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Group 7-day waking average?

6.6 for me this morning which is an absolute miracle considering the day I had yesterday.

I had a really bad day mentally and felt the extreme urge to comfort eat. I tried some of my usual low carb foods but not having been shopping for weeks I was running very low on those..... and maybe just the thought of having no dark chocolate or cream for my coffee or cheese or peanut butter or pork scratchings or olives in the house tipped me over the edge! I tried eating veg out of the garden with some high meat content sausages but I continues to get more agitated, Kept jabbing insulin and eating anything. I hit the jar of stuck together boiled sweets that have been lying forgotten for years (I don't really like boiled sweets) and even had a coffee with a spoon of real brown sugar because I was so desperate for some comfort. Went for a walk and promptly hypoed but once I ate hypo treatment I just wanted more and more and I was running low so got more agitated. Had a meeting to go to last night which Ian had to drive (my car) to because I had hypoed twice and totally lost track of insulin on board. Got him to stop on the way and bought 2 packs of sandwiches (chicken salad and BLT even though I really wanted 2 large bars of Dairy Milk) from a shop we passed and ate them both before we got to the venue (didn't enjoy them but just wanted to feel full and have the craving stop..... and of course loads of insulin to deal with them but without enough prebolus time. Had a double rum and coke to try to settle me when we got there. Won a box of jelly babies in the raffle after the meeting which was just what I needed as I was completely out of JBs and should have bought some in the shop when I got the sandwiches but completely forgot with my addled mind, but then just wanted to scoff them of course. Managed to limit it to just 1 but still craving when I got home. Cooked some courgettes (garden glut) and ate those at 11pm and had some port and an options hot chocolate and just kept injecting insulin to try to keep levels from hitting the roof. 14.3 when I went to bed and stacked corrections of unknown amount on board and I increased my basal by 2 units last night to help the corrections out.
.... So that is why waking on 6.6 is a miracle this morning! .... Actually just waking up is pretty impressive! 😱 Hopefully today will be a better one. Need to go shopping and probably just the knowledge that I have low carb comfort foods in the house and being able to have a daily treat will prevent another such day,.... at least for a long time to come. 🙄

@MikeyBikey So sorry you had a fall but well done getting yourself righted again.

@MeeTooTeeTwo Congrats on yet another HS Dez.
 
And it is a 5.2 for me today after a 6.2 at bedtime yesterday.
 
Morning

12.5 for me, getting rather stressed at the moment

Quote for the carpets yesterday, £1,599 😱, they were supposed to be starting Monday but Bruce got a call yesterday while he was up at the new house taking the staples and pins out the floorboards, sweeping the floors and hoovering round the grippers to say they could start it this afternoon (delay in carpets for his other jobs so feel sorry for those folk but considering his diary was fully booked up until 7th September we're lucky he was trying to fit us in round those jobs anyway), Bruce still has nails to take out the stairs today and secure a few more floorboards

Now the bed, does anyone know of a relatively cheap site that allows you to choose a delivery date? Bruce has no holidays left so we're stuck! xx
 
Hi all. The sun has got his hat on again today after a totally miserable day yesterday with constant drizzle.

5.3 this morning. I confess to have eaten a fair few JBs overnight and this morning, but that's hardly surprising after yesterday's concentrated shopping outing. We went out at 12:30 and didn't get home until 7pm having visited half a dozen clothes shops and no less than 3 supermarkets! Why has it suddenly become almost impossible to buy watermelon and dripping? Need both for the weekend for recipes (not together in the same recipe!).

Congratulations @MeeTooTeeTwo, @Barrowman and @khskel on your HSs.

Glad you got a quieter night @Robin

Lots of people seem to have gone AWOL recently...
 
Bloden said:
Night-time roadworks @Robin? Bit much, isn't it?
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Glad you got a quieter night @Robin
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According to my son, who is staying with us for a few days and never goes to bed early, and from comments on our village forum, the noise went on til gone midnight last night. I was obviously so tired (or so deaf) I managed to sleep through it!
They haven’t really got any option, if they did it during the day, to close the whole crossroads would mean lorries trying to access the centre via the tiny roads, and probably getting stuck! They’ve always managed with 4 way traffic lights before, but they need to do a really big reconfiguration to slow traffic and make it safer for pedestrians, so short term pain for long term gain.
 
