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Group 7-day waking average?
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Northerner
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Well done! 🙂 Exercise makes the cells in the body more sensitive to insulin, plus your muscles need to restore all that glycogen, so the effects of exercise can last 24-48 hours afterwards - keep an eye on those levels 🙂
ETA: I just read your introductory posts and realised I'm probably teaching you stuff you already know! 🙂
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Northerner
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Whoop! Congratulations! 🙂
MikeyBikey
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Good moaning! After yesterday I was hoping for a single digit characteristic as??? said you can round the mantissa but no my meter is teasing at 10.1. Mind you if I round by the maximum 0.5 I am in the 9s!
When I retired my finger pricker earlier this year the lancet was coming up to 3 years with 4 - 8 jsbs per day so over 5000 plus. I must have saved the NHS a fortune, enough to pay for the Libre I am after!
What's all this rain people are talking about? We had two minutes of light rain on Thursday and woke up with everything damp, but nor wet on Friday. Blue sky with fluffy bits this morning!
When I retired my finger pricker earlier this year the lancet was coming up to 3 years with 4 - 8 jsbs per day so over 5000 plus. I must have saved the NHS a fortune, enough to pay for the Libre I am after!
What's all this rain people are talking about? We had two minutes of light rain on Thursday and woke up with everything damp, but nor wet on Friday. Blue sky with fluffy bits this morning!
ColinUK
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6.5 this morning. BP etc all normal. Chicken mushroom thing already in the slow cooker. Bits and bobs all ready to knock together a batch of low carb brownies.
Doing a few hours of consultancy work later for the first time in donkey’s years and still a bit dizzy but nowhere near as intrusive as it was over the weekend.
Oh and already watched ep.1 of House of Dragons and can’t wait for the next!
(Don’t have Sky but do use Sky Go on my mobile piggybacking off mum and dad’s subscription which seems fair as they use my Netflix, Prime, Apple TV and Disney+)
Doing a few hours of consultancy work later for the first time in donkey’s years and still a bit dizzy but nowhere near as intrusive as it was over the weekend.
Oh and already watched ep.1 of House of Dragons and can’t wait for the next!
(Don’t have Sky but do use Sky Go on my mobile piggybacking off mum and dad’s subscription which seems fair as they use my Netflix, Prime, Apple TV and Disney+)
MikeyBikey
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Oh and my plans for today. I have an Ocado delivery in an hour but I am still undecided between them and Waitrose. In addition I have a load to wash and sort. And later on a repeat of my physio exercises. And in between I am aiming for Klondike Grandmother 6 today. I like to go up a level each week.
Kaylz
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Morning
8.something today but on the up again, trying to find furniture and sort things out is really stressing me out
Latest was the courier that's delivering the bed texting Bruce with a time slot of 4am-9am tomorrow morning! The seller had said evening and to get that was ridiculous! Bruce phoned the courier last night and got nowhere so I messaged the seller this morning and they said they would get in touch with the courier and let me know then the courier started hassling Bruce again! So i phoned hin up (Bruce said he was difficult to understand as he has an accent but I had no trouble as Abbott CS folk have much stronger accents) seems he is slightly nervous of angry women and has changed from 6am-10am but nearer 7am hopefully which still isn't ideal but more acceptable xx
8.something today but on the up again, trying to find furniture and sort things out is really stressing me out
Latest was the courier that's delivering the bed texting Bruce with a time slot of 4am-9am tomorrow morning! The seller had said evening and to get that was ridiculous! Bruce phoned the courier last night and got nowhere so I messaged the seller this morning and they said they would get in touch with the courier and let me know then the courier started hassling Bruce again! So i phoned hin up (Bruce said he was difficult to understand as he has an accent but I had no trouble as Abbott CS folk have much stronger accents) seems he is slightly nervous of angry women and has changed from 6am-10am but nearer 7am hopefully which still isn't ideal but more acceptable xx
Elenka_HM
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Good morning! 5'9 today.
Weird morning. Had an appointment with the mental health therapist to discuss further treatment/courses/options, but they called to cancel when I was ready to get out of the house. A bit annoying but maybe it's for the best, I don't think I was in the mood for this appointment. I felt like going back to bed, but had just eaten breakfast and didn't want to lay down with the food still in my throat and a load of carbs in. So went for a walk, I'm back now and don't know if I'll go to bed but definitely will stay inside, weather is not good.
Something more positive, yesterday a Mexican housemate cooked some traditional food for everyone to share, it was absolutely delicious. And a Eastern Europe colleague has invited me to a BBQ with chicken marinated in his country's style. I love trying foods 🙂
Weird morning. Had an appointment with the mental health therapist to discuss further treatment/courses/options, but they called to cancel when I was ready to get out of the house. A bit annoying but maybe it's for the best, I don't think I was in the mood for this appointment. I felt like going back to bed, but had just eaten breakfast and didn't want to lay down with the food still in my throat and a load of carbs in. So went for a walk, I'm back now and don't know if I'll go to bed but definitely will stay inside, weather is not good.
