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Group 7-day waking average?

@pm133 lovely Hartree, give his belly a rub from me.
@eggyg I was a wimp today, didn’t rise until 9. Sounds like best foot forward is needed for the upcoming nuptials, hope all goes smoothly.
@Stitch147 I feel for you.
7,3 for me today, looking very overcast. I decided to stay at the van after all so will see how it goes. Hubby has pre op assessment today for a cystoscopy in a couple of weeks.
Better get dressed and get the dog out, with buggy or without haha xx
 
Kaylz said:
Oh no, not again, hope you have managed to get them up by now xx
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I don't understand it at all! Before dinner I was 4.8. I had a sandwich of cheese and lettuce and a bowl of Stilton and broccoli soup. According to the information about the soup it was 62 carbs. I only injected 3 units of NR to cover the amount of carbs in the soup and bread with ease and was expecting a much higher reading this morning - no chance!
 
Michael12421 said:
I don't understand it at all! Before dinner I was 4.8. I had a sandwich of cheese and lettuce and a bowl of Stilton and broccoli soup. According to the information about the soup it was 62 carbs. I only injected 3 units of NR to cover the amount of carbs in the soup and bread with ease and was expecting a much higher reading this morning - no chance!
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I'm afraid that part of your problem may be that you go to bed before your last insulin dose has worked out of your system, I'd never go to bed unless it had been at least 4 hours since I last injected and ate as your getting a reading still effected by food/insulin, if you ate earlier/went to bed later then you'd get a true reading and know whether you needed to take some carbs on board before going to sleep xx
 
Good morning 9.5 my neighbour cooked a chicken stew for me yesterday,
so my guesstimate for Bolus was way out😳 a few units of NR 5.3.🙂
Its been raining but nothing like the forecast only 21.C at the moment.🙂

@eggyg you forgot your Creon😱 I wouldn`t have the nerve to eat anything.😎

And here we are once again @Michael12421 you need some slow acting
carbs in the evening and as @Kaylz says test before you go to bed and grab
some carbs if need be.

Nice choice of music @pm133.🙂

Take care folks stay safe and don`t get wet, have a good day.🙂
 
rebrascora said:
@pm133 That is not good. I remember those early hypos and they were scary. If it is any consolation I have found they are much less of an issue now that I am more used to them. Were they orange flavoured Dextrose tablets?
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Sorry, forgot to respond to your question.
I have bought pretty much every flavour of Dextrose. It was blackcurrant that I took yesterday.

BG seems to have settled today.
Also, I read about Theresa May and Steve Redgrave and thought about fitting diabetes into my life rather than the other way around so after my retinopathy exam, which one of my daughters took me to, we stopped off to buy some anti-bac handwash, some tissues and a celebratory pack of muffins. I tested and injected in the car prior to eating one. First time of doing something spontaneous like that. I think it was important to test beforehand as well to see what insulin I needed. I was at 5.7 so had 4 units to cover it. Will be interesting to see what I'm at before lunch at 2pm.

Took your advice. I now have a small rucksack with everything in it and will grab a pen and my kit and take the lot with me wherever I go. Time to start taking back a little control. Feels great.
 
pm133 said:
Yeah she does get quite spoiled for cuddles. If I lie on the couch she'll commando crawl up my body and put her head on my face. If I pretend howl she tries to put her face over my mouth as if to comfort me or shut me up. She has a lovely personality.
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Ah she sounds a poppet 🙂
 
Very happy to report a 5.6 this morning without any jelly babies being required through the night. Dropped my evening Levemir by half a unit and that seems to have done the job just right.


@Michael12421 that seems like an awful lot of carbs for a bowl of broccoli and Stilton soup. Just done a quick Google search and looking at a number of different brands and recipes for that soup, the average serving seems to contain under 10g carbs. Was that 60g for a whole tin and the bread for your sandwich (I assume you had at least 2 slices of bread) or did you just have a normal portion? Or could it have been 6g rather than 60g as that would tie in better with what my research shows. Hope you are feeling better now.
 
I normally make my own soup but I had run out and Stilton is not available here. I had to rely on Mr/Mrs Knorr. The sliced bread I used for the sandwich (2 slices) is only 2/3rds the size of a UK slice. You are right and as my eyesight is not what it was I just re-checked and it says carbohydrates 28 of which sugars were 4. I forgot to take my Toujeo this morning and it is too late to correct now so I will just leave it. It will be interesting to see how that ommision affects my reading tomorrow morning.
 
