate digestives. Once in the campo - much shorter walk than normal but then felt unwell and was uncomfortable so I had 2 JB's. I was about to feed Missy at 1pm and.1elt slightly peckish myself so I decided to have a sandwich. Took a reading of course and I was 30.1! No sandwich of course - just 6 units of NR and to stay indoors.
3.30 I was down to 25.2
4.30 it was 18.6
6.00 it was 9.8
I will not eat for an hour and test again at 7.00 aand see if it is still falling. Then I may or not eat it depending on the result.
Given the rapid drops in a short period of time has me worried.
It's a bugger isn't it?
 
Michael12421 said:
Once in the campo - much shorter walk than normal but then felt unwell and was uncomfortable so I had 2 JB's.
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Did you not test? Some symptoms are common in both hypo's and hypers so would have been better testing to confirm which it was although 2 digestive biscuits and 2 JB's uncovered would be around 30g carbs xx
 
@ Michael12421 You really need to test when you feel unwell rather than just take carbs. I often feel hypo when I am actually hyper as symptoms can be similar. You should also be testing before you head out to walk Missy and perhaps half way round your walk too. Be more proactive with testing and then base decisions on the test result. I am sure your doctor will be happier to prescribe you more test strips rather than be called out to you collapsed in the Campo.
 
@Michael12421 please listen to @Kaylz and @rebrascora. My symptoms for hypo and hyper are very similar, i go a bit dizzy and disorientated for both so always need to check which way its going before deciding how to treat it.
 
Michael12421 said:
Yes I did test - forgot to mention it. I was 10.6 before I left for the walk and still ate the digestives. Didn't know the symtoms for hypo and hyper were the same.
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But you should have also tested when you started to feel unwell rather than just treat when you don't have any idea where your BG's are xx
 
Not posted for a couple of days as internet been down.
Woke up to a lovely 5.3 yesterday. Got my flu and pneumonia vaccination at 9.02 am precisely. Had a great day BG wise until last night when I made a lovely cottage pie topped with cauliflower mash, cabbage, broccoli, carrot and swede mash and 3 small pieces of sweet potato.... there were 10 different vegetables in my plate of food... is that a record??. Didn't inject until I started eating but BG went down instead of up, so I rapidly ate a crème caramel for afters and BG started to head north at a rapid rate of knots, so I gave myself 2 units for the crème caramel (22g carbs) when I hit 8.8 with an upwards arrow. Had a cup of tea and headed down to the yard for evening stables. Started to feel uncoordinated and light headed whilst mucking out like I was drunk but hadn't had any alcohol. Kept working, trying to get finished but really started to wobble.... even wondered if I might be having a stroke as I was convinced my BG couldn't possibly be low, but when I eventually tested I was shocked to see a 3.8 and vertical downward arrow. Frantically ate 11 jelly beans (15g carbs) which were the first carbs I laid hands on and then a Glucose chew once I was functioning better and came up into range but then went down again and needed another glucose chew then went up to 8 again. Decided to dial my evening Levemir back half a unit to be safe and spent all night in the 8s dropping to 6.9 when I got up this morning. Not sure if the vaccines can have any affect on BG levels but not had a roller coaster experience like that before and feel really rough today. My neighbour even made a point of asking how I was at lunchtime as she passed me in the street because I looked so rough.... she was kind enough to say "tired" rather than haggard but that is how I felt. Got nothing more than very basic chores done today which is disappointing when it has been a fine day and probably not many of those left for working outside this year. Frustrated! Arrggh!
 
Michael12421 said:
Yes I did test - forgot to mention it. I was 10.6 before I left for the walk and still ate the digestives. Didn't know the symtoms for hypo and hyper were the same.
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Did you bolus for the biscuits and the jelly babies?
It sounds like you might be adding glucose to an already high BG value!

Incidentally, my symptoms for hypo and hyper are very similar too. I get shaky with a hypo sometimes but both leave me feeling like c**p.
At that point I test and if I'm hyper then, despite feeling like death, I get my shoes on and start walking until I feel better and then test again when I get back.
I am going through test strips like sweeties at the moment but it has to be that way if I want to stay healthy.
 
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