Group 7-day waking average?

5.7 this morning after an interesting evening that resulted on a 5.4 before bed, Libre seemed a bit more in line from late yesterday afternoon, but after dinner and a short walk around the park with the dog, it told me I was 3.8. Having eaten dinner an hour ago, I just thought it was still being wildly inaccurate but fingerpricked anyway - and I was 3.9, then hovered in the 4s till all the novorapid wore off before bedtime. This is where I found the Libre very insightful, as I presumed I was spiking up after meals but there's a chance I've been going down - not low enough to feel it, but I'm still surprised. Wondering if this was unique to yesterday though as I've been injecting about 5 mins before I eat, and yesterday was more like 15 mins before. Still learning it all!

Also had first proper pub meal out today since diagnosis. Following the diabetes team's advice on Tuesday to just 'cautiously experiment' and 'see what works', but to eat what we want, I went with it. Burger with blue cheese, sweet potato fries (this was my one carb swap, would have eaten regular ones normally) & a mini cheesecake with a hot drink for dessert. Honeymooning on fixed doses can be a bit tricky (the v. slight hypo mentioned above was with 3 units to 60g carb). I was doing my Sainsbury's shop following lunch so knew I'd be a bit active (fairly big Sainsburys and I *love* a browse), so went with 3 units when my burger came. Friend and her little boy wanted a dessert and I'd usually have one, so when cheesecake and black coffee came, I decided to add on an extra unit just for good measure. On leaving the pub 30 minutes later, I was scanning at 18 o_O however after Sainsburys an hour later, I was 10. Fingerpricked an hour ago and was 6.6. I'm taking this as a massive win. Whether it is or not due to the giant spike and then possibly a low coming on pre-dinner (usually the time I have to check for one if I've had a busy afternoon) I don't know, but I was expecting to get it massively off and be in the teens for a few hours, so it could be worse!
 
After the overnight long spike into the 17s last night, i thought i was doing much better today.

Another walk, staying in target, doing well...until lunch. I under bolused for lunch knowing we were carrying on with our walk but still hypoed an hour after eating. I managed to bring in back to the 4s then thought i'd have a whippy icecream to stop it dropping again. Now, i've had these before and they bring levels up by 2-3 if i don't inject. Not this time!!! I shot up into the 16s!!!

Talking to hubby after i commented that i thought the icecream seemed "grainy" i thought it was icy, now i think it had more sugar in it than a usual whippy (on going back and checking it did say soft icecream not whippy so my mistake).

I ended up correcting, though now i've had tea (and injected for the food) libre is showing hypo again. Aarrrrgghhhhh!

Maybe my next holiday should involve no walking, just lazing around somewhere :confused:🙂
 
freesia said:
I ended up correcting, though now i've had tea (and injected for the food) libre is showing hypo again
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Libre showed hypo for over an hour while finger prick kept showing 4.8. Its made a real mess of my TIR again. Oh well, try again tomorrow.
 
freesia said:
Libre showed hypo for over an hour while finger prick kept showing 4.8. Its made a real mess of my TIR again. Oh well, try again tomorrow.
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I've only had the Libre for about 48 hours, and already the errors have annoyed me with the impact it's had on the TIR when compared to my finger pricks!
 
pawprint91 said:
I've only had the Libre for about 48 hours, and already the errors have annoyed me with the impact it's had on the TIR when compared to my finger pricks!
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This one has been fairly accurate so far. When i go out of target range thats when it differs from the finger prick, though i think Abbott say its accurate between 4-10.

I've just dipped back into hypo with finger prick saying so as well though the amount of highs and lows this week have been due to the amount of walking i've done this week on holiday (just over 30 miles so far) and the fact that Tresiba isn't very flexible, despite reducing it. Hopefully when i'm back to normal activity next week things will settle back down.
 
Good morning,

5.2 on waking today.
Much better than yesterday which was a 17 but then I didn't take my tresiba at tea time day before. Spent yesterday eating but no insulin with food. Stupid I know but mentally sometimes I'm just not in a place where I can do it. Work in progress.

Anyway took my tresiba at usual time yesterday and took 6 units then checked at bedtime took 2 units because it was 12 something and that is how I woke up with a nice 5.2.

