Group 7-day waking average?

Blood taken without any issues at all. Which for my veins is a rare thing as apparently they’re hard to spear accurately.
BP 118/62 which is up slightly from the home reading this morning but fine.
Weight bang on 100kg and that’s unchanged since the last review.

I’m expecting HbA1C to be slightly up but sort of roughly 48-52 or 53 perhaps.
 
Morning all. Hope everyone is doing well. 5.6 for me this morning . The slipped disc that's been giving me a lot of gyp eased up during the night . Busy day ahead . Get dog out then through to Newcastle to collect my new glasses. Be able to see what I'm thinking about now
 
It was 9.6. got another appointment with my doctors later as condition is worsing. Now verry week and tired get short of breath as well. Stomach side pain. Dizzy spells get into a bit of drazed state. Everything keeps coming back normal(mind you the tests are only being done because I mention them). Serval visits to a and Evans doctors but people are coming to the conclusion there's nothing wrong expect I know there is because I feel exactly like I did when I was in dka last year expect it's not that because I'm able to test for that myself. I just no there's something very wrong
 
MikeyBikey said:
I read it causes acidity. Maybe my Lansoprazole protects against this? 🙂
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There are a fair few acids in Coffee.

I'm on my third one of the morning!
 
harbottle said:
There are a fair few acids in Coffee.

I'm on my third one of the morning!
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Fair bit of acid naturally in your stomach too 😉
 
It was 5.7 for me first thing this morning. 🙂

Dez
 
Morning all. 4.3
Just off the phone to DSN and still no answer on libre although the few hypos showing on libre in the past fortnight "might" swing it. She had already emailed before the call and is hoping to get an answer today.
If the answers no its back to fingerpricks in 3 days :(
 
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Afternoon folks. It was 7.7 for me this morning.

I managed to get a Covid booster this morning - it helps having elderly friends, they're like an underground network of Covid jab sleuths. I was told to go to a tiny village on the outskirts of nowhere, where there's a pharmacy doing walk-ins. I was in and out in 5 minutes - and I got a Disney plaster (it was a bleeder) from the nice man. No lolly tho, he must've seen my Libre and decided I couldn't have one.
 
Libre said "LO" 😱. Finger prick 2.9. 😳 Totally my own fault. I didn't go to bed last night so by this morning, after I had fed and mucked out 4 horses, I was zonked. Injected my morning Levemir which is the big dose of the day and then crashed. Of course that was far too much basal to manage my levels whilst sleeping and I was so tired that I slept really deeply and with a slow steady drop I didn't wake up until I was naughty low. 🙄 All sorted and feel fine now but need to do better.

I am so much more focused and motivated when my levels and stats are good, but when I am going through a bad patch and stats are not so good, I feel like I am not getting rewarded for my efforts so I don't try so hard. It is typical of me. I am an all or nothing girl. Three nights/sleeps with high levels and now a naughty low.
 
Bloden said:
Afternoon folks. It was 7.7 for me this morning.

I managed to get a Covid booster this morning - it helps having elderly friends, they're like an underground network of Covid jab sleuths. I was told to go to a tiny village on the outskirts of nowhere, where there's a pharmacy doing walk-ins. I was in and out in 5 minutes - and I got a Disney plaster (it was a bleeder) from the nice man. No lolly tho, he must've seen my Libre and decided I couldn't have one.
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My monkeypox vaccine was administered in a paediatrics covid clinic and I begged them for a Disney or dinosaur plaster and they refused!
 
Wordle in 5 today. I had 3 green letters by row 3 but still only managed it with one go to spare.
 
Hello all... I'm BAAAACK! After 27 days away I've just about caught up.... as I was reading the thread on the ferry and the car journey home. To sum up - I think - @ColinUK and @eggyg are actually one person masquerading as two? @gll has done fantastically well now she's carb counting and seeing single figures. Several people have had HSs. @rebrascora has forgotten the way to her bedroom. @goodybags is having problems with his house purchase and I sincerely sympathise with that as I've been through the process 6 times since 1973 and it sucks big time! I may have missed some posts and apologise for not commenting on other people's problems and dilemmas.

Got home yesterday at around 5pm. Went to the pub for dinner as there was nothing in the house that wasn't frozen solid. So, this morning 8.6 which is a LOT better than it has been. In fact my control has been terrible, have been only 36% TIR over the last 3 weeks. Reasons? Well, as usual there are several, pick one!

We went to France, partially staying in hotels and partially self catering. We ate out at least once a day. As soon as you sit down in a French restaurant a basket of bread appears on the table.... generally not just any old bread... but utterly delicious bread. Bread is my nemesis, but hey, I was on holiday and never mind good intentions, within 3 minutes my hand reached out of it's own volition and the next minute the bread was in my mouth! .... and the next bit and the next!

Argghhhh... just lost half the post!
 
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Pattidevans said:
Hello all... I'm BAAAACK! After 27 days away I've just about caught up.... as I was reading the thread on the ferry and the car journey home. To sum up - I think - @ColinUK and @eggyg are actually one person masquerading as two? @gll has done fantastically well now she's carb counting and seeing single figures. Several people have had HSs. @rebrascora has forgotten the way to her bedroom. @goodybags is having problems with his house purchase and I sincerely sympathise with that as I've been through the process 6 times since 1973 and it sucks big time! I may have missed some posts and apologise for not commenting on other people's problems and dilemmas.

Got home yesterday at around 5pm. Went to the pub for dinner as there was nothing in the house that wasn't frozen solid. So, this morning 8.6 which is a LOT better than it has been. In fact my control has been terrible, have been only 36% TIR over the last 3 weeks. Reasons? Well, as usual there are several, pick one!

