Group 7-day waking average?

[Leadinglights]

Well it is a curates egg situation.
Bad news is that I have had no central heating all Winter I do have a log fire in the living room so keeping warm downstairs but the bathroom is too cold, showering is almost painful. I have put an oiled filled radiator in there on a timer but it is still not warm enough.
Good news is that I have a new TV, LG Nano and I have subscribed to Netflix as I have had no live channels for about 7 years. I am enjoying it but still having a few problems with navigation but getting there.
Other good news is that I finally have an appointment, on December 23rd, for them to look at another skin cancer I have on my face. More surgery and more scars, my face will resemble a map of the London underground!
Stll also problems with the new kitchen inasfar as no instructions for the new Bosch oven but once again am getting there on a trial and error basis.
Missy is fine, we are just back from our morning walk, very cold and very wet.

The village is now very festive, once all the decorations are lit up I will take some photo's and post them.
Thank you for asking

No central heating Brrrrrrr. You should be able to find the instruction manual for your oven on the internet.

 

[miguel81]

Bosch Spain are not replying. Bosch UK have been very helpful but this oven is not marketed in the UK and so they are unable to help further, but they did their best.

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Morning everyone 🙂

At 7:09am it was 5.6 and within my target for me - 15u tresiba taken.
23:26pm bedtime 4.9 below my target and below 7-8mmol for bedtime so had 1x 2 finger kit kat 13g of carbs and 2x rich tea biscuits 12g of carbs and no humalog.

Hope everybody has a good day 🙂

 

[ColinUK]

5.8 this morning.

 

[rebrascora]

Good day folks.

Did someone say we were going through a lean spell with House Specials at the moment.....

Ok, it was a little bit engineered by a 1 unit correction to counteract far too many mixed nuts that I ate before bed, but in the absence of any other attempts by anyone else at the magic number recently, I am going to claim it.

Currently waiting for the nurse to ring. I have 2 text messages, 1 saying it is a phone appointment sent weeks ago and then a reminder text yesterday giving me a time for the appointment of 10.10am today and underneath stressing that masks must be worn when attending the surgery.... I am hoping that it is a proforma text and not some misunderstanding that I was supposed to attend in person, but since I haven't a clue what she needs to contact me about, I am just sitting here with my phone in front of me waiting for it to ring.... and getting a bit anxious in the process now!

@Michael12421. Very concerned that you still don't have heating. Does that mean no hot water too or do you have an emersion heater? Pleased you have invested in an oil filled radiator to at least take the worst of the chill off the bathroom. I am guessing the bedroom must also be pretty cold too. Hope you have plenty of fuel in for the fire. Take care. It would be lovely to see a photo of the village Christmas lights.

 

[gll]

What is going on with me this week 11.6
I'm so up and down whereas a week ago I was hitting my 7-9 target most days.
Things that have changed this week:
time of the month (with pain that is waking me up)
daily 20mg furosemide (vs take when needed over the previous 2 weeks)

Have appointment on Friday for furosemide review / kidney function bloods so will discuss it further and meantime, be ultra vigilant with food.

Other than that, today I am waiting anxiously for news of my new baby nephew's arrival not sure what time the c-section is scheduled for.

 

[miguel81]

@Michael12421 are you able to Google your oven instructions? If not, if you post the model number I could send you screenshots or post them to you in the mail? Hope you get your heating sorted soon.

Good day folks.

cess now!

@Michael12421. Very concerned that you still don't have heating. Does that mean no hot water too or do you have an emersion heater? Pleased you have invested in an oil filled radiator to at least take the worst of the chill off the bathroom. I am guessing the bedroom must also be pretty cold too. Hope you have plenty of fuel in for the fire. Take care. It would be lovely to see a photo of the village Christmas lights.

