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Group 7-day waking average?

mum2westiesGill said:
Hi, yes I took the humalog after my meal. I tested and injected a couple of hours after my meal. I tested before my meal and bg was 4.7 so no correction needed then.
Maybe my next chinese meal I will test and inject maybe 3 or 4 units then test again an hour after I've finished eating and inject the rest. If you say it's 100g of carbs on my 1:10 ratio that would be 10.0 units
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I am just guessing at 100g but it would almost certainly be more than 50g.

Even if you decide to have some insulin before the meal and then some afterwards, you still need to carb count the meal as the My Sugr app needs to know how many carbs you have consumed. It only bases it's corrections on the information you give it about the carbs yopu have eaten and an hour or two hours after a meal, there will still be some carbs in your system which haven't hit your blood stream. This is really not a good way of managing your BG levels and you need to go back to carb counting/carb estimating and inputting that information with your reading before the meal. If you then choose to inject just half of the bolus insulin then and half after that is up to you but you will get into difficulties doing what you are doing now and relying on MySugr to calculate your insulin as a correction after your meal without carb counting. It is not designed to do that.
 
ColinUK said:
Haven’t done one of these in a while.
Not intending to go back to daily checks just yet as there’s not quite enough brain space to do that but it’s good to see this this morning even if my weight has gone back up. View attachment 17250
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@ColinUK good reading, don't worry about your weight with everything you have going on at the moment.

Joining you on the 5.7 step.

Very grey here in this part of Essex, but still managed to get my yoga done outside.
 
@ColinUK good to see your post. Hope you are keeping heart and soul together at the moment. We are thinking of you x
 
rebrascora said:
I am just guessing at 100g but it would almost certainly be more than 50g.

Even if you decide to have some insulin before the meal and then some afterwards, you still need to carb count the meal as the My Sugr app needs to know how many carbs you have consumed. It only bases it's corrections on the information you give it about the carbs yopu have eaten and an hour or two hours after a meal, there will still be some carbs in your system which haven't hit your blood stream. This is really not a good way of managing your BG levels and you need to go back to carb counting/carb estimating and inputting that information with your reading before the meal. If you then choose to inject just half of the bolus insulin then and half after that is up to you but you will get into difficulties doing what you are doing now and relying on MySugr to calculate your insulin as a correction after your meal without carb counting. It is not designed to do that.
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Hi @rebrascora I always carb count whatever I'm eating and enter the carbs amount into MySugr then the app can advise how much to inject.
It's easy at home or when I can look at packets of things to see the carb values but I think with chinese and eating out my carb counting is going to be a very rough guess.
I've had 2 rounds of my usual toast for breakfast which is 36g of carbs which I entered into MySugr - my bg was a nice 5.8 and after putting 3.6 cp into MySugr it advised 3 units
 
Evening all. Very late posting today but was 6.7 this morning. Have had a lovely few days away, on the way back atm and sitting in traffic on the motorway. We've been on the road since 3pm for a 2 1/2 hour trip and still nowhere near home 🙄
Levels have been a bit strange since lunch. I had fish and chips for a treat (well...you have to by the seaside don't you), level was in the low 4s so i didnt inject straight away but worked out the dose ready to split to cover the fat. When the level went into the 7s, i bolused half. That was at 2pm and i've still not needed the other half,despite sitting in the car. In fact, they dropped back into the 4s and have stayed there apart from a short spell in the high 3s.

I hope everyone has had a good day
 
Hi folks Teds about, have had a roller coaster month been in hospital a few times culminating in a hospital
visit on Monday, BGL`s Low on meter. Managed to press my panic button next thing woke up in hospital
with cannula in both arms and a nurse by my bedside keeping an eye on me, doesn`t get any better does it? :D

Haven`t read any posts please forgive me for being AWOL certainly not intended, the last AZ knocked me for
six but levels back up now, this morning 9.7 have to stay high for a while to recover from lows. Hope you are all
coping the best you can?

Take care stay safe, treat yourselves whenever you can, love to all of you. Ted🙂
 
Evening all. Forgot what I was now, it's a long time since morning, 7 something anyways. 🙂
 
03:42 BS 5.9 🙂 Feeling much better after a marathon sleep & more or less back to normal, well pre vaccine anyway!🙄

Already had breakfast of mushrooms, prawns scrambled with eggs & a cuppa. 😛

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
 
A 5.7 at 05:45. We’re off to spend the day with my sister in law, & husband, in Ballymoney. The plan is to go into Coleraine for lunch. It’s a lovely little town, population 24,000, in Co Londonderry.
 
Good morning
woke today to a relieving 5.5

following a shocking 16 ! OMG (before bed)

A before bed SIXTEEN last night was shockingly high
glad I’m testing and understanding what’s going on these days (most of the time)

the culprit was a Donor Kebab for dinner (it was delicious)
but obviously carb rich and came in folded naan
and swimming in chilli sauce which I dare say was high in sugar.

But hey, before I finally cracked how to get my levels under control (just under a year ago)
back then I rare ly even tested, and when I occasionally did, saw those kind of numbers
on a regular basis (rarely even in single figures)

Tomorrow (the 6th of June) will be the first anniversary of my Mothers passing
I’m starting to upset myself now thinking about her,
Mums passing was one of the contributing factors in me finally turning things around.

2020 and the start of 2021 has been a traumatic time,

but really I’m so glad I finally started to control the diabetes,
before the diabetes was definitely controlled me.
6am now time for me to go and make myself make a cup of Tea
before I bore my fellow finger prickers any more.

Have a Great Weekend Everyone !
 
ColinUK said:
Haven’t done one of these in a while.
Not intending to go back to daily checks just yet as there’s not quite enough brain space to do that but it’s good to see this this morning even if my weight has gone back up. View attachment 17250
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Great to see you back on here @ColinUK
 
goodybags said:
the culprit was a Donor Kebab for dinner (it was delicious)
but obviously carb rich and came in folded naan
and swimming in chilli sauce which I dare say was high in sugar.
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I’m salivating at 6:30 in the morning. I’d never come across a doner kebab in naan until coming to Northern Ireland and thought it was a travesty - until I tried one. I’ve not succumbed though since my diagnosis but might do so in the not too distant future.
 
HenryBennett said:
I’m salivating at 6:30 in the morning. I’d never come across a doner kebab in naan until coming to Northern Ireland and thought it was a travesty - until I tried one. I’ve not succumbed though since my diagnosis but might do so in the not too distant future.
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hope you don’t get hooked on them and blame me then ...lol
 
Good morning from a sunny Lytham. The beach calls ...

5.1 for me this morning
 
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Goodness, lots to comment on today.
@KARNAK sorry to hear you’ve been bothering those nurses again Ted. Hope you’re feeling better soon x
@freesia glad you’ve had a nice few days away, you deserved it x
@Michael12421 oops, not a good figure, hope you get that up quick x
@HenryBennett have a lovely day out x
Glad your feeling better @Lanny x
@goodybags I hope you manage to get through today ok. I’m sure your mum would have been very proud of what you have achieved over this last year. Hugs to you x
7.3 for me today, busy busy yesterday and the treadmill stayed in the corner. Youngest grandson had a sleepover. Going to an archeological dig this morning that is happening just round the corner from us. Out for out first meal tonight, so excited, but my reading tomorrow won’t be good.
Have a great day all x
 
Just a whisker away today - 5.1. 🙂

Dez
 
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