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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all. 6.9 on this snowy and very frosty morning. It started snowing unexpectedly yesterday morning about 9. Snowed constantly until 2/3, laid straight away. Had a bit of a thaw but still here. Does look lovely, I might change my mind when I’ve to go out later in the car.

Still got the farmers’ children here, but woke up to a message from daughter, the electricity went back on at 11.30 last night! 52 hours without power. Thank goodness. It’s been hard for them as the pipes all froze for the animals water and no heating to thaw them. Had to carry water from the house for them. But they’ve survived and the kids have been warm and fed. Taking 9 year old to meet her school friends at a local sports centre, literally five minutes away from where we live, to take part in a competition, then go back with them to school. Grandson having a day off, it’s too far to take him to school, especially in this weather. He won’t suffer he’s a bright lad. Mum will pick them up,later when she’s done her farm jobs. Then we can relax….NOT! Hosting birthday party tomorrow for eldest grandchild, she’s 15. So shopping, cooking/ baking to be done as well as looking after 3 year old! Thank goodness we’re going on holiday on Thursday! :D

Have a great day all, hope everyone is safe and warm. 🙂
Here’s a photo of our back garden yesterday. A winter wonderland.
 

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5.8 this a.m. Still too high (for me) but back under 6 after 5 days. Oh well, that demonstrates that the wagon is the place to be..looking forward to a dry Christmas! If this new variant gets going the family will not be descending on me so temptations will be out of the house. Beautiful but chilly morning.IMG_1106.JPG
 
Good morning, very cold again at -2c but due a high of 3c later, had light snow yesterday but should stay dry today. Shopping day today, off to Morrisons for a change as there are other stores we want to pop in nearby.
6.8 this morning, class that as acceptable as I did eat an actual roast dinner last night - even had the last few crumbs of the frozen cauliflower cheese along with 3 roasties and a yorker pud....plus I made carrot and swede mash (tested last night and it was 7.4 before bed). Will walk off a fair bit today.
Keep warm, keep safe and enjoy your day 🙂
 
4.3 for me on this cold and frosty morning. 🙂

Dez
 
Morning

10.1 here

Well the few hours without power was fun, not long after it went off all 3 of us needed the toilet, torches on phones at the ready to help each other through the house etc, Bruce stood on Bubbles's water bowl, mum crashed into a wall in the lobby when she was through the house with Bruce trying to find a proper torch, gutting to look out the kitchen window and see that one side of the street up there still had power, East Mill Brae was without yet the pub at the top on the corner still had, very odd! Bruce phoned his mum to see if he could go and stay up there as his lost power not long after us (his neighbour messaged him to let him know as it had been on while ours was out) so his dad picked him up, they went to his to collect his work stuff, got out, locked the door when his dad noticed the houses to the right had come back on so Bruce unlocked the door, flicked the light switch and he had power too, his poor mum had already sorted one of the spare rooms and had made pieces for him for work lol xx
 
Well my low alerm woke me bacause i ead lieong on my semsot i thimk said i was 4 and fulling fast checked it a finger pick and said i was 6.7 it then relisrd this and went back up to atound 6. Any tips for not lieing on sensor.
 
Good morning everyone 🙂
6.6 for me 🙂 at 7:57am - 15 units of tresiba done

4.8 at 22:49pm bedtime and only 2 hours 51 minutes after tea - I had the munchies on me and had 1x rich tea biscuit 6g of carbs and 2x 2 finger kit kats 42g of carbs!!!
6.0 at 19:58pm before tea
3.3 at 19:39pm before tea - had 5x dextrose tablets then when I was back above 4 I went by the Dafne rules and carried on as normal by injecting my full carb amount for tea and injected before eating

I would be grateful of any comments 🙂

Have a nice day everyone whatever you're up to - for me I'm off to work - in the dinner hall first then in the playground in the toy area
 