Something more positive, yesterday a Mexican housemate cooked some traditional food for everyone to share, it was absolutely delicious. And a Eastern Europe colleague has invited me to a BBQ with chicken marinated in his country's style. I love trying foods 🙂
Bloden
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Morning all. 🙂 6.3 here.
I've attached a Pod to my stomach for the first time - wow, what a difference in absorption, much quicker than my legs. The only problem is repeated wardrobe malfunctions. I'm going to have to buy maternity jeans from now on, eek! How does everyone else (on a pump) manage, I'm wondering?
My imagination is too vivid @Pattidevans to just get in the car and drive off without testing. What if...? Obviously, your friend doesn't struggle with the "What if's". Scary stuff.
I've attached a Pod to my stomach for the first time - wow, what a difference in absorption, much quicker than my legs. The only problem is repeated wardrobe malfunctions. I'm going to have to buy maternity jeans from now on, eek! How does everyone else (on a pump) manage, I'm wondering?
My imagination is too vivid @Pattidevans to just get in the car and drive off without testing. What if...? Obviously, your friend doesn't struggle with the "What if's". Scary stuff.
PattiEvans
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Morning all and another grey miserable one. Please @MikeyBikey send us some blue with fluffy bits!
5.3 this morning much to my relief, after a day of mostly highs, due to forgetting to bolus at lunch until we got to dessert. @eggyg see.... you aren't the only one! It's so easy to get distracted sometimes.
@Bloden I've currently got my pod on my stomach, so have to be ultra careful not to pull undies down too fast. The only place I find absorption faster is the back of my arms. I find the best place to "hide" the pods is just under my bra at the front, but most of my tops are fairly loose. As to my friend, he's often in the 3s when he does test and doesn't believe me when I say he may feel fine but it's a sign he's losing hypo awareness. He's a dreadful driver anyway without any other influences!
@MeeTooTeeTwo AGAIN! Congratulations all the same!
5.3 this morning much to my relief, after a day of mostly highs, due to forgetting to bolus at lunch until we got to dessert. @eggyg see.... you aren't the only one! It's so easy to get distracted sometimes.
@Bloden I've currently got my pod on my stomach, so have to be ultra careful not to pull undies down too fast. The only place I find absorption faster is the back of my arms. I find the best place to "hide" the pods is just under my bra at the front, but most of my tops are fairly loose. As to my friend, he's often in the 3s when he does test and doesn't believe me when I say he may feel fine but it's a sign he's losing hypo awareness. He's a dreadful driver anyway without any other influences!
@MeeTooTeeTwo AGAIN! Congratulations all the same!
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It was 7.7 for me this morning following a 0.5 unit reduction in my evening Levemir last night which clearly wasn't necessary but after cutting the grass in the orchard last night I barrowed it up the very steep hill to the yard for the horses and there was a lot of muscle burn, heart racing and heavy breathing so I thought I might need a reduction.
My achievement of the day yesterday was that I managed to eat a buffet tea after our club drive with the horses and keep my levels in range afterwards .... JUST.... although Libre did give me a reading of 11.1 at one point and I very nearly jabbed a correction when I saw it but held my ground and the graph seems to have ignored that reading and rounded it off.
@freesia I feel your frustration. My levels were steady all morning and then I needed 2 stacked corrections whilst we were out driving the horses to keep from going into double figures and then my 8 unit bolus for the buffet tea when we got back, so 3 injections of Fiasp in the space of an hour and a half but it kept a lid on things.... Worst of all I had to decline the lovely home made flapjack offered when we stopped half way with the horses to give them a rest. Goodness knows how high my levels would have gone if I had had that!
Many congrats to @MeeTooTeeTwo yet again for another optimum waking reading. You make it look so easy!
@Northerner Loving the poem Alan. Thanks for sharing. Feel rather mean making my lancet do so many pricks now! 🙄 Having said that, my needles don't get it all that easy either...
My achievement of the day yesterday was that I managed to eat a buffet tea after our club drive with the horses and keep my levels in range afterwards .... JUST.... although Libre did give me a reading of 11.1 at one point and I very nearly jabbed a correction when I saw it but held my ground and the graph seems to have ignored that reading and rounded it off.
@freesia I feel your frustration. My levels were steady all morning and then I needed 2 stacked corrections whilst we were out driving the horses to keep from going into double figures and then my 8 unit bolus for the buffet tea when we got back, so 3 injections of Fiasp in the space of an hour and a half but it kept a lid on things.... Worst of all I had to decline the lovely home made flapjack offered when we stopped half way with the horses to give them a rest. Goodness knows how high my levels would have gone if I had had that!
