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Group 7-day waking average?

7.4 this am for me. Neuropathy in feet getting worse according to clinic yesterday so now have to wait for appointment with vascular consultant who they hope will look after the calcification in my wrists as well. Off for brain MRI today - more and more consultants coming into my life at the moment - but looking at it in a positive light now - at least I am getting referred and being looked after extremely well (including looking after myself!). After the recent sudden and tragic passing of one of my best friends I am living each day like it is my last - like someone's motto on here!:D
 
Flower said:
Good morning 🙂a great big eye watering 15.3 after I had hypo over treat rage at 3am with a 2.3.

Off to retina clinic this morning so hope my bg get the message in time for blood tests. 3 hours of looking at an out of focus wall waiting for my name to be called whilst persuading people that I really am in the right clinic even though I have my leg in a cast🙄:confused:
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Hoping all goes smoothly @Flower 🙂

I wrote this about my experiences at the Eye Hospital once:

"I went to the Eye Hospital today as a follow-up to my retinal scan a few months ago. The doctors were concerned that my eyes showed ‘diabetic changes’ so wanted to investigate further. The initial part of the appointment was very much the same as having a retinal scan – drops in eyes to dilate pupils to the size of dinner plates, wait for them to take effect, then have retinal photographs taken. Having your pupils dilate like that has the inevitable consequence of making everything seem exceedingly bright, and also makes it impossible to focus on any text smaller than large billboard size.

Imagine my surprise, therefore, when I realised that the waiting room was liberally spread with reading matter of all varieties – a bookshelf, stacks of magazines on a table, and an extensive range of pamphlets covering a broad spectrum of physical ailments, their symptoms and treatment. Looking around at the other patients it was clear (even through blurred eyes!) that none of them was capable of reading any of this without the aid of the Hubble Space telescope! I don’t think they had quite thought this through…!"

Now you’ve had your drops, please go and sit down,
Before long they will call out your name…
You just need to wait whilst your pupils dilate
And your retinas start to inflame!

But let me just show you, for it may be some time,
Our library of books old and new!
We’ve novels and thrillers, and can’t-put-them-downs,
There’s bound to be one to suit you!

Or if you prefer, there’s a fantastic range
Of magazines to flick through and browse!
There’s fashion and cars and gardening and golf,
Or farming if you’ve a passion for cows!

If that’s not to your taste, take a look over here
At our leaflets displayed in this rack!
There’s all you need know about things ‘down below’
Or ways you might injure your back!

In an EYE hospital nurse? Have you quite thought this through?
It ought to be no big surprise
For the reason we’re here is abundantly clear –
We’ve got something wrong with our eyes! 😱 :D
 
Shiv Gaffney said:
7.4 this am for me. Neuropathy in feet getting worse according to clinic yesterday so now have to wait for appointment with vascular consultant who they hope will look after the calcification in my wrists as well. Off for brain MRI today - more and more consultants coming into my life at the moment - but looking at it in a positive light now - at least I am getting referred and being looked after extremely well (including looking after myself!). After the recent sudden and tragic passing of one of my best friends I am living each day like it is my last - like someone's motto on here!:D
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Good luck Shiv.
 
Shiv Gaffney said:
7.4 this am for me. Neuropathy in feet getting worse according to clinic yesterday so now have to wait for appointment with vascular consultant who they hope will look after the calcification in my wrists as well. Off for brain MRI today - more and more consultants coming into my life at the moment - but looking at it in a positive light now - at least I am getting referred and being looked after extremely well (including looking after myself!). After the recent sudden and tragic passing of one of my best friends I am living each day like it is my last - like someone's motto on here!:D
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Wishing you well, Shiv, I hope all goes smoothly and with a positive outcome 🙂
 
Just wonderful Northerner!!
 
Northerner said:
Hoping all goes smoothly @Flower 🙂

I wrote this about my experiences at the Eye Hospital once:

"I went to the Eye Hospital today as a follow-up to my retinal scan a few months ago. The doctors were concerned that my eyes showed ‘diabetic changes’ so wanted to investigate further. The initial part of the appointment was very much the same as having a retinal scan – drops in eyes to dilate pupils to the size of dinner plates, wait for them to take effect, then have retinal photographs taken. Having your pupils dilate like that has the inevitable consequence of making everything seem exceedingly bright, and also makes it impossible to focus on any text smaller than large billboard size.

Imagine my surprise, therefore, when I realised that the waiting room was liberally spread with reading matter of all varieties – a bookshelf, stacks of magazines on a table, and an extensive range of pamphlets covering a broad spectrum of physical ailments, their symptoms and treatment. Looking around at the other patients it was clear (even through blurred eyes!) that none of them was capable of reading any of this without the aid of the Hubble Space telescope! I don’t think they had quite thought this through…!"

Now you’ve had your drops, please go and sit down,
Before long they will call out your name…
You just need to wait whilst your pupils dilate
And your retinas start to inflame!

But let me just show you, for it may be some time,
Our library of books old and new!
We’ve novels and thrillers, and can’t-put-them-downs,
There’s bound to be one to suit you!

Or if you prefer, there’s a fantastic range
Of magazines to flick through and browse!
There’s fashion and cars and gardening and golf,
Or farming if you’ve a passion for cows!

If that’s not to your taste, take a look over here
At our leaflets displayed in this rack!
There’s all you need know about things ‘down below’
Or ways you might injure your back!

