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Group 7-day waking average?

After running high (for me) all of last week I thought I was getting better with a 5.3 on Saturday and a 5.9 on Sunday. Today I managed a 6.1. We have a stressful week ahead as hopefully we will be granted the Special Guardianship Order in court on Friday, fingers crossed.
 
stackingcups said:
Morning all, 6.1 this morning - my lowest reading on a morning yet. Feel somehow like a bad diabetic needing so much basal insulin to get me here, but I think it's probably because I'm a pretty big girl really.

Relieved it's working and getting where it needs to be.
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I used to be scared by the amount of insulin I needed but, I need what I need & it’s MUCH better to try my best to control my BS than to let it run wildly out of control: there was a time I was left a bit rudderless shortly after the sale of our family restaurant & the structure that gave to my days & I ignored my diabetes for a few years & was very haphazard in the administration of my insulin & medication: reared its ugly head eventually & couldn’t BE IGNORED any longer; referred back to hospital team in 2015 & then, a series of bad complications in 2017 with neuropathy diagnosis taken by ambulance to A&E & admitted into hospital for 2 nights! 😱 Lesson learnt a bit too late but, diabetes CANNOT BE IGNORED!
 
adrian1der said:
After running high (for me) all of last week I thought I was getting better with a 5.3 on Saturday and a 5.9 on Sunday. Today I managed a 6.1. We have a stressful week ahead as hopefully we will be granted the Special Guardianship Order in court on Friday, fingers crossed.
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Hope all goes well for you
 
@mage 1 congrats on the triple whammy HS
@eggyg to be fair they all greet me like an old friend and that’s at both hospitals lol
 
rebrascora said:
Metformin doesn't work like that. It takes weeks to build up in your system and then you are just topping it up with daily tablets. You could probably miss a couple of day's tablets and not see a significant impact so a few hours after a missed tablet will not make any appreciable difference. What you ate is a more likely culprit. 😉
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Just got back from my bike ride, bit blustery and finished early as it started spitting at Hengistbury Head. Only 9 miles today.... Barbara - silly me of course I was told that by the diet uk teams meetiings. This old one forgets so much.....My evening meal should have been ok though, my son (who's a real foodie and health nut job but still a real nice bloke) made some paella with basmati and cherizo with chicken and all sorts of vegetables with a huge array of spices most of which I've never heard of.......I'll be finishing the leftovers for lunch today so will do a before and 2 hours after finger test to see the results.

The only spices the lovely Jane puts in her cooking are a sprinkling of salt and pepper, rosemary with lamb and mint with peas and new potatoes and sage and onion in our stuffing for chicken, anything else is sort of foreign territory to us. I grew up with the belief that the only reason to add spices to a meal was to attempt to disguise poor quality meat and ingredients, something we were fortunate never to require as my parents had a general store so once rationing ended we always had great cuts of meat and fish from our shop. We were always told unfortunates from the sub-continent and other far away places had little choice but to make do with rubbish ingredients and I should be thankful we had better food that they. I was fourteen and living on the streets escaping a violent father when I had my first curry and Chinese meals. But that's another story.
 
Am DELIGHTED to report I have healed and catheter is gone , feels like Christmas has come early. Thank you so much everyone for listening to my moaning and supporting me. One huge step done and dusted, bring on the next one 🙂🙂🙂🙂
 
Congrats @SueEK - so good to hear you are on the mend
 
SueEK said:
Am DELIGHTED to report I have healed and catheter is gone , feels like Christmas has come early. Thank you so much everyone for listening to my moaning and supporting me. One huge step done and dusted, bring on the next one 🙂🙂🙂🙂
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Absolutely fantastic news. Treble Bacardi and Coke in order me thinks. I’m chuffed to bits for you. Xx
 
SueEK said:
Am DELIGHTED to report I have healed and catheter is gone , feels like Christmas has come early. Thank you so much everyone for listening to my moaning and supporting me. One huge step done and dusted, bring on the next one 🙂🙂🙂🙂
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That’s amazing Sue
 
Excellent news @SueEK 🙂
 
SueEK said:
Am DELIGHTED to report I have healed and catheter is gone , feels like Christmas has come early. Thank you so much everyone for listening to my moaning and supporting me. One huge step done and dusted, bring on the next one 🙂🙂🙂🙂
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Hurray!! So pleased for you.
 
Afternoon guys, was busy this morning lol

Again can't remember what I was (it was even longer ago than usual haha)

Saw grandad for a couple of minutes this morning, he chapped the door to pick up his birthday presents, I stayed well up the lobby, will find out tonight if he liked his things

@SueEK so happy to read of your news! 🙂 xx
 
Sueuk great news. Celebrate. Yessss 🙂

I like good news
 
SueEK said:
Am DELIGHTED to report I have healed and catheter is gone , feels like Christmas has come early. Thank you so much everyone for listening to my moaning and supporting me. One huge step done and dusted, bring on the next one 🙂🙂🙂🙂
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Want to give that post a lot more than 1 "Like" because I love it! Absolutely delighted for you Sue. You must be so relieved! I have been curring right back on my alcohol consumption recently but going to make an exception tonight.... Cheers to your "Good Health"!
 
I just had to indulge with 2 small bits of chocolate after hearing your good news @SueEK . First chocolate to pass my lips since diagnosis in July.
 
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