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[rebrascora]

Il be honest i dont know the portion size as my partner weighs it out and tell me what units i should have. but spliting the dose sound like a good plan to try so thank you both for that.

What was your premeal reading? Do you add a correction to bring your levels down into range when they are high or just inject for the carbs?
Usually a split dose is necessary when your levels drop low just after eating and then go high later. High fat foods like Pizza and pasta with a creamy sauce and fish and chips are the main culprits. Did your Libre show this happened? If you had been in range to start with then dropping low usually results in a hypo and then a hyper later, but if your levels are already above range as they seem to be at the moment, you may see a slight drop and then a rise but obviously it won't be enough to cause you to be hypo.

If you haven't been told about corrections and given a correction factor then learning about that will be a significant addition to your armoury in tackling high BG levels.

 

[Colin g]

8.1 this morning Had a bad day yesterday from 5 pm till midnight bloods dropped and kept dropping . Lots of jellybabies. Got it up to 5.8 took dog out at 8pm within a hundred yards had dropped to , 2.9 used all the glucose tablets on me and headed home was still in the mid 3 s till after 11 . Just tested now 10.3 .gonna need a few correction doses this morning

 

[khskel]

Morning all and it was 4.4 for me although looking at the graph I rather suspect there was some sensor compression involved in that.

Keep cool and have a good day everyone.

 

[PattiEvans]

Morning folks. A couple of heat-induced hypos - overnight and on waking. Oops! Must ask DSN next week about the timing of overnight temporary basals. I don't want to set a TBR for too long and wake up with BG on the ceiling.

Hi @Bloden, don't want to tell you what to do, but I find that putting a temp basal on for 2 hours initially works well for me. I then check (assuming I wake again in the night which I normally do) and put another 2 hours on if necessary. Often just the 2 hours works.

1980! I was a child bride, 20 years old! It seems weird now getting married that young but “living over the brush” was frowned upon! Anyways, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on some nylon sheets, Pyrex dishes and His ‘n” Hers towels! 😉

OMG you do make me feel old! I married in 1985 age 39... (wedding cakes still had impenetrable icing, but wedding dresses had shoulder pads like aircraft hangers!). We'd been "living over the brush" for 2.5 years, but things were tolerated more "dahn souf". My poor mum up in Yorkshire was suffused with shame on my behalf!

 

[gll]

Morning all. Its been 4 days since coffee bought me joy. No other number matters

But really, the other numbers are crap anyway. Libre was showing on track and hitting in the green at about 6-7am but over the morning have bounced up to 14 before actually getting up
Sleep pattern is clearly broken but not much point in trying to fix it until I can get through the day without napping.

Feeling a lot better again and coughing lessening so muscles getting a rest and recovery a bit there. Feel like I can face a shower again today without needing my bed for the rest of the day (we will see).

Speaking of showers, OT called and sorted the shower chair for kiddo. Won't be for a week and a half but its ordered at least.
Going to see if we can pick up finishing the bathroom over the weekend. Just 2 cabinets to go up and one more layer of gloss on the door. Will leave the other decorating plans until everyone is 100% again.

Hope you all stay safe in the heat today and may your BGs behave themselves, can but hope eh 🙄

 

[PattiEvans]

Morning all... gorgeous day again!

5.8 this morning at 8 am with a flat line all night. Strange day yesterday. Went out for lunch with a friend. Ordered an open-faced prawn sandwich on sourdough. Although all the ingredients were good quality (lovely prawns) it was almost impossible to eat as it was served in a bowl. The 1" thick slab of sourdough had been cut in half diagonally and arranged artfully one on top of the other at an angle, making it nearly impossible to cut with an ordinary knife. It was accompanied by a salad of chickpeas and some yellow (?) raw cauli, tomato, beetroot salad and a healthy portion of orzo pasta. After eating the prawns I found myself picking at it. We then had a short walk to a nearby art gallery which has a courtyard cafe, nicely breezy, where we ordered 2 sparkling waters. As a result of the picking at lunch I was quickly hypo so had half a piece of chocolate banana cake. Then walked to my friend's house where I was rude and fell asleep on her sofa! TBH I was feeling rather rough at that point. Hubby picked me up around 6pm and we came home and sat in the garden where I had another hypo, treated with JBs. I put off cooking dinner as I wasn't hungry. In the end I made hubby a chicken stir-fry with ginger and chilli, mixed veg and egg noodles. I had a slice of toast. Was in bed by 10pm. Feel much better this morning.

