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Group 7-day waking average?

Hazel said:
Following 10 weeks of heavy duty antibiotics and blood glucose levels ALL over the place, pleased go report 6.9 this morning. Still a way to go but going in the right direction.
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Good to hear things are improving Hazel 🙂 I was 6.3 this morning 🙂
 
Carmina said:
I decided last night to follow the tip about testing before I got up ready for breakfast. So I did the test as soon as I woke up. Which was a wee bit early. Which is how I know that my BG at 4am was ... drum roll and fanfare please ... 4.6.

When I did eventually decide it was getting up time, I registered 5.1. Seeing as I'm on a day off and got up nearly 2 hours later than usual, I'm more than happy with that.
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That's fab :D

Using the same technique, I was 6.0 first thing 🙂
 
5.3 here. Today is a major cooking day to get next week's lunchtime soups done and in the freezer, some vegetable croquettes made (I fancy spicy bean flavour this time) and some tomato & basil oatbran muffins. Yum!!
 
15.9 - 22:39pm - bedtime
- ate crisps during the evening but it was a very small amount
17.1 - 07:24am - fasting

- all my BG levels seem to be creeping up, not just bedtime & fasting but also during the daytime - what to do? 😡

lantus decreases:
Tue 29.10 from 24u to 22u
Sat 02.10 from 22u to 20u
Tue 6.11 from 20u to 18u
Wed 20.11 from 18u to 16u
Wed 27.11 from 16u to 14u
 
If it were me, I'd carb count every mouthful very carefully indeed (be weighing and calculating carbs, not just guestimating) and inject appropriately and I'd read before and after every meal. I'd log everything - with as much detail as possible - were the carbs low, high or medium GI - was I tired, stressed, or ill, had I done much housework or other exercise. Everything. And then I'd visit the DSN armed with all that and ask for help....
 
CoffeePot said:
If it were me, I'd carb count every mouthful very carefully indeed (be weighing and calculating carbs, not just guestimating) and inject appropriately and I'd read before and after every meal. I'd log everything - with as much detail as possible - were the carbs low, high or medium GI - was I tired, stressed, or ill, had I done much housework or other exercise. Everything. And then I'd visit the DSN armed with all that and ask for help....
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Hi CoffeePot,

Thanks for your reply.
- I carb count but either using the carbs & cals app or (especially when at home) looking on packets
- I always test/inject before meals but not very good at testing after meals
- re logging everything:
I always log the carb amount but that would maybe a good idea to also log whether it's low, high or medium GI
I'm hopeless at logging about being tired, stressed, ill & how much housework I've done. I feel stupid logging these latter things down 😱
 
Woken to a 4.7 this morning. 🙂 And discovered yesterday that half a slice of Burgen flax and linseed bread with my meal last night didn't cause any untoward rises so I'm having an experimental whole slice of it toasted for breakfast.
 
4.2 here - lower than normal but I had a two hour lie-in 🙂
 
13.0 - 22:39pm - bedtime
- night out/ had mcDonalds for supper also eaten after bedtime test: may chicken (only 1 half of the bun eaten(38g carbs),crunchie McFlurry(52g carbs) total 90g carbs)/no QA insulin because going to bed to sleep & don't or not got the confidence to take QA before going to sleep.
14.2 - 10:26am - fasting

lantus decreases:
Tue 29.10 from 24u to 22u
Sat 02.10 from 22u to 20u
Tue 6.11 from 20u to 18u
Wed 20.11 from 18u to 16u
Wed 27.11 from 16u to 14u

- looks as though I've got the lantus nice and steady but all BGs even during the day are high, don't know whether to do a bit of tweaking:

my current targets:
8 lower target/12 upper target
4 lower target/7 upper target
4 lower target/7 upper target
4 lower target/7 upper target
8 upper target/12 upper target

my current carb ratios:
1 unit insulin/10 grams carbs
1 unit insulin/10 grams carbs
1 unit insulin/10 grams carbs
1.5 unit insulin/10 grams carbs
1 unit insulin/10 grams carbs
 
Morning - feels revoltingly early after the weekend sleep-in, but 5.8 here so I'm happy enough 🙂
 
whiskysmum said:
13.0 - 22:39pm - bedtime
- night out/ had mcDonalds for supper also eaten after bedtime test: may chicken (only 1 half of the bun eaten(38g carbs),crunchie McFlurry(52g carbs) total 90g carbs)/no QA insulin because going to bed to sleep & don't or not got the confidence to take QA before going to sleep.
14.2 - 10:26am - fasting

lantus decreases:
Tue 29.10 from 24u to 22u
Sat 02.10 from 22u to 20u
Tue 6.11 from 20u to 18u
Wed 20.11 from 18u to 16u
Wed 27.11 from 16u to 14u

- looks as though I've got the lantus nice and steady
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Your lantus is obviously NOT nice and steady if you can eat 90g of carbs, not inject and not have a rise!
 
Aoife said:
Your lantus is obviously NOT nice and steady if you can eat 90g of carbs, not inject and not have a rise!
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Yes thank you like you say it's still not very steady at all. Maybe another reduction? It's really worrying me that over the last 4 weeks I've gone from 24u to 14u 😱 at this rate I'll be taking no BI 😱 but ALL my BGs have gone up - hmm what to do?
 
12.9 - 22:28pm - bedtime
- after bedtime test I ate: corned beef 2 slices/bit of cheese/splash of salad crem/1 rich tea (5.6g cho)
14.9 - 08:39am - fasting

lantus decreases:
Tue 29.10 from 24u to 22u
Sat 02.10 from 22u to 20u
Tue 6.11 from 20u to 18u
Wed 20.11 from 18u to 16u
Wed 27.11 from 16u to 14u
 
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