Thank you - I have plenty of hot water it's just the central heating does not work. It's perhaps the thermomstat, the receiver or the pump that is at fault. My normal plumber is about as useful as a chocolate teapot and is now sacked. Now is the olive harvest and most people are engaged in that so are not available. The harvest is very poor this year and so a hike in olive oil prices is on the cards. THe bedroom is also cold but I don't mind that as I dislike an overly warm bedroom and it doesn't take long with me and Missy under the duvet to warm up.

 

[miguel81]

@Michael12421 are you able to Google your oven instructions? If not, if you post the model number I could send you screenshots or post them to you in the mail? Hope you get your heating sorted soon.

Thank you but as the oven is not sold in the UK then it is highly unlikely that you will find any information. It wass kind of you to offer.

 

[SueEK]

Well it is a curates egg situation.
Bad news is that I have had no central heating all Winter I do have a log fire in the living room so keeping warm downstairs but the bathroom is too cold, showering is almost painful. I have put an oiled filled radiator in there on a timer but it is still not warm enough.
Good news is that I have a new TV, LG Nano and I have subscribed to Netflix as I have had no live channels for about 7 years. I am enjoying it but still having a few problems with navigation but getting there.
Other good news is that I finally have an appointment, on December 23rd, for them to look at another skin cancer I have on my face. More surgery and more scars, my face will resemble a map of the London underground!
Stll also problems with the new kitchen inasfar as no instructions for the new Bosch oven but once again am getting there on a trial and error basis.
Missy is fine, we are just back from our morning walk, very cold and very wet.

The village is now very festive, once all the decorations are lit up I will take some photo's and post them.
Thank you for asking

Hi Michael, thanks for your reply, I miss the goings on in your life and village but perhaps I’m just nosey!! Glad you have a warm fire downstairs but oooh a cold bathroom is the worst.
Good to hear you have a new TV, to be honest even with instructions it can be a minefield lol.
I totally understand what you are saying about your face, I have had two skin cancers removed from my nose so it has its very own map in the middle of my face - make up helps haha. Hope your appointment goes well, let us know how you get on.
Glad to hear Missy is well, my Misty is now 11 and a little bit stiff, still won’t go out, only first thing in the dark with my husband but she is fine - just a bit weird.
Look forward to seeing your photos of the village.
Take good care and keep warm xx

 

[SueEK]

@Kaylz glad it’s sorted.. I know the frustration of the chemist getting it all wrong. Fingers crossed the next lot comes correctly.

@SueEK forgive me, not sure what your tests were for, but did they give you a chance to tell them it only happens when you are moving?

Yes they did but it was only the actual scientific radiographer rather than a member of my surgeons clinical team. Because I am under a specialist team in London, obviously they only concentrate on the most complex cases and the video urodynamics I had done this time were very different to the ones I had done 23 years ago. Then they had me doing star jumps, running on the spot etc which is what I was expecting and that would definitely have shown up the problems I am having. I am just worried that they will not do the next op as they won’t consider the problem bad enough - believe me it is. Perhaps I’m just panicking but I don’t think so. I may give his clinical nurse who is a darling a ring before my next telephone appointment. Can’t live like this forever that’s for sure xx

 

[MeeTooTeeTo]

Well done @rebrascora on the 5.2. 🙂
They are scarce these days, mine seem to have drifted to pre-lunch tests. 😛

 

[SueEK]

Ooh get you @rebrascora it was me mentioning the lack of HS’s so big shiny medal to you today lol x

 

[Lanny]

11:04 BS 8.3 for sleeping in SO late today! 🙄

A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

Well, the wind & the rain have almost gone, just a little bit of a rustling of trees, at last & the drainage pipes are flooded at my front door AGAIN! 😱 Yesterday was a duvet day cuddling a hot water bottle while watching online old episodes of the 90’s, 1993, of Lois & Clark The New Adventures of Superman starring my favourite ever man of steel Dean Cain & Terri Hatcher before her Desperate Housewives role!😛 Wow! Back in the early 90’s with no Windows ‘95 & the black screens with a green font on PC computers, Apple Mackintosh were the only OS with windows & icons from the ‘84 until the 1st Windows ‘95, & very chunky beginnings of mobile phones, remember seeing a comedy sketch were a guy carried around a huge phone that turned out to be a water bottle when he set it down too hard on the table & it leaked that’s how BIG those first mobiles were! 😱

