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Group 7-day waking average?

Urgh! A bit of a set back, there! :( I’ve just had an awful 14 to 16 hours overnight just now!😱

It all started around 19:30 ish when taking my inhalers, the clenil brown preventive inhaler has always burned to a certain degree more or less the back of my throat when taking it, set off an asthma attack after puff 3 to which I put my asthma attack plan into action: my throat must have been a bit more sensitive than usual due to my sniffle or whatever it was recently & the clenil’s burning just make my windpipe seize up! Ten puffs of the blue salbutamol inhaler, wait 10 minutes & if no improvement 10 more! I ended up wheezing for hours & stopped after 20 puffs, in 2 lots, of Ventolin as my heart rate was going crazy! I was dead tired & really wanted to sleep but, couldn’t sitting half upright in bed half day dreaming half dosing while wheezing away with my heart rate going nuts with even the slightest movement! I lost track of time but, eventually got up to find that as long as I didn’t move around I could breath more deeply without wheezing! So, I stayed up & ate like a oig on & off all night: you know the saying feed a cold & starve a fever; I’ve always eaten like a pig with a cold & don’t eat when it’s flu with a fever! It took ALL night but, my heart rate is finally back down to my usual 84/minute when it was 10 higher all night around 94! I took my inhalers, both of them the usual 4 puffs each around 6am this morning when my heart rate was just starting to come back down to around 88 as I started to wheeze a bit even upright as I was so, it went back up again: I’ve always felt that very slight increase in heart rate even as a child when taking Ventolin/Salbutamol; I just feel it EVEN more these last 14/15 hours!

But, breathing has definitely turned a corner & I CAN lie horizontal to sleep now without wheezing & heart rate is back down! Took my usual midday meds & 86 Tresiba again, 3rd day now, & trying to sleep as both my eyes are sore & continually wet from tears due to tiredness but, I’m still wired from the adrenaline that’s kept me awake all night!

My BS was high all night as it was hard to bolus as I kept keeping bits here & there all night & last corrected at 12:12 BS 15.7 which needs a correction of 20NR but, kept dialling it down & down as I WILL sleep at some point & being the 3rd lot of increased basal now it’ll be in more or less full effect so, eventually went for a conservative 12NR. If it’s still high when I wake, I’ll start again with corrections later?

I can breath now & SO relieved that’s it’s passed & will sleep round the clock now when the adrenaline wears off eventually! A Whacked Out Exhausted emoji! Hopefully soon to be followed by A Stream of Z’s emoji!
 
Delighted to report a 5.0 when I woke up. Such a relief after battling high levels with corrections all yesterday afternoon and evening but now gone the other way and dropped into a hypo after my usual breakfast. No big deal and in some respects it's a relief, but just odd that I needed all that insulin yesterday afternoon and it wouldn't come down regardless of all the stacked corrections but now I am sensitive to it again. I did give it 5 units for breakfast when I would normally have just needed 4 but added an extra unit expecting at least some DP/Foot on the Floor rise, but ended up eating my breakfast a bit sooner than the usual 45mins prebolus time I need and then took my eye off the ball and continued to drop into the red. So easily fixed by a couple of JBs though as compared to the repeated insulin corrections for the highs..... I know which I would rather do 🙄.... especially when it was a red followed by a black JB that came out of the packet. :D:D Feeling happier, like a cloud has lifted!

@Jenny65 Always happy to see some light relief on the forum. Wilbur looks cute but isn't it a bit warm for a coat yet or do you clip him? Have to confess I don't know much about dogs but my GGs aren't rugged up yet. Rascal particularly would overheat in this weather.
Really sorry to read the itchiness has returned. Hope the antihistamines give you some relief. I have had intermittent bouts of itchiness since diagnosis but nothing that ever stopped me sleeping thank goodness and it resolved without me figuring out the cause. I do think at this time of year, dry skin can be an issue as the seasons change so worth using a moisturizer regularly particularly after a hot shower/bath which will strip natural oils from the skin. It may also be the lack of fats in your diet with being low carb and low fat, so all the more reason to apply it on the outside. I use a relatively inexpensive coconut body butter which has improved my skin enormously in the last few years.

@ColinUK Hope you are feeling better soon.... and your parents too. Sounds like a real humdinger. :( Hope it is just a cold.

