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Group 7-day waking average?

Would 2 units of NR suffice?
I cant answer that I'm afraid, correction factors aren't the same for everyone and needs to be learned by that person, it can also depend on time of day what their correction factor is, the general rule that everyone is started on (and I'm not advising just stating what people are generally told to begin with) is 1 unit NR brings BG down by 3mmol but as I say for some its not that easy and it can vary widely xx
 
Thank you. I will just take 1 unit and hope for the best. I do not want a repetition of last week.
You do have to be very cautious with corrections when you are ill, especially if you aren't able to eat, as that can make it difficult to treat a low should it happen. I once got very ill and couldn't eat, or even sip liquid and keep it down 😱 I still had to do corrections though because my levels were in high double figures, so I tried to inject just enough novorapid to bring me down to about 12 mmol/l.
 
Evening all and hope you had a good St David's Day. 🙂 I went round to sisters and thought they were really celebrating the day, turns out her hoard of g'kiddies had raided the local park. Daffs everywhere!

7.1 @ 8.15am
 
Morning All, It's a 7.0 for me this morning
 
Morning all,
A 6.4 this morning ...
Am on tea duty this morning for my lovely wife and judging by the 'industrial' noises coming from above, I guess she is awake and inspecting the ironing! I best shake a leg and get t' kettle on!

Blessings Snowwy
 
Morning all you early risers, it’s not very often I join you. A restless night has brought me a very welcome and wonderful 5.4. I did have a very low carb tea last night, coupled with a five mile hike in mud yesterday afternoon must have done the trick. Off to Smardale Viaduct today ( don’t worry @Northerner we won’t be walking along it, it’s closed for H&S reasons) it’s classed as the Yorkshire Dales but it’s in Cumbria! Go fathom. Have a marvellous Monday everyone and good luck @Northerner for your eye appointment, whatever it may be. 🙂
 
Good morning

Snap @Northerner 5.8 for me too, good luck with your appointment today

I have a relaxing week ahead so if my cold clears up a bit might get some stuff in my room moved and get back on the cross trainer, well depending how my foot is, that one I injured the end of last year keeps feeling better and something happens to make it swollen and sore again, this time it was the scaffie stopping dead in front of me on thursday when I was on a rough patch and rolled on it 🙄

Hope you all have a lovely day!
Xx
 
Morning all, 7.2 here after double hypo in the night. Woke at 3am, felt hypo, didn’t bother to test, just groped for some jelly babies, felt better, went back to sleep. Woke again at 4.30am, tested this time, 3.3, rather rage-treated the hypo so woke up just now a bit higher than I'd like. Don't know what triggered that!
 
More bad news - a second school has been closed for a deep clean here after another case of coronavirus, linked to the first. Both schools a few miles away and in places we rarely go to, though.
Yes I heard on the news something to do with the first went to a training day at the second school, risk still low though, the first Scotland case is in the Tayside area which I come under too and there's been uproar on social media as people think they should be told the name of the person involved 🙄 xx
 
5.6 for me this morning. 🙂
Another cold and icy morning.
Lying in bed earlier, listening to the neighbours scraping ice off their windscreens, really made me appreciate the fact that I don't have to go to work anymore. 😛

Stay safe and warm everybody.

Dez
 
Wet and grey outside today, and I got a reading of 7.0 which I can't explain, so bit of a 'Monday blues' feeling.

Table tennis session this afternoon, which usually cheers me up.
Think the group might need to temporarily suspend the normal protocol of shaking hands at the end of each game though.

Have a good day everyone.
 
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