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Group 7-day waking average?

Inamuddle said:
Thank you rebrascora. ITS GONE BACK DOWN TO 10.But i dont have any ketone test strips due to a prescription error. Will sort it out.
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Pleased to hear it is heading in a healthier direction.
In the current pandemic, it is probably more important to have plenty of test strips on hand (both BG and ketone) because you might need quite a few at short notice and not be able to get out to get some if you run out. I have also read that ketones can develop at lower BG levels with Covid. Don't know if that is true but worth bearing in mind if you test positive at any point.
 
rebrascora said:
6.1 for me this morning.
Nothing exciting planned just more manure deliveries for me today. Heading to a community garden in Newcastle which is rather out of my delivery area but news of the quality product my beasties produce has spread and they are keen to try some and I like the idea of supporting inner city food production. Just hope I can avoid the worst of the traffic and find my way there OK.

Many congratulations @eggyg. I am so surprised that your readings have been better than usual since your hospital visit. I assumed with your restricted diet and medication and less activity for a few days things would go haywire, but you seem to have been managing it brilliantly! Well done!

@Michael12421. Hope you knocked a unit off that Toujeo this morning. Don't want to hear that you have had another nasty incident. Please do be careful and test lots.

@Anitram There is no justice when you can have bread and chips for dinner and still wake up so close to an HS! 😉
Seriously though I am so pleased you are able to indulge occasionally and see no ill effect.... even if I am a bit jealous! 😳
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Thanks Barbara. I’m surprised too! I’ve reduced both my night time and morning basal by two units each.I’ve also changed my morning ratios to 1:10 from 1:5 and not pre bolusing for as long but numbers are still quite low, not hypo low but in the fours low. I’m eating a bit more calorie wise, my Eat Well plate consists of 75% carbs, 15% protein and 10% veg and fats, 0% fruit and fibre! I’m struggling eating refined carbs, white everything! It’s weird. No pulses, legumes allowed, too much fibre, I’m scared to eat tomatoes and red meat. Had lots of fish which I enjoy, had a monkfish curry with Basmati rice tonight, didn’t finish it so now worried I’ve over bolused! I’m feeling loads better in myself but have more questions than answers on how to deal with this situation. It’s a three pronged attack, deal with the permanent partially obstructed bowel, diabetes and my lack of digestive enzymes! And I haven’t even tried to do any prolonged exercise yet! Planning a trip into the Lakes next week, so I’ll find out. I won’t be up a fell though, that would be daft! 😉
 
@eggyg
Really interesting that your basal needs have reduced. I would have expected them to have increased with the reduced activity, especially as you normally walk so much.
It sounds like there has been a lot of adjustment going on to achieve those fantastic results.... a bit like a swan swimming serenely along but the legs going like Billio below the surface! Have you had support from a DSN to figure it out or just managing it on your own? Changing basal and bolus ratios in such a short space of time and still getting consistently good fasting readings is extremely impressive and all the more so when you are also juggling a new diet and feeling washed out from the blockage and loss of nutrients.
Hats off to you!.... You have played a blinder!..... Hope I haven't jinxed you for tomorrow morning! 😳
 
rebrascora said:
@eggyg
Really interesting that your basal needs have reduced. I would have expected them to have increased with the reduced activity, especially as you normally walk so much.
It sounds like there has been a lot of adjustment going on to achieve those fantastic results.... a bit like a swan swimming serenely along but the legs going like Billio below the surface! Have you had support from a DSN to figure it out or just managing it on your own? Changing basal and bolus ratios in such a short space of time and still getting consistently good fasting readings is extremely impressive and all the more so when you are also juggling a new diet and feeling washed out from the blockage and loss of nutrients.
Hats off to you!.... You have played a blinder!..... Hope I haven't jinxed you for tomorrow morning! 😳
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Just doing it myself. I normally never touch my basal, I just plod on injecting the same everyday but last week when I was barely eating anything it was instinctive to reduce it. Started conservatively by dropping 1 unit, then 2. Put it back up when I started eating more but still was too much. I think it may be one of two things or both. I’m eating very, very slowly and I’ve lost 8lbs mostly around my tummy, I was always really bloated. Insulin resistant has maybe reduced? I admit I’m exhausted with it all but I’ve got Christmas coming and lots to do, so need to just get on and do it.
 
