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Group 7-day waking average?

7.1 for me today. Doesn’t seem to make any difference what I eat, numbers are still in the 6’s and more often than not, in the 7’s - quite frustrating as I’ve upped my exercise too. Off to Sainsbury’s in a minute. Had my phone call with shoulder consultant who says from my ultrasound and x-ray that he thinks the calcium in my shoulder has dispersed from my last flare up and that it hopefully will never be that bad again, certainly hope so.
Have a good day one and all x
 
Morning

Bruce dropped off a few things yesterday, prescription – brand of Perindopril has been changed, 6 boxes of test strips instead of 4 (no idea why), his mission of antibacterial wipes from Lidl wasn’t successful however his mum managed to pick up a 110 pack of Dettol ones (£3!) and Bruce got 2 40 packs at Scotmid of their own brand (Coop) so quite relieved about that as was getting really anxious about having none

Anyways its a 6.1 for me this morning although Libre would have you believe I’m 3.8, it’s due to be changed tomorrow, basal adjustments certainly starting to show, highest pre meal yesterday was 7.5 apposed to 9’s and 10’s I was seeing a few days ago!

Have a nice day folks and stay safe

xx
 
Morning all. :D 5.1 here...ooo, so close!

@Michael12421 eg my ratios are Breakfast 1:15g and a 1-hour walk (1:12 if I don’t exercise), Lunch 1:15g (must eat at least 45g carb or my insulin won’t work effectively), Dinner 1:17g and post-bolus (otherwise I go low). And if my BG is over 8.3 before a meal, I add a correction dose of 1.

You don’t have to eat a fixed number of times a day. But when you DO eat, try sticking to a system, like mine above, and write everything down. Every few days, check to see if you can see a pattern. Eg if I go low 1 hour after dinner for 3 days in a row, I lower the dose / change the ratio to 1:20g.
My system is very laid back to say the least, but I don’t have random, sneaky hypos that lay me out, like you do. Don’t try to change everything at once - too stressful! - focus on breakfast, eg, this month. A book that REALLY helped me is Gary Scheiner’s Think Like a Pancreas. A new edition is out on June 10th. He is aType 1 and works with diabetics. He explains how to start. Look for him online.:D😛🙂
 
Robin said:
Morning all, 6.0 here. If it’s Thursday it must be, ooh, let’s see...more of the same.
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Haha! Feels like that here too @Robin

5.5 for me.
 
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Morning all and it looks like the fives are well and truly gone, much like the sun. Another 6.3 for me. Forgot to mention, daughter’s wedding now postponed and rebooked for 24th April next year. So far, original registry office, venue, piper, cake maker, photographer, DJ all available, just waiting on a couple of other suppliers to get back to her and touch wood no deposits will be lost. One less thing stressing me out. Only thing is that’s when we had rebooked to go to Arran! Feel we’re destined to never get there! Have a good day, whatever you’re not doing! 😉
 
Morning all it’s a sunny one here and a 6.0.

The drugs worked and I went to sleep for a few hours last night and forgot all about my horrible foot, result🙂

Thursday so soon and time to roll some dice to decide when to go for a walk v when to sit in the garden and watch for the sneaky squirrels that creep up to the bench when it’s quiet😱

Hope you’re doing ok out there🙂
 
eggyg said:
Morning all and it looks like the fives are well and truly gone, much like the sun. Another 6.3 for me. Forgot to mention, daughter’s wedding now postponed and rebooked for 24th April next year. So far, original registry office, venue, piper, cake maker, photographer, DJ all available, just waiting on a couple of other suppliers to get back to her and touch wood no deposits will be lost. One less thing stressing me out. Only thing is that’s when we had rebooked to go to Arran! Feel we’re destined to never get there! Have a good day, whatever you’re not doing! 😉
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Glad she was able to rebook...something to get excited about, again!

Phew @Flower. Nothing worse than pain. 🙂
 
Morning All a 6.1 for me today.
Seem to have rumbles of thunder around today. Maybe we’ll get some rain to go with it, we need some !
Have a good day all
 
I’ve just realised it’s my diaversary today!
 
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Toujeo. Just spent a long time reading everything that I could find on Toujeo. I have been making a mistake. Whilst the pens in their box must be stored in the refrigerator once they are fitted with a needle to be used they must not be put back but left at room temperature. They can be kept like this for a maximum of 42 days. Timing. Only once a day, which I already knew, but if I want to change from evening to morning such as has been suggested I could not find any information on this. I wonder if I can risk not taking any this evening at 7 pm but start again at 7 am tomorrow morning. Sanofi say that one injection can be effective for up to 36 hours so, in theory, as my last injection was at 7 pm last night I should be able to get away with not injecting again until 7 am tomorrow morning. I'll try it I think.
 
Forgot to post this morning! 7.8 for me and then a beautifully long walk before it got too hot.
Tomorrow I’m intending to head east along the canal out to Limehouse and back home through the City. I’ll probably ache fast too much to even contemplate doing that but the intention is there!1ACDAA4D-B916-428B-A7EE-02F6CE406EC1.jpeg
 
@Michael12421 Your doses of Toujeo overlap each day because it lasts up to 36 hours so at the point when you currently inject on an evening you still have some active in your system from the previous injection but probably not enough to keep your levels stable. That combined amount from the stuff in your system and the newly injected insulin is what should keep you steady through the night (or unfortunately not too steady in your case), but if you don't take any tonight you may find that your readings are high tomorrow morning. If it was me, I would inject a half or a third of my usual dose tonight to keep me topped up but not enough to risk a hypo and then maybe only half to 2/3 of the full dose tomorrow morning but keep meter and hypo treatment to hand throughout the day for a few days and avoid strenuous activity until levels have stabilised. Then take the full dose the following morning and thereafter. There will likely be some disruption to your readings for a few days and you would be well advised to test more regularly during that time to see what is happening but hopefully it will cure your night time hypo problems which are what is so concerning at the moment.
 
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