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Group 7-day waking average?

rebrascora said:
my basal site bled quite a bit and blebbed so not sure if some of the insulin came back out.
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I didn’t know insulin can come back out when that happens! 😱🙄 That happens to me sometimes too & actually happened last night when doing midnight Levemir: sometimes I stab it in my thigh as I’ve been finding my stomach has a few lumps & bumps; also, have done injections, when out & about, in the fattest part of my upper arm as it’s not so convenient to do it in my stomach in public! It can bleed sometimes & certainly the upper arm stings a bit more! Umm! Interesting thought to ponder on emoji!
 
A 6.2 for me this morning when the heating had to be put on for an hour.

I don’t suppose any of you were in the 3 hr queues waiting to get through the McDonald’s drive thru? 🙄
I’d never eat again if I relied on that stuff! Had to laugh at the guy with the cardboard car queueing. They sent him away after his wait and ingenuity...aww!
 
Lanny said:
I didn’t know insulin can come back out when that happens! 😱🙄 That happens to me sometimes too & actually happened last night when doing midnight Levemir: sometimes I stab it in my thigh as I’ve been finding my stomach has a few lumps & bumps; also, have done injections, when out & about, in the fattest part of my upper arm as it’s not so convenient to do it in my stomach in public! It can bleed sometimes & certainly the upper arm stings a bit more! Umm! Interesting thought to ponder on emoji!
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It seems logical to me that if you hit a small blood vessel with the needle, the blood pressure will force the blood out and that could easily mix with the insulin you inject and if it then leaks out through the hole in the skin as you withdraw the needle, then some of the insulin could presumably come out mixed in with the blood and the remaining blood which caused the bleb may have insulin trapped in it which will take longer to dissipate. I would think that me giving it a good rub this morning may have then increased the reabsorption rate of the trapped blood and insulin in the bleb and caused me to utilise that insulin which didn't kick in and do it's job last night. That is me thinking with a slightly scientific but not medically trained mind.... so could be wrong..... but it would explain what happened to me last night and this morning.
 
@rebrascora oh no! Glad you managed to stop and test and sort yourself out! for you and @Lanny yes insulin can come out if you bleed but not a great deal of it will come back out and looks more due to the fact it's mixed with blood so it wouldn't be enough to be overly concerned about, although in regards to storing insulin in lumps etc then yes that can be issue and can be released even weeks later although that's usually in people who have been diagnosed longer and haven't rotated their sites as often as they probably should, hope you get a good lot of females Barbara xx
 
Back up to 6.4 this morning (Oh dear, I did end up eating some of the scones that I made with my grandson on the ZOOM cook).

Pick the first bowl of strawberries from the garden this morning - delicous.
 
Good day folks 6.6 getting better each morning,🙂 its actually cooled down quite a bit today only 21.C.😱 Done all the laundry and dried this morning, got a new tumble dryer would be easier to connect a keyboard to it than use the dials.o_O:D

Have a nice swear day @stephknits.😡😉

That's a nice Jag @eggyg efficient engine and fuel injection system, new glass roof hmm difficult job.🙂

Glad you didn`t wee yourself Barbara😳 and a great result with your Bantams.🙂 The sex doesn`t matter, if its a male a **** up, if its female😱 don`t know.🙂

Enjoy your day folks you all make mine, stay safe take care.🙂
 
@KARNAK Ted, if it's a male it's a very small portion of "coq au vin"
 
@Kaylz with only injecting 3 units I think there was probably a significant proportion either came out with the blood or got trapped in the oedema/bleb that formed under the skin. I certainly didn't see much result from it last night and much more response to my insulin than I expected this morning. Maybe as much as a third of it would be my guess.
 
Thanks for that info @Kaylz 🙂 An “Ahah!” Lightbulb emoji! I have a few lumps & bumps on my stomach & sometimes insulin seems not to work & then, works too well! So, have been trying my thighs as well: they tend to bruise more though; upper arms too the odd time which bizarrely dosen’t bruise but, tends to bleed a bit!🙄 I do remember @Northerner used to do his basal, when he used it, in his backside but, I cannot reach that with either of my arms although my right arm would get closer to it than my left!😱🙄:D😉
 
rebrascora said:
@Kaylz with only injecting 3 units I think there was probably a significant proportion either came out with the blood or got trapped in the oedema/bleb that formed under the skin. I certainly didn't see much result from it last night and much more response to my insulin than I expected this morning. Maybe as much as a third of it would be my guess.
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not necessarily, I only take 1.5 units for my tea if I'm in range and have had a bleeder but haven't seen a significant jump by the time bedtime rolls around, anyways glad you've managed to get back on track xx
 
@Lanny I use left thigh for breakfast, right for dinner, alternate stomach for tea and alternate bum cheeks for basal, I used to do it myself but these days my mum does it for me, wanted to get Bruce to do it so I could go and stay at his etc but obviously cant just now and I'd be very nervous with him being a dart player! 😱 xx
 
Hello folks - hope you are all keeping well.