Many congrats to @MeeTooTeeTwo yet again for another optimum waking reading. You make it look so easy!
@Northerner Loving the poem Alan. Thanks for sharing. Feel rather mean making my lancet do so many pricks now! 🙄 Having said that, my needles don't get it all that easy either...
It is frustrating. I woke on a good number this morning but by 11 it had gone up into the 10s and 11s. I didnt want to correct straight away as i needed to drive but as soon as i could i corrected. Its taken 2 hours to comr back into the high 9s.
I think i need to up the basal again but seeing as i'm back at work in just over a week and will have to alter it again....i agree, very frustrating.
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I'm guessing then they probably need carers to do it. Or district nurses if they are living in their own homes still and their carers can't? When I did my nurse training, I had a placement with the district nurses and there was a list of insulin visits for the team to do each day. Most of them had morning and late afternoon visits (I'm guessing probably mixed? I don't really remember, it was some time ago!)Twice, yes, twice yesterday I forgot to take my insulin before eating. I always like to pre bolus at latest 20 minutes before eating. At lunch time and tea time I just didn’t do it! It was quite awhile after lunch when I eventually remembered and stuck in a conservative dose as I could have ended up stacking, but luckily enough I remembered just as I finished eating my tea and quickly remedied it. How very strange. Distracted? Tired? Losing the plot? Or all three! Who knows? It got me thinking about older folks with insulin dependent diabetes, what happens if they live on their own and start down the dementia route? Doesn’t really bear thinking about.
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Hey all.
Waking from nap was about 11 but was all over the place while sleeping according to libre.
Insulin is so hit and miss at the moment. So many factors there to why I'm all over the place mainly being very tired still and feeling crap. All the knock on effects of that etc.
In other news bathroom progress is almost done. All glossing has been finished finally and just need to borrow a better drill to fit the blind and its all done (well son is doing that). The shower chair got delivered today so daughter can finally take unsupervised showers and shower on bad days without fear. Its a huge deal for her.
The house is a riot still with fallout from bathroom & we got a new (to us) sofa at the weekend that still needs positioned properly and the rest of the furniture arranged. Just trying to do what we can at the moment.
Got occupational therapy back out tomorrow to sign off on everything so will have to clear a space for us to sit down I guess.
Utterly fed up being surrounded with stuff to get done but only managing to do a little bit of it before I'm back in bed.
At least I can taste my coffee again now so there is progress
Anyway thought I had better check in and will try and play a bit of catch up on posts x
Waking from nap was about 11 but was all over the place while sleeping according to libre.
Insulin is so hit and miss at the moment. So many factors there to why I'm all over the place mainly being very tired still and feeling crap. All the knock on effects of that etc.
In other news bathroom progress is almost done. All glossing has been finished finally and just need to borrow a better drill to fit the blind and its all done
(well son is doing that). The shower chair got delivered today so daughter can finally take unsupervised showers and shower on bad days without fear. Its a huge deal for her.The house is a riot still with fallout from bathroom & we got a new (to us) sofa at the weekend that still needs positioned properly and the rest of the furniture arranged. Just trying to do what we can at the moment.
Got occupational therapy back out tomorrow to sign off on everything so will have to clear a space for us to sit down I guess
.Utterly fed up being surrounded with stuff to get done but only managing to do a little bit of it before I'm back in bed.
At least I can taste my coffee again now so there is progress
Anyway thought I had better check in and will try and play a bit of catch up on posts x
Northerner
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Good morning 🙂 7.4 for me today 🙂
Lanny
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05:24 BS 7.2 🙂
A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
Forgot to check in yesterday! 😳 Can’t remember what/when but, in the 7’s: quite happy to be there these days!🙄
The new series of “The House of the Dragon” GOT spin-off just started on Sky, I’m watching on Now TV, yesterday & I think it’s live around 2am on Mondays but, I didn’t start to watch it until just before bed last night, reading all day, & unfortunately fell asleep SOMEWHERE near the start: will watch it from the start now while eating breakfast! 🙄🙂 It looks pretty good, from what I remember before dropping off!🙄
A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
Forgot to check in yesterday! 😳 Can’t remember what/when but, in the 7’s: quite happy to be there these days!🙄
The new series of “The House of the Dragon” GOT spin-off just started on Sky, I’m watching on Now TV, yesterday & I think it’s live around 2am on Mondays but, I didn’t start to watch it until just before bed last night, reading all day, & unfortunately fell asleep SOMEWHERE near the start: will watch it from the start now while eating breakfast! 🙄🙂 It looks pretty good, from what I remember before dropping off!🙄