• Please Remember: Members are only permitted to share their own experiences. Members are not qualified to give medical advice. Additionally, everyone manages their health differently. Please be respectful of other people's opinions about their own diabetes management.
  • We seem to be having technical difficulties with new user accounts. If you are trying to register please check your Spam or Junk folder for your confirmation email. If you still haven't received a confirmation email, please reach out to our support inbox: support.forum@diabetes.org.uk

Group 7-day waking average?

5.5 this morning, and woken by my pump again in the night. Another phone call.

Loads of gardening done yesterday, lifting stones along a path and removing weeds before relaying them, laying rocks to edge the veg patch. All very satisfying and a big impact.

Well done on your lowest value @SueEK .
It sounds like you have your hands full with your Mum @Bloden but it bodes well for you having a mum so full of beans at that age.
Glad your parcel had arrived @Kaylz, but frustrating that their system wasn’t working.
Enjoy your walk @eggyg and pop an extra bar of chocolate for the walk home.

Have a good day all
 
eggyg said:
Apparently it is. We’ve been on forums and read lots of horror stories, as you do, about the mechanics snapping the injector whilst trying to remove it and causing untold damage. It’s very frustrating to say the least, if it’s a known problem why hasn’t it been dealt with?
Click to expand...
Just in case it’s not a website on your list, this is a good source for help & advice:

honestjohn.co.uk
 
A 5.5 for me this morning at 07:31. Some wispy high cloud but mainly blue skies and sunshine here in West Berks although we have rain forecast later.

Need to bake again today as the jam tarts had disappeared by 20:00 last night so I guess my first attempt at pastry was OK 🙂
 
What an odd day. 4.8 this morning. Awful sleep. Feel like I’ve got a belter of a cold. Losing my voice.

Ate lots of “bad” things yesterday - croissant, baguette, piece of banoffee pie.

And I get a 4.8 this morning when I was expecting a 9 something.

Off to the post office to hopefully pick up my first prescriptions of ramipril and atvorastatin.

Feeling a bit :( about needing to take more meds and about the bad food day yesterday but looking forward to the gym reopening Monday morning and I’ve also got an assessment booked with survivors U.K. for group therapy eligibility.
It’s clear that eating “comfort foods” is a comfort and a punishment at times and that has to be to do with childhood and “clear your plate” being trimmed into us as the right thing to do in order to get approval.
I wonder how much of it is a longing for that parental comfort as a way of ineffectively dealing with the stresses of the rape and sexual assaults too.
 
Budge up @Freddie1966. I'm with you on the 5.3 step but it took 2 lift tabs a couple of hours earlier to get me there. Even with no evening Levemir I am still dropping into the red through the night, despite my levels rising slightly at bedtime. I also mistimed my breakfast this morning and had to have JBs with my yoghurt, raspberries and seeds. My Libre is now showing 11 Low Glucose events for the last 7 days 😱 and 4 of those are overnight (4-5am) when no insulin on board, but my levels are going high during the day and needing corrections or increased morning basal. Really hope things settle down soon but totally my own fault this morning as I got distracted waiting for my Fiasp to kick in.
 
eggyg said:
That’s exactly what we said. The new injector costs £200. The labour costs could run into the £1000s if they can’t remove it! Why should we have to fund something that’s down to bad design or inexperienced mechanics?
Click to expand...
It’ll be interesting to hear what Robin’s son advises, but imo it needs to be escalated to Jaguar sooner rather than later. If the dealer breaks something you’re into a three way argument.
 
Good morning everyone my tweaking is beginning to work. I did go up to 12.8 around midnight but no corrections and I woke up with a 5.2 house special which I’m very pleased about 🙂
 
Morning.

9 for me...didn’t need bed time snack...ah well, it was nice.

Met up with some friends yesterday afternoon for a forest walk. Then we got our chairs and flasks out and sat sheltered from the chill breeze behind some gorse, a nice little suntrap ....was lovely to catch up.

It’s a funny thing comfort eating isn’t it @ColinUK , I think most people do it when we feel a bit off or down, and then we feel even worse about doing it, I know I do :(.

Now to put food shopping away and see what what the “on line shopping vegetable bingo” has sent 🙄...then garden is calling.

Wishing you all a sunny Friday x
 
RirisR said:
day off to get meds and a loo brush
Click to expand...
I’ll bear that in mind the next time my 80mg atorvastatin gets stuck in my throat 😛
 
@AJLang Many congratulations Amanda on your very precious House Special. Just shows, sometimes it pays not to be too quick with the corrections. Did your electric wheelchair arrive yet and if so, are you happy with it? And have you had a trip out yet?
 
Good morning all. Well its a rainy start here but at least the wind has dropped. Taking part in a fundraising virtual walk and the official start date was yesterday (walking over 160m) so walked 4m with hubby and socially distanced friend. Was nice to meet up and i managed the 4m with 1 glucose, 2 biscuits and a banana and stayed in target throughout so pretty chuffed with myself. As it goes on i might need some tips from any walkers out there!
Woke to 8.7 this morning and off for another walk soon.
@AJLang congrats on the HS.
Have a good Friday everyone.
 
It occurs to me that @Snowwy seems to have been MIA for a few days.... Since Good Friday according to my search. He was such a regular poster here I hope he is OK and it is just that the Easter period meant that he was extra busy with church stuff.
 
ColinUK said:
Off to the post office to hopefully pick up my first prescriptions of ramipril and atvorastatin.
Click to expand...
I no longer worry about needing help to manage cholesterol and BP. I have enough to do with other stuff.
Just a thought: A very common side effect of Ramipril is coughing. I was started on this and took it for quite a while, not even noticing that I was gently coughing most of the time. We met up with my brother who within a day asked me if I had started to taking Ramipril as I was coughing so much! I switched to another option and stopped coughing.
 
SB2015 said:
I no longer worry about needing help to manage cholesterol and BP. I have enough to do with other stuff.
Just a thought: A very common side effect of Ramipril is coughing. I was started on this and took it for quite a while, not even noticing that I was gently coughing most of the time. We met up with my brother who within a day asked me if I had started to taking Ramipril as I was coughing so much! I switched to another option and stopped coughing.
Click to expand...
It’s a very common side effect according to the leaflet in the box.
I don’t cough usually so I’ll keep an ear out for that.

Did you take yours A.M. or PM ?

I’m thinking maybe take it bedtime but there’s no guidance as to when is best to take it.
 
rebrascora said:
My Libre is now showing 11 Low Glucose events for the last 7 days 😱 and 4 of those are overnight (4-5am) when no insulin on board, but my levels are going high during the day and needing corrections or increased morning basal.
Click to expand...
Apologies if I have mentioned this before, but what you describe is the battle of ups and downs, with loads of tweaks tried but the only solution I found was a pump. This was really helpful too as I needed such small doses and small changes to make things work.
 
ColinUK said:
It’s a very common side effect according to the leaflet in the box.
I don’t cough usually so I’ll keep an ear out for that.

Did you take yours A.M. or PM ?

I’m thinking maybe take it bedtime but there’s no guidance as to when is best to take it.
Click to expand...
I take all tabs in the morning. That way I don’t forget. I used to take the statin at night as advised, but my husband who is at the same practice, was advised it doesn’t matter when, just make sure you take it regularly. I found I often forgot the evening tablet.
So I take both BP tablets and Statins in the morning, along with a few other things.
Done and done dusted

Take care
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top