Group 7-day waking average?

KARNAK said:
Your Endocrinologist is the person to go to ,if your supposed to talk to your Endo I implore you
to do so
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Ted, you are the only person who has said @Leaderofthecats should talk to an Endo!

This is impossible. @Leaderofthecats does not have an endo. This is not unusual, even for those of us not living on remote islands. I do not have an endo, despite being on insulin.
 
silentsquirrel said:
Ted, you are the only person who has said @Leaderofthecats should talk to an Endo!

This is impossible. @Leaderofthecats does not have an endo. This is not unusual, even for those of us not living on remote islands. I do not have an endo, despite being on insulin.
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Yup, I certainly don’t have access to an “Endo”. I couldn’t get access to a Cardiologist until I had a heart attack. I did ask my GP if I could be referred to a Cardiologist but he said there was no point - if I did have a heart attack I’d be well looked after.

This is exactly what happened, I had a heart attack. The morning after my angioplasty the Cardiologist told me that in 15 years he’d not “seen a single person survive such a massive heart attack”.

I’ve seen a diabetic nurse, once. One of many hats she wears. An Endo? No chance.
 
KARNAK said:
Your Endocrinologist is the person to go to
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I haven’t had an Endocrinologist for ten years either, since I was referred back to my GP for all my diabetes care when the hospital decided it needed to clear its decks. Because I wanted to get the Libre on prescription, I asked to be referred back to the hopsital, and it took six months to get referred, and actually get a telephone consultation, and a further 6 months actually getting my hands on a prescription.
 
It must be financial. In countries where healthcare is private there seems to be an "overall" approach to care and so endo's are regularly involved in people's care. Here they seem to only see severely ill/complex caseswhere I think if they were more widely seen it would probably prevent so many health issues. The NHS is wonderful but I suppose it can only do so much with such a growing population
 
KARNAK said:
Your Endocrinologist is the person to go to ,if your supposed to talk to your Endo I implore you
to do so
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I don't appreciate your arsey comment.

Like I keep saying, I can't get a referral to an endocrinologist and I certainly don't need you pretending I can just prance along and see one wherever I like.

If you can't even be bothered to actually read what I'm saying before replying again, then don't reply.

Waking BS today, 7.8 mmol/L
 
Spozkins said:
It must be financial. In countries where healthcare is private there seems to be an "overall" approach to care and so endo's are regularly involved in people's care. Here they seem to only see severely ill/complex caseswhere I think if they were more widely seen it would probably prevent so many health issues. The NHS is wonderful but I suppose it can only do so much with such a growing population
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I absolutely agree. Scotland is a famously impoverished nation with an even more famously underfunded healthcare system.

I should be seeing an endocrinologist anyway instead of just being told to top in loads of Tramadol every month for crippling period pain for years I reckon, but at least I'm getting those now and not just told to clear off and take ridiculously weak OTC painkillers that do absolutely nothing.

I got my hbac01 down to non-diabetic level on my own before , and I'm trying my best to do it again.

It would help if the NHS wouldn't tell people they no longer have diabetes, when it's evidently a lifetime condition!

I'm sick of people telling me to do literally impossible things. I'm trying my best and if that's not good enough for people, crow about my future death elsewhere please. At any rate, I don't plan on it any time soon!
 
silentsquirrel said:
Ted, you are the only person who has said @Leaderofthecats should talk to an Endo!

This is impossible. @Leaderofthecats does not have an endo. This is not unusual, even for those of us not living on remote islands. I do not have an endo, despite being on insulin.
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I didn't realise there's another page so just saw your comment. Thankyou for your reply.
 
I've read all of the last page now.
Thankyou everyone who has made helpful and supportive comments. Simply having reality acknowledged is a massive help right now.

I'm crabby because I'm on my period and reckon Ted should stick a sock in it instead of antagonising me.

I'm away to play a relaxing game and see about gentle trampolining.

Waking BS was 7.8, and I've had a small meal of Quinoa and steamed broccoli with a little cheese for breakfast so hopefully this continues.
 
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Leaderofthecats said:
I've read all of the last page now.
Thankyou everyone who has made helpful and supportive comments. Simply having reality acknowledged is a massive help right now.

I'm crabby because I'm on my period and reckon Ted should stick a sock in it instead of antagonising me.

I'm away to play a relaxing game and see about gentle trampolining.

Waking BS was 7.8, and I've had a small meal of Quinoa and steamed broccoli with a little cheese for breakfast so hopefully this continues.
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Just an idea don’t know if you have one but a well woman clinic may be able to help it’s not fair that you should have to suffer this . The stress of dealing with this must affect your diabetes.
 
Technically 03:06 but, my meter still says 02:06 as I completely forgot to change it forward, BS 5.4 🙂 It’s a smidge bit lower than I thought it’ll be & a sign to me to dial the bolus back a bit also, explains why my tingles were SO bad at various times during the night when I woke with my whole right arm burning hot like red hot needles in my right hand & fingertips; so, bolus -2 for breakfast today! I cooked first & only realised about the start of BST when I was sitting down to watch an episode of Masterchef while I ate & saw it was past 3am & worked it out in my sleep inertia mind then, changed the meter clock forward!😳🙄

An extremely early Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

The new paradigm shift is tricky in keeping my BS steadily in target range without fast drops as I’m SO used to getting high BS down as fast as possible: needs a bit of practice; hopefully the pain & discomfort will help me to adjust to that sooner? 🙄 I have to go easier on the insulin & take more time to bring higher BS down more comfortably especially, before I sleep!o_O
 
Morning all
A 5.7 this Palm Sunday morning!
Off on a 'virtual' run around the ancient city of Jerusalem this morning with thousands of runners from all over the world to celebrate the event.
Should be epic!!!

Apparently the date of the first Palm Sunday was Nisan 10 ...
(Nothing to do with the car I might add)

Have a blessed day everyone
Snowwy
 
5.0 this sunny, warm day. Oh hang on, it's dark, cold, windy and wet out there right now.

But at least I can sit in the warm away from it all, reflecting on life, the universe, and one or two other things.

Nothing planned for today.

I seem to be getting closer to finding out what calories/make up of food will give me an even keel on weight. Not quite got it yet though. Its somewhere between 1500 and 1800 Calories a day.

I feel strangely worn out this morning. Got up late too at 4:45am. What a lazy bones I am today.
 
Freddie1966 said:
Just an idea don’t know if you have one but a well woman clinic may be able to help it’s not fair that you should have to suffer this . The stress of dealing with this must affect your diabetes.
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Thankyou for your kind reply. I'm not even entirely sure what a well woman clinic is tbh. There's the nordhaven clinic but it's really just a gum clinic, I think. They do tests for STDs and give out free condoms, that sort of thing.

My doctor has completely screwed up referring me to a pain clinic for a completely different reason for about a year now, it's completely exasperating. He reckons it's the NHS system's fault for not having the right option available for him to "tick on the computer", but who knows.

On the upside, Tramadol is apparently linked with sometimes dramatic blood sugar lowering. Can't say I noticed this tbh, but at least it shouldn't be raising it any further even if I'm taking a lot of them. And I'm past the worst of it now I think, at least until next month. I'm feeling really frazzled though. But things could be a lot worse, and a lot of things are fine with my life right now.
 
4.2 Making bread today then doing whatever I want.
 
Morning all. 6.7 today. Walk in the park with son yesterday, didn’t add ‘nice’ as it was blooming freezing and was glad to get back indoors. Not much happening today, making stew and cleaning is all that’s on the agenda. Have a good one all x
 
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