Group 7-day waking average?

[rebrascora]

Afternoon all!

Delighted to see you back @Pattidevans and lovely reading about your holiday.

Well, my morning looked to start off well with one of these...

But then I realised that I was starting a migraine (first since I went low carb 3.5 years ago..... I wonder if the last week of more carb rich foods and particularly that morning when I heavily overdosed Fiasp and had to consume vast amounts of sweet stuff is more than a coincidence that it happened now! Got some paracetamol/caffeine into me and covered my eyes and went back to bed. Unfortunately, that descending line on my graph continued to descend and despite a hypo treatment at some point this morning, I remained in the red for quite a long time.... Of course, my big daytime Levemir dose was just too much for lying in bed sleeping, although I would have thought the migraine would have inflated my levels. Anyway, I am pretty much clear of the migraine now and once I have finished my coffee, I have a lot of catching up to do outside.... in the rain!

Congrats to @Barrowman on also achieving a House Special this morning and good luck with your blood test.

@Gwynn I am also booked in for my Covid booster tomorrow (thank goodness it wasn't this morning as I could not have made it) so will be interested to compare notes. I had my flu last week and no effects from that whatsoever, not even a sore arm.

Well coffee is finished so I really haven't got an excuse to delay going out into the wet. Might be a wellies and over trousers day!

Oops! Just back from getting wet out there and see that I forgot to hit "Post reply" when I typed this earlier! Doh!

 

[Leadinglights]

Of course, our enforced clearing of the loft due to the leak generated lots of junk to get rid of. I was please to find the charity Emmaus take small working electrical goods as well as furniture and bric-a-brac, so we were able to get rid of it there.
It goes without saying that the contractor who installed the exterior insulation is denying all responsibility for the cut off/blocked overflow. I can see a fight on our hands. We may be able to claim on the house insurance if needed.
I was going to start clearing my summer pots in the garden, but it is raining heavily on the washing I put out.

 

[Bloden]

Morning all, 6.7 here.
Aargh! Plane tree pollen, @ColinUK . I had really bad hay fever in my teens, and when I went up to Uni in London, I though, yippee, hay fever's bound to be better in a city….then I discovered plane trees. I use to take something really effective, can’t remember the name now, but it got withdrawn.

Zirtec? Gave me the spinnies, shame cos it was excellent.

 

[Lucyr]

Hey all. Couldn't sleep all night so slept this morning and woken up by libre alarms again. 4.9. Feel like a zombie, have got spasms in my back and took some co-codamol last night which resulted in nausea all night and brain fog today. Busting out the deep heat instead.

Basal needs another tweak, I'm good all day with but dropping at night fairly consistently. Feeling a little nervous doing it without libre. I totally take my hats off you all you guys and gals who have done it for years without sensors.

Still heard nothing about sensors on script. We kinda left things mid appointment yesterday waiting for this answer so haven't discussed fingerprick testing regime for when this one runs out or if the answer is no.
Can anyone clue me in there (MDI carb counting)? I figured waking, brekkie, lunch dinner and bedtime but not sure about testing when having snacks requiring insulin?
Doubtful I will hear anything now at this late hour on a Friday from DSN.


Funny you mention this, I had a survey through yesterday via mydiabetesmyway with a form to fill out pertaining to our local health board and its digital service and what patients want (something to do with a 5 year plan).
There was a single line to answer questions so I busted out notepad and wrote huge massive paragraphs...good luck to the folks reading that without formatting, I might have asked for the moon and stars from them .

Anyway off to sort out some "brekkie", fotf has taken care of things without eating (7.5 now).

Fingerprick when the answer will make a difference to the dose you choose, when you feel I’ll, and before driving. So if you’d want to do a correction with the snack then test, but if you wouldn’t correct as it’s too close to previous insulin then no need to.

 

[Lucyr]

I’m a bit late but I was 6.3 this morning. Absolutely crushing headache tonight, can’t tell if they’ve got better or worse since I cut out all painkillers on dr advice to see if they’re medication overuse headaches since they’ve been daily for a while now. It may take a while to see if that helps or not.

