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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all - grey it is, what's new?

6.5 this morning after a rotten night. Went to bed at 11pm absolutely tired out after a couple of poor night's sleep. Was woken at 12:12 with low alarm. It was a stubborn one and it took until 1:12 to sort with umpteen Dextro tabs, biscuits and eventually a cup of sugary tea. Settled down to sleep and then had to shoot out of bed to the en-suite with the runs. That happened several times until gone 2 am. Settled down again and got another alarm, this time the sensor wasn't talking to the pod. Managed to get that going eventually, it's the placing of the pod to blame. Am about to change it this morning even tho' it was only changed yesterday. Sigh... so much for a good night's sleep.

I eventually realised the runs were my own fault. In an attempt to ameliorate the stubborn post-prandial spikes I had decided to go back onto Metformin. So I took 4 Glucophage SR with lunch. How unbelievably stupid! I do actually know better and I know I should have worked up from 1 or two tablets. Obviously senility has set in.

Going into town this afternoon to see the Christmas lights switched on. One of our friends is singing in the accompanying choir and we're meeting up with our usual group to watch. Should be fun as it usually involves craft stalls and the main street cordoned off from traffic with various buskers and performers. Hope it stays dry.

Congratulations to @harbottle , @Barrowman and @eggyg on your HS

Have a good day all!
 
Update:

For some unknown reason I decided to clear out and clean the outside drain. Oh, yes, I remember, person with rolling pin 'suggested' that I do it, er, no, she was kind and it turns out she was going to do it but I beat her to it.

However, this comes to mind... (please don't take offence. It is an attempt at humour)

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My goodness what a horrible mess/smell (the drains, that is). Even wearing surgical gloves and scrubbing my hands 5 times afterwards I can still smell it. Ugh!!!

Just been tentatively out to get some stuff and, although my hip was better, it still ached a lot. So... back to resting again.
 
Morning all and 9.2 for me. No surprise really a mix of adrenaline, pre gig hypo treatment, samosas,kebabs and a couple of bottles of the abomination known as Budweiser.
A good night all in all.

Have a good day everyone.
 
Good morning! 7'5 for me.

Yesterday my Libre saw the first 4s and 5s in a while, and while that's a good sign, I felt a bit wobbly. Probably overdid NR with breakfast, I thought it would be fine because I was just doing stuff in the computer. I emailed the diabetes team about Metformin and I will try it next week, their advice is to stop NR during the test but keep taking the Levemir.

Last night I was sent to work in the bar instead of restaurant. I liked it for a change, tho it was busy and the noise got a bit overwhelming at times. I got a good amount of practice on pouring pints, the last ones were much better than the first! The bartender I was helping was very grateful and paid me a drink to have at a time I want (was too tired to stay and drink it after my shift). I normally go for spirits and diet coke but didn't want to ask for something that expensive so went for a Guinness. Ahhh, better not think about the carbs in that...
 
Jodee said:
Morning folks, forgot to take this morning before food as I was out to post parcels early. However I managed to get my HbA1C down from 106mmol to 54 mmol in 3 months with the help of empagliflozin and increased dose of metformin. yay. :D I give myself a :star:

Blood results showed for 1st time my kidney function is not so happy. I am going to see if I can get away with reducing metformin to twice daily, next bloods for kidneys in 2 weeks.

Have a fab weekend everyone.
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Great result :star: :party: on the Hba1c reduction
hopefully a future blood test will show a improvement to kidney function :thankyou:
 
Morning a 7.6 after a bit of DP but generally stayed within range.
Local Xmas light switch on last night and think our dogs think it is Xmas already as up early with excitement hence we are all up early but having cup of tea now.
Had our coffee and cake yesterday at garden centre and quite a lazy day.
Our local tip needs an appointment at w/ end to take stuff so will take last of leaves in the week .Couple of our rooms are now fully refurbished apart from new blinds which is arranged.
The other house goes on market on tomorrow so see what happens and off to North Wales tomorrow and a good week planned.
Lunch out with son today as his partner is WFH so will be good to see him.
Enjoy
 
Good morning everyone

BG 5.3

Went to the church yesterday evening to set up their sound system, right hip was dreadfully painful by the time I got home. Thankfully, after a nights rsst it is a lot better. No walking anywhere today!! Mind you it's tipping it down out there so I wouldn't go walking anyway.

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Have a great day today whatever you are doing
 
Good morning all. Would you believe another 5.2! I was convinced my Libre was playing up so I thought I’d check when I got up. By the time I’d gone on the loo, washed my hands and walked downstairs, got a new cassette for my Accu Chec and fitted it, the Libre said 6.1, meter 5.8. I would say that’s a result.

It’s currently a very mild 13 degrees and absolutely pouring down. Good job I wasn’t planning on leaving the house.

Have a great day.
 

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Good morning - 6.2

Have a great day everyone.
 
GoodMorning 6.6

Congrats on another HS @eggyg
think I need to get up and start the day with a tidy up in the lounge, as Mrs @goodybags wants to put the Christmas tree up now it’s December my tasks for today will include that
plus seeing if I can what’s happened to the washing machine (it was playing up yesterday evening) if not order a new one :confused: clean inside and out of my car, as it’s it’s minging, ironing shirts for next week and a trip to Aldi

Have a superb Sunday 😎
 
Well done @eggyg on that HS. My reading was 5.8 this morning. 🙂

Dez
 
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