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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning

Bruce finally made it with goodies yesterday, some groceries, mums snoods and my new slippers! I'll upload a pic of those tomorrow! He's off back to work today

Anyways its a 6.1 for me this chilly morning

Last weeks stats are
Waking Average – 5.3
Total Insulin – 206U
Bolus Total – 66U
Basal Total – 140U
xx
 
Morning everyone. A disappointing 8.9 this morning after a weekend of fairly good levels. Monday morning blues maybe?
Hope you all have a good day
 
Morning folks! 6.4 for me today. Hope you are all feeling perky and bushy tailed for the new week
 
Morning all. A Len Goodman for me. SEVEN! Haven’t had one of those for a while. Must be because Strictly starts on Saturday. Or more likely the fact we had no water in our cottage this morning and I was worrying about not having my cuppa and that I may have to clean my teeth using my precious Sauvignon Blanc! Ok now, owner lives on site and the water pump had tripped. Phew! The wine has been saved! Had another walk along the SW Coast Path yesterday. 8.5 miles, to Bude and back. Lovely sunny day if not a cool wind but ended with a beautiful sunset at Sandymouth Bay. Rain forecast all day today, may chill in the cottage this morning and go out after lunch for a walk. Have a great day. 🙂
@khskel now that’s a sight I would have loved to see! Any pics? I’ll swop you this sunset for a gothed up one of you!😉
 

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What Sliiy Billy forgot to press the POST REPLY button earlier.
My reading back then was 5.5. 🙂
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Dark skies, pendulous clouds, rain. A return to normality. And I love it.
Did my daughter remember to bring her dry washing in last night?
Of course not. It's sitting out there right now - soaked.

A lovely 6.6 this morning. Anything below a 5.5 and I feel rubbish. Mid 6's is when I feel great.
Rather than getting frustrated about my health not returning, have decided to give myself until the New Year to recover properly before considering a return to work of some kind. At 51 I'm too young to retire but there's no way I could cope with an 8-10 hour day just yet.
 
SueEK said:
Morning all, 7.5 this morning. 2 hours after eating last night I was 6.4 and not another thing has passed my lips - DP?
Have a good one everyone xx
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Could easily just be strip or blood variation? Not much difference in readings 1mmol/L apart at that level I find.
 
silentsquirrel said:
Most boys' public and prep schools used to, girls' more rarely; not sure how common it is now with more of them being mixed.
With choir schools like Winchester, which are run solely or mainly for the choristers, they have large chunks of weekdays taken up with choir practices and singing for Evensong so they probably need Saturday mornings to fit in all the more usual stuff!
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Most prep schools go in on Saturdays. At my son's school, which is mixed, they start at 08:00 everyday and go through to 5:30 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. They finish at 12:45 on Saturday and 3:30 on Wednesdays. Before COVID Wednesday and Saturday afternoons were sports fixtures. Saturdays start with registration and then chapel at 08:15.
 
6.6 for me. Nice to be back in the 6s after a string of low sevens.
 
Good morning 3.8 on another miserable day🙄 BGL`s have been slowly dropping from last week
have adjusted Basal but needs more tweaking. Forgot to mention 3 years since I was DX last
Saturday, there will be a cure in 10 years I am reliably informed.🙄 😎

@Michael12421 have you got a death wish? come on mate take the advice you have been given,
at 16.4 you should have had a correction dose of at least 2 units probably 3. The figures you have
quoted shows your Basal is way out especially yesterdays horrendous figures your lucky your not
back in hospital, please, please, please do something about it your driving us all nuts.

Sorry about the rant folks enjoy your day take care stay safe.🙂
 
Michael12421 said:
Good morning. I awoke at 9 to a reading of 11.1
At 11.00 before my walk I was 16.4
Back from my walk I was 18.6
All I had was a cup of tea. no sugar of course, It doesn't make any sense to me at all.
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Morning @Michael12421 - I’ll try to keep this short (you must be suffering info overload by now!).
The general advice is not to exercise if your BG is over 15 because it’ll just go higher n higher. It’s the liver’s fault - it doesn’t realise you’re diabetic. Stupid liver!:D😉
 
Michael12421 said:
Good morning. I awoke at 9 to a reading of 11.1
At 11.00 before my walk I was 16.4
Back from my walk I was 18.6
All I had was a cup of tea. no sugar of course, It doesn't make any sense to me at all.
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When I wake up, my liver starts releasing glucose into my system, to gear up for the coming day. If I don’t eat, it continues to push out glucose to fuel my body. If I then exercised, it would probably push out even more, to keep me fuelled up for the duration. The liver doesn’t understand that all this glucose is going nowhere because you don’t have the insulin to process and use it.
I find eating a little something stops the liver in its tracks, because it gets the signal that there is food intake that will do the job of supplying energy. Even a small protein or fatty snack will do. I often have a hard boiled egg, or half an avocado, or a protein bar if Im in a hurry and don’t want/can’t eat a full breakfast.
At the other end of the day (and this has only just occurred to me) the liver will need to replenish itself so it’s stores of glucose are ready to go in the morning. So while you’re asleep, the liver will extract glucose from the system, which could explain why you unexpectedly go low overnight sometimes.
I know you only like to eat once a day, but for the sake of your blood glucose levels, I feel you may have to incorporate a couple of snacks through out the day to spread the energy intake out a bit.
 
@KARNAK . I AM taking all of the advice very seriously - yesterday was an absolutey horrendous day for me. There are so many things that I was not informed about when first diagnosed. I am sorry about 'driving you all nuts' perhaps I should stay away from the forum.

@Bloden I thought that by physically exercising the energy I use would bring blood sugars down, not the other way around.
As for 'info overload' I am taking everything to heart and doing all that I can to put things right, based upon the information that I have been given.

Seems that I can't do anything right.

@Robin Thank you. Perhaps not having breakfast if my sugars are high in the mornings is not such a good idea. What I don't need is higher sugars but I will eat something every morning from now on, before my walk. Bolus for it?
 
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Michael12421 said:
There are so many things that I was not informed about when first diagnosed.
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Have you never thought about doing your own research? Its your condition that your living with so most folk in that situation want to learn themselves xx
 
Michael12421 said:
Thank you. Perhaps not having breakfast if my sugars are high in the mornings is not such a good idea. What I don't need is higher sugars but I will eat something every morning from now on, before my walk. Bolus for it?
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As with all things diabetic, 'It depends'! If I had a non-carb snack, I wouldn’t bolus for the snack, but I might have to factor in a conservative correction dose to mop up whatever the liver has already put out. I only worked out how much I’d need by keeping a blood glucose/food diary and looking for patterns. Because of normal daily variations, it took me a couple of weeks at least to spot the pattern and work out the solution, but once I'd discovered it, my levels were much more stable.
 
@Michael12421 - stick with the forum, somehow or other we will get you there.

I don't normally get involved in T1 stuff, way out of my limited perspective but I have an idea about carrying your stuff around so that you can test and adjust when you are out. I have a small canvas shoulder bag which goes with me everywhere. For me it's big enough to put my camera and binoculars in but it will also take my testing kit if I think I might need it and a bag of JB's, a pen, a shopping bag and anything else I might need. It's not a "man bag" but is one of the most useful pieces of kit I have - I just pick it up without thinking when I go out.
 
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