It was a bit of nostalgia after watching Superman & Lois that made me want to rewatch Lois & Clark! 😛

 

[DuncanLord]

@Lily123 are you sure it’s your evening ratios and not your basal. Have you done an evening basal test at all? What were you before dinner and what did you eat? Did you bolus ahead or just when you ate?

My Basel level set by the DSN. As I don’t know the full workings of this.
What is an evening Basel test and how is it done?
If not to complicated I may try it for fun and see if it can be improved.

 

[DuncanLord]

Well done @rebrascora on your House Special!
It’s been a time since you had one but I suppose it helps now you have evicted the DF.

 

[PattiEvans]

Bosch Spain are not replying. Bosch UK have been very helpful but this oven is not marketed in the UK and so they are unable to help further, but they did their best.

Hi @Michael12421 if you can find the Spanish instructions you could edit/copy/paste them into Google Translate. I would offer to try as I used to speak very good Spanish, however it's a bit rusty these days and instructions probably have technical terms in them.

My Basel level set by the DSN. As I don’t know the full workings of this.
What is an evening Basel test and how is it done?
If not to complicated I may try it for fun and see if it can be improved.

@DuncanLord see instructions on basal testing below. You might find it useful to get "think like a Pancreas" by Gary Scheiner as it explains a lot about your body and about how insulin works, then you can adjust your own basals without waiting for the nurse to tell you what to do. I had a telephone consultation with my Consultant in the summer, I had not spoken to him prior to that for 2 years. I mentioned that my afternoons were a bit askew and that I intended to tweak my basal insulin a bit. He actually said "you have my permission". I nearely laughed out loud.... if I waited for his permission every time I changed my basal I'd be in a rare mess!

@rebrascora Well done on the HS... big star to you!

 

[rebrascora]

He actually said "you have my permission". I nearely laughed out loud....

How condescending! (Fuming Emoji!!) I would need an appointment every few days/week if I needed my consultant's permission for basal changes. Shame you didn't put him right!

Hung around waiting with my phone to hand all morning and no call. Rang the surgery and got through second time after a not too long wait. Having explained my situation to the receptionist she was kind enough to explain that it is about statins.... I am guessing because this nurse has recently taken over the diabetes management at the practice and perhaps my records have flagged up that I am not on statins. I hope this is not a change in policy at the practice as they have been good so far about assessing individual risk rather than dishing them out like sweeties.
The practice have changed their online system from AskMyGP to eConsult since i last used it and the eConsult is absolute rubbish by comparison. Got totally frustrated trying to negotiate my way through it in order to leave a simple message for the nurse in question. Amazingly it doesn't even list diabetes as an existing condition that you can contact them about or even anything remotely linked unless you go for urinary problems! So annoyed with it that it makes me feel like I want to join their PRG! The practice has always been really good and approachable and the AskMyGP enabled pretty simple and quick access.
I selected weight loss in the end as being the least concerning and I have deliberately lost a bit of weight in recent months, but no option of "other" or not applicable.... and then I had to answer questions as to how long the weight loss had been going on and what I thought was causing it etc... when I really just want to leave a message for the nurse about statins! Rant over.
Still no phone call so hopefully she will get my eConsult message and understand it and that I am not actually worried about weight loss and that should resolve the situation. Grr! Box ticked on her part and no more mention of statins. Fingers crossed!

 

[Robin]

How condescending! (Fuming Emoji!!) I would need an appointment every few days/week if I needed my consultant's permission for basal changes. Shame you didn't put him right!