@pm133 Pleased you got kitted up with a little back pack for your gear.
Your rebound after the hypo may be as a result of the liver pumping out some glucose because of the adrenaline released as a result of the hypo. The guidance is not to correct a high after a hypo as the liver may claw some of that glucose back which means you continue to roller coaster. Best to leave your levels a bit high for the next few hours or until the next day if it is in the evening.
Haven't tried the blackcurrant ones yet so may need to get some on your recommendation!
 
@Michael12421
Really sorry that you are struggling so much with your sight. Hope you get something done about it soon. Please chase them up for an appointment. Not being able to read carb info like this is dangerous, especially when you go to bed so early. I can't criticise because I often eat late and go to bed with active bolus insulin in my system too but I eat very low carb, so it would be difficult to get it too wrong and I tend to run my BG levels higher through the night than through the day to be safe.... and of course I now have Libre so I can see what my levels do which gives me more confidence.

Would you consider changing your routine and eating at lunchtime or mid afternoon rather than in the evening, so you are not playing Russian roulette at bedtime. I have tried this a few times and quite enjoy it but it takes a chunk out of my day and if the weather is fine I have better things to do in the afternoon. Just something to consider.

As regards your Toujeo, not taking it is going to put your basal levels out of whack for a few days and make them run higher, but maybe that is not a bad thing at the moment. A week or 2 of higher levels probably wouldn't go amiss to see if you can restore some hypo awareness.
 
KARNAK said:
Good morning 9.5 my neighbour cooked a chicken stew for me yesterday,
so my guesstimate for Bolus was way out😳 a few units of NR 5.3.🙂
Its been raining but nothing like the forecast only 21.C at the moment.🙂

@eggyg you forgot your Creon😱 I wouldn`t have the nerve to eat anything.😎

And here we are once again @Michael12421 you need some slow acting
carbs in the evening and as @Kaylz says test before you go to bed and grab
some carbs if need be.

Nice choice of music @pm133.🙂

Take care folks stay safe and don`t get wet, have a good day.🙂
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It was a gamble which I lost! If I’d been out and about I would have just starved but as I was at my daughter’s I took the chance. Still suffering a bit today. 😱
 
@pm133 if you haven't already, grab a tube of lift glucose chews, the raspberry ones are devine! They aren't chewy as the name may suggest and are the same as dextrose/lucozade tablets and as they are in a handy tube they keep better than those in packets xx
 
@rebrascora . I have an appointment with the opthlalmologist on Friday morning tho' I am not expecting much as I think that it is a duplication of the meeting I had in August and that I shall just be sent home. Ah well at least I get a ride out in an ambulance. Spent this afternoon making a huge vat of pisto which is the Spanish equivalent of ratatouille but wIth the addition of paprika - what would the Spanish do without paprika? It made 12 side-dishes to freeze for another time.
 
@Michael12421
I rather like the idea of adding paprika to ratatouille which I really love the conventional way but always keen to try something new, so will definitely give that a go.
Coincidentally, chunky ratatouille with gruyere cheese (a Mary Berry recipe) is on the menu for me tonight.
 
Had a chat with my DSN today. She said my HBa1C is 6.6% not sure what mmol that is. She seemed happy with it. Good job i spoke to her today and not tomorrow. Just scanned to find i've been hypo from 7.30-9 and didn't realise which is unusual!!!
 
A pinch and a punch for the first of the month. Who can believe that September has gone so quickly?

I was a naughty boy last night. It was my great niece’s 21st a few days ago so last night we took her (and her sister) to a local pub restaurant. I had fish & chips and an ice cream sundae 😱. Pricked my finger when we got home: 8.9!

This morning at 06:00 I was 6.4:( My own fault of course.

I hope October pans out well for everyone.
 
freesia said:
Had a chat with my DSN today. She said my HBa1C is 6.6% not sure what mmol that is. She seemed happy with it. Good job i spoke to her today and not tomorrow. Just scanned to find i've been hypo from 7.30-9 and didn't realise which is unusual!!!
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Its around 48mmol, did finger prick confirm as you say its not like you to miss one xx
 
Morning

Chilly start to the day here, heating is on not that I'll benefit from it as I'll be on the go as per

Anyway's its a 5.7 for me

Saw Bruce out the window yesterday as he went to pay his rent so needs to pass here

Have a nice day folks
xx
 
Morning all, an unexpected 6.3 this morning, not sure why?
Been analysing the food diary and nothing sticks out apart from... da,da,da.. an evening hot chocolate, that would have done it! But of course I slept better, it's all a trade-off :(
Still it's almost light enough to go for a run.

Blessings Snowwy
 
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