Now today I will start a fresh, breakfast and lunch as always I know I'm ok but for various reasons if I get stressed or my results don't go well during the day even though I'm trying I will possibly get disheartened and mentally low so it all goes wrong.
 
Morning all. 6.9 today.

It’s frenetic Friday, thought it would be a bit quieter today as farmer daughter having a week off work so childcare not required, but no, they are ALL coming for lunch! At least maybe the morning may be quiet ( ish), Zara never shuts up! Her favourite at the moment, “ what’s that?” to absolutely everything! Considering she’s only 17 months old she has quite the vocabulary. She’s joining words up now and making short sentences. She makes us laugh with “ Gaga//Sadie ( her favourite cousin) are woo? Life is never dull with kids around. Is it bedtime yet? :D At least the weather means we can all decamp to the garden and keep the mess out there. I suspect water fights might be the order of the day!😱 Disclaimer: we don’t have a hosepipe ban, we live in Cumbria, we’re still green on the map!

Have a fab Friday, and don’t forget the sunscreen! 😎
 
This hot weather is sooo mesding up my blood glucose levels. I haven't seen a 5.2 in days!!! 🙂

BG 5.0

All the other stuff ok.

Blood test results awaiting some confirmation stuff. I will keep you posted as and when. At least the HbA1c result is in and.....

Last time it was 37


this time it is....37 !!! Yessss

Out earlier today to get the exercise in before it becomes roasting hot out there

Have a great cool (if you can) day today whatever you are doing
 
Not reported on here for a while .....

This morning got a 7.5 ( yes I know the number after the decimal point is not significant but I did not know whether to be optimistic and round it down to 7 or pessimistic and round it up to 8). What I am seeing is a trend upwards in my morning reading since the jump I got from stopping gliclazide. It is not a "big" trend but I am sure it is there. Curiously, it is not there in my bed time reading.

Had a lumbar puncture yesterday - I'm in the last ditch saloon when it comes to getting a diagnosis for the neurological problems I have. Had one a while ago and that was a breeze. This one was not. A mixture of things. I do not think the junior doctor was as skilled as the nurse who did my previous one. He struggled getting the needle in place, barging into a nerve on the way which gave me a couple of electric shocks down my leg. He was about to give up and try a different site when he struck CSF (I think more by accident than design) and that spared me another round of poking about. Have a sore lower back this morning and have to be careful how I bend to avoid twinges in my back and legs. I am sure it will settle down in a day or two.

I don't think things were helped by the fact that the doctor was clearly new to the clinic and was distracted throughout the procedure because he did not know what the local protocols were and was on the phone to various consultants trying to find out which samples went in what phials and where they should be sent to. I also think that some of the conversations were similar enquiries associated with the next patient. My overall impression was that it was all a bit amateur and as a result hopelessly inefficient. Little wonder it has taken six months to get what is after all a routine investigative procedure carried out.

Oh, and the first thing he did when he started on me... get out a paper form and start copying information from his computer screen onto it! No wonder the NHS is in trouble, and it has nothing to do with old people blocking beds.
 
8.1 after a ,4 in the morning correction. Had an ice cream last night and dropped a bit a couple hours so thought I might need to eat something turns out I was wrong oh well I can also sort these things out and I did.
 
Good morning sunshine Friday
6.9 today

busy morning off to work shortly - I’m looking forward to the weekend,
not that I’m doing anything special, but looking forward to some needed relaxation .

have a great day everybody 😎
 
5.9 for me again. 🙂

Spotted this bird the other day, which I've never seen before. The quality is a bit naff, but can @eggyg or any other bird watcher tell if it's a heron or not.
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Dez
 
MeeTooTeeTwo said:
5.9 for me again. 🙂

Spotted this bird the other day, which I've never seen before. The quality is a bit naff, but can @eggyg or any other bird watcher tell if it's a heron or not.
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Looks like a heron to me.

Guide to Britain's herons, bitterns and cranes - facts and pictures | Countryfile.com

Learn more about Britain's bitterns and herons in our handy guide which looks at the main species you can see in the UK, plus cousin species.
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