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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all, 7.5 for me today.
Glad I've not been in work as it's been manic. I was going to pop to Southend either today or tomorrow to get some Christmas shopping done, but considering what it might be like i might just do it all online now!
 
Stitch147 said:
i might just do it all online now!
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That's what I'm doing, by middle of September last year most of it was bought and wrapped, this year I've so far only got Bubbles a stocking with toys in it, just isn't the same and not in the mood :( xx
 
Kaylz said:
That's what I'm doing, by middle of September last year most of it was bought and wrapped, this year I've so far only got Bubbles a stocking with toys in it, just isn't the same and not in the mood :( xx
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I was planning on going when I knew I had a few days off work to get it all done. But that was before the new lockdown was announced.
 
Stitch147 said:
I was planning on going when I knew I had a few days off work to get it all done. But that was before the new lockdown was announced.
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So go! Or head to Lakeside or somewhere and make a day of it. You’ll enjoy the normality I’m sure 🙂
 
5.6 for me today after having something like 6 small packs (150g) of Haribo Halloween sweets since there was no trick or treaters the day before, though my blood sugar right before I went to sleep was 5.0. Would have though it would decrease rather than increase. Maybe I sleep walk down to the fridge.

7 day average is again 5.4, but flat 5.4 rather than 5.47 like it was last week (and I probably should have put 5.5 thinking about it).
 
08:15 BS 7.7 🙂 Getting back into the 7’s, yay! Yesterday’s after lunch & dinner readings were a bit high in the 11’s but, didn’t drop as low before the next meal in the 7’s on lowered basal so, will let that settle & I think things will get to within range again soon?🙄

A little bit of an anxious night as denoted by a series of stressful dreams, you know the kind: almost always dream about the old juggling days of a packed restaurant & me running around trying to prioritise the things that need done in the right order; customers mostly don’t mind waiting a bit longer when it’s busy but, nothing upsets them more than seeing people coming in after them getting their orders first, out of turn so, things have to be done in order!🙄 My phone appointment with the cardiologist at 09:20 this morning. Have noticed this past week that my resting heart rate is almost back to what it was pre CV: was 84 & now it’s averaging 87/88 with 1 reading of 84 & last night in bed an 82; pre CV I could drop into around 64/65 when in bed! My resting rate was still around 94 a month ago when the diabetic doctor referred me after the phone review! So, that’s a bit of improvement although, my heart can still race after the slightest bit of effort like cooking & going to the bathroom, little short walks around the house!

Too nervous to eat yet so, half oatcake & half dose for DP & eat later around lunchtime.

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day!😉
 
5.2 for me at 07:17. It was very windy first thing. I went out to let the chickens out and as I got to the pen the heavens opened with something approximating a tropical monsoon. Not good when you're in a dressing gown and crocs!
 
Well, the anxious wait is over now & just spoke to the cardiologist on the phone! Phew! She says that it doesn’t sound like my heart has been affected by the virus, what the diabetic doctor was concerned about, & it seems like my heart is just very responsive to things with CV, not as active being mostly in bed, putting on 5 kilos this year & the extra inhalers for my asthma so, it’s a bit more of a shock when I’m up out of bed! She’s told me to start walking around the house every day for 10 minutes & BE short of breath then, increase by 5 minutes each week until I’m doing 30 minutes every day. She’s going to organise an echo scan, not an ECG, where a drug is injected into my heart that speeds it up & see how it responds: had it done before in 2016, wait to see what the 24 hour monitor results are next week & she optimistically says I could be discharged in about 2 months time? 🙂
 
