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Group 7-day waking average?

6.1 this morning. Reset my target to 6.1, due to changes in medication, and well done Humphrey for listening.

I hope that your Mum sees the good in the home you visit @New-journey
Well dine @merrymunky , another day below 10.

Cold and wet today here. A good day to sort out stuff.
Enjoy whatever you do.
 
Morning

8.9 on waking, 2 Lifts, half an hour later in the 5's and heading down, 3 more Lifts, half an hour later lower 5's and still heading down, 2 more Lifts, half an hour later come breakfast 5.5 and stable but had another 2 Lifts

No idea what's going on, woke higher yesterday and stayed in the 11's despite a half unit extra with breakfast and dinner, come tea time I was 11.4 so I took 2.5u and an hour and a half later my Libre alarmed me that I was heading down, finger prick said 5.3 at the time but took 3 Lifts on anyway as was a helluva cliff dive!
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Good morning everyone 🙂

7:24am - 4.3 - for me this morning - 19 units of tresiba taken - BGL is low but at least it's not hypo
23:44pm - 6.2 - bedtime but even though BGL was below 8mmol couldn't be bothered getting a snack - maybe I should've done
23:19pm - 3.4 - bedtime - had 3 jelly babies to treat hypo - also after eating out tonight - test was nearly 3 hours after taking humalog which was taken after eating my meal out which was mediterranean meats, mushrooms in garlic butter and 1/2 margherita pizza
 
merrymunky said:
Morning all I’ve woken to an 8.6 which is much improved. Hope it’s not just a one off.
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Sure it will be the first of many, your doing something right, it will always be up and down but it's the trend over time that matters so don't get P***ed off if it goes up a little look at the bigger picture.
 
09:14 BS 9.3 Uhm! :confused: A so, so smile for a slightly lower reading than yesterday!

Overall yesterday was indeed better controlled with 5.1 before breakfast, oops overdid the DP busting dose a wee bit there, 6.8 before lunch & 7.1 before bed which I left uncorrected as 7 was actually what I’ve been aiming for when correcting before bed the last few days. So, I’m off by about 2mmol still & I’ll try moving the goalpost down to 6 tonight for my aim for corrections if there are any! Whacked down the DP busting dose by -2 from yesterday & see where that leaves me before I eat breakfast: which will be about lunchtime before I eat; same as yesterday! 🙄

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
 
5.4 for me this morning but only because I injected 2 units earlier to correct the double figures I had been in all night despite stacking 2x2 unit corrections an hour apart before bed dodgy I know but clearly not enoughas it turned out!

Just had a weird day yesterday when I dropped low multiple times and some of them were quite aggressive drops with vertical downward arrows. Had my dinner just after 6pm... half a baked potato with chilli and lots of salad. Bolused after eating because of all the hypos earlier and I needed a jelly baby just before eating my dinner as I was at 4.3 and dropping. Bolused 3 units which I thought was conservative but dropped again a couple of hours later. Had more hypo treatment and then 2 unbolused scoops of rum and raisin ice cream (approx. 22gcarbs) to get me safely home (45 min drive). 10.8 when I got home so jabbed 2 units (to counteract the ice cream) and sorted animals for the night. Cut my basal by 2.5 units due to all the daytime hypos and increased exercise. Scanned as I got into bed and I was 12.9 and rising so had 2 more units. Didn't drop into single figures all night. Can only assume my body was wringing every last drop of glucose out of the kidney beans from the chilli and breaking down the protein from the beef as well. I seem to be a very efficient glucose extraction machine!! Can't understand how some of you guys can have 4 cream crackers at bedtime or a couple of digestive biscuits and not end up in double figures!

@Hazel. Good to see you are living up to expectation. Congrats on another HS!

@merrymunky I think we can safely say that there is a clear downward trend now, even if you have an occasional blip, you are heading in the right direction. Well done! I know it isn't easy, particularly when your food choices are so limited but keep at it girl. We are all rooting for your success.

