Group 7-day waking average?

[PattiEvans]

Morning all - welcome to a grey and damp Cornish morning with a stiff breeze building up.

7.6 or 7.0. Was woken at 5:30 am by an alarm I have never heard before. Looking at my PDM it said "Urgent - Low" and showed 2.9 with a downward arrow. I'd been in a deep sleep, so was rather slow and fumbled around with the PDM until the info sunk in. Then realised I actually didn't feel hypo, so tested BG which was 7.6. Sucking the blood off my thumb I tasted sweetness, so tested the other thumb. Sure enough 7.6. Confident that I was OK I settled down to sleep again, only this time to be woken by another alarm saying the sensor had lost signal. By now I was a bit worried as I don't have another. This one has 8 days to go and I put in a prescription request on Monday. Switched PDM to manual mode and managed to get to sleep again only to sleep through to 10:14 when I woke to 7.0 and the sensor working again. Conclusion: Compression low. First one I've had for years.

Today I have a free afternoon so am making Sabrina Ghayour's Pomegranate glazed meatballs which I'll serve with linguine and wilted spinach rather than the (ponced about) rice she suggests as I tolerate pasta better. Then at 5ish down the local for "Wobbly Wednesday" when locals get 20% off drinks and we meet up with our friends for a couple of hours. Home and meatballs.

Sort of Congrats to @goodybags on your sort of HS.

Have a happy day all

 

[freesia]

Sabrina Ghayour's Pomegranate glazed meatballs which I'll serve with linguine and wilted spinach

Sounds delicious!

 

[freesia]

Thank you everyone for your good wishes. I've had a lovely day so far. Some lovely gifts of friends and family and a friend took me out for coffee then back to hers for lunch and a very relaxed afternoon chatting. This evening i'm cooking dinner then i'll be catching up with some crochet and tv alongside hubby. We did a lot of walking at the weekend, as well as a lot of eating and drinking, so i need to get back to normality now.

 

[MikeyBikey]

Good morning! A 7.3 this morning after a reasonable night for me.

ENT appointment at lunchtime (not silly o'clock or early doors for a change). 🙂

Broken cloud, very cold.

Total disaster! Patient Transport said they would get to my appointment between 60 - 75 minutes late so rung clinic to see if I would be seen. They said NO and gave me new appointment on 9th April 2025! This appointment has been three years in the making! (sweary emoji)

 

[Eternal422]

Wanting an alarm-free night (much to my wife’s relief) I went to bed a bit higher than I have been and ended up with a nice 5.4 this morning.

We had out Christmas breakfast today at a Toby Carvery, organised and paid for by the Canal & River Trust as a thank you to all the volunteers in our region. There must have been around 100 people there and after not seeing some of the volunteers we worked alongside this year since October, it was nice to catch up again. Very nice gesture and the breakfast set us up for the day, we even skipped lunch as we’re still full afterwards

Happy Birthday @freesia - hope you’re having a good day!

 

[Pam123]

Me neither - we go to my mum’s for Xmas and there’s no room in our lounge for a tree (especially with a puppy!). My BFF has got a flat Xmas tree that she hangs on the wall - I’m tempted, cos I do like a shiny bauble or three and some tinsel this time of year.

Morning all. 4.9 here.

Had my GP surgery diabetic review on Monday. Apparently, my A1c of 66 is “very good”. I said “No, it isn’t” - I wasn’t in the mood, as you can tell! I felt bad afterwards for not being polite, but...honestly...where do they get these people from?!!

Enjoy your Xmas decorations, ev1.

they told me recently my A1c was to low at 39 the mind boggles.

 

[Pam123]

very late posting 4.8 this morning shopping looking for stocking fillers for daughter I do it every year, buy her big presents then lots of little treats but she 27 now hubby dispairs when I say that's it ive finished now.😛here is our tree

 

[janedent]

How about for a bit of fun if people who test in the mornings post their waking levels? I think it would be interesting to see what the average works out at after a week 🙂

I'll start with mine - I was 6.0 when I woke up this morning 🙂

(please don't let me be the only person to enter one! 😉)

8-ish (can't quite remember). It's usually 7 - 8. I've mulling over upping my basal from 3 to 4. Looking at all your figures, I'm starting tonight.

 

[Gwynn]

@ColinUK talking of Rock, I used to collect them. On every walk I would try to find the perfect rock and return with pockets full of great stones. Some were tiny but some were very big. The perfect rock doesn't have to be spherical, but, well, it's hard to define. I think symetry comes into it a lot though. In the end I kinda filled the house with rocks!

I even found a reslly nice cuboidal rock in wales but it was just too large to move. Sigh.

All gone now, well, some gone, my prized ones remain!

Oh, you're not talking about that sort of rock....

 

[Eternal422]

they told me recently my A1c was to low at 39 the mind boggles.

Wow! An HbA1c of 39 equates to roughly an average BG of 6.5, really good going! The only thing I can thing of is that they are concerned you are achieving this by getting lots of hypos which isn’t a good thing. That’s why time in range is perhaps a more meaningful measurement.

 

[Pam123]

Wow! An HbA1c of 39 equates to roughly an average BG of 6.5, really good going! The only thing I can thing of is that they are concerned you are achieving this by getting lots of hypos which isn’t a good thing. That’s why time in range is perhaps a more meaningful measurement.

She said it was because of my age, ive been diabetic just over a year, to begin with my A1c was 87, they were going to test for type 1 but didn't bother, I am on insulin just Basel, and ive controlled my diet with low carb diet I do have the odd hypo but with the help of the Libre, my TIR is over the last 3 months between 94 to 97 I don't like being told because I am older I feel fine and don't intend changing what's working for me, despite the DN suggesting I might be able to come off insulin I don't want to, it works for me,