 

[Robin]

Zirtec? Gave me the spinnies, shame cos it was excellent.

Zirtec is a branded Cetirizine, and still available, I think. The one I used was Terfenadine. It caused heart arrhythmias in some people, so was withdrawn. But as an antihistamine, it worked! I find loratidine does what I need it to, now my hayfever is less severe.

 

[Gwynn]

Good morning everyone.

BG 4.7
BP 119/79
pulse 60

Quite nervous this morning. I am going for flu and covid jabs at 10:30. I just hope that they don't make me feel ill.

Checking out the church sound system after that. Now that will be interesting.

Have a great day today whatever you are doing

 

[miguel81]

Good morning - 4.2

 

[Gwynn]

Good morning - 4.2

That BG level looks somewhat better this morning ! 🙂

 

[eggyg]

Morning all. Was hoping for a lie in but, alas, here I am. 6.9.

Today is all about final preparations for our holiday. Cleaning, packing and trying to figure out what to do with one egg, an onion, half a tub of Ardennes pâté and some tatties for our tea! I suppose I could pick a courgette, yes, they’re still growing, to add to the mix. It’ll be interesting.

Well done to yesterday’s HSers.
@Gwynn I had both my jabs last Saturday, felt a bit washed out the next day but still plodded on, my covid jab arm was a bit tender and achy, and itchy, but it only lasted a few days, flu jab no reaction at all. And now I’m protected once again, it’s worth it. Take two paracetamols ( if you can) before you go for them and maybe before bed.

See you all tomorrow, hopefully the rain will have stopped for my last few bits of washing to get dry and for Mr Eggy to cut the grass! Have a good day. 🙂

 

[harbottle]

I was 5.1 this morning! Although my readings have been a bit weird recently, very low, even after eating. Not sure if it’s the cold weather!

 

[MeeTooTeeTo]

WHITE RABBITS !!

And a 5.4 for me today!!

Dez

 

[Lanny]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! 😳 02:11 BS 12.8 😱 to which I gave a MASSIVE 52 NR for breakfast ramen & just tested now after active NR 06:33 BS 12.8😱😱😱 WHAT!!! No movement at all & must have been higher earlier! Correction of 18 NR just went in!😱

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

I’m feeling a bit frazzled! POOH! 😱

Yesterday was a bit strange in that I slept twice: got up just before 3pm as posted with waking 8.3 that got down to 7.0 before I ate around 5pm after test 16:52 with 44NR but, then fell asleep in the middle of watching ITT just after it had aired live, forgot about it, around 19:15 when started watching & probably 19:30 when I dropped off: after a few nods I closed the app on my iPad & called it a day; too tired to test at that point & wished I did now to see what happened after eating?

I suspect, with the change of weather & both the heating on now & my duvet replacing the quilt throw, that I need to increase both my basal & bolus insulin for winter now?

I went down a bit earlier this year, for the first time since covid struck with no seasonal insulin changes, from 88 Tresiba to 84 & NR doses down by 10 across the board. I definitely need NR increased & I’m pretty sure Tresiba needs going up as well! I know that needed 88 last winter but, will go up slowly with 86 Tresiba today & hold that for a week with a conservative increase of +4 NR across the board & see what happens before maybe going back up to 88 Tresiba & try the NR doses again for another week?

But, first need to get my BS back down & I’ll keep testing & adding corrections until I do! Sigh! It’s going to be tedious today! Only because there is no Sighing emoji!

Oh better stick a loquacious waffling warning here for those that want to skip the rest of this post! I won’t know! 🙄😉

One little note of interest, though in that after 10 years of the Chinese Mandarin film of Mulan 2009 sitting in my iTunes library since I last watched it BEFORE I knew any Mandarin, starting in 2015 watching Empresses in The Palace on netflix, I was completely dependant on the subtitles! I watched it in 2010 when it came to the critical acclaim here in the west & bought it on iTunes as, over the years, of the numerous tv & film productions of the myth & legend of General Hau Mulan I’ve seen this 2009 film was the best! 😛

I was watching the new series 4 of Rupauls Drag Race UK, just started with 2 episodes, & there’s another Chinese drag queen in this series, Le Fils! There’s a big stigma attached to this kind of thing in China & among the Chinese in general.

