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Group 7-day waking average?

eggyg said:
Morning all. A much more Eggy like 6.2, that’ll be the through the night munchies I had. Not something I usually do but couldn’t sleep and got up at 1am to read, then I felt hungry. You know how the rest goes, so actually surprised it’s only 6.2.
Happy Big Birthday @Snowwy you must have a strong post person! Have a great day. 🙂
@Bloden congrats again on another itchy neck! 😛
@ColinUK Bart has been my favourite from the start but I do have a soft spot for Santosh. I’m so glad Jono has left, could not take to him at all. Caviar ice cream! Yuk! I don’t mind who wins now he’s gone.
Have a great day, the weather is wet and wild up here and we have to venture into town. :(
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I got the idea behind the ice cream but the sticky toffee pudding as a concept left me cold. I really don’t want my pud to taste in the slightest bit beefy.
Did laugh when he took criticism really badly though.
 
5.5 this morning. 🙂

Stay safe and well.

Dez
 
Wow thank you so much everyone, yes I have moved up a category for the vaccine, but also into another age group for 5k Parkruns!

Amazingly too, after many many months of waiting, we finally got our holiday refund back! 😎
 
Happy birthday to @Snowwy and congratulation to @Bloden on the HS - hope you're going for a hat trick tomorrow. :D

Dez
 
A 6.0 for me this morning at 06:59. Dull and drizzly in West Berks this morning. Bobbed into the surgery to be filled with holes - pneumococcal vaccine and bloods for my HbA1c. Feels like I was handing in my home work - now I have to wait for the score....

Returned home to find a letter from the Berkshire Eye Screening Programme saying that my tests where all OK so that's a worry gone away at lest until December 2021!

Happy birthday @Snowwy - I hope you have a great day.

@rebrascora stay strong. Everyone is here if you need them

@Bloden congrats on the HS!

Have a great Wednesday everyone!
 
Happy Birthday @Snowwy :D A very handsome looking snowman you are too!😎😛😉

09:39 BS 5.7 :D Feels great to be back in the 5’s: remembered to bolus for dinner!🙄😉

Ooohhhh! 😛 I knew I would be getting a BIG refund on my electrics bill & I duly got the letter & got a refund of £999 pounds with it going directly into the bank account this time so, no need, especially in these CV times, to deposit a cheque & GO to the bank physically!:D Because of 1 massive electrics bill 2 years ago I’ve been:- 1. MUCH more circumspect in my electrics use & 2. overpaying an elevated monthly payment for 2 years that resulted in refunds of about £1000 at the end of the year! But,I’m now told that my monthly payments are going back to what they were 2 years ago!:D

I feel like a kid in a toystore in that I treated myself to yet another new Apple product in 2 months: the iPad mini 5 will be delivered to my door 21-23/12/20; just in time for Christmas & I’m excited! :D😛😎😉 AND a jumping up & down, happy bunny!:D

It’s brewing up a storm again outside with the wind & rain lashing at the windows but, I’m lovely, warm & Sunny on the Inside! 😎 Ooohhhh! I haven’t felt that Sunny on the Inside feeling in some time & I’ve forgotten how LOVELY it feels!😛:D😉

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉 May you all stay warm & Sunny on the Inside!:D😎😛😉
 
Oh! Forgot to say that I’ve been watching Tiny World & the even better Earth at Night In Colour on Apple TV+ 😛😎 The night time wildlife series is definitely something new I’ve never seen before & looks amazingly stunning on my new iPhone SE albeit the small 4.7 inch screen!😛 Just started watching & saw the 1st. episode of a lioness multitasking at night: hunting alone for her pride, having to leave her 3 cubs alone to do so, kills a wildebeest on her own, barely gets to eat any of it herself before hyenas wild dogs come sniffing around, the male lion & leader of the pride chases them off & then takes the kill himself & chases her off, when she goes to find her cubs there’s only 1 & the other 2 are missing, it takes her 4 nights for her to find them & the whole family are reunited! All in wonderful, amazing colour filmed at night with new technology low vision cameras! I’m looking forward to seeing the other 5 episodes today!:D😛😎
 
Your hypos are really sneaky @Michael12421.:confused: I hope you feel ok this morning.

Yes they are sneaky. I find it hard to understand why it happened. \before dinner I was 11.2 and only injected 4 units of NR. I had a salmon steak in a sauce of butter, garlic, lemon and parsley, with cabbage and a load of mashed potato. After 2 hours of eating I can't understand why I had a hypo.
 
Am here thanks to the very helpful @rebrascora , who pointed me in this direction.

Will hopefully get the hang of this, but my blood sugar when I woke up at 05:15 was 4.1, I had a porridge and injected 50% of my usual NovoRapid dose as I went out for my first run in about 6 weeks, which went well (3.5 miles), but I rapidly (and predictably) went down to 2.9 whilst walking home/warming down. Had half a bottle of Lucozade Sport and had a croissant (with 2 units of NR) and now up at 10.2 😡
 
6.8 today.
@rebrascora hope you’re ok x
@Anitram and @Bloden congrats on the HSssss x
@Michael12421 you are one scary dude x
@mrmessy welcome 🙂
And of course @Snowwy wishing you a wonderful big birthday and what a clever little ‘man’ there for getting you the perfect pressie xx
Have a good day everyone x
 
Really kind of everyone to be so supportive. Thanks so much! Managed to get some sleep last night which was good. Struggling to eat much but I am getting some food into me and the bonus is that I am rapidly approaching my 91/2stone target. Nothing like a relationship breakdown for knocking a few pounds off you, and since the last few lbs are always the most difficult to shed once you get near to your target weight, I am going to take this as a silver lining.