Congratulations @Ali11782 on your HS.

 

[TinaD]

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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Heron.

 

[Grannylorraine]

Morning
6.8 so a slight improvement on yesterday. got my new glasses this morning, so got to adjust to them.
@Ali11782 - congratulations on your HS.

 

[Bloden]

Hi @Bloden, don't want to tell you what to do, but I find that putting a temp basal on for 2 hours initially works well for me. I then check (assuming I wake again in the night which I normally do) and put another 2 hours on if necessary. Often just the 2 hours works.

Ta @Pattidevans - it's good to have an idea of what to do. I'm still a Podding newbie!

 

[Jenny65]

7.5 on waking today, so slightly higher but noticed it was 9 when I went to bed last night, had breakfast of natural yogurt and strawberries at 8.30 am and my level had gone up to 9.5 so a slightly worse day Last night I wasnt feeling too well so after the slightly elevated glucose reading I did a urine stick test, which showed i was badly dehydrated, had very high ascorbic acid levels, mild keytones, urobillarubin and billarubin also present and a trace of protein, so think its either liver injury or the hot weather. I am going to monitor it today

 

[rebrascora]

7.5 on waking today, so slightly higher but noticed it was 9 when I went to bed last night, had breakfast of natural yogurt and strawberries at 8.30 am and my level had gone up to 9.5 so a slightly worse day Last night I wasnt feeling too well so after the slightly elevated glucose reading I did a urine stick test, which showed i was badly dehydrated, had very high ascorbic acid levels, mild keytones, urobillarubin and billarubin also present and a trace of protein, so think its either liver injury or the hot weather. I am going to monitor it today

Can I ask what the urine test is that you are doing?
I have never heard of a dipstick test which is so comprehensive and I would be slightly wary of it's reliability. That said, being dehydrated can certainly increase your levels and in this heat becoming dehydrated is all too easy. Did you have a drink of water? I found when using Libre that rehydrating could have quite a significant and rapid impact on reducing my levels. Not ideal going to bed with a full bladder but better than going to bed dehydrated. 🙄. The ketones will likely be because you are following a low carb way of eating, so pretty normal. Not sure about the other stuff but may be all linked to dehydration.... I would imagine the billirubins are as they will be what give urine it's darker colour and doctors generally say that darker urine means you aren't drinking enough.

 

[rebrascora]

Well, no idea what is going on here but had 2 hypos today already despite that further Levemir reduction this morning and just caught it on 4.2 and dropping again and I have pretty much kept out of the sun so far (and the house is a nice comfortable temp) and not walked yet. Starting to wonder if someone has swapped my Levemir for double strength stuff as I just started a new cartridge a couple of days ago. Still not made it out to the shops and not looking likely now and I have a busy weekend with a show on Saturday and a drive on Sunday. Looks like I will have to scavenge a few items from the village shop and make do until next week. Lidl profits will be plummeting as I haven't been in for a month!

Trying to be frugal with test strips as I don't have a huge stock of them anymore and 3-4 hypos each day is eating through them. I keep doubting that I can possibly be hypo again so have been putting off testing when I feel a bit heady, thinking that I am just imagining it and then I test and yes, I am low again! Think I may have to bite the bullet and apply a new Libre to get me over this sticky patch, particularly with the busy weekend with the horses ahead.

 

[Jenny65]

Can I ask what the urine test is that you are doing?
I have never heard of a dipstick test which is so comprehensive and I would be slightly wary of it's reliability. That said, being dehydrated can certainly increase your levels and in this heat becoming dehydrated is all too easy. Did you have a drink of water? I found when using Libre that rehydrating could have quite a significant and rapid impact on reducing my levels. Not ideal going to bed with a full bladder but better than going to bed dehydrated. 🙄. The ketones will likely be because you are following a low carb way of eating, so pretty normal. Not sure about the other stuff but may be all linked to dehydration.... I would imagine the billirubins are as they will be what give urine it's darker colour and doctors generally say that darker urine means you aren't drinking enough.

