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Group 7-day waking average?

Good, well nearly afternoon for me, morning.

Not keen on winter, but just absolutely love Christmas.

BG 4.8 again. That's 3 times in a row. Twice yesterday and once this morning. I wonder if my meter has got stuck. A good number to get stuck on though.

Pizza tonight. Well, a tiny portion of one.

Weight down a fraction. Phew. I was worried that I had started a terrible non-stop upward trend.

One great thing about self isolation (day 7) is that I can't hear any of the constantly repeated old twee Christmas pop songs in the shops. Love their decorations though. I shall miss those. Hopefully I will be ok to get out again before Christmas (with ear plugs)

Have a great day today whatever you are doing.
 
5.9 for me today. but was 5.2 when going to bed last night doses this count HaHa I don’t think so .hope you all have a lovely day and stay warm x
 
Morning all. 8.6 this morning. Much better than the 15s I was seeing a couple of weeks ago! Still a long way to go yet. Hope everyone is ok
 
First off ....
@Lanny VERY HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY!
Hope you have a fab day. You have obviously had a good start to it eating Mr Kipling and watching Strictly....
I will have to look on You Tube for John and Johannes DA DA Da DAH routine! It sounds like something I will enjoy. Very dramatic I imagine!

Unfortunately I woke in the red again at 5.38am. Libre said 2.4 but finger prick was a little less naughty at 3.4. Red line on Libre is about 2 hours long though. 😱. Not sure what else I can do about it as I didn't have any insulin at all last night and went to bed on 11.1 (again!) with an upward sloping arrow and cheese and peanut butter on board. Last insulin was a correction with Fiasp at 1.30pm. The 22 units of Levemir I had at 6am yesterday were struggling to hold me steady through the day so I can't really reduce that and I have come to the conclusion it is down to ambient temp and body temp and exercise. When I start to feel cold and shiver particularly when sitting still, my BG levels go up and I need a correction. When I go out and exercise they hold steady or need a slight carb top up. When I am all warm and cosy in bed through the night they drop. Although the house is not cold, I am resisting turning the storage heaters up to what might be a more comfortable temp. When I come in on a night, I start to feel cold and shivery quite quickly (even though I was absolutely fine whilst I was out walking in the freezing cold and I just want to climb into bed with a hot water bottle rather than cook something to eat.
Going to try doing most of my exercise in the morning today and maybe cook at lunchtime. The last couple of days I have happily lived off breakfast (yoghurt berries and seeds) and some cheese and peanut butter the rest of the day and doing quite intensive work, but I need to have a proper meal today with plenty of veggies. Quite happy about shedding the bit of weight I put on in the Spring though :D
Looking back through my records, I have had a similar period of nocturnal hypos the last 2 years at this time of year and it does pass, so I am guessing it is just a phase my body goes through with the changing of the seasons, the temperature change and my routine with the horses. Libre stats are shot again though with 11% below target for last 7 days o_O
 
Morning all. I won’t say good as it isn’t really is it after last night’s Covid update. 7.6 today, a tad higher than I’d like but we had emergency sleepover guests and had an Indian takeaway. Tough to bolus for.

Back to our guests, it’s the farmers’ children. Their power went off 8pm Friday. It’s still off this morning, just had message from daughter. The house is freezing, no hot water, no cooking facilities ( no mains gas where they are.) Just a log burner to heat a big, draughty farmhouse. At least the kids can have a hot meal and a bath before returning home later on. Fingers crossed the power is restored soon. Lots of trees down in the area, very remote too. At least daughter and hubby can charge their phones in their pickup whilst they’re driving about sorting the sheep out today. We had no contact from Friday night until yesterday afternoon.

So, I’m on full on Grandma duty today, don’t know when I’ll get to catch up with Strictly before tonight’s results show. #firstworldproblems

Have a your best day. 🙂
Happy birthday @Lanny just a slip of a lass. If we lived in South America I could probably be your mother! :D
 
Gwynn said:
Good, well nearly afternoon for me, morning.

Not keen on winter, but just absolutely love Christmas.

BG 4.8 again. That's 3 times in a row. Twice yesterday and once this morning. I wonder if my meter has got stuck. A good number to get stuck on though.

Pizza tonight. Well, a tiny portion of one.

Weight down a fraction. Phew. I was worried that I had started a terrible non-stop upward trend.

One great thing about self isolation (day 7) is that I can't hear any of the constantly repeated old twee Christmas pop songs in the shops. Love their decorations though. I shall miss those. Hopefully I will be ok to get out again before Christmas (with ear plugs)

Have a great day today whatever you are doing.
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Musac in shops and malls wherever you go is one of my pet hates. It is always the screeching Mariah Carey types they love to put on, it just constantly grates on me with today's non-music. I think contemporary music stopped in the early 1990's. No melodies, no innovation, nothing since then that makes you sit up and listen and think wow, that's new.
Maybe I'm just an old fuddy duddy......
 
@Lanny Happy Birthday to you!!
 
rebrascora said:
First off ....
@Lanny VERY HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY!
Hope you have a fab day. You have obviously had a good start to it eating Mr Kipling and watching Strictly....
I will have to look on You Tube for John and Johannes DA DA Da DAH routine! It sounds like something I will enjoy. Very dramatic I imagine!

