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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning. 4.4 at 5am, had JB, 3.9 at 6.30 had another JB. 7am, checked with finger prick, 4.4. Only up to 4.6 by breakfast. One of those days i think is coming up. Typical as we have forest school today and i have to show my CPR to get my certificate.
Have a good day everyone
 
3.6 for me this morning and that is after a 2.3 just before 5am! I woke up in between to check I had come out of the red after my first hypo treatment but then dropped back again. No Levemir on board since 8.45am yesterday and last Fiasp was injected at 5pm. My levels were rising slightly when I went to bed on 7.3
I had a lot less exercise yesterday so fully expected to be high this morning with no evening Levemir on board. Levels ran a bit high yesterday with less exercise, so not sure I need to drop morning Levemir but maybe better to reduce it and use corrections of Fiasp through the day than risk more night time hypos. It just seems that the longer I sleep the lower my levels go. Can you be diabetic through the day and the opposite through the night??

I should say that I sleep incredibly soundly. I lie flat and I wake up in the same position in the morning and don't believe I have moved at all and I rarely remember dreaming, so it is very deep, restful sleep.... when I don't have to wake up and eat jelly babies!
 
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Morning all, 4.5 here, but a level line all night. My Dawn effect seems to have migrated into a Feet Hit the Floor effect. I can have shot up to 7 or 8 by the time I’ve had a cup of tea and played on my ipad for half an hour.
 
rebrascora said:
That is surprising Michael considering you are in Spain. I have never checked what the error codes mean. I just know when I lose the screen display after I put the test strip in, it wants to somewhere warm and cosy for a few minutes!
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Hahaha, it gets cold in Spain! I used to go to bed with a hot water bottle all winter long when I lived there - my house was freezing. Brrrrr. :D

Morning all.🙂 7.7 here. It seems I have to stick to the exact same carb count and bolus timing and wear the same socks for my evening meal, otherwise there’s all sorts of shenanigans overnight.

Hope it isn’t raining old women with sticks where you are. (That’s what raining cats n dogs is in Welsh according to my conversation buddy - look out!).
 
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Hahaha, it gets cold in Spain! I used to go to bed with a hot water bottle all winter long when I lived there - my house was freezing. Brrrrr. :D

Morning all.🙂 7.7 here. It seems I have to stick to the exact same carb count and bolus timing and wear the same socks for my evening meal, otherwise there’s all sorts of shenanigans overnight.

Hope it isn’t raining old women with sticks where you are. (That’s what raining cats n dogs is in Welsh according to my conversation buddy - look out!).
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Maybe that's what it is.... I must have been wearing the wrong socks! Thanks Bloden.... Now to figure out which ones are the right ones!
Gosh this diabetes is complicated!
 
4.7 and 87.5kg this morning 🙂
 
5.6 this wet, windy and dreary morning. 🙂
Stay safe and well.

Dez
 
Kaylz said:
@ChrisW I won'y lie we're probably all very scared of the virus, I know I am but we recently found out that someone we knows sister contracted it, her husband has really bad asthma, obviously they had been sharing a bed etc so they were convinced he'd catch it and become unwell BUT he never contracted it despite the very close contact, brings a little bit of hope don't you think xx
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Thank you yes it does they were the lucky ones xx
 
Morning all. 6.2 today. I have just got up, terrible night, started with three pillows to try and help me breathe, then up at midnight to hunt out the Vicks., slathered my chest in that ( @KARNAK down boy), went down to two pillows, still couldn’t breathe, up at three for loo, then miracles of miracles I slept, til 6! Down to one pillow and slept til 8 and woke with a stonking headache. Dozed on and off and then up. Apart from that I’m fine! Nana nap beckons later methinks!
Have a good day. It’s going to pour down here and it’s very windy. Sorry! 😉
 
Still no strips but should be here today
 
09:20 BS 5.5 🙂 That’s the good bit!