@mum2westiesGill 2 finger kit kats only have around 13g carbs each so it would be 26g at most not 42g, no comments as we don't know any circumstances surrounding all your results, I take it you only caught the 3.3 because you were testing for tea and didn't actually feel that you were low? xx
 
rayray119 said:
Well my low alerm woke me bacause i ead lieong on my semsot i thimk said i was 4 and fulling fast checked it a finger pick and said i was 6.7 it then relisrd this and went back up to atound 6. Any tips for not lieing on sensor.
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I could do with some tips, I lay on mine twice last night!
I must admit to not setting my low glucose alarms at night, because I have good hypo awareness and always wake up.
I think I’ve got the sensor higher up my arm than usual, and that’s causing it, but it really depends on the shape of your arms.
People say, "put it further round the back' or ‘put it further round the front' or whatever works for them, but it’s such an individual thing, you can only experiment for yourself and note when you get good places that don’t cause the sensor to dip.
 
Kaylz said:
@mum2westiesGill 2 finger kit kats only have around 13g carbs each so it would be 26g at most not 42g, no comments as we don't know any circumstances surrounding all your results, I take it you only caught the 3.3 because you were testing for tea and didn't actually feel that you were low? xx
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Sorry re my amount of carbs about the kit kats I was still half asleep lol. Can you give me some ideas of what circumstances to mention surrounding my results? Yes very sadly I only caught the 3.3 because I was testing for my tea. Xx
 
mum2westiesGill said:
Sorry re my amount of carbs about the kit kats I was still half asleep lol. Can you give me some ideas of what circumstances to mention surrounding my results? Yes very sadly I only caught the 3.3 because I was testing for my tea. Xx
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Unfortunately no, we don't know your "normal" daily routine etc so only you can come to a judgement on that xx
 
Kaylz said:
Unfortunately no, we don't know your "normal" daily routine etc so only you can come to a judgement on that xx
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I went shopping to our local Tesco and the rest of the day was spent relaxing.
 
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10km and 14,000 steps later I’m back home in the warm with strepsils, day nurse and sudafed spray.
 
Complete turnaround for me. 9.2 this morning and needed 2 corrections through the night to try to keep out of double figures but felt quite unwell from about 2.30am onwards..... very nauseous and upset digestive system and feverish.... mostly shaking with the cold, which wasn't helped by spending half the night in a freezing bathroom, so not surprising that my levels shot up and needed corrections. No idea why. Feel a little delicate this morning but much better and have enjoyed some breakfast, so hopefully over whatever it was but feel like crawling into bed with my hot water bottle for a few hours catch up now that animals are sorted.
 
9.4 today, don't seem to have calmed down since I had this lurgy.

@ColinUK - I hope you start to feel better soon, just rest up and take it easy. Beautiful pictures.

@rebrascora - I hope you are not coming out in a lurgy, mine started with a bad stomach. If you have the chance to go back to bed with a hot water bottle take it.

Any one got a good excuse I can use not to run tonight, I just don't want to go out in the cold, when I am warm and snug indoors.

Have a good day everyone.
 
7.5 today. @rebrascora I didn't realize alcohol reduced BG levels, I thought with the sugar in beer it would go the other way...live and learn every day. Now I have a valid excuse to indulge😉. Bit on the chilly side today when I stuck my nose out of the front door, 4deg atm and winds veering from the North-West to West, so cold cold cold.

You have to excuse the spelling, they are Russkies after all, my Russian would be a lot worse.....

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@Barfly I think you may be confusing me with someone else (@Lanny I believe) who commented about the alcohol, but in general alcohol does lower your BG levels because the liver prioritizes removing it from your blood as a toxin over trickling out glucose to keep your vital organs supplied with fuel, HOWEVER beer and cider and sweet wines and alcopops all contain carbohydrates, so those increase your BG levels whilst the relatively small amount of alcohol in them has a relatively minimal effect on the liver, especially from just 1 or 2 pints, so the net BG will usually be a gain from drinking beer. Spirits and dry wine on the other hand, have almost no carbs so they will not raise your BG levels and the increased alcohol content can have more of an impact on the liver output, so unfortunately your beer is not a good choice for your diabetes, so please don't be encouraged to have more in the hope it will improve things. Of course all alcohol is high in calories which may well end up on the waist line and that will also thwart your Type 2 diabetes management.
In brief, your choice of tipple being beer is sadly not one of the more BG lowering options.
 
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