Hi

Its the Aydmed 11 parameters test (see below)

100 x Aydmed 11-in-1 Urinalysis Test Strips 11 Parameter Urine Test Strips for Urobilinogen, Bilirubin, Ketone, Blood, Protein, Nitrite, Leukocytes, Glucose, Specific Gravity, pH & Ascorbic Acid : Amazon.co.uk: Health & Personal Care

Free delivery and returns on eligible orders of £20 or more. Buy 100 x Aydmed 11-in-1 Urinalysis Test Strips 11 Parameter Urine Test Strips for Urobilinogen, Bilirubin, Ketone, Blood, Protein, Nitrite, Leukocytes, Glucose, Specific Gravity, pH & Ascorbic Acid at Amazon UK.

www.amazon.co.uk

I did it last night as felt hot and unwell and then took a large bottle of water up and drank through the night, it did help I have to remind myself to drink so dehyrdration is a big thing for me, I was only concerned about the other indicators as have some pain in my right hand quadrant at the back and this can be deferred pain from the liver, and my liver scan showed both my liver and pancreas were fatty, plus I had liver enzymes in my bloods that were high, had another test yesterday for this and the nurse said the results would be back next Thursday.

I am not going to the loo very much at all and it is dark in colour and a little stingy so I definitely need to drink more. The other one that was really showing as high was my ascorbic acid levels which I beleive are vitamin C which gets expelled in the urine if your body cant use it as it cant store it (I am having loads of vitamin c rich veg so that would make sense, it also says a high reading of this can make other indicators on a urine test false, it said it can give false high readings of glucose in urine and blood, which is making me wonder if I should stop eating tomatoes, strawberries and peppers, all have loads of vitamin c

 

[Colin g]

Well, no idea what is going on here but had 2 hypos today already despite that further Levemir reduction this morning and just caught it on 4.2 and dropping again and I have pretty much kept out of the sun so far (and the house is a nice comfortable temp) and not walked yet. Starting to wonder if someone has swapped my Levemir for double strength stuff as I just started a new cartridge a couple of days ago. Still not made it out to the shops and not looking likely now and I have a busy weekend with a show on Saturday and a drive on Sunday. Looks like I will have to scavenge a few items from the village shop and make do until next week. Lidl profits will be plummeting as I haven't been in for a month!

Trying to be frugal with test strips as I don't have a huge stock of them anymore and 3-4 hypos each day is eating through them. I keep doubting that I can possibly be hypo again so have been putting off testing when I feel a bit heady, thinking that I am just imagining it and then I test and yes, I am low again! Think I may have to bite the bullet and apply a new Libre to get me over this sticky patch, particularly with the busy weekend with the horses ahead.

Mines still dropping 2.9 at 1130.Got it up to 6 Have to go and get some shopping in now . Hopefully it starts to behave itself. Here goes

 

[rebrascora]

Hi

Its the Aydmed 11 parameters test (see below)

100 x Aydmed 11-in-1 Urinalysis Test Strips 11 Parameter Urine Test Strips for Urobilinogen, Bilirubin, Ketone, Blood, Protein, Nitrite, Leukocytes, Glucose, Specific Gravity, pH & Ascorbic Acid : Amazon.co.uk: Health & Personal Care

Free delivery and returns on eligible orders of £20 or more. Buy 100 x Aydmed 11-in-1 Urinalysis Test Strips 11 Parameter Urine Test Strips for Urobilinogen, Bilirubin, Ketone, Blood, Protein, Nitrite, Leukocytes, Glucose, Specific Gravity, pH & Ascorbic Acid at Amazon UK.

www.amazon.co.uk

I did it last night as felt hot and unwell and then took a large bottle of water up and drank through the night, it did help I have to remind myself to drink so dehyrdration is a big thing for me, I was only concerned about the other indicators as have some pain in my right hand quadrant at the back and this can be deferred pain from the liver, and my liver scan showed both my liver and pancreas were fatty, plus I had liver enzymes in my bloods that were high, had another test yesterday for this and the nurse said the results would be back next Thursday.