@eggyg Pleased you arrived safely and hope that driver didn't pass on her lurgy. Just what you don't need. Sounds like you have managed your D brilliantly though.

@sharp00782 Welcome to the thread. You will no doubt see that some people have relatively stable readings a lot of the time and are very consistent and with others, it can be a bit of a roller coaster. Often there is no rhyme or reason to it. Diabetes can be very individual in how it responds, so don't compare your readings with those of other people, just manage it as best you can. It sounds like you are coping pretty well with the practicalities of your diagnosis and treatment and once they bring your levels slowly down more into range you will start to feel physically better. There are lots of tips and tricks to learn from others on the forum once you are ready to start fine tuning things a bit more but in these early weeks and months it is just about getting to grips with the basics and keeping your head above water which it sounds like you are doing admirably.

@Lanny. So sorry that you have had such a scary episode and especially when the treatment sparked it off. It must make you apprehensive about taking it again and when it is a daily medication that's not good. Hope you get some restful sleep. You must be shattered after all that. Please let us know how you are later. (((HUGS))) from me too.
 
I’ve NEVER liked Clenil, it used to have alcohol in it or is that an alkaloid, & it’s the preservative I think that I react to: certain wines used to seize up my windpipe instantly because of the preservative in it back in the days when I drank a bit on special occasions; had a hard time finding eyedrops I didn’t react to either after cataract Ops & had to go for tiny individual one use only ones with no preservatives in them so, only tiny little vials for each use!

I’ve tried various other preventative & combo inhalers before but, Clenil was the best option as the others made jy heart race: Ventolin/Salbutamol already does that & a double lot heart racing inhalers was no good!

I was taking it half horizontal in bed & in hindsight I’d better take it upright from now on as it hit me right at the back of my throat at that angle instead of going past straight into the windpipe with the spacer: why I always use one as taking it by mouth would hit my throat! A lesson learnt the hard way!
 
Forgot to mention.... I got Wordle in 2 this morning! Lucky start as I got the last 3 letters green with my opening word.... but it was sheer skill and brain power to get the other 2 in my next attempt. 🙄 😎
 
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Forgot to mention.... I got Wordle in 2 this morning! Lucky start as I got the last 3 letters green with my opening word.... but it was sheer skill and brain power to get the other 2 in my next attempt. 🙄 😎
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It took me 5! I got 2 greens and a yellow on the second go.
 
Up very briefly for more inhalers, quite naturally actually, as I felt itchy in my throat: a precursor to my windpipe tightening; will lead to wheezing in my experience so, need my inhalers & it’s 12 hours after the last lot!

Sat upright & since my windpipe is already starting to tighten took the Ventolin first to open it up again BEFORE taking the Clenil & no problems: will take it THAT way round from now on!

Had about 3 or 4 hours sleep & need more as my left eye still feels burning & sore: the slightly weaker eye still as it’s been operated on last for cataracts!

Back for another sleep!
 
02:14 BS 9.3 Ah well! A bit disappointing on two counts: wanted to sleep closer to 5/6am for a complete reset to start a NORMAL day on; a tad bit higher BS but, went for safety as I DIDN’T know how long I would sleep for? I only woke up BECAUSE I’m hungry as I woke with a headache: over 25 years ago before I even knew about diabetes I sometimes didn’t sleep that much for a week & then Marathon slept at the weekend for 20+ hours & wake with a blinding headache & it was a few years later after becoming diabetic that my health centre’s DSN told me I need to eat before going for a long sleep like that & the headaches were because I needed to eat! The very first week in Derry when I was still 16, 17th birthday at the end of November, away from home for the first time I barely slept at all & then did 2 Marathon sleeps back to back, 20+ hours, at the weekend & woke with blinding headaches & ate like pig! 😱 Well, there’s a Chinese saying “Today is different from yesterday”! I haven’t been able to do that in YEARS: I eaten now for YEARS before I sleep; during my restaurant years I COULDN’T on an empty stomach!