We went to France, partially staying in hotels and partially self catering. We ate out at least once a day. As soon as you sit down in a French restaurant a basket of bread appears on the table.... generally not just any old bread... but utterly delicious bread. Bread is my nemesis, but hey, I was on holiday and never mind good intentions, within 3 minutes my hand reached out of it's own volition and the next minute the bread was in my mouth! .... and the next bit and the next!

Argghhhh... just lost half the post!
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Welcome back Pattie. Me and @ColinUK have missed you! 😉
 
Reason 2. I normally take 2000mg Metformin. Somehow after about day 2 I took none at all. In hotels which charge around 10Euros each for a continental breakfast, we skipped it - I don't eat brekkie at home - and the French tend to eat lunch at 12 sharp in restaurants, so to get a table you have to be there.... and one way and another with my little bum bag I couldn't find room for the met alongside my little packet of 8 JBs.

I took approx 1.5 kilos of JBs with me as I didn't think the French would have them (they didn't - I checked in Carrefour, E-Leclerc and even Lidl). I brought most of em back home with me, much to the JBs relief. I was a bit worried about them being in a hot car. One night I was woken from a nighmare by a panicky voice shouting "wake up, the JBs are clumping!". Clearly a JB clump is a bad thing - poor little things. Mine didn't clump!

So, Metformin was originally developed as a slimming drug before they discovered it's effect on diabetes, and frankly although a lot of peeps don't get on with it, I think it does have quite an affect as my correction doses seemed like water and I was using a lot more insulin than usual. Also I regained the appetite I had completely lost over the past 2 years. Not that I regret the 1.5 stone weight loss but it is nice to actually want to eat! Now back to taking them...

Last thing is that I've had a really bad sore shoulder, well both of them to be accurate and have been in a lot of pain, exacerbated by the awful things the French seem to think of as pillows. Every morning I had to have 2 paracetamol before being able to move.

So despite all we had a fab time. I've eaten my body weight in stinky cheese and cured meats! Plus Foie Gras and Confit duck! We've visited lots of chateaux - memorably Chateau Milandes which once belonged to the famous Josephine Baker (the costumes, furniture and other memorabilia there were fantastic!). We went to the amazing reconstruction of the cro-magnon cave paintings at Lascaux IV and an amazing troglodyte dwelling place (La Roque Saint Christophe) half way up a vertiginous cliff. I was surprised I got up there, but I did! We've done boat trips on 3 different rivers and managed to understand (most) of the French commentary and visited several vineyards.

We've stayed in two fabulous apartments which were both modern and very beautifully appointed with everything you could need - and both had fantastic up to the minute shower rooms. We stayed in one Chambre d'Hote (B&B) also amazing (including the en-suite and swimming pool) and such gracious hosts - the hosts were well travelled and they had brought back some beautiful artifacts, though their Cameroon larger-than-life statues were somewhat disquieting. Also 5 small hotels with extremely curious bathroom arrangements! We've eaten fantastic food and brought back some precious memories.

Ironically I got back to a copy of a letter from my DSN to my GP saying how fantastic my control is... HEH???? I had better kick it back into touch now!
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Welcome back Pattie. Me and @ColinUK have missed you! 😉
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Awww. thank you @eggyg and @ColinUK I didn't want to advertise that our house was empty whilst we were away, but friends were keeping an eye on it... so I didn't say in public!
 
@Pattidevans glad you had a fantastic time!
And @eggyg and I knew your place was empty anyway. We know everything! Mwahahaha!
 
Pattidevans said:
Hello all... I'm BAAAACK! After 27 days away I've just about caught up.... as I was reading the thread on the ferry and the car journey home. To sum up - I think - @ColinUK and @eggyg are actually one person masquerading as two? @gll has done fantastically well now she's carb counting and seeing single figures. Several people have had HSs. @rebrascora has forgotten the way to her bedroom. @goodybags is having problems with his house purchase and I sincerely sympathise with that as I've been through the process 6 times since 1973 and it sucks big time! I may have missed some posts and apologise for not commenting on other people's problems and dilemmas.

Got home yesterday at around 5pm. Went to the pub for dinner as there was nothing in the house that wasn't frozen solid. So, this morning 8.6 which is a LOT better than it has been. In fact my control has been terrible, have been only 36% TIR over the last 3 weeks. Reasons? Well, as usual there are several, pick one!

We went to France, partially staying in hotels and partially self catering. We ate out at least once a day. As soon as you sit down in a French restaurant a basket of bread appears on the table.... generally not just any old bread... but utterly delicious bread. Bread is my nemesis, but hey, I was on holiday and never mind good intentions, within 3 minutes my hand reached out of it's own volition and the next minute the bread was in my mouth! .... and the next bit and the next!

Argghhhh... just lost half the post!
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Welcome Back 😎
 
Bloden said:
Afternoon folks. It was 7.7 for me this morning.

I managed to get a Covid booster this morning - it helps having elderly friends, they're like an underground network of Covid jab sleuths. I was told to go to a tiny village on the outskirts of nowhere, where there's a pharmacy doing walk-ins. I was in and out in 5 minutes - and I got a Disney plaster (it was a bleeder) from the nice man. No lolly tho, he must've seen my Libre and decided I couldn't have one.
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I’ve my Covid booster tomorrow, had the email yesterday, booked it today and being boosted tomorrow don’t want to leave the cubicle bleeding, but if it does hope I get the Disney plaster to 😎
 
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