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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all. 6.4 here.

It’s cross-marking this morning from 9.30 to...whenever we finish. It’s nice to catch up with other tutors but it’s really dull work. I must remember to sit as far away as possible from a certain tutor who always “forgets” her work laptop (in an attempt to do less work, I reckon LOL). The best way to get this boring job done is to just knuckle down and do it IMHO!

Then I need to pack for a busy weekend ahead.

Hang in there @freesia - not long now! I hope your mum is discharged asap.
 
Morning Friday folks. And I make up the 6.4 triplets with @Robin and @Bloden.

Had another lie in! 7.30, I don’t know what’s going on. Managing to get back to sleep after 5am loo trips. It’s a miracle, and no RLS for a few days. Ironically enough I’ve just ordered some magnesium spray to use before bed. It is supposed to help RLS, cramps ( which I get in my feet) other aches and pains and reduce anxiety, amongst other things. We’ll see.

Youngest daughter and baby Eden coming for lunch, Zara is at nursery on a Friday now as well as Tuesdays, until 3pm, but I’ll see her later when she finishes. Forecast okish, not warm by any stretch, but dry so will do a wash incase the rain returns for the weekend. It’s getting wearing now isn’t it?

Have a fabulous Friday.
 
Silent Sands said:
Never done a basal test, although I have been reading up on the subject of late.
Yes, I've got COPD as a by-product of smoking 30-40 a day for just over 45 years.
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Hi there fellow gasper! I too have COPD (among other woes). Also, I am ashamed to admit, I smoked like a lunatic for 45 years. You could always tell when there was an adjournment as the outside doorways immediately became jammed with barristers lighting up. Amazing how stupid supposedly intelligent people are when it comes to health warnings.
 
07:35 BS 10.2 but, already going down on Day 2 of 52 Tresiba. Got a good night’s sleep after dinner around 10pm & beginning to get the hang of the NR dose as I swung gently up & back down from BS 8.7 up into the high 19s, I was worried but, DID NOT stick in more NR & then, drifted steadily down from there while I slept. Now at….. 08.03 BS 9.7. From the last 2 days of data it’ll hit about BS 5 or, I’m anticipating BS 6, so by the time Tresiba goes in & I’ll eat: just used to waking up twice these days as I go low & eat biscuits to stay topped up & go back for a second snooze; don’t think I need biscuits this morning & BS will stay ok as it drifts very slowly down? :confused:🙂

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

Lots of the usual pops of firecrackers & the like last night during the bonfires etc for “Seeing In The 12th” on this Bank Holiday, in NI, for “The12th of July” or “The Battle of the Boyne “: always been rather contentious here in the past but, been less so since the peace that slowly creeped in after The Good Friday Agreement! 🙂 I lived roughly 50/50 percent of my life through War & Peace here in this tiny country of just 1.5 million people with the most beautiful & spectacular scenery, I think! 😛

Oops! 😳 I just came all over patriotic, there! :D😛😎
 
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Good morning. 6.8 Weakened and had potatoes wirh dinner last night. Lovely, fresh dug, and sweet on the tongue but vengeful.

Getting some quite violent pain attacks. The first, in the tum region, doubles me up, and is only assuaged by drinking milk (water helps but doesn't fix it). The second, a dull ache between the shoulder blades, oozing up down and around rib cage, maturing on movement, like getting in and out of car, to gasping agony (too bad to swear at). I am firmly telling myself it is stress but think I had best try to get an appointment with the GP.

"Meanwhile, back at the ranch..." weather better than forecast (which was for thunder storms las night on BBC now light rain). So far its dry...which is helpful as supposedly the painter is coming today. He has one minute before he is late.

Hope everyone is enjoying Friday in anticipation of the weekend.
 
Good morning 8.2 today

Have a Fabulous Friday everyone 😎
 
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Have a great say everybody.

Dez
 
Morning all 5.4 for me, skipped dinner as was so tired. Kept awake most of the night with cramp but finally got some sleep but means I'm up late and it's a bit disorientating, might be a bit more with it after first tea.
 
TinaD said:
Good morning. 6.8 Weakened and had potatoes wirh dinner last night. Lovely, fresh dug, and sweet on the tongue but vengeful.

Getting some quite violent pain attacks. The first, in the tum region, doubles me up, and is only assuaged by drinking milk (water helps but doesn't fix it). The second, a dull ache between the shoulder blades, oozing up down and around rib cage, maturing on movement, like getting in and out of car, to gasping agony (too bad to swear at). I am firmly telling myself it is stress but think I had best try to get an appointment with the GP.

"Meanwhile, back at the ranch..." weather better than forecast (which was for thunder storms las night on BBC now light rain). So far its dry...which is helpful as supposedly the painter is coming today. He has one minute before he is late.

Hope everyone is enjoying Friday in anticipation of the weekend.
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The pain in the shoulder area is referred pain Tina and could, I emphasise the could, mean gallbladder problems and, I don’t want to scare you, pancreatitis. Get GP appointment, although in my experience they’ll say heartburn and or a virus. Which I hope it is. But if it doesn’t go away or gets so bad it’s unbearable, A&E. In the meantime trying lying on your tummy as it does alleviate the pain somewhat. Hope things improve, stress won’t help.
 
