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Group 7-day waking average?

DuncanLord said:
Thanks Barbara and @Kaylz
I’ll treat it with faster acting glucose next time I just wasn’t sure as it was so close to teatime and didn’t really want a major spike.
confusion for a novice! And always glad of advice.
Bedtime is now 7.5 so should be okay but setting Alarm for middle of night.
Sleep well
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I meant to add that generally it is not a good idea to inject bolus insulin when you are hypo, so in that situation I would have waited until I had checked after 15 mins and my levels come back up. If food was ready to eat and getting cold and/or other eating companions were waiting, I might start eating but still test 15 mins after the hypo treatment to make sure numbers had come back up and inject at that time (mid meal) assuming I was above 4. Some people might well wait until after the meal to inject their bolus in that situation but for me, because my digestive system is fast I would be well into double figures buy then and the insulin would be fighting against the odds to bring me down.
 
Just read your post of yesterday’s hypo @DuncanLord & @rebrascora & @Kaylz covered it between them but, I’d just add this:- you don’t need to actually go hypo to lose your hypo awareness; remember when I recently had a series of days heading off hypos with mid 4’s to low 4’s eventually when I actually did go below 4 I didn’t feel it at all & only testing loads & loads, 20+ tests a day, did I catch it! 😱 & Shivering in fear emoji!
 
Good morning 7.0 today
I was relieved it wasn’t any higher as had pizza a few Oreo‘s

hope today is warmer & dryer than yesterday

have a great day everybody 😎 😎
 
Morning all. Where do I start? A plethora of waking readings. A very reasonable 6.1 at 5.35 when I got up for the loo. Back to bed, didn’t sleep, zapped my Libre at 6.55, whilst still in bed. 7.9! Went to loo, came downstairs, zapped again, 8.6 going up! Methinks my first Libre 2 sensor, which has only four days left, is having a laugh. Finger prick 7.1. Other than that my overnight line looks pretty spot on.

Survived our 11th Wainwright yesterday morning. I must say it’s the easiest one we’ve done. Up and down in an hour! TBF it was Baltic up there so don’t linger too much! Brr!!! So we then did a circular walk around Ullswater from Martindale, where we’d parked, no parking on the roadside at Howtown allowed now, to Howtown down to lake and back to Martindale along the lake side. Beautiful. You can’t beat Ullswater at any time of the year but autumn is pretty spectacular especially when it’s sunny. Sarnies sat on a rock and then home before 2 o’clock. Good day. Only five miles walked but 57 floors climbed, so plenty of cardio!

Only thing going on today is it’s our pony mad granddaughter’s birthday, she’s 9, so we’re off to visit after school laden with presents. She’s very excited and has been on the countdown for weeks!

Have a good day all. 🙂
 

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Way late up this morning. And. Good morning everyone.

Interesting day yesterday...

Wife had a bit of a wobble when she found her boots damaged (normal wear and tear). She immediately went down into the 'intruders in the house trying to harm her' panic and up came the tears, anger, upset. She started to reject her daughter and the up coming birthday event.

However, after just 10 minutes she recovered (normally would take all day and seriously upset me in the process). She explained how she felt (normally she would say nothing and just brood). She started talking and reacting positively about her daughter, and the upcoming birthday event. And the rest of the day was great. She actually relaxed !!!

A complete change of behaviour and coping. Good to see. Nothing to do with me I might add.

Now, later in the day, I managed to get my large computer screen to collapse on top of me. No idea how. Things flying everywhere. Me, panic. My wife, coped brilliantly. Normally she would get upset with something like that and start blaming me for all sorts of stuff. Nothing like that this time though.

More good news. My weight has stabilised at my new goal of 56Kg and I think I now know how many calories/solids weight of food is needed (slightly better) to keep to that.

And BG this morning 4.8. I think I have sussed out what had caused the significant recent drop in BG now too. Need to confirm it over the next few days.

Nothing much planned for the rest of the day. A huge update to my App to introduce meal costings as money is getting tighter and food prices are going up and up. Could be a vey interesting change to the App. Or not 🙂
 
Morning All
A 6.4 for me this morning.
Well done @Northerner on that HS.
Stay safe.
 
Great stuff Northerner. Congratulations.
 
Slightly disappointing 7.5 today after a brilliant BG day yesterday..... Don't you love days when you get it right and it behaves pretty much as you might expect!! I don't get many days like that so they really are a treat!
That said, I was torn last night between reducing my Levemir by 3 or 3.5 units after another long yomp yesterday. Played it safe and went with the 3.5 reduction but looks like having that extra half a unit would have been the better decision. Levels slowly rose whilst I slept which is a pretty unusual occurrence for me. Still my waking reading isn't awful, but another 5 would have been nice.

@Northerner Lovely overnight graph trace and congrats on your House Special. Very nice result!

@eggyg Fab photo! So pleased you had a lovely day.
 