An extremely early Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

My eyes are better but, still a bit tired & smarting a bit at the outer corners from the salty tears earlier so, will try for some more sleep now that my headache is taken care of with some food: a very quick sausage & cheese breakfast muffin dinged in the microwave & already wolfed down with 48NR before I started posting! 😛

A rant alert! You can skip it! 😉

Which reminds me of a niggling bone of contention about tesco online shopping these past two weeks or so! 😡 After the last iOS update the website wouldn’t let me keep the Substitutions box ticked, couldn’t add notes about substitutions or let me take out items once I’d put them in the basket but, I worked my way around that by putting in 0 & updating! 😡 Which all lead to luckily last week the picker put in a loaf of Kingsmill instead of Hovis. Not so lucky this week as on Monday about half my shopping didn’t come including no bread & I had to order another lot of shopping tomorrow for bread! I complained to the driver who do you use a computer & I said not in AGES & only use the iPad these days as I bet you a lot of people do! It still wasn’t working on Monday but, woke briefly around 22:45 when I watched ITT horizontally in bed after I did a last minute check & change of items in my basket for tomorrow’s 11:00 to 12:00 delivery. NOW, the website’s been fixed & back to normal so, with substitutions & notes now working again hopefully I’ll get same bread & other things to last me a full week instead of the half shopping I got on Monday!🙄

THERE! rant over!:D😉

Trying for some Z’s now! A stream of z’s emoji!
 
Good morning. Think I caught somebodies cold when going for my jabs. Have barely slept as COPD plus cold symptoms means a sensation for drowning in one's own secretions. Quite disgusting. Temperature seems to have gone down but planning another day in bed reading except for a quick sally out to give Mr Wolf a run and to feed the chickens. BG 6.1. Hoping everyone else is avoiding vile bugs.
 
Good morning everyone.

A great 5.2 here this morning. Yesssss!!!!

BP 119/75
Pulse 62

All ok. Arm now good after the NHS stabbings.

I must get back to some keyboard practice today.

Shopping later which I do enjoy (didn't used to)

I have discovered, as others have too, that Evening Primrose Oil makes my BP raised into the elevated range and sometines beyond. Since stopping taking it (recently) BP has dropped back into the normal range and stayed there. So if anyone here is taking EPO and has raised BP it might be worth checking if the EPO is not helping the raised BP.

Talking of colds...yesterday my thoat started that tickly stuff you get as a cold starts to develop. It started to feel uncomfortable and a tad sore as the day went on but then later it just fixed itself completely and no illness developed at all. Phew dodged that one. Maybe ensuring that all the vitamins and minerals are within a good range every day has helped my immune system cope well. Who knows. I am just grateful that I do feel well. Maybe my App has proved its worth.

I was out on the beach for a walk with my friend last weekend when they were preparing for a motorbike rally thing. Unknown to us at the time an official photographer was there snapping away. It turned out that the photographer was a friend of my friend (who seems to know everyone in the world) and that the photographer had captured a picture of the general area with both of us in the far distant background!!! Fame at last 😉

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Have a great day today whatever you are doing
 
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Good morning 5.8
congrats on the HS @Gwynn

Have a great day everybody 😎
 
Morning. Been off grid for a while.

A 4.9 dropping fast alarm call this morning. Only just at 5.3 now 45 min later. Going to be an irritating day me thinks.

Have a good day all - will catch up on news later.
 
Well I just woken up so I'm going to take this reading even if I do full back asleep it's 8.3 as usual needed a correction last night for a 11.6(it seems whatever I do I get a jump by bedtime) it dropped to 8.6 at 3.15 and know it's it's stayed steady. I'm thinking I might try a croisent from Greg's this morning I've tried the pain au chocolate which wasn't brildemt so the normal croissants might not be much different.
 
Morning all on this filthy weather morning with a Weather Warning for the wind and a major famine in Somalia. :(

7.5 @ 6.29am not bad. 🙂 Have a good day all. I am going to make a major effort to do low carb as influenced by the pictorial food thread on this forum. How hard can it be?
 
Morning all, 8.2 here, despite much increased basal (am taking 50% more than usual and about double for boluses, never had to increase quite so much for a lurgy before) at some point there’ll be an almighty crash when my BG returns to normal.
 
Good morning everyone, a grey and wet morning here I fear I will be drying washing indoors today. 5.1 for me congrats on the HS @Gwynn, hope all suffering with colds, reactions to vaccinations etc feel better today
 
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