I am not going to the loo very much at all and it is dark in colour and a little stingy so I definitely need to drink more. The other one that was really showing as high was my ascorbic acid levels which I beleive are vitamin C which gets expelled in the urine if your body cant use it as it cant store it (I am having loads of vitamin c rich veg so that would make sense, it also says a high reading of this can make other indicators on a urine test false, it said it can give false high readings of glucose in urine and blood, which is making me wonder if I should stop eating tomatoes, strawberries and peppers, all have loads of vitamin c

Ah! I thought it must be a private test rather than something prescribed. I am always very skeptical of such things. How do you read it? Do you compare it to colour charts on your phone?

 

[rebrascora]

Mines still dropping 2.9 at 1130.Got it up to 6 Have to go and get some shopping in now . Hopefully it starts to behave itself. Here goes

Nice to know it isn't just me. Good luck getting to the supermarket and most importantly back again without dropping again. I'm just going to walk up to the village shop and get a few things. Thankfully they are very good and have olives and pork scratching, two of my favourite low carb treats, plus natural yoghurt even if it isn't Greek style and locally produced milk of course, so it will do to get me through the weekend but I am not buying Elmlea and they don't do proper cream so will have to make do with butter in my coffee for a few more days .

 

[Gwynn]

It is so easy to miss the obvious.... (well it is for me)

I never realised (until about an hour ago when my wife mentioned it) that you should avoid taking certain vitamins and minerals together.

I discovered that I had a couple of clashes in my daily routine....sorted now

So, appraently you should avoid the following... (info from several places on the internet)

Cacium and zinc, magnesium, or iron
Vitamin C and Vitamin B12
Vitamin B9 and Vitamin B12
Vitamin D and Vitamin K
Vitamin E and Vitamin K

Does make me wonder what else don't I know (that is relevant)

I consider that our human machine runs on everything we eat and drink. So why do the NHS not take more care over a persons diet and diet choices (lifestyle choices), helping with information and advice. I know it is probably politically incorrect but surely good, accurate, effective information can really help (if someone wants to listen). I wonder how many meds could be avoided or reduced if people understood more about what they are eating and drinking and about what the body needs and how to become healthier/fitter.

Ok, it may not be for everyone, in fact I wonder how many could be really helped if a more holistic, and helpful approach was used by the medical profession and by people in general rather than an increasing reliance on meds.

Please don't shoot me if the above is just a load of rubbish.

 

[Barrowman]

I'm happy with a 7.2 on this fine sunny day. Just wish it wasn't so flipping hot, 33.7 here.

 

[pawprint91]

7.4 this morning, which is pretty much average for me at the moment, given that I've been advised to stop my evening Levemir for now whilst 'enjoying' the honeymoon!

Edit: Got a letter through about booking a diabetic eye screening too! I have a 'mystery' letter which is an appt at my local small hospital (outpatients only) with a dr, but no info about what it is about only 'general medicine'. As far as I know I have no other health problems at the moment, and said hospital does have a diabetic outpatients, so thinking the mystery one may be for feet? Who knows, but I have no idea how to find out what said appt is for, as it's not at my dsn headquarters or my usual GPs!

Off to London & St Albans over the weekend, wondering how the levels and sensor are going to fair (and hoping I don't come back with a dose of anything covid like!), but we can only see how it goes. My first drive lasting over half an hour as well to get there (should be under 2, however, all being well) but I will probably have a stop on the way as I love a service station

 

[PattiEvans]

So, appraently you should avoid the following... (info from several places on the internet)

Cacium and zinc, magnesium, or iron
Vitamin C and Vitamin B12
Vitamin B9 and Vitamin B12
Vitamin D and Vitamin K
Vitamin E and Vitamin K

Taking oral Vit B12 is useless if proton pump inhibitors are indeed inhibiting your ability to absorb it. Injections are the only way.