I’m uncomfortably tingly this morning, especially in my backside, since I’m sitting on it in bed! It started yesterday & there’s been no let up: neuropathy strikes its ugly head again; also, when my BS is actually quite low but, after they’ve been high for a while with my cold! The colder weather doesn’t help either as it was quite stormy last night! Stuck the heater on to 20 C when I usually have it at 17 C & I still felt the numbing tingles through my sleep last night. I’ll try a hot water bottle today as it’ll be a few more days of this before it, hopefully, subsides! 🙄 I get nostalgic & think of my late sister when I use my hot water bottle as she bought it for me in Boots that last Spring & Easter she stayed with me in 2017 before she passed away the following year because she knew how the heat helped when neuropathy flared up! She was out shopping after lunch with a friend & bought it, a bright pink, thickly insulated fur cover one, surprised me with it & apologised about the colour, I don’t like pink, as it was the only colour available at that time with it not being the season for hot water bottles in Easter when we usually, in NI, have our best & hottest weather! I always think back very fondly to that when I use it &, you know, the bright neon pink isn’t SO bad anymore; positively grown to loving it actually!🙄😛

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

Mine will be a tingly day! Ah, well! 🙄
 
@Lanny
Loved your story about your sister buying you the hot water bottle. Put a smile on my face. Hot water bottles are such a comforting thing. My last one got rubber perish and died last year so I need to find a new one. Thanks for reminding me to get it sorted.
 
Oops, an 8.7 this morning with a flat line through the night. Not ideal but still in target.

Went for a walk yesterday with my Libre reader in my back pocket. Desperate for the loo when I got back, and ..... It doesn’t work any more!! I was amazed when I phoned Abbott for any advice on what I could do (I told them it fell in water father than full details!!). I was amazed when they said they would send a replacement!! Glad it wasn’t my phone that fell!!

I hope your cold clears @eggyg. Have you tried Olbasoil (so) on the pillow.
Enjoy forest school @freesia. Sounds great.
 
Good morning 6.1 on a miserable day again:( can`t wait for the 3rd lockdown.o_O

Bought some smart bulbs to use with Alexa just too lazy to reach for the light switch
just ask Alexa to switch them on,🙂 Physio has been may need to have a scan right
side of my neck shoulder and arm is very tingly all the time he`ll be back on Friday.
Managed to get a Blue Echo pen from DSN yesterday Doc has just text me its been
added to my repeat prescription, got to have a face to face at Torbay Hospital on the
2nd of December.😎

Slathered my chest in that ( @KARNAK down boy), too late @eggyg.:D

@rebrascora yes your readings are gradually creeping down be careful please. xxx

@Lanny still struggling I see {{{HUGS}}} just for you with a smile.🙂

@ColinUK Shaun the physio sends his love.:D

Take care stay safe folks have a good day.🙂
 
@KARNAK I'm doing my best! Spoke to a DSN this morning about it but she can't understand it either and has no solution other than agreeing with the suggestions I have made and am working on. All a bit of a mystery. Don't think the 2.3 this morning was quite that low. Libre exaggerates these things a bit but still not good having a double dip with no insulin on board to cause it!
 
rebrascora said:
that I sleep incredibly soundly
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That sounds such a peaceful sleep @rebrascora, i have to get up for the loo at least once or twice. I can't remember the last time i slept straight through the night.

@Lanny , thats a lovely thing to remember about your sister. Hot water bottles are comforting, i actually bought my youngest daughter one the other day as she likes them too.

@SB2015 , thank you. Forest school was good. We have quite a big area of our school grounds that has been fenced, with pond, decking, muddy areas, plants, digging areas and lots of trees. The kids love going over there, getting muddy, running in and out of trees and getting stuck into activities.
 
@freesia Since I started HRT I no longer need trips to the loo through the night. It was an unforeseen benefit which happened almost instantly I started with the patches and what an amazing bonus it is! The sleeping would be much more restful if I wasn't having hypos or waking up to check my BG to make sure I wasn't hypo but I have to say the Libre means I open one eye fumble for the reader, scan, half note the reading and go back to sleep all within probably 10 seconds. Obviously a bit longer if I have to chow down on some of my little bedside hypoheros.

Pleased you had a good day in the woods with the kids. It is so important for them to learn to connect with the natural environment.
 
@rebrascora I agree with @freesia that sounds excellent and I quite envy you, I don't get up during the night but I don't sleep much and toss and turn the whole time 🙄 xx
 
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