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Group 7-day waking average?

Well, I got my second HS of the year this morning after a not very well managed haggis supper last night...I took photos of my Libre to prove it, showing a pretty shocking overnight graph coming down from 11 to my lovely 5.2 at 7am using 5 units of Levemir last night but for some reason my phone is not sharing with my PC this morning so I cannot evidence my achievement....
You guys will just have to take me on trust! To be honest I am quite pleased not to be able to publish that graph.😱

You would think 3.5 units of Fiasp for 3 small slices of haggis and some carrot and swede mash and brussel sprouts would be enough but took me up to 11 even after walking up the hill to do evening stables afterwards. I know there are oats in haggis but I didn't have a big portion and I bolused for it. Arrgh!
Still that's 2 HS in 10 days so I'm not complaining too much and you have to admire my skill (huge amount of luck) involved in calculating (guessing) my evening Levemir dose to smoothly bring me down to the optimum fasting reading by the alarm going off at 7am, surely.

@Michael12421
So sorry to hear this. Did you test before your evening meal? My guess is that your levels may have gone hyper before the meal causing you to nod off. Is it possible that you have an injury as a result of the falls? A cracked rib or something could possibly push your levels up that high. Alternatively, is it possible you dropped low before dinner and that "falling asleep" was actually you losing consciousness with a hypo... particularly if you had been battling the weather on your walks which would make them more strenuous... and then the 14 this morning is a hypo rebound?

@Bloden What sort of backwater diabetes clinic do you have when a DSN doesn't know about half unit pens!! Is she/he newly qualified? Makes you worry about the validity of other advice they are able to offer...
 
Morning all, 7.1 here, but I went to bed on 8.5 and had dropped to 4.1 by 4am.
Going riding this afternoon. Sorry. I mean I'm 'attending to the essential care and exercise of an animal' in today's vocabulary.
It’s also my birthday, so I will be celebrating being leapfrogged up a level in the pecking order for vaccines.
 
Congratulations Barbara @rebrascora on the house special. 🙂
5.7 on the dial for me this morning. 🙂
It's minus 5 outside - don't think I'll be going anywhere today.

Dez
 
@Robin
Many Happy Returns! Hope you have a great time doing your "essential animal welfare" work and that you have an indoor arena to play in as the ground must be frozen solid outside.
My GGs will not be going anywhere today but by tomorrow, there should be a thaw starting and then I will have two to exercise as Rascal now has a set of new shoes after a year off work. It will be a bumpy ride!! He is a handful at the best of times but after a year off, it will be even more "fun"!. Poor lad... his ambition in life was always to be a rodeo bronc, but he was born in the wrong country, so no opportunities here and has just had to practice it as a hobby!!
 
@rebrascora No my levels were very good all day - 11.1 before dinner mostly of which was too disgusting to eat, I did bolus for a couple of sweet cakes and honey. No broken bones, no bruises even. Then again I was wearing so many clothes against the atrocious weather that I looked like the Michelin Man! Congratulations on the HS.

@Robin DO have a very Happy Birthday.
 
rebrascora said:
@Robin
Many Happy Returns! Hope you have a great time doing your "essential animal welfare" work and that you have an indoor arena to play in as the ground must be frozen solid outside.
My GGs will not be going anywhere today but by tomorrow, there should be a thaw starting and then I will have two to exercise as Rascal now has a set of new shoes after a year off work. It will be a bumpy ride!! He is a handful at the best of times but after a year off, it will be even more "fun"!. Poor lad... his ambition in life was always to be a rodeo bronc, but he was born in the wrong country, so no opportunities here and has just had to practice it as a hobby!!
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Thank you! I have hopes of the outdoor arena, it’s just above freezing here, though the promise of sunshine has disappeared from the forecast. There is a small indoor that we can use (if allowed, need to clarify the rules with the owner when I get there). The best thing is that I get to 'exercise with one other person' so I get to see my daughter! Rascal seems to have grown into his name!
 
@Robin Happy Birthday to you, hope you have a lovely day x
@rebrascora congrats on the HS
 
Here we go!.. I present my evidence your Honour.....
2nd House Special of 2021.jpg
 
Morning everyone. 4.6 for me. Its bright but cold here, can't even hear the birds today. Not much planned today, cleaning, vaccuuming......oohh i know how to enjoy myself! Might go for a walk but the only place around here without getting into a car is to tramp around the roads/houses. The canal has a nice walk but i don't do that by myself and OH is working this weekend.
Congratulations @rebrascora on the HS.
@Robin, Happy Birthday. Enjoy your riding ooopppps sorry...your essential care for the welfare of an animal.
@Bexlee i hope your first week "back" was ok.
Have a good day everyone.
 
rebrascora said:
@Bloden What sort of backwater diabetes clinic do you have when a DSN doesn't know about half unit pens!! Is she/he newly qualified? Makes you worry about the validity of other advice they are able to offer...
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To be fair to her, she was self-isolating cos of a Covid outbreak at her kids’ school and sounded STRESSED as hell. Also, I’m yet to have a face-to-face, in the flesh appointment with anyone from my new endo hospital dept cos I’m a newbie. So, I’ll just add another question to my list, ready for when an actual in the flesh appointment comes along! :D
 
And a 5.7 this morning for me. Home is so cold I’m contemplating buying draught excluders and additional radiators for the living room.
The joys of living in a breezy Georgian house after coming from a remarkably solid Victorian one are endlessly revealing themselves to me.
 
Good Morning everyone, I was 10 this morning, but only because I got up late and was dropping during the night so had a chocolate hob nob. Probably not the best thing to eat.
its just freezing cold and very grey and foggy here. I should be going for a walk but....maybe I will clean the bathrooms instead.
 
Many happy returns @Robin
 
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