Unfortunately I woke in the red again at 5.38am. Libre said 2.4 but finger prick was a little less naughty at 3.4. Red line on Libre is about 2 hours long though. 😱. Not sure what else I can do about it as I didn't have any insulin at all last night and went to bed on 11.1 (again!) with an upward sloping arrow and cheese and peanut butter on board. Last insulin was a correction with Fiasp at 1.30pm. The 22 units of Levemir I had at 6am yesterday were struggling to hold me steady through the day so I can't really reduce that and I have come to the conclusion it is down to ambient temp and body temp and exercise. When I start to feel cold and shiver particularly when sitting still, my BG levels go up and I need a correction. When I go out and exercise they hold steady or need a slight carb top up. When I am all warm and cosy in bed through the night they drop. Although the house is not cold, I am resisting turning the storage heaters up to what might be a more comfortable temp. When I come in on a night, I start to feel cold and shivery quite quickly (even though I was absolutely fine whilst I was out walking in the freezing cold and I just want to climb into bed with a hot water bottle rather than cook something to eat.
Going to try doing most of my exercise in the morning today and maybe cook at lunchtime. The last couple of days I have happily lived off breakfast (yoghurt berries and seeds) and some cheese and peanut butter the rest of the day and doing quite intensive work, but I need to have a proper meal today with plenty of veggies. Quite happy about shedding the bit of weight I put on in the Spring though :D
Looking back through my records, I have had a similar period of nocturnal hypos the last 2 years at this time of year and it does pass, so I am guessing it is just a phase my body goes through with the changing of the seasons, the temperature change and my routine with the horses. Libre stats are shot again though with 11% below target for last 7 days o_O
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Uh! Starting the day with a hypo; NEVER nice! 😱

Thanks for the Birthday wishes & YES! do watch it on youtube: never heard The 5th played like that before either; very modern take on it by David Garrett who also did Ravel’s Bolero previously on Strictly! 😛

Edited to correct a mistake:- I meant that David Garrett also, did a modern take of Ravel’s Bolero for Dancing On Ice! 😳
 
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7.8 for me today, checked twice - once before and once after my morning exercises. Strange as I went out to a restaurant for dinner last night, just had a mixed grill and a (rare for me) cup of coffee after a pint of Doombar and an hour later I was only 6.7. Doesn't make any sense to me, like a lot of thing in today's mad world. Oh well got our little granddaughter for the day today, that should sort me out pdq!
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@Lanny Many happy returns for you...
 
@Lanny very Happy Birthday to you!
4.6 for me today.

Dez
 
I went out out last night. And was rewarded with a 5.7

I’d been thinking about going out out for a while and decided yesterday to dust off my dancing shoes, blow some cobwebs away and get out there amongst fellow gentlemen of the homosexualist persuasion.

Got home at 4am.

Only had two beers the entire duration of the evening and yet I’m wrecked this morning lol

How on Earth I used to do this umpteen times a week I don’t know! I even remember going to work for 6:30am after staying out all night and being fine. Then again that was in the 1990s so maybe Time and Age are a factor lol

All of this was of course in honour of your birthday @Lanny so I hope you appreciate the effort I went to in order to mark your birthday!

Can’t recall if I posted about Park Run yesterday or not but it was a real slog. Lots of mud and lots of hills. Still took 20sec off my previous time on this course even though I had to walk lots of the uphill bits!
 
Barfly said:
7.8 for me today, checked twice - once before and once after my morning exercises. Strange as I went out to a restaurant for dinner last night, just had a mixed grill and a (rare for me) cup of coffee after a pint of Doombar and an hour later I was only 6.7. Doesn't make any sense to me, like a lot of thing in today's mad world. Oh well got our little granddaughter for the day today, that should sort me out pdq!
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@Lanny Many happy returns for you...
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Most likely the lowering effects of alcohol? 🙄
 
Morning all, 4.0 here. I seem to have the same sort of thing going on @rebrascora. My Libre graph crawled along the top of the red most of last night, but at 3.30am I woke up feeling genuinely hypo, (Libre said 2.8, I doubt I was that low) so treated with 3 jelly babies, came up to 5.7 after 15 mins, so went back to sleep. Libre graph has me rising a bit more…then plummeting straight back down to the low 4s/high 3s again. I doubt the 2.5 units of bedtime Levemir could mop up 15g of glucose so quickly, so it must be that I can still produce a bit of endogenous insulin, hospital certainly commented that they thought I probably was because of my low background insulin needs.
Happy 50th birthday, @Lanny ! Glad the cake is going well!
 
Morning

9.4 today

Was -1C when I got up just after 5, it's now reached a whopping 0.3C xx
 
Robin said:
Morning all, 4.0 here. I seem to have the same sort of thing going on @rebrascora. My Libre graph crawled along the top of the red most of last night, but at 3.30am I woke up feeling genuinely hypo, (Libre said 2.8, I doubt I was that low) so treated with 3 jelly babies, came up to 5.7 after 15 mins, so went back to sleep. Libre graph has me rising a bit more…then plummeting straight back down to the low 4s/high 3s again. I doubt the 2.5 units of bedtime Levemir could mop up 15g of glucose so quickly, so it must be that I can still produce a bit of endogenous insulin, hospital certainly commented that they thought I probably was because of my low background insulin needs.
Happy 50th birthday, @Lanny ! Glad the cake is going well!
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I do wonder if maybe our bodies want our BG to be low during the night at this time of year for some reason. I have to say, I don't feel bad for it @Lanny, so don't worry about me.
My graph the night before last shows that it levelled off rather than dropping progressively lower and didn't like it when I corrected it with carbs because it dropped me again very quickly and then held me steady in the mid 3s for several hours afterwards. I know that is a dangerous thing to be complacent about hypos and I try not to be but it is entirely possible than non diabetic people experience this phenomenon and never even know about it, so I do wonder if sometimes we are fighting against nature due to the data Libre gives us as before Libre, we would likely be mostly unaware of it. I think it is of less concern when we don't have any appreciable insulin in our system to drop our levels dangerously low.
 
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