Group 7-day waking average?

Good day 5.7 and a bollocking off the DN with my latest review, HbA1c is 29 down from 32
last time. I asked her if I`m cured she said you`ll be the first one, as we speak the DSN has been
on the phone on one and wondering why I haven`t got the Libre, thought had crossed my mind too.

Congratulations to the 3 Musket queers on HSo_O

@Robin, @Gwynn, @adrian1der🙂 take a bow.😎

Take care stay safe folks and {{{HUGS}}} to everyone no reason needed.🙂
 
Argh! I have a VERY temperamental Echo pen just now! 3 days in a row it decides to just show 2 dashes after bolusing for dinner, every day been fine after breakfast and tea though! Sorry! Just a tad irritating and to top it off dinner one was a bleeder 🙄 xx
 
Kaylz said:
Argh! I have a VERY temperamental Echo pen just now! 3 days in a row it decides to just show 2 dashes after bolusing for dinner, every day been fine after breakfast and tea though! Sorry! Just a tad irritating and to top it off dinner one was a bleeder 🙄 xx
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Sounds like the battery may be getting tired.
 
Gwynn said:
The consultant was initially very surprised that I was on no diabetic medication. Odd that because the GP knows and the practice diabetic nurses know and the extensive care team know, but no one talks to anyone else...not even digitally.

I think overall that was a sensible and successful consultation. Happy.
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A wodge of good news in your post🙂🙂

As regards no one talking to anyone else I think we all talk about “THE NHS” but it varies so much and is such an enormous organisation, it’s a wonder it works at all, and in fact works very well most of the time. Sometimes everyone who needs to has access to all your information and on other occasions you wonder if your records exist! It can be so frustrating.

This time last year I was in hospital for 9 days and was discharged with a thick envelope to be given to GP asap. It took a few days for them to phone to say I needed to see my GP. No hurry! When I saw him, he looked at me and said, “So, what can I do for you today?” I had to prompt him to look at the paperwork from the hospital.
And yet on a subsequent telephone consultation he was able and willing to look on his computer for blood test results he’d not received by post.

I hope I’m right though in detecting that the trajectory for you and your wife is upwards.
 
rebrascora said:
Sounds like the battery may be getting tired.
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Yeah I know, my old one did it periodically as well but didn't give up on it until the bit that holds the cartridge snapped lol, current one isn't even 2 years in use and pretty sure it's supposed to be at least 3 years the battery lasts xx
 
This morning
3.8 waking
13.9 bedtime

Wed
8.4 waking
8.0 bedtime

Tue
7.5 waking
8.3 bedtime

Mon 22/3
4.3 waking
7.4 bedtime 21/3
 
HenryBennett said:
A wodge of good news in your post🙂🙂

As regards no one talking to anyone else I think we all talk about “THE NHS” but it varies so much and is such an enormous organisation, it’s a wonder it works at all, and in fact works very well most of the time. Sometimes everyone who needs to has access to all your information and on other occasions you wonder if your records exist! It can be so frustrating.

This time last year I was in hospital for 9 days and was discharged with a thick envelope to be given to GP asap. It took a few days for them to phone to say I needed to see my GP. No hurry! When I saw him, he looked at me and said, “So, what can I do for you today?” I had to prompt him to look at the paperwork from the hospital.
And yet on a subsequent telephone consultation he was able and willing to look on his computer for blood test results he’d not received by post.

I hope I’m right though in detecting that the trajectory for you and your wife is upwards.
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You are right it is such a massive organisation and is really only getting to grips (in some areas) with up to date technology so moving things on-line has been a massive challenge. The infra structure was just not there to allow cross speciality communication in a timely way. You often heard the phrase 'we're waiting for' which stopped people being moved on to the next step.
I was amazed that my daughter (a doctor) was expected to use her own mobile phone for hospital work.
But equally I have been impressed by the speed things can sometimes happen. My OH say the doctor on Monday and got a call from the specialist on Tuesday, yes next day!!!!
 
8.7 mmol/L, which for me is acceptable right now. It was 11 mmol/L at bed, 2 hours after eating and 1 hour after some trampolining.
It's the first time it's dropped while I'm asleep.

It's not actively tipping down outside and it's still light, so I might have a walk.

I hope you're all well, today.
 
Leaderofthecats said:
8.7 mmol/L, which for me is acceptable right now. It was 11 mmol/L at bed, 2 hours after eating and 1 hour after some trampolining.
It's the first time it's dropped while I'm asleep.

It's not actively tipping down outside and it's still light, so I might have a walk.

I hope you're all well, today.
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My first few weeks of testing -- I couldn't work out why my numbers didn't fall overnight. Then I learned from this site that your fasting reading is often the last number to go down - my theory is that your pancreas is so used to having to do so much extra work that it takes a while to realise you're now actively trying to help it! As you get more control across the days, you'll see fasting numbers come down of their own accord. You're doing great as you're getting into single figures.
 
