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Group 7-day waking average?

eggyg said:
Morning folks. 6.7 today, I may have had a sneaky piece of shortbread before bed when I didn’t t need it! 🙄 I can’t be a paragon of virtue ALL the time.

Anyhoo, up early as babysitting eldest daughter’s tribe of three. She’s dropping them off before work, and this evening her and hubby are going out for the first time since before the pandemic. I’ve now just realised she doesn’t start until 11 on a Saturday as opposed to 10 through the week. I could have had another hour in bed! Ah well, another hour’s peace before they descend on us like locusts!

Was excited to receive a letter yesterday, inviting me to book an ENT appointment to see someone about my ear problem. I had four choices of clinics. Great, I thought. Logged in, tried nearest first, no appointments. Next nearest, no appointments. Then the next two. No appointments! What a waste of paper and postage, and my time! There was a “ box” to enter my contact details ( which I assume they should have) to ask THEM to make me an appointment. If I haven’t heard from them by 26th June, I’ve to contact them by phone to make an appointment! What an absolute farce! I’m not happy. Why couldn’t they just have made me an appointment in the first place? 😡

Have a smashing Saturday, dry up here but cloudy. It could be worst I suppose. 🙂
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I suppose they like to make people think they have a choice, Hobson's choice more like. :(
 
Well done @Spozkins on your House Special.
Wirralass said:
I'm not too tech savvy but what are push notifications plz?
WL
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If you consent to push notifications (as per the messages you get on this discussion forum), you will get notification of any new posts to threads that you are watching, whether or not you are actively logged into the site. I believe this is only if you are posting on here using an Android device. But I could be totally wrong. :confused: I have this thread and another one marked for watching, but I only get notifications when certain members make posts and not others. Very confusing.

Dez
 
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Afternoon folks ~ woke to a 10.1 this morning!! Surely it wasn't the result of erm... 3 small-ish slices of cappuccino swiss roll!! Nah, it must have been the chocolate eclair at 11.00pm!
Have a great weekend friends, the suns cracking the flags here.
WL
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After drinking litres of water since this morning my meter has just chucked out 8.5 Yeah Getting there slowly 🙂
WL
 
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Thank you @Bloden and @everydayupsanddowns for the link, I had spotted it and another lovely forum member sent me a link too, so I’ve got no excuses🙂? I’ve got quite a busy week ahead (haven’t said that for a while), so I’ll see if I can do it on catch up. I think there’s always a little snippet of new information to find out.

@SB2015 when it comes to protein I tend to I wing it, I don’t do very low carb very often, but I do notice after a protein type meal that my levels stay up, same with wholemeal pasta not normal pasta, just as well I’m not keen on pasta🙂. I also have to remember that my control is good and that I shouldn’t get into overthinking a few unexplained highs, they happen, it’s part of the game...I didn’t used to over worry, but I am one of those people that like to know how things work.

Nice to see you @Spozkins ...and with a 5.2 🙂

“Not worrying but I’d like to try and understand this Type 1.” thats you along with the rest of us @DuncanLord 🙄...I think you’re doing pretty well so far.
 
DuncanLord said:
Good morning
Well afternoon really, had a late start to the weekend.
5.9 here this morning on waking.
However totally puzzled.
Last night went swimming. So tested at teatime 5.6. Had insulin and tablets and ate tea, a pork stew potatoes mixed veg apple and coffee about 45 carbs.
tested before driving down to the pool 7.4
Tested before swimming 6.7
Swam 20 lengths of 25 m pool non stop (admittedly not that quickly as we were talking and enjoying the swim)
Tested after exercise 5.5. That all made sense.
Drove home to test before bed. 5.8
Nothing to eat for supper
Ok didn’t set alarm so woke just before 9:00 instead of 07:45
Then tested and 5.9
What’s happening to blood glucose? Exercise or just one of those things? Any ideas?
Not worrying but I’d like to try and understand this Type 1.
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Can you tell us what about those results is puzzling you because they look brilliant to me!
I wonder if you are under the impression that your BG should be completely stable if you are not eating or doing exercise and that is really not the case. There are 42 known factors which affect BG levels (food and exercise and insulin being the main ones) but lots more that we have no control over, so it is constantly fluctuating.
You also may not be aware but BG meters are not terribly accurate. The decimal place is rather misleading because they have an allowed error margin of 15% and odd test strips (5% of them I think) can be out by more than that.

