Group 7-day waking average?

Good morning! Closest I have been to a HS at 5.1 - is it a 0.5HS! Pleased with result as I was more stressed than Tuesday and Wednesday. Dealt with four organisations. The two in the morning were judt adequate and the two in the afternoon totally inadequate! Mediocrity seems the new norm these days and it is worse than pre Covid! Feel rubbish from probably too many coffees and stress! I may in danger of becoming Victor Meldrew!
 
Morning all, 6.7 here.
Aargh! Plane tree pollen, @ColinUK . I had really bad hay fever in my teens, and when I went up to Uni in London, I though, yippee, hay fever's bound to be better in a city….then I discovered plane trees. I use to take something really effective, can’t remember the name now, but it got withdrawn. I rely on Loratadine now, Cetrizine makes me drowsy, which is a lot more boring than 6ft salmon, but not so good if you want to drive anywhere.
 
Robin said:
Morning all, 6.7 here.
Aargh! Plane tree pollen, @ColinUK . I had really bad hay fever in my teens, and when I went up to Uni in London, I though, yippee, hay fever's bound to be better in a city….then I discovered plane trees. I use to take something really effective, can’t remember the name now, but it got withdrawn. I rely on Loratadine now, Cetrizine makes me drowsy, which is a lot more boring than 6ft salmon, but not so good if you want to drive anywhere.
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I never had hay fever until they introduced that awful oil seed rape. It affects me really badly and remedies both over counter give me palpitations. Problem is I seem to be getting more sensitive to other pollens and traffic pollution!
 
MikeyBikey said:
I never had hay fever until they introduced that awful oil seed rape. It affects me really badly and remedies both over counter give me palpitations. Problem is I seem to be getting more sensitive to other pollens and traffic pollution!
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I was the opposite, I became less and less sensitive once I'd got past my 30s, and only get it on odd occasions now. OH is like you, though, he developed a reaction to rape when they started growing it wholesale round our village.
 
5.8 this morning at 7.am same as bedtime. Have a good day everyone 🙂
 
Who forgot to post his 5.8 reading earlier? 😳

Wet and windy today!!

Dez
 
FINALLY! 🙂 09:34 BS 5.1 & I got the soup bolus right, weelllll maybe just a tad aggressive but, back in target range until the next time I eat, anyway!🙄 I’m not really hungry & can leave it another hour, two or three after midday tresiba & meds but, will need something before bed! I’m rather oddly, for once, adjusting my body clock BACKWARDS when it’s usually forwards but, as long as there’s SOME movement, in any direction, I’ll take it as eventually things will go back: no movement; I stay off kilter!o_O:rofl:😉

Will decide on NR for dinner later & see if I get it right when I get up again: that’ll be the REAL test; breakfast! If I get THAT right the rest is a lot easier? :confused:
 
Good morning all, and it’s a 5.2 for me this morning.
Had my first blood test yesterday, looking forward to seeing if my A1c has come down a bit from 89 when first diagnosed in May.
 
Congrats on the HS @Barrowman !

Good morning from a miserable rainy Cornwall.

6.6 this morning which is tons better than it has been! New pod, fresh insulin (not stuff I took away) clearly working. My Libre unexpectedly finished last night, I swear it shouldn't have finished until Sunday, but since I lost all track of days when I was away I can't be completely certain. Anyway this new one seems very accurate at 6.6 against a blood test of 6.4. I've got to the stage where I am relying on the Libre for dosing. I know not everyone has the same reliability but I'm grateful that I seem to get on well with it.

@Bloden , you are right, in France it's heavy carb and you have no idea what they have put in the sauces etc. I found it very difficult to guesstimate any dose and I think I got more wrong than right.

So I caught up on making appointments for various things yesterday, flu jab, covid booster, B12 jab etc. Unfortunately I got one of the young receptionists who is a bit jobsworth and was told that they had finished covid booster clinics at the centre and I'd have to go online to find the nearest clinic. So I did, with visions of traipsing half across the county. Where was it? At the same health centre as my surgery, just one of the other 2 practices that share the centre. I've no doubt she couldn't make the appointment for me but she could have said "well, X surgery is doing them, if you go online you can have it done there". I bet I don't get a dinosaur plaster!

