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Group 7-day waking average?

7.7 here this morning. I didn't really have supper last night as one of my dogs had a very upset tummy which I discovered when I came down from having a long bath and it put me right off eating! I did still manage one of my "snack bowls" though. My line looked to go quite low a coupe of times during the night but I think it must have been compression lows and do think I noticed I was lying on my left side when I got up to go to the loo in the night and this morning. Dentist this morning - hygienist and then a checkup. This afternoon an old school friend is coming to stay just for the night on the way up to her daughter's graduation from St Andrews University. I haven't seen her for quite a few years but we have a very active School Facebook group and I know it will be just like old times. She's bringing her little dog with her so I hope mine behave - I think they will, and Wilbur will be exhausted from a day on the fells with the dog walker today. Have a good day everyone xxx
 
It's another bright and sunny start here with wall-to-wall blue sky. Our youngest is up, showered, had breakfast and has already left for the golf course. My wife and I will be packing once breakfast is out of the way and then heading off for our long weekend in East Anglia, staying near Lowestoft. Long trek round the M25 to the A12 - not sure I've been that far round it before - and hopefully find somewhere nice to stop for lunch (but not a Motorway Services).

6.1 when I tested - for some reason I'm getting lower post-meal readings than waking ones at the moment, even an HS after yesterday's Smoked Salmon & Spinach Omelette & Salad dinner. Weekly BP check 114/66.

Whatever your plans, enjoy your day.
 
Weird dream last night. I dreamt that I was furiously revising for my English Literature Finals. I wonder how I got on with them, since I studied Maths and Computer Science at Uni. 🙂
Still all that hard work produced a 5.5 on waking. 🙂

Have a good day everyone.

Dez
 
Good morning. 5.3

Over ate last night so reasonable BG quite unjustified.

Neighbour coming over this a.m. to browse my shrubberies for potential cuttings. The price of plants, when one has a large and empty garden, is quite frightening. So far she has nothing but a hedge and a handful of raised veggie beds.

Haulier called yesterday - my new toy is coming on Monday. So while my poor car has gut surgery (needs its cam belt changed) I shall, hopefully, be puttering round the lawns on its little competitor. If I lose my licence, applied for renewal in early October 2023, it may provide my sole "motoring". I wonder how far afield one can take a lawn mower...."Honestly Officer I am just mowing the verges...."

@Gwynn Hope your wife settles back at home and her concerns this morning turn out to be temporary.

Happy Friday all.
 
Putting this here to be open, honest, accountable etc.

I’m heavy…. (For me)

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MeeTooTeeTo said:
Weird dream last night. I dreamt that I was furiously revising for my English Literature Finals. I wonder how I got on with them, since I studied Maths and Computer Science at Uni. 🙂
Still all that hard work produced a 5.5 on waking. 🙂

Have a good day everyone.

Dez
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Am sure your Maths/Computer Science tutors would have loved you waxing lyrical with your flowing language and interpretive quotes in explaining the Science.
Whilst your colleagues stuck with explaining in symbols and equations you would have the ability to describe and explain in a much more literate way
 
Morning all and 6.2 for me.

Today's excitement will be sorting socks, trying different clarinet reeds and hopefully sorting some Laps for posting.

Have a good day everyone.
 
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Morning all

A happy 5.7 for me on this fine sunny morning.

Have a good day folks and stay safe.
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eggyg said:
But you are very tall. You looked absolutely fine to me.
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I’m not very tall! Well maybe when standing next to you but you’re knee high to a haggis!
 
Afternoon all. 6 point something this morning. So glad its Friday.
 
5.7 this morning late posting been out food shopping, the only sausages I like are from Waitrose, and its a 40 mile round trip, but we buy a couple of trays so they last a few months, ive tried delivery but they always put substitutes in my order as they sell out fast, we just phone and they save them for us, bad night last night went vert low 2.9 I felt ok but it came on suddenly, Libre was 4.5.
 
Proud to be erratic said:
Hello Angela @GracefulAng,

Is Paul wearing his Libre 2 sensor yet? If not, its time to get him to accept that he has to overcome his fear of needles and use the tech. It has a low BG setting which can alert him when he has got to 5.6 mmol/L or lower. He is very fortunate to have this tech on prescription and now has to pull up his big boy pants and take full advantage of the help this will give him. Do all you can to encourage him to do what I know that he knows is the sensible thing.

Meanwhile, although somewhere in the 8s might seem worrying because this is new territory for him, in practice it's well into "mid-range", ie between 4 and 10 and a great place to be. Since Paul is only taking a slow-acting, background, insulin (Toujeo) just once daily, his risk of going near 5 is very, very small. The Toujeo along with his food (carb) control have very gently, calmly, brought his BG down to below 10; its been a textbook illustration of BG management by you both since his diagnosis a few weeks ago.

Do not even consider reducing or stopping his Toujeo at this stage. It is doing a great job of getting his BG back to where it needs to be for his long term health. In the coming months his Toujeo dose might need further tweaking - up or down with a goal of getting his routine BG nearer to 5. That guidance should come from his GP or Hospital Diabetes Team at this early time; in time Paul will routinely recognise when to adjust his insulin as I now do.

Hypoglycaemia occurs at 3.5 mmol/L. This is always rounded up to 4 and that provides a tiny buffer or safety margin; "4 is the floor" is an expression frequently used. At 4, Paul might start to feel some of the hypoglycaemic symptoms - ONCE his body has adjusted to routinely being close to 4. Because he will have had high BG for months, possibly years, it is possible that his body (brain really) could have his inbuilt hypo awareness impaired. His gradual lowering of BG is a very safe way of getting that hypo awareness mechanism relearnt. So aiming to stay above 5, rather than the floor of 4, just adds to his hypo safety. 5.6 as an alert level is ideal at this stage.

The damage to his pancreas from the pancreatitis could not only have affected his insulin production, but also his ability to make another hormone called Glucagon. Hormones are part of our body's messaging system and Glucagon tells one's liver to release some Glucose from its store IF/WHEN one's brain has detected low BG. Its all part of a very sophisticated process that routinely happens in people who are not diabetic and who's BG stays at normal levels. It will take time to establish exactly how much damage the pancreatitis has already done and it is realistic to expect that his pancreatitis might continue.

Its all part of the difference between being Type 3c and the much more widely found Type 2, where someone is producing lots of their own insulin but their body is resisting using that insulin.

Please don't be put off asking questions, either of you. There is so much to learn. No question is silly.
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At last I'm wearing the device!
 
Good evening, everyone! I've just started a new chapter on my journey, with my new Libre sensor device. It felt a little weird to start off with, but I am already getting used to it. It was very interesting to learn how the Libre phone app works via Bluetooth.
I'm sure I will be able to manage my condition much easier now.
 
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Morning

Couldn’t sleep again, 5.7 so happy with that. Plans for today, some housework, knit and natter not that I can do much knitting or crotchet at the moment but I can still do the natter and the big shop later when hubby gets home from work, need to get the shopping list ready.

@Northerner - good luck for today.
 
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