If your test the same drop of blood with 2 different test strips you will likely get different readings and if you test different fingers you will almost certainly get different results both because blood is not homogenous but also because the strips do not read that accurately, So 5.5 - 5.9 is really no variation at all and you should be extremely happy with that. Only going up to 7.4 after food is again an extremely good result..... so if there is anything I haven't covered with regard to those readings which concern you, then if you can let us know what it is and we will try to explain it for you.

Just want to say that your control is really amazing at the moment. You may be lucky and find that it stays that way for many years but it may also be that your pancreas is still helping out a bit and things may become much less stable at some point in the future. If you read some of our other posts in this thread many of us have difficulty "taming the beast" and double figures down to well below 3 can be very common occurrences, so minute changes in the decimal place are nothing at all to concern yourself about or even puzzle over.
 
@rebrascora
Thanks for that explanation, I knew different meters, even of the same type give different readings as I’ve had to change meters as the one I’m supplied with only holds 450 results and DVLA want 3 months continuous readings stored on meters before even considering giving me back my Class 2 coach license. So when changing I test same drop of blood with both.
The problem I have, besides not being able to work with no license, is that getting that license back involves good control with no major swings. You are also not allowed to drive if it drops below 5.0 and testing must be done 45 mins later after eating. You also must test every 2 hours whilst driving.
What confused me was that I expected the BG to drop during the swim, which it did but then it went up on the drive home and wait till bedtime, then with no food, only a black coffee with no sugar or anything it then climbed overnight or stayed the same with insulin still acting. I’m still using Humulin M3 and the Metformin tablets I had with the type 2 diagnosis.
my pancreas could still be trying to help,
The swimming may also have produced some adrenaline which would have released sugar into the blood. (Or even testosterone seeing female bodies in swim suits for the first time in 12 months. Lol)
On my pancreas working, talking to friends since my diagnosis, I think it has been failing for years. I know that’s not supposed to happen but
1 I’ve had mood swings that co workers and supervisors could not understand. Many days I wold be normal then suddenly change. They said that they never knew what mood I’d be in from day to day mostly helpful then I’d have a couple of days when I’d be unhelpful and argumentative.
2. I’ve had a short temper which after being disciplined at work I’ve learnt to walk away and calm down.
3 I had lapses in concentration which seemed to fade in and out, told to me by the training officer at the dive club. They wondered why I’d not follow instructions totally during a dive then back to normal.
4. Ive been tired but put it down to changing shifts days to night, (almost like jet lag)
5. Extra urination but put that down to not having full access to toilets due to bus and coach driving.
6. Over the last few years periodic bouts of erectile disfunction but said well I’m 60 plus.
7. Gained weight during the lockdowns but no real exercise plus eating more. Like many of the population.
Has my pancreas and Type 1 been on the cusp at times failing then getting going for all this time before diagnosis.
I know I’ll never know the answer but it explains a lot plus I’m glad I was actually diagnosed as feeling better than I’ve done for years.
 
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@Michael12421 @Wirralass

Re: No Microphone symbol

On my iPhone, when i begin typing a pop-up keyboard appears. At the bottom of this keyboard is a microphone symbol
To use the microphone on a "Windows computer" press the Windows logo key 1623548939153.png and the 'H' key together.
This will bring up a microphone at the top of the page which will say, or should say, listening.
If you then speak it will place these words into the box.
To search for more information on this Microsoft have called it the "Dictate Function".
The system, however, can be a little 'hit or miss'.
Hope this helps.
 
A very nice 5.5 at the later time of 06:50. Late to bed last night.
 
Morning. 6.4 for me today.

It’s a warm one already and we’re of to help our daughter and her boyfriend move some furniture into their new home....29c today, so just the weather for that ...I don’t think. A “pockets full of pastilles” day I think😎

As Caroline Aberne’s character used to say on The Fast Show...it’s going to be “Scorchio”. Have a lovely day whatever you’re all doing🙂
 
Good morning. Its cold and overcast this morning. So a long way to go to get to the promised 'heat wave'. I don't yet see much effort from our weather here in Lytham either.

However, a bright, sunny 5.2 for me this morning. Up late too. Slept in a little. Perhaps I should try that more often.

My daughters daughter will be with us today. We had planned on going to the beach. That will only happen if the icebergs melt in time ! 🙂

I'd better tidy up the house and make it safe for a toddler.
 
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