Lanny said:
Well, the anxious wait is over now & just spoke to the cardiologist on the phone! Phew! She says that it doesn’t sound like my heart has been affected by the virus, what the diabetic doctor was concerned about, & it seems like my heart is just very responsive to things with CV, not as active being mostly in bed, putting on 5 kilos this year & the extra inhalers for my asthma so, it’s a bit more of a shock when I’m up out of bed! She’s told me to start walking around the house every day for 10 minutes & BE short of breath then, increase by 5 minutes each week until I’m doing 30 minutes every day. She’s going to organise an echo scan, not an ECG, where a drug is injected into my heart that speeds it up & see how it responds: had it done before in 2016, wait to see what the 24 hour monitor results are next week & she optimistically says I could be discharged in about 2 months time? 🙂
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That's good news Lanny, you can go and have something to eat now hey!! Good to see they are following you up well and taking good care of you x
 
4.2 for me this morning which was a big surprise.
Went to bed at 10.30pm on 10.5 with an upward vertical arrow. Was tempted to jab a correction in but still had insulin on board so held my nerve. Woke up at 2.55am with a reading of 9.1 again with a vertically rising arrow. 5 mins later it was 9.8 with the same upward arrow. Seriously contemplated sticking a correction in then but couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. Just as well because after that my levels seem to have slowly descended until 7.30 when I got up. I had reduced my night time basal down to 3.5units as I had had more exercise yesterday and and some of it quite late (8.30pm) so perhaps that was responsible for levels dropping after 3am.
I needed 3 corrections during the day again yesterday and they hardly seemed to have any effect (not sure if that is because it is Fiasp.... starting to think swapping back wasn't such a good idea) so I have upped my daytime Levemir to 19 units today. No idea how much Levemir I will need tonight. I feel it is a case of "think of a number, add 6 and divide by 3 and then deduct the number of days my Libre sensor has left" and I might be somewhere near.... ie totally random!

We had some blue sky this morning which lifted the spirits and thankfully the wind had dropped although I think we got off lightly both with storm Barbara and Aiden here in the North East, so can't really complain.
 
7.0 @ 5.57am a very blustery day!
 
04:58 BS 10.6 To be expected as I only put in midnight Levemir 58 minutes ago! 😳😱 Yesterday was a strange BS day as I had a massively high 20.3 & a 4.1 & a 4.5!o_O Because I did some exercise!😱 It was only 5 minutes of walking around the kitchen, enjoying the sunshine as it’s the brightest room apart from the conservatory which is too cold in winter, as that was all I could do & it was heart pumpingly, pantingly breathlessly EXHAUSTING! Heart rate was 129 straight after but, to my shock 2.5 hours later my resting heart rate was 80 & my in bed reading, just now, is 75: didn’t expect the little exercise to affect me so fast!😱 My before & after BS for that 5 minute walk was 8.4 & 20.3!😱😱😱 I’d forgotten how BIG affect stressful exercise has on BS & it was TOUGH; goes to show HOW out of shape I am!😳 Also, forgot the big aftereffects as well going nearly hypo after lunch AND dinner, even with a -4 reduction for dinner, & went to bed early! I slept right through the midnight alarm: vaguely remember fumbling for the phone to switch the alarm off in GREAT ANNOYANCE & went straight back to sleep, more or less, & only put in Levemir exactly at 04:00; wasn’t planned as I woke just before 04:00 & went to the little girl’s room! Tried going back to sleep but, have given it up! I stuck in the full Levemir dose so, I won’t correct until I test later before I eat to see where I’m at with the basal dose?🙄

A very early Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day!😉
 
6.8 for me today as well. Really don’t feel like going to work today, would like to stay in bed but needs must. Have a good one all x
 
Morning all,
A 5.3 this morning... so close!
Was planning a run this morning but it has just started bucketing down.
Some hilarity in bed last night... no not what you think!
Just watching then end of a programme when we realised there was a faint buzzing noise?
Eventually tracked it down to my electric toothbrush which had turned itself on and was slowly dancing across the bathroom windowsill.
It's pretty old and the switch got itself stuck on!
Had to go downstairs and put it outside in the bin until the charge ran out.
Who knew?!
Off to Boots today for an early Christmas present 😛


Blessings Snowwy
 
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