5.6 for me this morning.

Well, my B12 appt 5 weeks ago was cancelled due to Covid. I normally get to 10 weeks in the 12 week cycle hand I start to notice I am getting very tired, so you can imagine by now I fell as though I am unplugged, running on empty. I called the Surgery this morning, to ask when, oh the advice Hazel is you could wait till the end of the year - you are having a laugh.
I am already sleeping up to 18 hours a day as it is. So, after much huffing and puffing, if I am prepared to risk going to the surgery, I can get my B12 jab tomorrow, phew.
 
Lanny said:
Thanks for that info @Kaylz 🙂 An “Ahah!” Lightbulb emoji! I have a few lumps & bumps on my stomach & sometimes insulin seems not to work & then, works too well! So, have been trying my thighs as well: they tend to bruise more though; upper arms too the odd time which bizarrely dosen’t bruise but, tends to bleed a bit!🙄 I do remember @Northerner used to do his basal, when he used it, in his backside but, I cannot reach that with either of my arms although my right arm would get closer to it than my left!😱🙄:D😉
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I`ll do it for you @Lanny:D I learnt Bumbago when I was in Hong Kong, sure we haven`t met before?😱😳:D
 
KARNAK said:
What's the female version?
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It doesn't exist in my recipe book.... The females (pullets/hens) get to provide me with breakfast and even qualify for a retirement plan if they manage to survive to an age when egg laying ceases altogether but my oldest girl Tasha is still laying at 10 years old although much less frequently than she used to..... really hoping that she will go broody soon as she is a great mother hen. Her very first brood, she hatched all 14 eggs she was setting and raised them all to adolescence despite free ranging. The funniest thing to watch was when she was teaching them how to dust bath at just a few days old. They would stand around watching her but she would get so enthusiastic scratching up dirt to bath in that sometimes she would accidentally scratch up a chick with the dirt and it would go tumbling across the yard 3 or 4 feet, only to get up shake off the dust and waddle back to spectate..... at a slightly safer distance. I must have seen it happen with half a dozen chicks before the lesson was over.... would have made great You Tube footage.
 
Hazel said:
Hello folks - hope you are all keeping well.

5.6 for me this morning.

Well, my B12 appt 5 weeks ago was cancelled due to Covid. I normally get to 10 weeks in the 12 week cycle hand I start to notice I am getting very tired, so you can imagine by now I fell as though I am unplugged, running on empty. I called the Surgery this morning, to ask when, oh the advice Hazel is you could wait till the end of the year - you are having a laugh.
I am already sleeping up to 18 hours a day as it is. So, after much huffing and puffing, if I am prepared to risk going to the surgery, I can get my B12 jab tomorrow, phew.
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Good luck Hazel we are all thinking of you lovely. xx
 
rebrascora said:
It doesn't exist in my recipe book.... The females (pullets/hens) get to provide me with breakfast and even qualify for a retirement plan if they manage to survive to an age when egg laying ceases altogether but my oldest girl Tasha is still laying at 10 years old although much less frequently than she used to..... really hoping that she will go broody soon as she is a great mother hen. Her very first brood, she hatched all 14 eggs she was setting and raised them all to adolescence despite free ranging. The funniest thing to watch was when she was teaching them how to dust bath at just a few days old. They would stand around watching her but she would get so enthusiastic scratching up dirt to bath in that sometimes she would accidentally scratch up a chick with the dirt and it would go tumbling across the yard 3 or 4 feet, only to get up shake off the dust and waddle back to spectate..... at a slightly safer distance. I must have seen it happen with half a dozen chicks before the lesson was over.... would have made great You Tube footage.
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AAHH memories of the dust bath 🙂 although could never get the dust out of my finger or toe nails.o_O Seems like you`ve got the wrong recipe book? maybe I should send you mine? there's only one page:( trouble is its blank.😱:Dxx
 
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