G'day all. Really pleased with bg's this week. The low carb is working.
Sat 6.1 Sun-6.4 Mon-6.5 Tue 6.5 Wed 5.8 Thu 5.8 Fri 6.3 🙂
Have a good day all, what's left of it.
@rebrascora I felt quite anxious reading your post, that sounds like a nightmare. Hope you're feeling okay now. :(
 
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G'day all. Really pleased with bg's this week. The low carb is working.
Sat 6.1 Sun-6.4 Mon-6.5 Tue 6.5 Wed 5.8 Thu 5.8 Fri 6.3 🙂
Have a good day all, what's left of it.
@rebrascora I felt quite anxious reading your post, that sounds like a nightmare. Hope you're feeling okay now. :(
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Jan I am absolutely delighted to see you getting such brilliant results. I hope you are not finding it too challenging.

I think you will probably understand that urge to just eat and keep eating. I very rarely suffer those cravings since starting to eat low carb but I have gone off-piste (or should I say on carb 🙄 ) with my diet a bit too much recently and it is taking it's toll by triggering the cravings. I really tried to do all the right things yesterday but just wanted to eat all day and I was really quite radgey with it (Hangry I suppose) Rascal was very nearly at risk as I was getting to the stage of eating a scabby horse..... not that he is scabby but there will be a good few prime steaks on his backside!... Just kidding of course :D

Anyway I am not great today but definitely better than yesterday and hopefully that will continue into tomorrow. I have my HbA1c blood test in the morning but I had a fortnight of hypos with that hot weather so hopefully they will offset any indiscretions the last few days. 😉 It will be just the thing if I get my lowest ever HbA1c result after I have been naughty. And currently taking a break from Libre so there is no official record of my naughtiness😳😎
 
18:36 BS 8.0

A VERY late, hope you had a Wonderful Day, from me greeting for just being SO off kilter today! 😉

Why? Oh beware of the double edged sword of Dr. google! 🙄

I googled “talking in my sleep” as I was thinking about how my mum did it a lot & the things she said about me in her sleep would always hurt me as they were things she never said when awake! I talk in my sleep too but, only when under stress, that’s heightened with lack of sleep, & I’m always aware of doing it but, can’t stop myself from doing so as soon as I slip into sleep! Travelling with my late mum, & dad of course, the last few years before she passed in 2015 was always stressful & sleeping in the same hotel room with mum I knew she would hear me when I talked in my sleep, letting go of all that stress that travelling with them, all that “watching a tennis ball” back & forth attention needed to take care of their needs as they were like children wanting things NOW! would spew from me as soon as I slipped into sleep! I didn’t want to hurt mum by what I said in my sleep so, always talked in English: she didn’t have that choice & I KNEW she wouldn’t hurt me either IF she had a choice over that uncontrollable impulse!

Well, google said it CAN be a sign of mental disorder but, not something to worry about if it’s only during times of stress occasionally!

BUT, a load of entries about apnoea also, came up in answer to my query & THAT seriously opened my eyes to a risk I never knew was there before which is now in the back of my mind making me a bit afraid to sleep! So, I haven’t done much of it last night, which wiped me out like a zombie for most of today: awake; not fully functioning!

Apnoea left untreated can shorten your life by 10 to 15 years & I had it constantly, every time I slept, for about 25 years of my life when I thought my sleep was normal: was only when GP asked how I’d been sleeping; I said as usual, waking up briefly every 3 hours or so! To my surprise, was told “That’s NOT normal”! I was waking up because I’d stopped breathing! So, I had a nose op to correct that in the mid 1990’s, I can’t remember when, & I’ve slept the whole night through, mostly, afterwards: always had nose bleeds every day when my nose would get bunged up with a cold; didn’t get any after the op as I didn’t need to blow so hard or constantly with a cold! Ghish! 😱 Couldn’t do ANYTHING about those 25 years of apnoea & if/how many years of my life were lost!

