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Group 7-day waking average?

Good morning folks. 7.4 this morning at 6am. Our cat is back to her normal routine now the visitors and dogs have gone. Back at keep fit after a 2 week break as our instructor was on holiday. The weather is hot humid and no breeze today. Urrgh! My friend is picking me up for craft club this afternoon. Now looking through the wardrobe for the lightest coolest clothes that are still decent to wear in public.
Hubby has been playing with the new rotorvator in the veg bed. This evening we will start on the wine making. The gages have been soaking overnight in boiling water to loosen the skins. Ready to add sugar, yeast and lemon juice later.

Hope you enjoy your Tuesday and keep chilled. Take care xx
 
freesia said:
19!!!!!!!??? I bet they don't have that many around for the Royals! I wonder how many there would be for Trump.
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A standard POTUS motorcade runs some 40 to 50 vehicles.
They can be significantly fewer if the threat level is deemed incredibly low but it’s very rare for them to ever drop below 30.
 
Late on parade today. Couldn’t sign in for some reason. I blame the weather.

6.4

Therapy’s has been and done already today. Contemplating gym but no real need to head out until this evening when I’m off to Sadler’s Wells to see Rambert Dance’s production Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby. I’m looking forward to it even though I’ve never seen a single episode of the telly prog. Plus Sadler’s has really good aircon!
 
Blimey, I've only been off 5 days and you've all been v busy.

Not sure if today's FBG is 10.1 or 12.3 due to disrupted eating/ sleeping pattern. 12.3 was after fasting for full 8 hours so will go with that I think.

Had part 2 of incredibly long drawn out diabetes assessment saga, got patted on the head (not literally) about nearly halving HbA1c and being compliant with meds but as soon as I started asking questions she started rushing me off the phone saying "I've got loads of other patients". At this rate it'll take over a year before my "initial assessment" is completed!

There are things I need to address sooner rather than later (I'm overdue for an eye test and new specs but my eye blurriness hasn't settled yet) but I keep getting the brush-off, each nurse says "save that for your next appointment". Thank goodness for Diabetes UK website and the forum is all I can say but it shouldn't have to be this way.

Two pleasant surprises, the nurse readily accepted my concerns about taking an SGLT2i (I'd been expecting a fight) and instead suggested Mounjaro. I've got until the next appointment on 3rd September to decide but I'm coming round to the idea. Some people seem to have dramatically lowered their BG levels, which is surely worth eggy burps and either constipation or diarrhoea.

Today is supposed to be a rest in bed day but little annoyances keep interfering. Had to shut all the windows at the back because we thought some absolute expletive had lit a bonfire, then hubby spotted next-door-but-one neighbour in his bee suit so the smoke was short lived and the windows are wide-open again. I'm so exhausted I'm actually feeling a bit cold but it's sticky and I'm sweating more than usual.

Bloden said:
Their kids are off to el Xiringüelu in Pravia today
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I wonder if that's where they make the soap Heno de Pravia? My mum's from Gibraltar so it's a family favourite.
agentmole said:
Morning and 6.2 for me, straight line all night, the Mounjaro is doing a good job helping my body regulate BS.
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That's what I'm hoping it'll do for me. Do you mind me asking if you're getting any side effects?

Best wishes to all especially those whose BGs are misbehaving :care:
 
A belated 2nd awakening due to monitoring earlier & just as well as the basal drop is still there albeit, slower & needed 1 biscuit twice so, FINALLY, approaching zombie status again, I JUST about stayed up to put in a 2nd day of 50 basal at midday with BS high enough for me to sleep confidently! 15:15 BS 8.6 & sleeping graph wobbled a teeny bit but, pretty flat ish & it was what I went to bed on at noon. A wee bump up to the 9’s for the loo trip & stayed wibbly wobbly but, on a downward trend, basal drop is still there, & was in the 7’s by the time I got out of bed to eat which, getting vertical, sent it up to 17:20 BS 10.1.

I thought I’d try near normal doses & went with -2, from usual breakfast 48 to 46 NR & see how that goes? Another 2 dead straight needles, basal earlier & breakfast just now, & I, rather hesitantly say, think I’m getting the hang of it?

Normal service is ALMOST resumed &, hopefully, back tomorrow or the day after? :confused::thankyou::D

Edited to add, a minute later, OH! My short term memory these days: easy to forget what I was going to do, post in this instance, when I get distracted; looking up libre entires for numbers while typing even though I looked before I started typing! :-

I’ve been giving more thought on what needles to change to, eventually with the pharmacist checking & consulting with hospital DSN, & I find myself getting a bit bruised with all the extra corrections etc earlier BEFORE I figured it out that I’d like to try shorter needles & go with 31G 4mm? That is IF pharmacist & DSN agree that’s the best one to go for going forward?
 
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