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Group 7-day waking average?

MeeTooTeeTwo said:
I believe it's @adrian1der whose the birthday boy today.
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I am indeed - 56 years young today. A 6.1 at 07:07 this morning.

My son started "back" to school this morning. He's in the sitting room on teams. Live lessons until 10:40 and a 20 minute break. Then live lessons 11:00-13:00 and a final lesson 14:00-15:00. The school has set video PE challenges for 15:00-17:00 and then a supervised prep session (home-work) from 17:00-18:00. He'll be shattered by the time he is finished!
 
HenryBennett said:
Have you done the occasional finger prick after your exercise? That’s when I get my lowest readings.
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For me it depends on the intensity of the exercise. If I do a gentle or moderate session BG drops but if I do an intense session my BG rises. I think @rebrascora finds the same thing.
 
Thanks everyone. To feed @KARNAK some ammunition, I wonder what the wife has got for me?
 
6.8 for me this morning, tried a new version (for me) of breakfast
of heated up milk and weetabix, thick yoghurt and blueberries will
test in 2 hrs, weetabix is usually OK for me I reckon Ive consumed 20 carbs
been reading the comments will someone put me out of my misery but what is HS
think Ive missed a comment somewhere 🙄
 
Anitram said:
Well yesterday was a grey, wet and miserable start here in Berkshire and today is no better. In fact I would say it's worse. At least my 5.2 this morning started the day with a plus.

Had my eye screening yesterday at our local Community Hospital. Last time I went the waiting room was packed. This time only me and four other people there, including a couple with a young child. However, when the nurse came to collect them she said only one parent was allowed to come through so the dad stayed behind - then took off his mask and put it on the chair next to him while he focussed on his phone, despite signs everywhere saying you had to wear a mask inside the hospital. The other person didn't have a mask at all, just a snood, which he kept pulling down every few minutes to take deep breaths. I quietly retreated to a part of the waiting room as far away from the two of them as I could get.

Drops in, photos taken, results in 4-6 weeks they said.

Hope you have better weather than us, but I suspect not, especially the further north you are.

Martin
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I’d have asked him what brand his mask was.
Then when he said “What?” I’d have asked him again.
Because I’d love one which was so effective it works when it’s on the chair nearby.
 
5.7 at 7am this morning

Up late!!!
 
5.8 this incredibly damp and dreary morning.

Just opened the post. Condolence card from the vet with Peluche’s paw prints inside.
 
Olive said:
been reading the comments will someone put me out of my misery but what is HS
think Ive missed a comment somewhere
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Hi Olive

HS or House Special is a morning fasting reading of 5.2 It is the nominated optimum fasting reading her on the forum because it is high enough to suggest you have not been in danger of a hypo through the night and low enough to allow for some Dawn Phenomenon in the morning. In reality it is just a bit of fun and something to strive for and celebrate if you achieve it (we like to celebrate achievements here on the forum) and some people are a lot more accomplished at it than others....
 
@adrian1der Happy Birthday. Hope you are able to do something special today/tonight to celebrate. We want all the details of your indiscretions tomorrow.... well at least the edible ones! 😉
 
Robin said:
Morning all, managed another 5.2 this morning! I sat there last night, insulin pen in hand, thinking, 3.5 or 4, 3.5 or 4, and settled for 3.5 units in the end. Lucky call!
Happy belated birthday, @Bexlee !
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Congratulations! I do that, not get loads of HSs! Stand muttering to myself whilst brandishing an insulin pen!
 
adrian1der said:
For me it depends on the intensity of the exercise. If I do a gentle or moderate session BG drops but if I do an intense session my BG rises. I think @rebrascora finds the same thing.
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That’s interesting Adrian. Maybe I’m over cautious, but I never do any intense exercise so haven’t experienced a rise. There are two reasons I’m cautious:
1) one of my fears, especially since a heart attack, is a stroke. Andrew Marr I understand had his stroke after intense exercise.
2) the cardiac rehab I attended encouraged moderate exercise. The bog standard max heart rate calculator is 220 minus your age, which for me is 153. At the cardiac rehab centre, based on my medical history, I was given a max hr of 111 and I still use this. Easy to remember because 111, as you probably know, is “Nelson’s number”.
 
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