BUT, reading the next bit gave me a “jump”! There’s about a 19% chance of the heart stopping as well: mostly likely fatal; instant CPR would be needed!

I never knew of that “ticking time bomb” & now I KNOW!

I’ll get over eventually: but, right now; I’m afraid to sleep!

I AM going through a bout of apnoea these days while fighting of, whatever it is, & I always know because my heart rate is very fast when I wake up: breathing had stopped & just restarted!

I know I need to sleep but, I suppose I need to get over the shock & the fear first!

Dr. google can cut both ways: beware!
 
06:00 BS 7.6

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

Well, I HAD to sleep eventually & glad to “wake up”, heart racing but, that can’t be helped as my sleep has been like that these last 2 weeks! 🙄 It IS getting better & the inflammation, still waxing & waning a bit daily, is overall slowly going down!🙂 I need to continue to get as much rest as possible: it’s a marathon; not a sprint!🙄 & a wry🙂 No point in worrying about things I can’t control!
 
Good morning everyone.

BG another tease at 5.1

BP 118/76
Pulse again lower at 56 (must be the increased exercise turning me into an olympic athlete 🙂 )

Had fish and chips for tea last night. A real treat. Hadn't had that in a long time. I enjoyed it. My wife, predictably, complained...too greasy. Hmmm. I thought it was just right. Each to his (or her) own I guess.

Today looks a LOT cooler. I may even have to wear a coat on my morning walk.

I really like the newest update to my App where it will recommend suitable supplements based on the meals planned for the day (but gives me a visual double check of the relevant data). Makes my life so much easier and safer too (no vitamin or mineral accidental excesses or deficiencies)

Not much to do today. Perhaps look at the sink drain pipe as my wife managed to drop a chop stick down it!!! That took some skill !

Have a great day today whatever you are doing
 
Morning all. 6.4 at 5.38. Got up for the loo and there was a magnificent sunrise. Dashed downstairs for my camera and fired off a couple of shots. Felt awake so stayed up.

Nowhere to go and no one to see today. Absolute bliss. Been a very busy week, I feel like I need another couple of nights away again! Looked in my diary and we have two spare days to ourselves next week, maybe best not.😉 I’ll settle for a walk somewhere nice instead.

Just boring stuff today, I like boring sometimes, already got a chicken stock on for the chicken, leek and ham pie for tomorrow’s tea, will make a ragu later for spaghetti Bolognaise for tonight’s tea, and need to sort our bedroom out, stuff lying around from our mini break ( shoes, bags etc) and it needs a good hoovering. Navy blue shag pile rugs really do show everything. They’ll be as bad tomorrow! Got cat feeding and greenhouse watering duty later for my neighbours who are off to Devon for a week. Still busy even on a “day off”. 🙄

Have a great day, after the great sunrise it’s very dull and drizzly here, but I’d rather that than 30 degree heat any day. 🙂
 

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Morning all. 4.8 on libre but 9.4 on fingerprick. Guess who did a correction at bedtime, bumped the libre alarm up to 5 in case they were too aggressive with it and then slept on their sensor :rofl:

Todays plans are to potter about the house and do what I can. I'm so behind on house stuff. The mind is willing but the body isn't 😉
 
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Well I am still struggling with my levels. Needed a 2 unit correction at 8.15pm for a 9.4 and then high again at bedtime with 12.3. Hit it with another 3 correction units and 5 units of Levemir and slept soundly and woke up to this....
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Very happy with that!

Congrats to @Barrowman, @khskel and @MeeTooTeeTwo who were my fellow HS achievers yesterday I believe.

@Lanny So sorry to hear you are feeling so anxious about your health but pleased you managed to get some sleep and a reasonable waking reading this morning. I think we all just have to appreciate every morning when we wake up and as you say, try not to worry about the stuff we have no control over.
 
Morning 8.6 woken up feel really sick this morning though.
 
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