Group 7-day waking average?

[Northerner]

Hi there - I've just been diagnosed this week, related over the phone, by GP receptionist - second, and seemingly confirmatory test, taken last week. This morning I was 6.2, however I have a 30 day average of 6.6. Funny thing is that when I have breakfast around 07:00 and test again around 12:00, I can be down to 5.2/5.4. I am always hot, not, sweaty, in the morning. I always know when my blood sugar is high because I get hot, especially around the head & neck......maybe I am a freak!

Hi @JHB, Those numbers all look good, and are all within the non-diabetic range, so it looks like you are doing well 🙂 Have you tried testing a couple of hours after eating your breakfast? This is often when your levels can peak after eating, so it will show you whether your levels are climbing higher and then coming back down to more normal levels 🙂 If so, that may account for your average appearing higher than the 5-6 you are seeing when just testing prior to eating 🙂

 

[pm133]

Hi there - I've just been diagnosed this week, related over the phone, by GP receptionist - second, and seemingly confirmatory test, taken last week. This morning I was 6.2, however I have a 30 day average of 6.6. Funny thing is that when I have breakfast around 07:00 and test again around 12:00, I can be down to 5.2/5.4. I am always hot, not, sweaty, in the morning. I always know when my blood sugar is high because I get hot, especially around the head & neck......maybe I am a freak!

That bit in bold doesn't seem odd to me.
Firstly, your machine readings wouldn't be overly accurate and secondly, you've probably burnt up the glucose from your breakfast.

 

[Annemarie]

That bit in bold doesn't seem odd to me.
Firstly, your machine readings wouldn't be overly accurate and secondly, you've probably burnt up the glucose from your breakfast.

@JHB Ho there, if you’re odd then so are many, many more including me. Since joining this forum I have learnt to expect the unexpected. I can wake at 6:00 then by just walking downstairs it can go up to 9+, it feels like my diabetes is always one step ahead. I now do what I reasonably can and take it day by day. Good luck

 

[mikeyB]

Good afternoon folks🙂

Haven’t been here for a while, been a bit busy with life. Anyway, woke up on 6.1, which is nice. That’s crept up to 7.2 before lunch, hardly worth worrying about. No hum🙄

Nothing much happening at the moment. Daughter took voluntary redundancy from Savill’s. Three months salary and other goodies. So she’s now got a job playing for the other side, at Lancashire County Council, for £5k a year more. Starts November 1. Not daft, that girl. She’d applied for the job before the redundancy deal. And she’s joining a union, which was rather frowned upon at Savill’s. Guess who she takes after?

Anyway, she still hasn’t yet reached her Gold Standard of Salary, which is earning more than my pension.😉 Shouldn’t be too long at this rate.

LCC, taking time off from employing my daughter, seem to have arranged a deal with the the government to raise the level of restriction in Lancashire to tier 3, which is extremely irritating. I don’t know anyone around here that has had Covid. It clogs up my cosy relationship with Tesco and Ocado with folk who are perfectly capable of going to shops with sensible precautions. Having to wait two days for the priority order I made yesterday. So I had to text daughter to get off her idle bum and get me some emergency Stilton and eggs.

I’ve got myself a new toy in the kitchen, useless for T2s. It’s an electric pasta maker. You just stick all the ingredients in the top (80% Durum and 20% ordinary flour, egg, and water) and press go. It all gets mixed, and spaghetti, tagliatelle, or lasagna are squeezed out at the front, depending on which you want. Takes 10 minutes. DAFNE rules, and not for weight watchers, for sure. There’s nowt like fresh pasta. Thank goodness for Marco Polo nicking the idea from the Chinese. Now with a bread maker and pasta maker, plenty of flour of all types, I’m immune to panic buying of staples. As I’ve said before, I would hate being T2 with no insulin - haven’t got the self discipline, so hats off to all the T2s on the forum, you have my endless admiration.

Anyway, it’s Friday, so I will spend tomorrow with an IPL double header on the TV and Blackburn Rovers v Notts Forest on the computer. Don’t expect any sense from me tomorrow, so have a great weekend sticking pins into Matt Hancock dolls😱

 

[Kaylz]

@Annemarie I think your getting your wires crossed somewhere, its Bloden that posted that and not eggy

 

[Annemarie]

Sorry for my error, thanks for checking @Kaylz

 

[Bloden]

@eggyg so interesting that your Hba1c is ok at 64, not what I was told but good to know there’s another way of looking at it

Not eggyg, Bloden. I think, maybe, it’s a form of reverse psychology!😉

 

[Bloden]

I think the latest thinking is ' Time in Target', is a better indicator.