@FRANKIE2020 Sounds lovely.... a feature wall in teal and gold and then the rest neutral to highlight it. Any chance we see a photo?
 
5.7 for me this morning, with a very stuffy nose, pleased to report no more fainting fits, however still the nauseous and dizzy spells, going to go on e-consult with the docs later as done another home Covid test which is negative, blood pressure was almost perfect at 125/77.

@Hazel - congratulations on your HS.

@merrymunky - numbers are coming down nicely.

A very dull and dark day here in my part of Essex, going to try going for a run and yoga session later.

Have a nice day everyone.
 
rebrascora said:
Can't understand how some of you guys can have 4 cream crackers at bedtime or a couple of digestive biscuits and not end up in double figures!
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Perhaps it’s just me that finds that works OR is it my pancreas is still chucking out some insulin?
I mainly use digestive biscuits before swimming which is hard exercise so that body is loaded.
Nearly got it wrong this morning as pre breakfast ( of porridge banana and coffee. (39 carbs or 178 cal) BG was 5.5.
Did my 4 km walk at a pace of 11:00 min/ km and tested BG 4.5. So now had 3 cream crackers to get me through to lunch. 45 mins after that test it’s gone to 5.5, so should be okay.
 
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Oh dear! Today is going to be dicey as I am indeed more or less back to normal which means this morning still slightly increased LR dose is becoming a problem & I’m going too low! It was at 82 the last few days & thank goodness I’d decreased it to 80 yesterday & that’s what I stuck in earlier. I’ll go back to my usual 78 with the next dose in tonight & just have to be ultra conservative with NR doses when I eat until then. Despite lowering the DP busting dose earlier by the time I was about to eat breakfast it was 11:26 BS 4.6 so, drank raspberry cordial first then had breakfast & only injected NR after eating & went all the way back down to 28 units, for safety, when the normal is 34: last few days was 84; hopping on my toes until tonight when usual 78 units of LR goes in but, should be back to normal tomorrow albeit, maybe still higher than target range for the waking reading! o_O but, not too upset as it’s a good sign that I’m back to normal!🙂
 
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Happy Monday folks!
Went to bed on a 6.5 and woke to a 6.1. Numbers on the decline thank goodness after a spell of self indulgences!
Beautiful sunny day here and hope its the same for y'all too.
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Lanny said:
@DuncanLord it’s because we’re on insulin & can’t be too low before sleeping & may need to bring levels back up a bit so, we don’t wake up too low & hypo.
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You are probably correct. Even though I’m Type 1 I am still taking the Humulin M3 twice a day along with the Metformin. So it’s balance the food to the insulin and exercise rather than balancing the insulin to the food. Guesstimate and test to see what works. Then try and apply same principles again and hope ‘The Diabetes Fairy’ waves her wand correctly.
 
A 5.5 for me at 06:07 this morning following on from an identical score yesterday and a 5.1 on Saturday
 
A Children’s Bedtime Story.

Once upon a time, in the land of Diabetes, there lived two different characters who wished to reign on the throne.
The first was an evil person, ‘The Diabetes Witch’, whose main aim was to upset all the blood sugar readings, of the people living in the Land of Diabetes.
The second, a person who could see no evil and wanted to make the good people of Diabetes Land have an easy life. She was ‘The Diabetes Fairy’. With a wave of her magic wand, she could get the Glucose readings throughout the day and night to balance correctly.
‘The Diabetes Witch’ and ‘The Diabetes Fairy’ were not friends. In fact they were sworn enemies.

To be continued……..
 
Robin said:
Morning all, 5.6 at 6.30am, back to sleep for an hour, 6.5 just now. Rained here overnight, we did need it, and better at night but I hope it knows when to stop.
Edit. Now 8.6 at 8am. Dawn has certainly arrived with a vengeance this morning.
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How frustrating @Robin!
 
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