Anyway, it brought to mind a conversation that went on here whilst I was away... about doctor's surgeries, difficulty getting through on the phone, getting appointments etc. If you feel strongly about this (and most of us do), then it might benefit you to get on their Patient's panel if they have one. I've been on ours for several years and we have been able to negotiate changes that improve the patient experience. For example we got them to open up our access to test results and medical records online. I was a guinea pig for that exercise. Interestingly Julian was checking his "documents" section and found that someone had put a highly confidential letter addressed to someone else on his file. We only meet 4/5 times a year, so it's not onerous. Some of the people do volunteer to help with the flu clinics etc, but it's not for me. I perform the secretary function for the panel. Currently trying to get them to reinstate ear wax removal in light of the evidence that poor hearing increases risk of dementia.

Ah well, gotta go pick the grapes even if we don't use them. Julian caught a large rat feasting on the windfalls yesterday! Ugh.. go home Mr Ratty!

Have a lovely day everyone.
 
Well today has turned out very fortunate. Went out at 8am for some exercise walking on the beach. Cold, windy, threatening rain. But it turned out to be a good dry walk and 2 dogs came over to say hello (I like that).

Did a quick bit of shopping on the way home. Then, and since then, it has rained cats and dogs. Good job I went out when I did AND a good job I decided to go for an intermediate length walk not a long walk !!! 🙂
 
I AM indeed moving backwards with my body clock as I barely lasted until 11:14am earlier so, switched off the midday alarm & took my meds & tresiba a bit early had some Heinz chicken soup with a guessed bolus of 32 NR, dinner dose, & went straight to bed! BS had stayed at 5.3 before eating. o_O

Now, I’m up again after a nice restful sleep 14:43 BS 8.3 Uhm! That’s for soup so, that definitely tells me my bolus doses even at the baseline of 40 isn’t enough & I’ll tweak it upwards of that until I get closer & let it settle at that level to hopefully get some better control back? 🙄

Just picked up my mail & unfortunately I didn’t get the PIP awarded as I scored 0 on all 12 categories when scores of 12 & above get awarded PIP! But, my case worker did say AFTER, why didn’t she tell me BEFORE, my phone appointment that PIP is MUCH harder to get & Universal Credit should be much easier & has set the ball rolling on that already. Although, I haven’t heard anything about it, yet. Will text my case worker about the PIP refusal & I have to say with everything thing spelt out in the letter about the categories & scoring they’re right when it comes right down to it; I don’t need that kind of help!

Who knows how long I’ll stay awake for now but, I’m needing less sleep maybe after all the extra sleep when under the weather so much recently that’s how my body clock is adjusting back to normal? :confused::rofl:😉

Right better get half an oatcake in & some NR as I don’t want DP to raise my already higher than target range BS to even higher before I want to eat breakfast for my new day at some stage: that’s the first step; now for what dose? I’ll try a conservative 20, half of 40 even though I more or less know that’s not enough for breakfast just to see what that does? :confused:
 
Oops! 😳 Just realised, about to dial up NR with half an oatcake in my mouth, that there’s still a bit of active NR in my system, not much at the tail end of about 15 minutes, so, 18 NR & see in about 90 minutes to a couple of hours?:confused:
 
Hey all. Couldn't sleep all night so slept this morning and woken up by libre alarms again. 4.9. Feel like a zombie, have got spasms in my back and took some co-codamol last night which resulted in nausea all night and brain fog today. Busting out the deep heat instead.

Basal needs another tweak, I'm good all day with but dropping at night fairly consistently. Feeling a little nervous doing it without libre. I totally take my hats off you all you guys and gals who have done it for years without sensors.