7.7 today. Off to the caravan until Monday so that will be nice, hoping to try and get a few Christmas presents if I can. Lovely sunny morning.
Thinking of the Queen this morning and hoping she is ok, I love the Queen and was sad to read she had been in hospital, she’s such an ambassador for this country. Xx
Hope you all have a good day and @Northerner congrats on the HS. xx
 
6.7

Struggling a bit with the emotional ripples from the VRI last week still.
Not sleeping well. Huge argument with a long standing friend who I feel has let me down one too many times. Burst into tears at work when speaking with someone who mentioned their son had experienced DV and sexual assault from his ex-wife.
Not really been reading posts in here hence the lack of response but it’s reassuring to know you’re all here.

Am heading to M&S to return the running tights I bought last night because actually I really only bought them because I was in the shop. Didn’t really like them when I tried them on and liked them less when I tried them in again at home so just want them out of the flat.
Working in the office 10-6 then off to see the folks. Am petrified I’ll sob when I see them and that’ll end up with me telling them all about the SurvivorsUK stuff and I’m not sure that’s going to be terribly useful to me or fair to them tbh.

Still, on the plus side I’m awake (granted I had barely 3 hours of sleep), I’m alive and I’ve now got an Instant Pot so I’ll make some kind of soup in it tomorrow as a first use test.

Hope you’re all having better days than me right now. I know this will pass.
 
8.2 today Must have been the burger I had later last night about 7.30pm. The idea was to eat later as I have finally got a fasting appointment for my HbA1c test after waiting since August, ringing the surgery once a week every week to be told they still had no test kits and to ring the following week to check again. Trouble is the appointment isn't until 9:40 which means after waiting for the usual 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour as they always run late I won't come out of there until at least 10:30 and be able to finally get some breakfast.
@Northerner Congrats on your HS!
Lighter winds and sunny intervals for us here in Poole today, 'twas a chilly night, about 9deg brrrr. Should be about a massive 13deg today!
 
ColinUK said:
6.7

Struggling a bit with the emotional ripples from the VRI last week still.
Not sleeping well. Huge argument with a long standing friend who I feel has let me down one too many times. Burst into tears at work when speaking with someone who mentioned their son had experienced DV and sexual assault from his ex-wife.
Not really been reading posts in here hence the lack of response but it’s reassuring to know you’re all here.

Am heading to M&S to return the running tights I bought last night because actually I really only bought them because I was in the shop. Didn’t really like them when I tried them on and liked them less when I tried them in again at home so just want them out of the flat.
Working in the office 10-6 then off to see the folks. Am petrified I’ll sob when I see them and that’ll end up with me telling them all about the SurvivorsUK stuff and I’m not sure that’s going to be terribly useful to me or fair to them tbh.

Still, on the plus side I’m awake (granted I had barely 3 hours of sleep), I’m alive and I’ve now got an Instant Pot so I’ll make some kind of soup in it tomorrow as a first use test.

Hope you’re all having better days than me right now. I know this will pass.
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Not really a "like", just to acknowledge your problems mate. As you say it will pass and be a distant memory one day.
Chin up Tony.
 
rebrascora said:
(I think @Kaylz had a typo in her post and it should read "wouldn't" not "would")
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Sorry to me due to the and probably nobody else and then would made perfect sense that it was meant we wouldn't, wouldn't after the brackets doesn't make as much sense but then maybe that's just me xx
 
Morning

8.0 for me today

What exciting things will I be up to today? Cleaning the blooming bathroom at some point after someone has seen to it, this "nice new bathroom" has caused nothing but problems since it was done, this time a pipe is loose at the back with water piddling everywhere but since trying to tighten it last night the water won't drain very quickly whilst the water is running (we didn't want anyone coming out at 9pm last night hence the DIY attempt) and it's still leaking, the pedestal isn't even fixed on and the pipes are a mangled mess, rush cowboy job when it was done me thinks! 😡

Sent a request to the health centre for my records surrounding my diagnosis out of interest (can't get online access here at the moment unfortunately) and was told on Wednesday they were ready to be collected so Bruce will be nipping in after work to collect everything for me, apparently there are a lot of letters so that will take some reading! xx
 
Morning all, 5.6 here. Managed not to dip into the red all night, despite yesterday’s exertions, body has finally adjusted, now we’re going home tomorrow!
Did a couple of stretches of the coast path round Hartland Point and from Hartland Quay. Was disappointed that the lighthouse is all wrapped in cladding while they restore it, but the views are fantastic, and after the overnight storm, the waterfalls were full. We only walked about 5 miles, but with all the ups and downs it was quite strenuous.
Then came back to the cottage mid afternoon, OH said, it’s still a lovely day, why don’t we do a flat stroll down the Tarka Trail in the opposite direction to the one we did on the first day? Set off, half way across Bideford Old Bridge, the heavens opened, so we quickened our pace, then continued at that pace, and ended up doing 4 miles at a brisk walk, (it did stop raining after a few minutes) but what with the exertions of the morning, and the fact I'd just done a full bolus for some cake before we left because I wasn’t expecting another route march, I got through about 10 jelly babies!
Today we are going to potter round RHS Rosemore, and give our aching legs some respite.
 
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