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Yes, Docb I saw your private message. Thank you. I may contact Compass in the near future.

My wife was offered some support at the very start but refused everything.

I had looked into support for myself at the start but found nothing that would help. I will look into it again.
 
Morning all. I think that hour we lost has just caught up with me. 5.9 today. After yesterday’s gale force winds, we’ve woken to a calmer day. The BBC has promised sunshine and a wee bit heat, (not as warm as down south are getting) so we’re going for our seaside trip later. Very excited. Popping to a friends on the way to exchange books. It’ll be lovely to see her albeit fleetingly. I’m thinking we may not recognise each other as we both usually have very short hair! 😳
Have a good day everyone. 🙂
 
eggyg said:
Morning all. I think that hour we lost has just caught up with me. 5.9 today. After yesterday’s gale force winds, we’ve woken to a calmer day. The BBC has promised sunshine and a wee bit heat, (not as warm as down south are getting) so we’re going for our seaside trip later. Very excited. Popping to a friends on the way to exchange books. It’ll be lovely to see her albeit fleetingly. I’m thinking we may not recognise each other as we both usually have very short hair! 😳
Have a good day everyone. 🙂
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Hi Gwynn, do try the contact I suggested when you feel it is right. They will focus on you as a carer and how it affects you and that can be refreshing since most mental health support services, if and where they exist, can only focus on the individual with the problem. They are so under resourced that they only really do crisis management, the rest of it has to be coped with by the carer.

In my limited experience the refusal to accept support is not unusual. It's a big barrier to break through but is probably the key to arriving at a long term solution.

Take care.
 
A 5.7 for me at 07:20 this morning. Chilly start but we are promised warm sun as the day progresses. Call with the US this evening so a late finish is on the cards.....

Still working through the new Pinch of Nom book - Mongolian Beef last night which was excellent served with some cauli rice seasoned with chilli cumin and sesame oil. Certainly doing that one again!
 
A hopeful result....

At the very start of this journey I was told to test and inject just twice a day. Once before breakfast and once before tea time.

Filled with fear and complete confusion I stuck to this. And the BG readings (although initially bad when on insulin) were very good and consistent when I came off the meds and altered my diet to low carb.

I saw no reason to change my routine unless something dramatic changed.

Well, something dramatic did change. My diet. From weight loss to weight maintenance. A huge leap in calories. My biggest worry was if I increased the carbs (which seemed inevitable) then my BG would become high and disaster would loom.

I changed the testing this morning, only one overall result from it though. I tested at waking and at 2.5 hours after a high carb breakfast. Cerial, milk and a whole banana. 38.6 g of carbs

I expected that my BG at 2.5 hours might be high, but it wasn't. It was 5.1.

A good result adding to the evidence (albeit only 1 result) that perhaps I am not diabetic but suffered from a temporary inflamation of the pancreas.

This is only tentative and of course I may well be diabetic but it is being masked by my normally reduced carb intake.

Fascinating for me but in a way adds to the confusion as it is only 1 result. But then add it to the fact that since I came off insulin and metformin the BG has been consistently in range and my latest HbA1c result is 39, its hard not to draw the positive conclusion.

If my suggested conclusion is correct then its been a long journey from diagnosis as a type 1.

I will keep to the carb watch (and everything else watch) and continue on this forum because it has been so so helpful and its my only contact with the outside world.

What's that I hear? A trap door opening? Oh oh.
 
It certainly sounds like it could have been an inflamed and angry pancreas, @Gwynn, and there’s no saying whether it will flare up again in the future. BUT. You now have a healthy eating regime, with less alcohol, I think, and a healthy weight, so you’ve done all the hard work that it is in your power to do, and that will reduce the risk of a future flare up, and also prevent other health problems. A certain percentage risk of ill health is always in the lap of the Gods, but you have done your bit.
Keep with us to keep it up!
 
A bit of a high 10.7 but it was fairly stable overnight so maybe looking to change the basal. Bg a bit up and down during the day though so we shall see.

Off to post my covid test for work which entails a decent walk so looking forward to the bluster, I do quite like windy weather.
 
Yes, thank you, I agree, risk is always there.

I will be most interested in the next HbA1c test result and the cholesterol. 5he cholesterol wasn't hugely high at 5.1, but it may be best to bring it down. Not sure.

For the cholesterol I take plant sterols as they are not known to have any negative side effects as far as I can find out.

And, yes, alcohol is gone. Hic.

And the sweets, cakes, chocolate, huge fish and chips, coca cola, wine gums, fruit pastilles, maltesers, etc etc

And the weight.
 
Anitram said:
When mine came back as 5.1 my DN wasn't that concerned.
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My DN was the same. She said that whilst they like diabetics to be under 4 my ratio was good and she saw no reason to recommend statins and my consultant is happy with my results and just says "keep doing what you are doing" (which happens to be eating a lot of fat and very few carbs)
 
I was 5.1 as well and my GP was happy as my good cholesterol was 1.65 and the ratio was 3.1
 
Kaylz said:
Morning

Well duvet covers were out for delivery yesterday, tracking is through an app so no option to contact them, carrier is Amazon Logistics, 1st attempt made and then saying another attempt will be made on the next delivery day, no they tried a second attempt a few hours later! Same thing with another attempt will be made on the next delivery day, contacted Amazon twice through the day who said they couldn’t help as it wasn’t placed through them, was getting rather stressed so tried again asking for a number but thankfully this associate was willing to help and transferred me to the delivery team who have added a note to be left in a “safe place”, why the first 2 I spoke to couldn’t have done that I do not know but fingers crossed it’s left today!

So I woke to 6.5, thought I'm not chancing that so had 3 Lifts, go to wash my hands before testing for breakfast and it was no easy task, I have to wash them so many times and in a certain way with my OCD but my legs were a bit shaky so took a bit longer than normal, test and I'm down to 4.7! Had 2 more Lifts (after dropping 9 on the floor! 🙄 ) and I've only taken 1u for breakfast, I'm far too anxious with my BG at the moment and with everything else I have going on I feel so drained and ready to give up

@freesia oh no! Hope you get them up soon! xx
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I feel your pain ... but tomorrow is a new day and it might behave itself tomorrow. I’ve had stress couple of days .. walking dogs this morning the puppies just wanted to kill each other . Two of the three rolled in fox poo . Not my day
 
Freddie1966 said:
Is anyone else struggling with the weather change ?
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don't know to be perfectly honest, mines started playing up being lower when it got warmer a couple of weeks ago, Sunday I was higher and can only put it down to the clock change, today is manic and I'm just fed up of it lol, what kind of dogs is it you have by the way? xx
 
Kaylz said:
don't know to be perfectly honest, mines started playing up being lower when it got warmer a couple of weeks ago, Sunday I was higher and can only put it down to the clock change, today is manic and I'm just fed up of it lol, what kind of dogs is it you have by the way? xx
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We’ve got three labradoodles... muppets all of them . I normally have 10 gems carbs for hypo had to have about 60 grams today x
 
Freddie1966 said:
We’ve got three labradoodles... muppets all of them . I normally have 10 gems carbs for hypo had to have about 60 grams today x
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Awww! I love dogs! LOL, I sympathise, its a right pain in the ****! hope they stabalise soon for you! xx
 
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