Hung around waiting with my phone to hand all morning and no call. Rang the surgery and got through second time after a not too long wait. Having explained my situation to the receptionist she was kind enough to explain that it is about statins.... I am guessing because this nurse has recently taken over the diabetes management at the practice and perhaps my records have flagged up that I am not on statins. I hope this is not a change in policy at the practice as they have been good so far about assessing individual risk rather than dishing them out like sweeties.
The practice have changed their online system from AskMyGP to eConsult since i last used it and the eConsult is absolute rubbish by comparison. Got totally frustrated trying to negotiate my way through it in order to leave a simple message for the nurse in question. Amazingly it doesn't even list diabetes as an existing condition that you can contact them about or even anything remotely linked unless you go for urinary problems! So annoyed with it that it makes me feel like I want to join their PRG! The practice has always been really good and approachable and the AskMyGP enabled pretty simple and quick access.
I selected weight loss in the end as being the least concerning and I have deliberately lost a bit of weight in recent months, but no option of "other" or not applicable.... and then I had to answer questions as to how long the weight loss had been going on and what I thought was causing it etc... when I really just want to leave a message for the nurse about statins! Rant over.
Still no phone call so hopefully she will get my eConsult message and understand it and that I am not actually worried about weight loss and that should resolve the situation. Grr! Box ticked on her part and no more mention of statins. Fingers crossed!

Right in the thick of the pandemic last year, when people were wringing their hands about all the cancer cases being missed etc because people weren’t able to see their doctors, my actual Named GP rang me out of the blue, and said ‘We’ve been going through the records while we’ve got this lull, and I see you’re not on a statin, I think you ought to consider it.' (Even though it’s marked on my records that I got SEs after trying a couple of different ones, and my ratio is very good) She then gave me the hard sell, then told me to go away and research it and let her know my decision, saying 'Have a look on Diabetes.co.u.k., that’s very good…' A sharp intake of breath from me, and I think I spluttered 'I find Diabetes U.K. more helpful' (though I actually did go onto the red site to see what it said, and it’s very anti statin, in fact).

 

[rebrascora]

Well I just managed to speak to the nurse. Had a lovely chat with her and got Blood Ketone strips sorted onto my repeat prescription but I think she now knows my view on statins now. I am not averse to them as such but just the way in which they are prescribed so freely.
What really irks me is that she tells me my risk score is 14% but the only thing that makes it that high, bearing in mind that I am a normal BMI, is my age, being female and my diabetes...... But as a result of my diabetes diagnosis, I am fitter and healthier and slimmer than I was pre-diagnosis, when my cholesterol levels were also higher. At 4.5 I feel that my cholesterol is in a healthy range for a non diabetic person so it makes me resentful towards my diabetes for supposedly changing that when I really don't feel it is warranted. If I was overweight and not fit and my diabetes was poorly managed I could accept that risk assessment but the diabetes diagnosis is heavily weighted and I can only assume that is based on results of people with diabetes suffering cardiovascular issues. I don't feel it is appropriate to lump all diabetics into the same stats as I know that there are plenty of diabetics who are overweight and don't moderate their diet or do exercise or manage their diabetes well.

Sorry for a second rant!! Sadly she says that we will need to have this conversation each year from now on!
I should say that the tone of our conversation was light hearted as I know she is just doing her job and I am ranting here rather than at her as she is lovely. I do understand that it is the system but just disappointed that up till now my HCPs have actually said that I didn't need statins and now when my cholesterol levels have actually improved, they are saying that I should take them and to me refusing makes it look like I am rejecting their professional advice.... which of course I am but it feels uncomfortable, rude even. Might have a conversation with the consultant about it.... adding that to my list of topics for next appointment!

 

[Kaylz]

@rebrascora if you use the "ask about common problems like coughs, back problems or mental health" section there is an option "can't find your health condition?" request general advice, if that's the route you took and still ran into all that then I do apologise, I've only used eConsult twice xx