That is interesting because I would have instinctively looked to increase my basal in that situation because I wasn't doing any exercise and because I was unwell and you would kind of assume the inflammation in your gut would have pushed your BG levels up, requiring more basal.
Clearly what you are doing has worked perfectly, so well done on trusting your instincts and thanks for sharing what you did.
 
rebrascora said:
That is interesting because I would have instinctively looked to increase my basal in that situation because I wasn't doing any exercise and because I was unwell and you would kind of assume the inflammation in your gut would have pushed your BG levels up, requiring more basal.
Clearly what you are doing has worked perfectly, so well done on trusting your instincts and thanks for sharing what you did.
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Funnily enough I don’t seem to get high BGs with infections. Maybe as I don’t have a spleen my white blood count is always high so infection is always somewhere. Who knows, I’m just guessing. I do a lot of that!
 
rebrascora said:
That is interesting because I would have instinctively looked to increase my basal in that situation because I wasn't doing any exercise and because I was unwell and you would kind of assume the inflammation in your gut would have pushed your BG levels up, requiring more basal.
Clearly what you are doing has worked perfectly, so well done on trusting your instincts and thanks for sharing what you did.
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Less weight, less insulin needed - I suppose that must be it. Keep on guessing @eggyg. It seems to work! :D
 
5.2 for me this morning. 🙂

Dez
 
Morning all. 4.4 for me this morning.
@eggyg, keep doing what you're doing. It seems to be working.
 
Morning all, 7.6 here, the curse of the pizza! Was so smug last time I had one (same brand, same flavour) and stayed in range, but I think I had my basal set a bit high then. Now it’s (temporarily) sorted, I stayed on a nice flat line all night, just in the 7s.
 
Morning all. 5.9 for me, after rice! It’s a Christmas miracle! TBF I only had a teeny, tiny portion. Feeling very smug this morning knowing I have nearly wrapped all my presents, and there’s a lot! Took me nearly all day. What can I say, I’m a perfectionist. Going to venture into town today! 😱 Need some more Christmas cards, and a present ( each that is) for my three sons-in-law. They are so hard to buy for. Sure I’ll think of something. Have a good day.🙂
Congrats @MeeTooTeeTwo on your HS.
 
07:43 BS 9.1 :( Had a bit of a miserable day yesterday & a restless night too so, not really surprised! My head & sinuses are all bunged up: at times like that I REALLY wish I could take Sudafed but, as I’m blood pressure medication I can’t; forgot once not long after starting the BP meds & had a REALLY miserable 24 hours of a tight chest & racing heart when I took some Vicks nose inhaler!😱 Taking an allergy tablet, GP suggested some years ago during a cold, to help with nasal passage swelling but, it’s not the same thing!o_O

Good thing I’d been walking as there dosen’t seem to be any chest problems & it’s confined to the head! I have found that being fitter, in past times when getting regular exercise, that when I get colds I get over them faster & it tends to stay in the head instead of going to the chest! Uhmm! Which is more miserable:-1. bunged up head cold with nose blocked; 2. wet head cold with sinuses streaming including nose or 3. chesty cold with side splitting coughs & wheezing! I think the second one FEELS the most miserable but, 1 & 3 are more of a sustained struggle! 🙄

Anyways! Enough of that morbidity! 😳

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

Not quite a happy bunny today but, hope to bounce back soon? 🙄
 
@MeeTooTeeTwo Congrats on the HS!

6.0 for me this morning 🙂
 
3.1 this morning for me and I have a hypo headache to prove it.

Decided not to take my levels up high last night before bed and paid for it. Didn't get my muck shifted yesterday as I hypoed just before I needed to drive up to the yard to load up and then the heavens opened, so I had much less physical activity than usual and thought I might even need a unit of evening basal but decided against that (thank goodness) and just went to bed in range for a change (rather than taking it up to 12) and hope for a straight line. Half expected to wake up high!. Did a finger prick check when I first woke up hypo. Libre said 2.9 but finger prick was 3.9 so just had one jelly baby thinking that would sort it since there was only the tail end of morning Levemir on board and it was 5.15am but woke up again on 2.8, so had the other 2... will I ever learn!. Dawn P is now taking me up towards 8 Yippee!... who doesn't love a roller coaster ride!

Well, i wake up this morning as a newly single woman. My partner and I decided to call time on our relationship after 10.5 years. Very sad but we were no longer pulling in the same direction together and we will hopefully still remain friends. I won't deny I had a few tears last night but we ended on amicable terms which is important.
Onwards and upwards as they say!

@Lanny
Hope you are feeling a bit less snotty soon. Streaming head colds are horrid. Unfortunately I think I may have one brewing although goodness knows where I could have caught it. I agree that exercise definitely helps prevent it from settling into the lungs. So pleased you are managing to continue with that.

@MeeTooTeeTwo
Not another one Dez.... Have you no shame! Seriously, congratulations though!

@eggyg
So relieved that I didn't jinx you! Another great fasting reading.... Can you come and sort my levels out??
 
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