The problem is that I get a lot of sensors that read lower than a finger prick, especially during their last few days of life. 😳 I tried to explain this to the DN...

 

[Annemarie]

I’ve had a mega-stupid day, woke with a score of 5:8 then, my usual, walking downstairs raised it to 10:4. (I do have a physical problem trying to walk downstairs) After that it was a day of eating anything to keep my score up. Had usual insulin all day, breakfast was porridge, toast followed by a croissant, 2 milky coffees. Mid morning fell to 4:00 and falling, ate a Cornish pastie then an early lunch and an hour later hit 7:00 and so it’s gone on.
If only I could plan days like today, I could have my choice treats in ready, (strawberry trifle) as it was I‘ve eaten all my husband’s snacks- I’m not popular!

 

[Annemarie]

@grovesy if ‘Time in Target’ is a good measure what is an appropriate score? Mine Was 63-68% before I found the hints and tips on this site now it’s 69-75%. Anyone else want to share their time in target??

 

[Kaylz]

Sure @Annemarie this is mines for the last 90 days

The last 24 hours is so far sitting at 82% in target
xx

 

[Annemarie]

@Kaylz that’s impressive!

 

[Robin]

@grovesy if ‘Time in Target’ is a good measure what is an appropriate score? Mine Was 63-68% before I found the hints and tips on this site now it’s 69-75%. Anyone else want to share their time in target??

There's a chart which I’ve seen quoted on this forum, but I can't for the life of me find it, I know it has targets, like, less than 5% below 4.0, and 75% or so target in range (range being from 3.9 to 10.0) and it has different targets for the elderly. @everydayupsanddowns has posted it before, I think. Help, please, Mike?

 

[Annemarie]

That will be interesting thank you Robin

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

There's a chart which I’ve seen quoted on this forum, but I can't for the life of me find it, I know it has targets, like, less than 5% below 4.0, and 75% or so target in range (range being from 3.9 to 10.0) and it has different targets for the elderly. @everydayupsanddowns has posted it before, I think. Help, please, Mike?

Here it is

Time In Range - useful for Libre / CGM wearers

I've been meaning to post this for ages, but kept forgetting! At the ADA this year the international consensus paper on TIR (time in range) was published by a panel of experts with a huge amount of knowledge and expertise in supporting people to use continuous data to help manage their...

forum.diabetes.org.uk

I’ll add it to the Useful Links 🙂

 

[freesia]

The problem is that I get a lot of sensors that read lower than a finger prick, especially during their last few days of life

@Bloden, i often have the same problem when i change sensors. The first 24-48 hours, if it shows a hypo a finger prick usually shows not. The problem is the graph and log shows a hypo.

Today though i've had 2 hypos. I've been splitting my insulin dose over an hour for breakfast and lunch on weekdays which has been working well. This morning i was running a bit higher at breakfast, split dose as usual and two hours later levels dropped like a stone. At lunchtime, i ended up having to do first aid unexpectedly and only had 15mins to inject and eat so tried taking it in one go...two hours later dropped again. What a day!

 

[freesia]

@grovesy if ‘Time in Target’ is a good measure what is an appropriate score? Mine Was 63-68% before I found the hints and tips on this site now it’s 69-75%. Anyone else want to share their time in target??

Here's mine for the last 90 days. I have been higher in target, think 87% has been my highest.

 

[freesia]

Here it is

Time In Range - useful for Libre / CGM wearers

I've been meaning to post this for ages, but kept forgetting! At the ADA this year the international consensus paper on TIR (time in range) was published by a panel of experts with a huge amount of knowledge and expertise in supporting people to use continuous data to help manage their...

forum.diabetes.org.uk

I’ll add it to the Useful Links 🙂

Thanks Mike. That graph is really useful

 

[Robin]

Here it is

Time In Range - useful for Libre / CGM wearers

I've been meaning to post this for ages, but kept forgetting! At the ADA this year the international consensus paper on TIR (time in range) was published by a panel of experts with a huge amount of knowledge and expertise in supporting people to use continuous data to help manage their...

forum.diabetes.org.uk

I’ll add it to the Useful Links 🙂

Thank you! I knew you’d know!

 

[Robin]

And this is my last 90 day result.