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The pain in the shoulder area is referred pain Tina and could, I emphasise the could, mean gallbladder problems and, I don’t want to scare you, pancreatitis. Get GP appointment, although in my experience they’ll say heartburn and or a virus. Which I hope it is. But if it doesn’t go away or gets so bad it’s unbearable, A&E. In the meantime trying lying on your tummy as it does alleviate the pain somewhat. Hope things improve, stress won’t help.
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Thank you for your kind advice. I will certainly seek a GP appoinment. It isn't my gall badder - I haven't had one since 1976!

The pain in the tum has been going on so about 2 months, albeit increasing in frequency, whilst the back problem is new. I checked out pancreatitis - it is looking at pain in the tum spreading to back. That doesn't happen. The 2 problems appear unrelated, certainly in time. The tum pain turns up out of the blue and remains in situ until calmed down by milk. Starts to calm down within minutes after milk and then takes about 20 minutes to go away. I do not have any of the other pancreatititis symptoms noted on web. Doesn't seem related to diet, time of eating, or activity. It just suddenly starts.

I did wonder if it was ulcers from the steroids (possibly incidents increased by current stress levels.)? I think it is too fierce to be indigestion but then I have always had the goat's capacity to eat anything (except tomatos) so no experience with it. I doubt that indigestion is so painful that one can only grunt rather than speak?

The new back pain is just grumbling along at the "Oh for God's sake level) until I make an injudicious movement at which I feel like a rat in the jaws of a determined terrier. Starts up between should blades and then spreads up, down and around. The pain ebbs back to grumbling level quite quickly. Not intercostal muscle pain from COPD coughing - I'ld recognise that. It isn't the palindrominc arthritis, at least I don't think so. The severe attacks depart too quickly and feel more like muscle rather than boney joints.

It is all rather boring so I'll set up a moan to Dr Mark who generally has quite bright ideas. I am beginning to feel like the man in "Three men in a boat" who, having read a medical text book, discovered he had everything except housemaid's knee! Only I doubt my GP will recommend, as did Jerome K Jerome's, a change of reading matter, a large beef steak and a 20 mile walk!

Apologies for long moan - @MikeyBikey, @Lanny and others have worse things to deal with I am sure.
 
Morning everyone, another grey day here but a happy 4.9 almost makes the sun shine.

Got some fences to paint today, hopefully the rain will hold off until I’ve finished.

Have a good day everyone and stay safe.
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Cool and grey start here after a decent day yesterday but it is brightening up as I type and there's no rain in our forecast. Two dry days in a row - I can't believe it.

Our eldest is in Barcelona for a couple of days, having flown out of Luton with most of his futsal team this morning - end of season get-together and all that - and is due back Sunday. Fortunately my wife is in Bedford this weekend, staying at her sister's, so she's picking him up while she's up that way.

Will be off shortly to do the usual Friday Big Shop. In the meantime I'm joining Dez @MeeTooTeeTo on the HS step:-

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Enjoy Poet's Day.
 
A very nice 5.0 (which always transfers as 5.1 to my phone app for some reason:confused:) this morning. Lots more admin, badgering senior academics types of work, and catching up from annual leave last week, but in the office today, and therefore hopefully some music time as well.

The office corridor smells incomprehensibly of fish today. :-/
 
7.4 for me today. I just got back from a short 10-minute walk, I'm planning on a much farther walk today, up to a mile or so, to pick up a prescription (that should have been collected a week ago).

The day is a little brighter than yesterday, and no rain so far!
 
Morning all - another grey day... as yet not raining. Yesterday was nice all day and I spent it indoors cleaning the house!

6.0 this morning. Quite pleased with that. The diarrhrea has abated somewhat thank goodness. Judgement suspended on the thrush. Blooming ABs.

Although I gave the kitchen a thorough clean yesterday the oven remains to be done - so attacking that today. Ground floor all sparkling apart from that, though not touched upstairs yet. J is an angel rolling his sleeves up, pitching in and also doing all the vacuuming. Trouble is when I do the cleaning I do spring cleaning, not just surface stuff. We did get the drumsticks last night, with croquette pots and wilted spinach. Enough chicken left for tonight.

@Grannylorraine and @DianeD trouble with my overlocker was threads breaking, but I was dealing with very heavy duty fabrics for loose covers etc. Also the chap in the Singer shop sold me a "bargain" overlocker (£350ish instead of over £500) and it was not up to the job.

@TinaD If it is ulcers it can be a very sharp stomach pain. I suffered them for years until they discovered Helicobactor Pyelori and I had the ABs to cure that. Hope the GP can sort you out.

@Silent Sands it is a good idea to do basal testing occasionally. Your basal should hold you steady if you do not eat or inject fast acting. If you need instructions let me know, though they are now freely available online. I know nothing about COPD nor how it impacts on diabetes. Though I am lucky I escaped it. I did smoke heavily for 28 years but both J and I gave up on 5 Jan 2001 and have been smoke free ever since. Not easy, but glad I did it.

@Martin.A congrats on the HS!!!

Have a good one all.
 
I gave up the pot habit about 18 years ago, smoking in general, 6 years ago and the heavy drinking 3 years back.
The only drugs I take now are prescription meds. The smoking left me with the aforementioned, COPD, Emphysema, asthma, and a few others from the 'Dolly Mixture tree'. My breathing is always an issue since the onset of asthma.
 
Was a 4.9 for me this morning.Not raining so sitting in the tea room garden.Kubix festival on over the road Human league.Heaven 17 Altered images and Peter Hook Takes me back to the 80 s Wonderful times . Congratulations to @Me too tee to and @martin a on your Hs.Stay safe people.
 
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