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Group 7-day waking average?

Michael12421 said:
Well I am down to 6.4 having not eaten or taken a corrective dose. Have been on a small walk with the dogs but a police car stopped and I am now awaiting a visit.
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Oh crumbs, hope all is ok. Glad your levels are better. Stay safe x
 
Ljc said:
Good morning folks.
Rant alert.
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Lin
Sainsbury's has just posted this on their site
"Changes to our home delivery service from tomorrow

We'll be prioritising elderly, vulnerable or customers with a disability for home delivery slots from tomorrow (Monday 23 March). If you don't get an email from us today, please come back tomorrow for information on how to contact us."

It might help a little bit. 🙂

Dez
 
Well I had an interesting morning. Woke at 5am with a hypo of 3.2. Treated it but didn't retest and went back to bed. Woke up at 7am hypo again at 2.9..... never had a hypo that didn't respond or double dipped, but I stopped taking my Preventer inhaler yesterday because if anything it seemed to be making my cough worse, so wonder if stopping the steroid without adjusting my basal was the problem. Anyway, I took a second quite judicious hypo treatment and came up to 3.8. Decided that that would do whilst I cooked breakfast. Made a lovely mushroom, onion, pepper, chicken and cheese omelette with salad and cheese coleslaw and ate it with no bolus as there are no appreciable carbs. 2 hours later after doing some quite energetic housework and some squats and press-ups I was 10.1 and feeling rough.
DAFNE says not to make a correction after a hypo but no chance of me coming down, so jabbed myself 1.5 units of Fiasp and mucked out four horses and eventually 3 hours later, I am down to 5.1.... Yippee!
So wish I had Libre already, but I am guessing it will be a long way off now if ever. After this mayhem is over I have a sneaky feeling the NHS will be too low on finances to fund sensors for me, but we shall see.
 
@Michael12421
Sorry to hear you had a rough night. I wonder if your high reading was down to some residue of your hypo treatment being on your finger and compromising the reading. Gpod to hear that your BG levels are better now.
Hope you are not in bother as a result of your dog walk. I was talking to my brother in Tenerife last night and he says the authorities are being incredibly strict on the lockdown there as well. Do you not have access to a garden? I know it is not the same as taking them out for a walk but this is a very inflammatory situation and it is not a good time to flout the rules. Fingers crossed they have better things to do than chase up dog walkers.
 
@rebrascora I assume it will be a long wait as all diabetes education things seem to have been cancelled, if you have a suitable phone and can afford to why don't you self fund just 1 sensor at least to see what' happening? I believe Abbott Webshop are allowing new customers again, or even for a reader if your on Facebook try the Type 1 Diabetes Pay It Forward group xx
 
Kaylz said:
@rebrascora I assume it will be a long wait as all diabetes education things seem to have been cancelled, if you have a suitable phone and can afford to why don't you self fund just 1 sensor at least to see what' happening? I believe Abbott Webshop are allowing new customers again, or even for a reader if your on Facebook try the Type 1 Diabetes Pay It Forward group xx
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Hi Kaylz

I don't do Fb.... far too stressful!
I am considering self funding Libre but I can't afford to do it long term and I know that if I get used to it and like it (which I know I will), it will be harder to stop self funding and in the current climate of uncertainty, I may need that money for other more basic things, so I am holding off for now.
I think I just need to accept that a breakfast omelette needs 1.5-2 units of bolus insulin regardless of my fasting reading. Just a bit frustrating that I still need bolus insulin even when I eat low carb, and particularly at breakfast when timing of my bolus is such an issue.
 
@rebrascora I wouldn't necessarily say it was all down to the omelette, I do know that although DAFNE says you dont need to inject for certain things like some veg etc I do in fact need to, 100g sprouts is almost 5g carbs and I do need half a unit for them, I dont eat peppers so I dont even know their carb content and onions are about 8g per 100g and although DAFNE says not to it all adds up to a total regardless, but it could also be a delay from 2 lots of hypo treatments that caused the high xx
 
@Kaylz
Pretty certain it was not delayed response to Hypo treatment as I deliberately undertreated them because I know how easily I go too high and didn't test and eat until some considerable time afterwards.
I agree with what you are saying about other things like onions and peppers adding up and yet DAFNE doesn't count them. 40% of protein also breaks down to glucose and I had 2 eggs and some chicken so the omelette meal in total with eggs, filling and tomato in the salad all adds up a few grams here and there until there probably is about 20g. This is where DAFNE fails for low carb people like me. It certainly makes life a lot more complicated when I have to factor in so many other foods rather than just high carb items.
 
Anitram said:
Just placed an order with our Sainsbury's for delivery tomorrow morning. Was surprised to see everything working as normal (although site went down halfway through) with next day delivery slots available. That was a surprise after what I've been hearing.

What they're proposing is a good move but I do wonder how they plan to police it.

Martin
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Glad you got through, sadly they are not taking any new registrations atm so forces me to go to the shop!
 
Anitram said:
Just placed an order with our Sainsbury's for delivery tomorrow morning. Was surprised to see everything working as normal (although site went down halfway through) with next day delivery slots available. That was a surprise after what I've been hearing.

What they're proposing is a good move but I do wonder how they plan to police it.

Martin
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I had an email from one of the Big wigs in the last few days saying they were going to try to increase delivery slots and click and collect slots and facilities. Did not take much notice other than they were hoping to announce tomorrow. I did not take much notice as we don't use either.
 
Morning all, a 7.4 for me today. Yep I'm at work ready for the panic buyers and stockpilers to descend on our little food hall.
 
morning all, It's a 7.3 from me this morning , hope everyone is as well as can be today and has another good day
 
Morning all,
6.6 today...
Frosty! Should keep my coat nice and sparkly!!!

Blessings Snowwy
 
Morning all. Already been up over an hour, was 6.7. The good news is the sun rose again today the bad news is I’m having to eat Hovis Wholemeal for brekkie! It’s not very nice but beggars and all that. Hoping today’s weather is going to be as fantastic as yesterday’s which was glorious. Will try for some more birdie photos today, I’m no Simon King but I’m quite pleased so far. Just to 4A03D07F-816C-4DEE-8A9A-A06E9B88CA59.jpegcheer you up, here’s a little coal tit just having a rest on my lawn. Have as good a day as you can and stay home ( if you’re able) and stay safe.
 
Morning

Joining @eggyg with a 6.7, higher than it has been lately but hardly surprising given everything that's going on

Have a nice relaxing day folks, with Bruce being at work and me having the sofa to myself I may even treat myself to a little nap after dinner, it's the only time I feel good cause I dont know what's going on lol
Xx
 
Morning all, 6.0 on the dot here. Went to bed a bit higher than usual in case I dropped in the night, after a long walk yesterday. We live on the unfashionable side of the Cotswolds, so the walk was nearly deserted, especially after we’d got a couple of miles from our village.
 
Morning all. 🙂 4.2 here.:D

Went to our little Tesco yesterday. Posters up everywhere about social distancing. Ev1 respecting advice at the till. I went over to the self-service till. Next thing, a young woman appears at the till next to mine and actually shoves me...wot? Some people are just...I dunno...stupid / away with the fairies / oblivious?

Stay safe folks.🙂
 
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