Still heard nothing about sensors on script. We kinda left things mid appointment yesterday waiting for this answer so haven't discussed fingerprick testing regime for when this one runs out or if the answer is no.
Can anyone clue me in there (MDI carb counting)? I figured waking, brekkie, lunch dinner and bedtime but not sure about testing when having snacks requiring insulin?
Doubtful I will hear anything now at this late hour on a Friday from DSN.

Pattidevans said:
Anyway, it brought to mind a conversation that went on here whilst I was away... about doctor's surgeries, difficulty getting through on the phone, getting appointments etc. If you feel strongly about this (and most of us do), then it might benefit you to get on their Patient's panel if they have one.
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Funny you mention this, I had a survey through yesterday via mydiabetesmyway with a form to fill out pertaining to our local health board and its digital service and what patients want (something to do with a 5 year plan).
There was a single line to answer questions so I busted out notepad and wrote huge massive paragraphs...good luck to the folks reading that without formatting, I might have asked for the moon and stars from them :rofl:.

Anyway off to sort out some "brekkie", fotf has taken care of things without eating (7.5 now).
 
Lanny said:
I AM indeed moving backwards with my body clock as I barely lasted until 11:14am earlier so, switched off the midday alarm & took my meds & tresiba a bit early had some Heinz chicken soup with a guessed bolus of 32 NR, dinner dose, & went straight to bed! BS had stayed at 5.3 before eating. o_O

Now, I’m up again after a nice restful sleep 14:43 BS 8.3 Uhm! That’s for soup so, that definitely tells me my bolus doses even at the baseline of 40 isn’t enough & I’ll tweak it upwards of that until I get closer & let it settle at that level to hopefully get some better control back? 🙄

Just picked up my mail & unfortunately I didn’t get the PIP awarded as I scored 0 on all 12 categories when scores of 12 & above get awarded PIP! But, my case worker did say AFTER, why didn’t she tell me BEFORE, my phone appointment that PIP is MUCH harder to get & Universal Credit should be much easier & has set the ball rolling on that already. Although, I haven’t heard anything about it, yet. Will text my case worker about the PIP refusal & I have to say with everything thing spelt out in the letter about the categories & scoring they’re right when it comes right down to it; I don’t need that kind of help!

Who knows how long I’ll stay awake for now but, I’m needing less sleep maybe after all the extra sleep when under the weather so much recently that’s how my body clock is adjusting back to normal? :confused::rofl:😉

Right better get half an oatcake in & some NR as I don’t want DP to raise my already higher than target range BS to even higher before I want to eat breakfast for my new day at some stage: that’s the first step; now for what dose? I’ll try a conservative 20, half of 40 even though I more or less know that’s not enough for breakfast just to see what that does? :confused:
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You should be able to claim PIP and UC at the same time. UC replaced ESA (and other income based benefits) not PIP which isn't income based.

If you think you should have scored enough points for PIP then ask for a mandatory reconsideration
 
Lanny said:
Just picked up my mail & unfortunately I didn’t get the PIP awarded as I scored 0 on all 12 categories when scores of 12 & above get awarded PIP! But, my case worker did say AFTER, why didn’t she tell me BEFORE, my phone appointment that PIP is MUCH harder to get & Universal Credit should be much easier & has set the ball rolling on that already. Although, I haven’t heard anything about it, yet. Will text my case worker about the PIP refusal & I have to say with everything thing spelt out in the letter about the categories & scoring they’re right when it comes right down to it; I don’t need that kind of help
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As @42istheanswer says if you are awarded pip it does not affect your claim for Universal Credit. Personal Independence Payments were created to replace Disability Living Allowance, though there are many people in receipt of DLA still. I would certainly ask for a mandatory reconsideration if you believe you are entitled and need the additional money and freedom that can bring.
You should have or will receive a list of the questions and your responses as written down by the assessor, I would advise you go through them careful and amend as necessary, remember when you do this to think of how you feel on your worse days, we are conditioned to say I'm fine I can do that, when in reality you may struggle most of the time with certain tasks. You can also ask for a letter, though you may have to pay for it, from your GP, asking him/her to outline any issues/problems you may have. Good luck!
 
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