In an EYE hospital nurse? Have you quite thought this through?
It ought to be no big surprise
For the reason we’re here is abundantly clear –
We’ve got something wrong with our eyes! 😱 :D
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Brilliant :D
 
Morning all another one of those nights awake at 2:30 with a hypo of 3.2 down to my own fault had tea early and did not feel like much of it and never had anything later on. Corrected it and after a restless night and clock watching got up to a 5.6.
 
Northerner said:
Hoping all goes smoothly @Flower 🙂

I wrote this about my experiences at the Eye Hospital once:

"I went to the Eye Hospital today as a follow-up to my retinal scan a few months ago. The doctors were concerned that my eyes showed ‘diabetic changes’ so wanted to investigate further. The initial part of the appointment was very much the same as having a retinal scan – drops in eyes to dilate pupils to the size of dinner plates, wait for them to take effect, then have retinal photographs taken. Having your pupils dilate like that has the inevitable consequence of making everything seem exceedingly bright, and also makes it impossible to focus on any text smaller than large billboard size.

Imagine my surprise, therefore, when I realised that the waiting room was liberally spread with reading matter of all varieties – a bookshelf, stacks of magazines on a table, and an extensive range of pamphlets covering a broad spectrum of physical ailments, their symptoms and treatment. Looking around at the other patients it was clear (even through blurred eyes!) that none of them was capable of reading any of this without the aid of the Hubble Space telescope! I don’t think they had quite thought this through…!"

Now you’ve had your drops, please go and sit down,
Before long they will call out your name…
You just need to wait whilst your pupils dilate
And your retinas start to inflame!

But let me just show you, for it may be some time,
Our library of books old and new!
We’ve novels and thrillers, and can’t-put-them-downs,
There’s bound to be one to suit you!

Or if you prefer, there’s a fantastic range
Of magazines to flick through and browse!
There’s fashion and cars and gardening and golf,
Or farming if you’ve a passion for cows!

If that’s not to your taste, take a look over here
At our leaflets displayed in this rack!
There’s all you need know about things ‘down below’
Or ways you might injure your back!

In an EYE hospital nurse? Have you quite thought this through?
It ought to be no big surprise
For the reason we’re here is abundantly clear –
We’ve got something wrong with our eyes! 😱 :D
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Brilliant Northie
 
Kaylz said:
Yeah at least I only missed a letter out!! 😉 xx
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She's done it deliberately Kaylz😉...she wants attention.:D
 
We've all got a virus; I'm thinking this is the reason my bg's are in the 8s. :(
 
Ditto said:
We've all got a virus; I'm thinking this is the reason my bg's are in the 8s. :(
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Shame Ditto...hope you feel better soon...that's quite a bit higher than the last ones you posted:(.
 
I slept just after an early lunch today around 13:00 & woke just now, 18:00 with a slight headache & BS 5.2. Put dinner in the oven was just starting to feel shaky. 18:12 BS 5.2. Poured myself some full sugar cranberry juice & trying to sip a little as I definitely feeling shaky & freezing cold all over. The juice tastes disgustingly sweet & I only managed one tiny sip. I have my dyson fan heater at the fastest speed & highest temperature as I’m feeling internally freezing all over, while I wait for my dinner at about 16:35/40. Did not inject any insulin yet! 18:25 BS 5.7.

17 years ago, after diagnosis I was taught that below 5 was a hypo & that’s what I operated with until 2015 after being referred back to the hospital: hypos are now below 4. I found the lowest I could go before feeling hypowas 5.4. But, once I switched to insulin all that changed. I found the new guidelines for hypos actually more helpful & realistic but, tempered with that I also starting losing hypo awareness & am more dependent on the meter.

I haven’t been this low since a series of 8 hypos in 10 days back at the end of Jan. & beginning of Feb. 2018. When my insulin doses were almost halved. Will have to ring DSN tomorrow as I might need to lower insulin again?

Oh!!! Relief already starting to feel better! Writing this helped to ease the panic! Last time I felt like this, was also upon waking & taking the wheelie bin out 3 weeks ago. It took me an hour to warm up & even thought to test & by then BS was 8.5. It took another hour, heater at full blast, before I felt well enough to have breakfast!
 
Just starting to eat & still have heater on at full blast still cold but, not quite as freezing!
 
Just finished dinner & injected my usual 4 units Novorapid & feeling better. Cranberry juice is still tasting sweeter than usual but, not disgustingly so like earlier & didn’t finish it!

My BS could well be higher later as, in my experience, a hyper inevitably follows a hypo!

It’s also not the first time I’ve noticed things tasting very sweet when I’m low! During both my cataract operations I started to feel very shaky & the surgeon had to check my blood sugar levels, which weren’t hypo, & afterwards, as the shaking was even worse, eating tea & plain toast: toast was VERY sweet & couldn’t manage the tea with milk!
 
11.2 this morning which barely changed until 3pm despite me throwing loads of bolus at it from 6am. By 3pm I was determined that I wouldn't be beaten and through a combination of aggressive bolusing, TBRs and Coke avoided a hypo (went down to 4.2) and I'm currently at 6.0 🙂
 
Shiv Gaffney said:
7.4 this am for me. Neuropathy in feet getting worse according to clinic yesterday so now have to wait for appointment with vascular consultant who they hope will look after the calcification in my wrists as well. Off for brain MRI today - more and more consultants coming into my life at the moment - but looking at it in a positive light now - at least I am getting referred and being looked after extremely well (including looking after myself!). After the recent sudden and tragic passing of one of my best friends I am living each day like it is my last - like someone's motto on here!:D
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Sorry to hear this Shiv. Sending supportive thoughts to you.
 
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