Kaylz said:
Yeah I know, my old one did it periodically as well but didn't give up on it until the bit that holds the cartridge snapped lol, current one isn't even 2 years in use and pretty sure it's supposed to be at least 3 years the battery lasts xx
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I got a few left from the vibrator if any good Kaylz.🙄😳
 
22:24 BS 5.4 🙂 A smile only for the BS as I’m SO sore, stiff & feel ROTTEN & only up because I need to eat! By about 10am was when the side effects started to kick in & my BS started rising 10:05 BS 12.5 2 hours & 2 minutes after breakfast when it was just BS 6.2 at 07:59 before!😱 I gave it a very cautious correction of 4 units NR when I would normally have given it double that before my paradigm shift in slow & steady instead of fast, tested again at 13:01 BS 9.8 after I’d had my meds & then, feeling rotten, I threw in the towel & decided to try & sleep though the worst of it! Put in LR an hour late, to see where my BS would be, & dithered about increasing the dose a bit but, in the end didn’t & just accept & correct later when I get up if it’s high: surprisingly low; thank goodness I didn’t increase the dose!o_O

It was a tough battle to sleep through it when the side effects were REALLY ramping up & it was definitely a case of “Sleep Is A Battlefield” as my arm, & my while right side, got very swollen, achey & sore: I slept on my left & actually woke instantly in pain when I rolled over onto my right & roll back; my breathing got quite bad for a bit & I pulled down the 2nd pillow fully & slept on 2 pillows! o_O

I wake now with my arm still very swollen & my right neck & ear are a bit tender as in a bad cold! But, breathing is ok, thank goodness, as it got quite bad there for a bit & hopefully I’m over the mountain peak of side effects now & on the downslope where it starts getting easier as I come down from the mountain? 🙄 In my mind that’s how I’ve always thought of fighting bad colds, especially in my young childhood when my asthma got REALLY bad: climbing different shaped mountains of sheer hard labour as my symptoms got worse & I’d be holding on & waiting to go over the peak, to feel the change once I got on the downslope; could NEVER say when I was actually AT the peak, the worst, until afterwards when the change would be miraculous & I knew the worst was over! Each illness was a different mountain: some were wide & shallow that wasn’t such such a hard struggle; the worst ones were narrow & steep that took a herioc struggle to get up & over that peak!😱

Oops! 😳 I didn’t know I was going to say all that!😳 A poor doctor in hospital got that above speech about mountain climbing once when he rather innocently asked me if I wanted any painkillers explaining that I needed to be clear headed to know where I was at on the mountain! He didn’t bat an eyelid: must have heard ALL SORTS from patients!o_O:D Just said rather meekly “OK, then no painkillers” & walked away!🙄:D

I’ll stop now as the eruptions from my stomach, grumbling for food, are getting volcanically seismic now! 😱
 
Lanny said:
paradigm shift
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I had one of them once Lanny but there wasn`t any f in it, don`t know if that makes any difference?

Honestly so sorry about the grief you are going through, stay strong for all of us on the forum we love you
and look forward to your daily book sorry meant post.

Take care stay safe Lanny a kiss to help you through the day. XXX
 
5.5 for the second day.
 
Good morning. 5.1 this morning

I may try to do an 'at home' glucose tolerance test sometime in the near future. Could be fascinating and may point further towards me not being diabetic (or otherwise).

The NHS is brilliant when you get it focussed and moving and impossibly dreadful at other times. They saved my life and gave me gack quality of life when I suffered from a brain tumour. But only after being 'switched on'. I suffered years of what can only be described as incompetence first, but once they were 'switched on' they were superb.

I agree that it is a vast vast instiution. I am sure I wouldn't know where to begin to get it to be able to change, let alone do any actual changes.

The sad thing is that when the NHS is not 'switched on' then it can cause unintentional terrible harm and suffering.

I guess the secret is getting someone to actually listen and act.

Things are better, but difficult with my wife. Her life is just a shell of what it could be and because of that, so is mine. At times it overwhelms me. But I soldier on. She didn't ask for her illness but has to somehow cope. She generally copes by mostly ignoring it or blaming anyone and everyone else for anything she feels is wrong (which is pretty much most of everything)

It is such a shame because underneath her illness there exists a really lovely, happy, outgoing, positive, active, able person. Perhaps one day she will return to me.

Sorry, sad reflection over.

Ohhh, now its started to pour down outside. I was going to go for a walk too. Sometimes I ferl like I am Charlie Brown with that rain cloud over my head. ☹
 
merrymunky said:
Don’t speak too soon...
Woke to a 15.2. How? I’m gutted.
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Should have kept my mouth shut, I wonder what gave the rise :( .
Boooooooooooo
 
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