I discovered that there’s a blanket ban on cross dressing on Chinese tv EXCEPT for one thing: productions about Hau Mulan; despite it being more like a myth or legend it’s still an undeniable historical fact that one of China’s best army war generals was a woman who led her company of men in the battlefield for 12 years & only after she’d retired after peace did she say she was a woman! 😱😛😎

I found that out after reading the translated novel of AMA & also, that AMA was only allowed on tv because it was about a woman dressed as a man training in the army during the 70th anniversary of the PROC when it aired in 2019! 😱

I rewatched the 2009 Mulan film just now & I didn’t need the subtitles at all, not that you can even turn them off as they’re hot-wired as it were onto the film & I REALLY enjoyed it as I could hear almost every word of it: it sure made a BIG difference! 😛

I highly recommend the film as it’s SO much more than the all singing, all dancing Disney animation! 😛😎 The subtitles are excellent: it’s just that as with all translations the meaning & context are much more important for concise subtitles than what is actually said; I just enjoyed being able to HEAR now what’s actually said!😛

 

[Bloden]

Morning all. 5.9 here.

The dogs are allowed back on the (whole) beach this morning, yippee! So instead of “white rabbits” it’s “sandy dogs”!!!

Hope you don’t feel too unwell afterwards @Gwynn - I know lots of peeps who’ve had the double jab and haven’t suffered much, just a couple of sore arms.

 

[Robin]

Morning all, 4.8 here, about an hour ago. Expect I've gone up a bit, but I’m just waiting for the 60 minutes to tick down for a new sensor to start. Pleased with that result, though, as I had fish and chips last night which is always a bolus guessing game.

 

[Wannie]

Morning everyone 5.1 for me, and although its still wet from yesterday's rain the sun is trying to peep through the cloud here's hoping that its a bit warmer today.

 

[Ditto]

Morning all and wr wr wr. No reading as I'm staying over at daughters but I'm back online next week with any luck so I'm going to make a start being sensible and hopefully have better readings. I take my bg every morning and then ignore it whatever. I was at the docs yesterday as I've been in hell with a racing ticker, could not bear it and unable to get any help unless I go for tests that make me radioactive and I'm too nervous so they chucked me off the books and said see your GP so I did and the nice young lady is giving me an antihistamine for my nerves and I'm on a higher dose of Bisoprolol for my ticker... I'll see how I go. It's very damp out, daughters garden is all over cooking apples. She has lost six stones but apples don't figure in her diet. 🙂 Have a good day all.

 

[freesia]

Morning all. Woke to the new sensor saying 6.8 and the finger prick saying 5. Within 5 mins, the sensor alarm went off saying i was 4.9 so hopefully they are not too far out from each other.

Off into town in a bit then got to clean through the house and get some ironing done. Its supposed to be sunny and breezy today so hopefully the washing can go out.

Have a good day whatever you are doing.

 

[goodybags]

Good morning 7.1 today following Covid booster yesterday evening

Glad I went to optician yesterday morning, sure enough in the last 6 months eyes have changed again, new glasses paid for and ordered

Today everybody please remember:
GAS & ELECTRIC METER READINGS, unless your on a smart meter / fixed tariff that’s unaffected by the change in energy price,
if you don’t provide the meter readings your energy supplier would most likely estimate how much you used up until today, when the prices go up (which today in the UK it does it does)

Have a great weekend everybody 😎

 

[MikeyBikey]

Woke at 6:00 and went for a visit. I decided to do a BG and got 14.8. Recheck after shouting Rabbits and washing hands again 14.7. So shot up 10u Actrapid. Will check in a bit and go from there!

After injecting last night the area was was quite damp ans smelt of the preservative so I thought there had Ben a leak. A 7.9 at bedtime suggested all was well but it wasn't. So end's a totally carp week! But I will keep smiling!