Pleased to see that I am on the rather crowded 5.6 step this morning and very happy with that as the company is good.
Actually woke up 2 hours earlier feeling hot and uncomfortable and thought I might be going low but was 7.1, so I potentially dropped 1.5 mmols in that last couple of hours without any insulin on board as I took my morning Levemir a bit earlier yesterday. I did do quite a bit of exercise/physical work yesterday though.

Happy Birthday @Snowwy Lovely photo of you and the young chap and a bit of blue sky is always nice to see in the background. Hope you have a lovely day and you are able to celebrate as much as the current restrictions allow.

@Bloden Many congratulations on two in a row!! Woohoo! Can't wait for tomorrow.... Can you get a Colin hat trick??

@Michael12421 Sorry to read that you had another hypo. I wonder if that could have been the Bolus insulin. I know we blame the Toujeo for your problems but timing wise that sounds more like it may have been NR and since you have the Toujeo dialed back a bit, I wonder if you got your bolus calculation slightly wrong. You do seem to be quite sensitive to insulin. Hope you are feeling better today.

@Kaylz We might all have to find ourselves having "special birthdays" each day so that we can keep you here.... Someone draw up a rota!
I have been having a similar problem with early morning levels dropping despite reducing basal.... and then having to do corrections through the day to keep levels from going too high. I spent all day on 10 yesterday despite doing loads of exercise, but twice recently I have done small corrections to 10s and very rapidly ended up in the 3s so I am wary of correcting when I need to drive, as I did yesterday. I have just accepted that it is better to need corrections through the day as have hypos before I get up on a morning. Hopefully it is just a phase and it will pass and normality, whatever that is, will resume sooner or later for both of us. I think @Robin may have been having similar problems recently.... maybe something in the air!
 
Oh I missed that...
@Anitram Congrats Martin on your House Special this morning too! Looks like people are pushing for the HS Championship finishing line at the end of the year!

and @mrmessy Welcome to the thread. So pleased you have joined us but sorry to hear you had a hypo this morning. Hope you are feeling better now and the after effect of your run brings your levels down again.
 
rebrascora said:
I have just accepted that it is better to need corrections through the day as have hypos before I get up on a morning. Hopefully it is just a phase and it will pass and normality, whatever that is, will resume sooner or later for both of us. I think @Robin may have been having similar problems recently.... maybe something in the air!
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Yes. My problem is that sometimes I drop like a stone as soon as my head touches the pillow (last night was one of those nights, I was chomping jelly babies at 2am again) And sometimes not. As in, I don’t drop at all. So every night is a bit of a lottery, and thinking back over the day, now what did I do, what effect is it likely to have on me overnight? Last night should have been obvious, I’d been heaving jump stands and heavy wooden poles around for my daughter in the morning, and my BG had risen while I was doing it, so looking back, my liver was pumping out, and would need to replenish overnight. But I'd forgotten that by bedtime, so I still managed to get it wrong.
 
@Robin. You are so right! I have been trying to keep my activity levels a bit more consistent recently and that is definitely helping but I know it is so easy to forget what you were doing earlier in the day.
I go out to do evening feeds between 8 and 10pm which is lots of walking and physical work and that way I can have a bolus free low carb evening meal and work it off and then a protein/fat snack with a bit of carbs (cheese or a good dollop of pate on 2 multigrain biscuits last night) at bedtime to take me up between 10-12 to stop me dropping too low. It is not ideal but gives me a bit more peace of mind going to sleep.

Working without Libre at the moment is making it a bit more tricky and I missed my replacement delivery from Abbott yesterday, so need to chase that down today and hopefully life will be a little easier again.... I miss my 30 scans a day reassurance, especially at breakfast time and the convenience through the night! Got my timing of breakfast horribly wrong yesterday and dropped to 2.2 (finger prick... Yikes!!) before I knew where I was, because I got busy whilst I was waiting for insulin to kick in, whereas normally I scan every 5 mins to hit the optimum point to start eating. Probably why I was high most of the day after that. Of course my heart has been pounding with stress for the past few days and I have felt nauseous a lot of the time so I missed the hypo signs until I was a bit far gone.... My excuse is that my mind has been elsewhere, but that was certainly a bit of a reality check and now making a point of being more switched on and focused with my diabetes.
 
@Michael12421 I agree with @rebrascora that was probably down to bolus, are you still weighing your portions and calculating carbs?

@rebrascora if I decrease the basal by a unit then corrections don't work, I'll see how I am the rest of today (was 6.5 when I tested for dinner despite 30g unbloused for this morning) and tomorrow and if it's the same I'll decrease it half a unit, eating at bedtime is welcomed by me as I'm starving by then but hypo's aren't the best way to start the day, I have been less stressed the last 2 days as my grandad hasn't been done but he's due today so may just rise again, they (mum and grandad) just don't seem to understand what it's doing to me and what it could do long term so aren't bothered :( xx
 
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